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Boone gently lifts me so Landry can settle on the couch next to us. He takes my feet and moves them over his lap.
“I don’t know how I’ve lived without being able to feel your touches, your kisses.”
I lean into Boone’s arms, my eyes dipping from Austin’s gentle strokes over my hair.
“Have you not been happy?” Austin asks a question he already knows the answer to. But sometimes hearing it clicks together pieces of the heart and I get that.
“Happy is a relative term. I’ve found peace in my work helping my father. He’s always had high ambitions and being a part of those made me content in a way.”
“What about your ambitions? Your goals and what you want?”
“I’d love to finish my degree in psychology but there’s no room for that.” I shrug with a sigh. “No will or drive, if I am honest.”
“Because of us?” Boone takes my hand and presses a small kiss to my palm.
“Because Ididn’thave you.”
“Trust us, baby, we understand. To help others find their calm and happiness you yourself have to have a certain level of comfort in your own life.”
“All that said, you never tried to go after what you wanted? Even if it meant showing up on our doorstep? I know I dreamed about opening my front door and finding you there at least a dozen times a day.”
“I was scared.”
“And now?”
“I’m not sure. I’m happy, though. Well…” I raise my hands to encompass the cabin. “…happy about you guys, just not the circumstances. I hope that doesn’t make me sound like a bad person.”
I pause, scared of the answer I might get but ask it anyway. “Where is this going? What now?”
“We keep you safe until they catch this guy. We have contacts in the police department back in the city. Your call into the emergency line helped more than you know.”
“And then?”
Austin stands and scoops me up from Boone and Landry with a devilish grin in answer to their protests. He shoots for the upstairs room rather than the downstairs. “Come on, let’s get some sleep. We can talk about all this after you grab some shuteye.”
He kisses my neck, making me smile.
“And what about my other lovers?”
“Let them listen to me fuck you all night while they stand guard. Wanna help me drive ’em crazy?”
I wink at Boone and Landry, both pulling on jeans around angry cocks, and kiss their best friend with my answer.
Thirteen
Honor
Today I turn a quarter of a century old.
The age my mother was when she became pregnant with me and the age I planned on being married. Growing up, I thought I wanted to be the white picket fence kind of girl. Everything perfect and pretty. I guess that depends on the person’s perspective. I know what I feel for the three men downstairs is unorthodox, but I want who I want.
And after last night, there’s no changing that. I settle a hand over my stomach and wonder if the starting of a family is taking hold inside me. Before I get too deep in that line of thinking, I smell a hint of smoke. Plumes of gray fill the area outside my bedroom and I shoot up, the covers falling to my lap.
Austin kept his word last night and made love to me two more times before I fell against him, exhausted.
Where did all three men sleep?Didthey sleep? I woke to find the bed next to me empty. Austin worked my body so well and wrung out all the stress I must have slept through the night.
I roll over and catch the position of the low sun over the water.
