Healing Hearts 2: Fight for Freedom (Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting) Read online

  “Afina, it’s been a long day.”

  “No! No more excuses. Now we don’t know what happened and why you are refusing to hang out with us, but we’re starting to get offended. What did we do wrong? Do you not want to be friends anymore?” Afina asked. One look at the others and North knew that they all felt the same way. She was screwing things up with her friends and she didn’t want that to happen.

  “No, of course I want to be friends. That’s not it.”

  “Then what?” April asked.

  “Yeah, what could possibly have happened that you refuse to come to Corporal’s?” Kai asked. Amelia just stared at her.

  She took a deep breath and released it. Sooner or later they were going to find out about Turner and Phantom. North winced just thinking about Mike seeing her and what he was going to do.

  “Well?” Kai pushed.

  “Turner kissed me,” she said. They all gasped.

  Afina reached out and grabbed her arm. “Mike, too?” she asked.

  “Not yet, but Phantom did.”

  “Holy shit, Phantom? Jesus woman,” Amelia said and started to pace.

  “This is intense. No wonder you’ve been in hiding. Holy shit, did you sleep with them?” April asked.

  “No, no of course not. It happened at separate times and it was out of my control. I mean Turner had me cornered then pressed up against my car outside of the bakery and suddenly he’s kissing me and then I’m denying it happened and telling him it won’t happen again. Then I’m in the park and Phantom appears, and then next thing I know he’s running with me and we’re down the path in the woods and he grabs me, presses me up against the tree and we’re making out like teenagers. His mouth is everywhere and I’m totally confused and freaking out and then pushing him away, and Jesus, who the hell knows what Mike might do when he sees me. I can’t allow this to happen. I don’t want it to happen. I need to be alone. I’m good alone.” She rambled on and her friends stared at her and then started laughing.

  “Holy shit you’re hot for them,” Afina said.

  “Well obviously she is. Look how red she is, and they’re hot guys. Mysterious, too, we don’t even know what they do for a living. Do you, Afina?” April asked her.

  “Nope, just know it can be dangerous at times,” Afina said.

  “I don’t want this,” North whispered.

  “Why not? You never let any guys close enough to kiss you and look what happened. Obviously this is different,” Kai said.

  “I’m better alone. I can’t explain it, but it’s just better this way,” North said, and once again tears filled her eyes.

  “Okay, there’s more you’re not telling us,” Afina said, and crossed her arms in front of her chest.

  “She’s right. I can totally sense that,” Kai said.

  “I’m not saying a word. God knows I’m the last one to give advice or to share my feelings when it comes to men. Cavanaugh still wants me back and I regret falling for him.”

  “Amelia, he’s still bothering you?” North asked her. She nodded her head.

  “We should talk to Zayn,” Kai said to her.

  “No, I don’t want to talk to anyone about this. It will only enrage him more.”

  “She’s right. Look what happened with Casey and her boyfriend,” April said.

  “Don’t remind me about that. It’s amazing that Selasi, Zayn, and Thermo even let me come here alone with you guys today,” Kai said.

  “Maybe one of them are out there right now with binoculars watching us,” Afina teased.

  The thought made North nervous and reminded her of the danger she was in, and that they all would be in being this close to her. She didn’t know if Forester had men looking for her, and if they found her and were watching, waiting for an opportunity to strike. They would kill first then ask questions later. She couldn’t reveal her past and the danger she could be in. She certainly couldn’t drag Mike, Phantom, and Turner into this situation.

  “Shit, it’s really, really bad. What aren’t you telling us, North?” Afina asked.

  “Nothing. There’s no need to discuss this any further. Nothing will happen between me and your cousins. Nothing,” she said, and thank God the doorbell rang saving her from having to discuss things further. It was a couple with a kid looking to check out the open house.

  “So we’ll see you later at Corporal’s. I’ll call you,” Afina said a few minutes later, and her friends hugged her goodbye and she exhaled, feeling relieved they left and didn’t push for more information. It started to make her feel like this wall was going up with them too now. She wouldn’t go to Corporal’s. No way. It would only make matters worse.

  * * * *

  “I’m not sure about this. It could be a fucking game she’s playing,” Turner said to Mike.

  Mike gripped the steering wheel of the SUV as Phantom remained silent. “This is bull shit, and if you’re instincts are right, both of you, then she was hurt, and the fact she was talking to Ice, just makes that fact more intense and more serious. We know what he does for a living and the people he sees. Soldiers who have been through traumatic situations, men who have considered committing suicide, men dealing with PTSD, so you know as well as I do that this is serious.”

  “Then maybe we should respect her wishes,” Phantom said.

  “We can’t stop thinking about her or talking about her. I think the whole forgetting about her is out of the question entirely,” Mike said, and then pulled down the side street to the single house that sat there alone a block from the beach. It was stunning, upscale and he could tell it would be spectacular inside.

  “What if she panics seeing us and thinks we’re stalking her?” Turner said.

  “We’re grown men. We know what we want. She’s young and afraid, and we discussed this. No matter what the situation, we’re pursuing her, right?” he asked, turning off the ignition and seeing the open house sign and knowing it was the end of the time allotted for the open house. They got out and walked to the front door.

  Mike rang the doorbell and a moment later when it opened she appeared. She looked shocked, then her face went flush and he took in the sight of her. A sleeveless cream-colored dress that hugged her figure, the top dipped a little low but not too low, and she wore strands of necklaces that accentuated her breasts and drew your eyes to them. Her hair was half up in some sexy style that exposed her neck on either side.

  “Open house, right?” Turner said to her, and she swallowed hard.

  “What are you doing here? I don’t want any trouble.”

  Mike pressed past her. “I think you’re beyond in trouble with us,” he said, and the others walked in. She headed toward Mike, and Mike saw Turner lock the front door and the top lock, too.

  “I don’t need this. I said I wasn’t interested in pursuing anything with you guys and—”

  She gasped as Mike wrapped his arm around her waist and hauled her up against his chest. He stared into her eyes as she held onto his shoulders.

  “We came to check out the open house. You’re the agent showing it. So show it,” he said, but didn’t release her until he saw that desire in her eyes and knew she did want this, that she felt the attraction but something was holding her back. As he slowly released her and she swallowed hard, he let his palm glide along her ass. She paused, as if liking the feel of his hand there and he knew it. She wanted them. What was she running from?

  She exhaled and then put space between her and them. She handed over a sheet that gave the specs as he followed her through the house, his brothers in tow.

  As she gave them the tour and described the upscale décor, the special custom molding, and of course super gorgeous views, he watched her, admiring her professionalism, the classiness about her but also that youthfulness that reminded Mike about how much older he was. Perhaps she just was afraid of their experiences and also an ex-boyfriend who maybe broke her heart? It could be that simple, but their agent, soldier minds read deeper and created more of a situation than
there actually was. When they wound up upstairs in a study that looked out over the back yard, the pool and the view, he stepped closer to her, slid his palm along her waist, and as she tried to turn out of his hold he brought her closer to him. In front of him with her back against his front. His arm snug around her waist, he lowered his mouth to her neck and inhaled. “You smell so good, and look incredible. Better than this view.”

  She held her hand over his arm and tilted her head to the right.

  “Please, Mike, it won’t work.”

  “It is working already,” he said, and kissed her neck.

  She leaned back against him and he suckled her skin, slid his free hand to her arm and wrist and encased it. The hand that was around her waist slid along her ribs to her breast. “Mike,” she said, and went to press forward but then Turner was there. He cupped her cheeks. “Oh God,” she said, and he winked.

  “You’re incredible.” He pressed his mouth to hers and kissed her. Mike slid the hand that cupped her breasts down lower while he rocked his hips against her ass. He slid his hand up under her dress and she moaned and tightened against Turner as Turner continued to kiss her.

  “Let him. Open for us. We know you’re wet and want to feel more,” Phantom ordered, and she tightened and moaned louder into Turner’s mouth.

  Mike tapped her thigh. “Do it,” he said against her ear and she did. She stepped slightly, giving Mike room to lift her dress and slide his fingers along her hip and panties, against her mound, sliding his fingers back and forth along the clean, smooth skin before he slid a finger into her cunt. Her ass pushed back and he rocked forward.

  “So fucking wet. I knew it. She feels it, men. She knows only we can make her feel like this. Want us like we want her.”

  Turner released her lips and suckled against her neck. “Incredible.”

  Phantom moved closer. “I wonder how delicious she tastes,” he said, and lowered to his knees. Her dress lifted higher and she went to grip Phantom, maybe to stop him, but Mike didn’t want to frighten her by holding her wrist still, so he released it and she grabbed onto Phantom’s shoulders, but Phantom was on a mission. A second later, her thigh was over phantom’s shoulder and Mike pulled his fingers from her cunt and Phantom replaced them with his mouth.

  Mike unzipped her dress and Turner slid her strap down on one side and leaned down to suckle her breast.

  “Oh God please. Please, what are you doing to me?” she asked, and began to rock her hips.

  “Loving you. Showing you how turned on you make us and how much we want you,” Mike said, and gripped her neck under her hair, turning her slightly and kissing her. Phantom continued to stroke her cunt and feast on her. Turner was sucking her breasts and pulling on her nipples, and Mike was devouring her moans when she came. She pulled from Mike’s mouth and gasped for breath.

  “My turn,” Mike said, and they shifted positions. Mike fell to his knees. Phantom slid up and wrapped an arm around her waist so she wouldn’t stop this, and turned her face between his palms. “You’re incredible. My dick is so fucking hard, baby. I want in,” he said, and pressed his mouth to hers. She gripped onto him and Mike licked her cunt, tasted her cream, inhaled her scent with her sexy, toned thigh over his shoulder and her pussy in his face. He nipped her clit and she came again. He slid his fingers over the cream and then to her asshole. She jerked forward and Phantom rocked against her. At the same time, Mike slid his finger into her asshole and she cried out. Turner hugged her to him.

  “Oh my God. Oh my God I never. Never.” She moaned against his shoulder and then Turner lowered and Mike took his place.

  He cupped her cheeks and stared into her glossy green eyes. “Taste yourself, baby. You’re delicious.” He kissed her hard on the mouth. She kissed him back but he was in control and then she jerked.

  “Fucking delicious,” Turner said.

  “Her ass is sucking in my fingers. Holy fuck she is tight,” Phantom said, and Mike stared into her eyes as she blinked, and he knew Turner was fingering her pussy while Phantom fingered her asshole.

  “You feel it. You want it and you want us like we want you. Go with it, North. Whatever the fears we’ll deal with them later. Let us make you feel good and you make us feel good. Come on, baby.”

  “Not here,” she said.

  “Why not? You’re wet and ready. The open house is over. The doors all locked,” Phantom said, and suckled against her neck as he continued to stroke her like Turner was.

  “Right fucking here, where you look hot and it’s spontaneous and no one will know,” Mike said to her.

  “It’s naughty and dangerous and you’re turned on by that. By us,” Turner said, and released her. He stood up and undid his pants. She reached out, placing her hand against his chest.

  “I can’t,” she said, tears filling her eyes. Mike felt like there was a vice grip around his heart.

  Phantom pulled back too now and she fixed her dress. Phantom zipped up the side and she adjusted her breasts in it. She was emotional and Mike cupped her cheeks as Turner and Phantom stared at her now, too.

  “It was that fucking bad, whatever the fuck happened to you, was that bad?” Turner asked her.

  She nodded her head.

  “Fuck,” Mike said, and pulled her into his arms and hugged her. She cried as he glanced at Phantom, who looked ready to kill and then at Turner who was none the happier. North had a past and secrets, and they wanted her as their woman, in their bed, in their lives, so it was up to them to gain her trust and get her to reveal exactly what happened.

  Chapter Five

  Phantom drove in her car with her and she knew it was because they didn’t trust her to follow them to Corporal’s. It took a lot to talk them out of following her to her place. She mentioned that Afina and her friends expected her at Corporal’s and since she was duffing out on them the last week, she needed to go. They were none the happier, especially Phantom.

  He slid his palm along her thigh as she drove. She tightened up and inhaled, catching his cologne and remembering what it felt like to have his fingers and mouth on her cunt and then in her ass. She couldn’t believe she let them finger her, and make her come in that house. Thank God they didn’t have surveillance cameras.

  “What are you thinking right now?” he asked her.

  “That I’m glad that house didn’t have surveillance cameras inside. At least that I know of.” He squeezed her thigh. “You put a stop to it going any further, so if there are cameras you should be fine.”

  “Seriously, you think so? I nearly had sex in an open house.”

  “It would have been fucking hot, and guaranteed we would still be there, maybe bending you over that big jacuzzi tub.”

  She gripped the steering wheel. “What’s with you talking so much suddenly?” she snapped at him.

  He slid his palm higher up her thigh between her legs. “You, North. You do it to me,” he said, and she was grateful they got to the parking lot of Corporals. She turned into a spot next to Mike’s SUV and then turned off the engine. She went to move and Phantom cupped her cheek and drew her closer. “I know the walls are going up, and you’ll deny what happened, so I need something to hold me off until later.” He pressed his lips to hers and kissed her tenderly. The knock on the window made her jump, and Phantom pulled from her lips and exhaled.

  “No patience,” he said and got out.

  She ran her fingers along her lips and grabbed her purse as Mike held the door open. Before she could move, Turner pulled her into his arms and kissed her again. He ran his hand over her ass and plunged his tongue deeply into her mouth. She wondered why they left the house. This was going to get worse and worse. He released her lips and Mike took his place. “One more kiss before you pretend you’re not coming home with us tonight,” he said, shocking her, and then his lips were over hers.

  Mike held her hand as they walked into the place. She tried to pull away but he didn’t allow it, nor did Turner and Phantom. They flocked around her and peopl
e noticed. Including her friends and of course Ghost and Cosmo, who owned the place and knew Uncle Billy.

  Her friends greeted her but Mike kept her close and Afina looked on with excitement.

  “What’s going on here?” Afina asked.

  “What does it look like?” Mike said very serious like, and North swallowed hard.

  “North!” She heard her name and saw Rodriguez and Denver as they approached. They kissed her cheeks hello and hugged her and the whole feel of it was different. The atmosphere, the expressions on everyone’s faces, and the scowl on Phantom, Turner, and Mike’s faces.

  “What’s going on?” she asked.

  “We need a picture with you. We have some friends who want to come down here to look for places, too, and we told them about you,” he said, and then turned the camera on them. She smiled as they did a selfie with her. As she stepped back, they rambled on about things, but as Rodriguez placed his arm around her waist, Mike gripped her hand and pulled her closer. “If you don’t mind, she’s with us right now,” Mike said.

  Rodriguez and Denver eyed her over then Mike, Phantom, and Turner. “Fuck, I knew there was something between you four. That’s awesome. She is one hell of a woman. No wonder she kept turning us down. This a secret or something?” he asked.

  “It’s new,” Turner said.

  “We aren’t really dating, I mean we just started talking about it.” Phantom pulled her into his arms and kissed her. She heard the chuckles and the congrats and high fives, and when Phantom released her lips he pulled her over toward a private table by the bar. She wouldn’t dare look at her friends. She couldn’t. She was overwhelmed. But Phantom held her in his arms and kept caressing her back and her ass as Turner and Mike stood just as close.

  “You’ll get used to it,” Turner said, and kissed her bare arm.

  She glanced way up at Phantom and those dark serious eyes. “Why did you do that?” she asked him.

  He stroked her cheek. “They have had their eyes on this body, on you for weeks, and it has pissed me off. You’re going to be mine and Mike’s and Turner’s and no other men are going to try and move in on what is ours.”