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  “It isn’t easy to ignore. If I wasn’t involved with your brothers, which is so freaking new, like days new, then I might be handling things differently.”

  “Differently? How so? Like you would be flirting back, maybe considering letting them…close?” Ivy asked hesitantly.

  “God, no. No freaking way would I go down that path again. It’s just that we were lovers, Ivy. We had a steady ménage relationship for two years. That’s pretty damn long. We also lost Case, and that was tragic but a common connection that won’t ever go away. In the mix of things, and beyond their flirtiness, which they are so putting on right now, we would always be friends. Always care about one another. It’s just that anything more than friendship wasn’t going to work out or happen. There was no future for any of us as one.”

  “How about with my brothers? You feeling like it could be the same thing?”

  “No. Honestly, I trust your brothers completely. You know, we fooled around about a year ago.”

  “What?” Ivy asked, feeling shocked.

  Cherise snickered and then bit her lower lip. “I was still a little raw inside, and Rome was heading back out for another tour, so I didn’t want to risk another broken heart, so I didn’t sleep with them, we just made out, and it was wild.”

  “Wow. I’m sort of surprised but then not either. I had noticed that my brothers were always keeping eyes on you. Then the night you got drugged, oh boy, Rome, Kenny, Landon, and Eric were ready to hunt down those men and kill them.”

  “But they didn’t. They stayed with me, took care of me, and I’m sure I probably said things to them I shouldn’t have.”

  “You mean about Ben, Eagan, and Case?”

  “No, like my attraction to them, and they hinted that I was extra affectionate to them while the drugs were still working their way through my system.”

  Ivy chuckled. “Well, maybe that was a good thing. It let them know you liked them.”

  She glanced at them and smiled. Ivy smiled too as she looked at her brothers’ expressions of love. “They love you already, and you love them.”

  Tears filled Cherise’s eyes.

  “You think so, already?” Cherise asked.

  “When it happens, it’s fast. Obviously you were intimate with them. It had to feel different. Stronger than anything else.”

  “It did, and I knew it was real because before we did anything, I told them all about Ben, Eagan, and Case. About where I stood and why I had walked away that night over a year ago. They couldn’t believe it, but they understood and accepted that I was in such a committed relationship before and that the guys hurt me, yet agreed that our relationship was over. That was huge. Like a weight was lifted off my shoulders and they knew I was giving a hundred percent.”

  Ivy smiled. “It will work out fine. Just be honest with them. Now what about Eagan and Ben? I suppose they want to hang out with you when you aren’t working?” Ivy asked.

  Cherise sighed. “That’s the problem.”

  “Well, it doesn’t have to be. Do you want to hang out with them?”

  “I feel compelled to because we are friends, and we agreed to stay friends.”

  “I don’t think my brothers are going to be too happy about that.”

  “I know, I’ll figure it out. I’d better get back to work.”

  “Hey, I’m happy for you. You deserve true love and men that are committed to you and would do anything to make you smile and keep you happy. They deserve that too. My brothers went through a lot in life, in the military, and they survived. They’re established here in town, and they aren’t going anywhere. They’re right here, just like you are.”

  Cherise smiled and gave Ivy a hug, and then she headed back to work.

  Kenny watched Ben and Eagan hug Cherise good-bye, and Eagan’s hand was awfully close to her ass and Ben’s fell right below her breast under her arm when he hugged her. Like men who knew her body well and felt they still had a right to hug her so intimately. He didn’t like the feeling he had. The insecurity, the jealousy. Those men got to love his woman. Got to have sex with her, and do things with her, and it was difficult to process. They were younger, closer to her age as well, and had an arrogance about them as they walked by with their friends. The two dicks stared at him and then eyed over his brothers. When Eagan stopped, Rome was ready to knock his lights out.

  “We’ve known Cherise a long time, and go way back. If we want to spend time with her, we will.”

  “Is that so?” Kenny asked.

  “Yeah, it’s fucking so, old man,” Ben said and eyed over Kenny.

  Keller, Bronc, and Angus stepped in between them and Rome and his brothers. “I suggest you move along and head out,” Keller told them. Eagan gave Keller the once-over and snorted then gave his brother and their friends a nod.

  “For Cherise, because she’s that important to us,” Eagan said, and they walked out of there.

  It was then that Rome noticed their other friends gathering close and prepared to join in if Eagan, Ben, and their friends decided to start a fight.

  Angus chuckled. “Fucking kids, thinking they can kick the world’s ass. They wouldn’t have known what hit them. Come on,” Angus said and shook his head, laughing. “Ade, another round,” he called out.

  Cherise hung her head in the shower, letting the water rinse out her conditioner in her hair. It was a hell of a night, and an emotional one too. Especially as Ivy told her that Eagan and Ben said something to Kenny, Rome, and the others. She could tell that they and Rome were upset, pissed off, so she asked them to come back to her place so they could spend time together. So when she sensed the shower curtain open and there stood Rome, naked and serious, she gave him a smile.

  “I’m almost done.”

  He slid in behind her and wrapped her up in his arms, cupped her breasts, and suckled hard against her neck. “I couldn’t wait,” he said, and she pressed back against his hard cock that pushed between her ass cheeks.

  In his arms, she felt so protected and loved. It was instant. This bond they shared now that they were lovers. She craved it, missed it when they were apart. She closed her eyes and exhaled softly. “I missed the feel of your arms wrapped around me like this,” she admitted.

  “We need you, baby. Need to know you’re ours, and ours only,” he said, revealing what was bothering him.

  He was jealous and perhaps a little insecure, and he didn’t need to be. She wasn’t a tease, a woman who would throw in their faces the fact that two old lovers still wanted to have a hold on her. They didn’t. She turned in his arms and pressed her palms up his chest to his cheeks. “I only want to be with you and your brothers. I don’t want you feeling jealous.”

  He clenched his teeth and pulled her closer by her hips, and then lifted her up and against the tile wall. She gasped.

  “Kind of fucking hard to do when two dicks kept touching you all night, and when they hugged you good-bye, they nearly touched your ass and your breasts. Both are mine and my brothers’. You belong to us.”

  “I do belong to you,” she said and kissed him on the mouth. She needed him to know, and for his brothers to know, that she only wanted them.

  She felt him use his fingers to stroke up into her cunt as she deepened the kiss. When he saw that she was wet and ready, he replaced fingers with his cock and thrust right into her. She released his lips and moaned. “Oh God, Rome, I missed you. I missed this sensation,” she told him.

  “Fuck, I know, baby. I know, and it feels so good. Even better when it’s all of us,” he said and thrust again and again into her cunt. She felt her pussy cream, felt her core tighten.

  “I hope you brought some lube tonight. I think we need to make this official,” she said to him and suckled hard against his neck.

  “Are you serious, angel?” he asked, panting for breath and thrusting into her.

  “Yes,” she said, and he thrust into her harder, faster before he kissed her and then pulled out.

  “Let’s join the others.
We all need you. Need to know that you’re ours always and forever,” he said, and she smiled.

  “Let’s go,” she said, and they got out of the shower, turned off the water, and dried off. As soon as she was done using the towel to dry her hair, Rome picked her up and carried her out of the bathroom.

  “Kenny, grab the lube. We’re taking her together, making this official,” he said, and his brothers smiled.

  Rome laid her down on the bed and then lowered down to lick and feast on her cunt. Landon pulled her arms up above her head, making her moan and come some more, and then leaned down and kissed her on the mouth and then over her to lick and suckle on her breasts one at a time. She felt incredibly aroused, and she let go and let them have their way with her. As Rome lifted his mouth from her cunt, she felt the loss, but then he aligned his cock with her pussy and shoved right into her.

  “Oh, Rome. Rome,” she panted.

  Landon eased up and released her arms. Rome grabbed her under her arms and thrust into her as he locked gazes with her.

  “You’re mine. Only mine. Those two men will never get to have you again. Never get to make love to you, to possess you like we do. They’re over. They lost their chance.”

  Tears filled her eyes, and she didn’t look away from his intense gaze. “They don’t matter. I love you and your brothers, Rome. I want you to take me together. To mark me your woman. I’m taking this chance because I trust you.”

  His eyes widened at her telling him that she loved him. “I love you too. We all do, and we’re going to show you right now just how much.”

  He lowered his mouth to hers and kissed her. Then he rolled to his back, and she sat above him, gripped his shoulders as he held her hips, and she thrust up and down over his thick, hard shaft. Her mind was in a fog, a sexual fantasy come true as she felt Landon’s palm ease up and down along her back so she would lower down, and then Eric was on the bed, his cock fisted in hand.

  “Together, baby. I need that mouth,” Eric said.

  She felt that deep nervous sensation. She was doing this. She prayed it wasn’t a mistake. That she didn’t get hurt again. She swallowed and her uncertainty showed Rome cupped her cheek and thrust up into her, just as Landon slid lube to her asshole. She gasped.

  “We are not them. We love you already,” Rome said.

  “We do love you already. This is it for us. This is forever,” Kenny said and ran his palm along her back.

  She nodded, and a tear fell as she opened her mouth and began to suck on Eric’s cock. They tugged on her nipples, thrust cock and fingers into her body, and the sensations built up and up.

  “So sexy and beautiful. You were made for us, baby. All we went through in our lives thus far brought us here to you and this moment. This will bind us even more fully than we already are. Let go and let us love you,” Kenny said to her, and he kissed her bare shoulder as Landon eased his fingers out of her ass and replaced them with his cock.

  The second he began to ease his dick into her asshole, her pussy spasmed, her breasts tingled, and she sucked Eric’s cock firmly, and then Landon slid all the way into her ass.

  “Fuck. Oh shit, oh God, baby, we’re doing it. We’re one,” he said, and they began to thrust into her.

  Rome held her hip and pinched her nipple as he thrust his cock up into her pussy. Eric rocked his hips as she sucked him down while Landon thrust into her ass slowly, deeply. Her body shook, and she moaned and came.

  “Fuck, I’m there. I’m there,” Landon said, and he came in her ass. As he eased out, giving her a moment of reprieve, she tightened.

  Eric slid his cock from her mouth. “Get in there, Kenny. I’m coming in that ass,” Eric said.

  As Landon pulled out, Kenny took his place. She felt his large hands caress her hips and her ass. “Fuck, I’ve dreamed about your ass, baby. About fucking it so deep, claiming you as my woman while I spank it and you cry out your release,” he said.

  “Oh Kenny, do it. Do it,” she said and tilted her head down as Rome thrust up into her, cursing about not wanting to come, and then Kenny shoved into her asshole balls deep.

  Smack.

  Smack.

  She cried out and rocked back and forth, up and down against them.

  “Oh yeah, yeah, just like that, give it to me please. I need more,” she said.

  “Holy fuck,” Rome exclaimed, and he and Kenny thrust into her body so hard and deep she cried out another release.

  “I’m there. Fuck,” Kenny called out, and he came.

  “Me too,” Rome said, and he thrust two more times and then he came.

  They were kissing her shoulder, her breasts, and her back when Kenny eased out and Eric took his place. “Not done yet,” he said, and he lifted her off Rome, who grunted in protest.

  Rome placed his arm over his forehead and lay there, watching her.

  Eric aligned his cock with her asshole and slid right into her. She moaned. He rocked slowly into her. “Hands on the bed,” he ordered as he pulled her lower so he was standing by the edge, and she was standing too, her palms flat on the bed. He massaged her shoulder, gripping them as he rocked his hips and thrust his cock into her asshole.

  “Oh Eric, Eric, oh God,” she moaned. It felt so good. He was thick and hard, and it had been forever that she had felt so alive, so aroused and ready for more.

  “I love how you’re moaning and asking for more. We’re big men, baby. You are going to be filled up in every hole and marked our woman, so get ready,” he said and leaned over her, fingered her cunt, and rocked his dick deeper, faster into her ass.

  They were both moaning, and she felt the perspiration reach her brow, her breath hitched, her vision blurred, and she screamed out her release as Eric roared as he came. He slid out of her ass and crushed her to the edge of the bed. He was kissing her shoulders, her neck, and then her ass. He grabbed both globes.

  “I’ll never get enough of this sexy body. You were made for us, baby. Made for us,” he said, and she smiled, closed her eyes, and allowed them to wash her up and then care for her.

  Chapter 5

  Eric stared at Cherise as she lay in bed between his brothers Landon and Kenny. Rome had headed out to do the early class at the MMA gym, and he was leaving next. He heard her cell phone buzzing on the table by the bedside. Landon and Kenny were awake and looked happy.

  “She’s exhausted,” Kenny whispered and kissed her bare shoulder.

  “I wouldn’t have a problem with lying right here with her all day,” Landon said.

  “Well, we can’t though. She needs to rest, and we have back-to-back classes at the gym. We’ll see her tonight, maybe have her stay at our place after work at Harper’s,” Eric said.

  “We’ll talk to her about it,” Landon said and eased back next to her.

  Eric glanced at her cell phone. His chest tightened, and that jealous, angry feeling hit him as he saw the texts.

  “What? Kenny asked and Landon sat up.

  “Those two dicks Ben and Eagan are texting her.”

  “What are they saying?” Landon asked.

  He looked down at the phone and could only read the first few texts. “‘You looked gorgeous.’ They want to get together for lunch. Assholes,” Eric said and then shook his head.