“You’re scaring me. I thought you didn’t have a heart in here,” I said, touching his chest.
Aspen snorted and laughed, and I leaned into his embrace when he put his arms around us both.
Rowen’s face was pinched. “I’m sorry. I’m sorry I ever gave ye shite over yer family. When I—”
“Feckin’ hell. I didn’t tell ye.” Cillian blew out a breath that puffed up his cheeks. “Fuck that arsehole Maher.”
“Hey,” I said and laughed.
Vail hummed and walked to the top of the stairs, staring after the last of the men escorting my dad out the front doors. “I know one thing, he’ll regret this. I can’t think of a prodigal parent story right now, but I also can’t think of anything worse than telling a man you love enough that you wanted to bring him home, not to ever come home again. He’ll realize soon enough he was wrong and hopefully he’ll apologize.”
“Or he won’t,” Cillian said, voice harsh.
All at once exhaustion hit me, and while I’d been in a big hurry to do something sexy earlier, all I could think about right now was getting back in bed and going to sleep for a thousand years.
“Can I be in the middle?” I asked, breathing Cillian’s scent deep into my lungs. I turned and inhaled Aspen’s lingering cologne, groaning at how good it was. “I’m tired. I want the middle.”
“Of course,” Vail said at once.
“Aye,” Cillian murmured, and I smiled as Aspen kissed me. As much as this all fucking sucked, it wasn’t that much of a surprise coming from my dad. The only thing that really shocked me was how bad I felt for Padraig. I hadn’t expected that. I had my guys and he had... no one.
“Let’s get you back to bed.” Vail took my hand and smiled, knocking the breath out of me. He was so beautiful when he was happy. Aspen had a warmth in his eyes while he glanced between us that made my nose clog and feel weird as I blinked really fast.
“Thank you.” I glanced up at Cillian and swore his eyes were full of something caring.
“Aye, bed,” he said gruffly and turned me to face the opposite direction.
Laughing, I slung my arm around Vail, and when we were back in the dark bedroom I got exactly what I wanted—Aspen on one side, Vail on the other, Cillian wrapped around Aspen, and Rowen snuggled up to Vail’s back. Everyone had at least a hand on me, and I was able to drift off to sleep feeling like I meant something to them, and a lot less worried about the shake-up with my position in the Company.
They were going to keep me just like we’d kept Vail, and I felt a big sort of way about it. I loved it.
* * *
The next morningI woke up to the most amazing fucking thing in the world. I was alone in bed except for Cillian, who was in a clean suit and smelled fresh like he’d showered already. He worked my boxers down my legs, stopping to unhook my new insulin pump that Nick had dropped off for me in the early hours last night from the waistband. When he had the pump next to me, he glanced up my body, kissing my thighs. I was hard as a fucking rock, my dick standing straight up and down, pointing at my abs while drops of precum leaked into my belly button. Cillian kissed up my body and dipped his tongue in my navel to eat out the stickiness.
“What...?”
He moved back down and slid his lips over my cockhead. When he sucked, my eyes rolled back in my head, and the heat of his mouth had me arching my body. I panted and gasped, forcing myself to open my eyes so I could watch what he was doing. He gripped my hips and slowly bobbed his mouth farther down my length until he touched my groin, and then he sucked and pulled back up. I thrust my hips—couldn’t help myself.
Of all the things I thought I might see this morning, this sure as hell wasn’t it. He slid his strong arms under my legs and held on to my thighs, taking his time as he tortured me with the pure fire of his mouth. He licked at the underside of my dick and even went down to suck lightly on my balls. Vail’s lips were softer and he teased more when he was doing this, but Cillian went back to my dick and bobbed his head while he drew hard on me like he was going to be angry if I didn’t come. My stomach muscles trembled and I moaned. I wanted to ask a thousand questions but was worried he’d stop if I did, so I brushed my fingertips over his short dark hair and struggled for breath.
He popped off my dick and hummed. “That’s it. I can be gentle. Fuck that shite, I can do anything I want.”
“Your pride’s involved, huh?” I asked with a laugh, and he didn’t answer, just slurped down my dick again. My thighs shook and I rolled my hips, pressing farther into his mouth. He gagged a little, then growled, which sent an amazing sensation skittering into my stomach. First thing in the morning everything always felt frantic when I had wood, and I could tell that—“I’m not going to last long. Oh shit. Cillian.” I panted and tossed my head back and forth on the pillows.
A satisfied hum from him had me bowing off the bed as a wonderful warm heat pelted through my body. He sucked down my jizz like it was the best breakfast in the world and licked his lips as he sat back on his knees—in his perfect, unwrinkled navy suit.
“Get up and get ready. Sloan’s having an early meeting and we all gotta be there. Aspen’s in the shower, and he asked me to send ye in to him.” He grinned. “Bet he didn’t think I’d be sendin’ ye with empty balls.” He chuckled under his breath as if he’d done his bad deed for the day.
Groaning, I flopped back onto the bed. It took me a minute to scrape my brain cells together and get myself in gear, but the promise of Aspen and warm water was too good to pass up. Once I was in the bathroom the smell of sandalwood and mint hung heavy in the air, along with the steam. I disconnected my new insulin pump and set it on the counter, and Aspen was rinsing off soap suds by the time I made it into the shower behind him.
With a smile he quickly turned and dragged me around his body so I was the one under the warm water. He kissed me, sliding his hands down my back to palm my ass as he held me close.
“We don’t have time or I’d bend you over in here,” he murmured in my ear, and I shivered.
“Cillian said there was a meeting.”
“Mm-hmm.”
