Jack and Nico join the circle around me.
I don’t even know what to think. They want me now. But I can’t get rid of the voice that says when they get what they want, they won’t want me anymore.
“You guys punish me.” I turn so I can meet all their eyes. “You’ve taken pleasure from me when I didn’t want you to. I never asked you to choose me.”
“But we did, kitten.” Eli brushes his lips on the nape of my neck. “You’re ours to do with what we please, and if it pleases us to keep you, we will.”
Those words should terrify me. They aren’t asking for permission or consent. If they want me, they’ll have me. But the want doesn’t go one way. It’s been building in me, but I enjoy being theirs. I want them to touch me, kiss me, pleasure me, and I want to do the same to them. I want them to want to keep me, because I want to be kept.
My gaze lifts to Luke’s. His pale blue eyes are beautiful in the sunlight. The same color as the sky. He’s a bright god surrounded by dark demons, but he’s the darkest of them all.
“Keep your virginity as long as you like, princess. We’ll still be here. Waiting. Wanting.” He leans in and kisses me before jumping into the pool.
Jack draws my face his way and kisses me. Then Caden. Then Nico. They all return to the pool. Eli turns me in his arms, and I furrow my brow. This definitely isn’t how I thought they felt.
His fingers smooth the wrinkles on my forehead before his eyes lower to mine.
“Do I want to see you spread out naked before me while I pound into your sweet pussy?” Eli cups my cheek and traces hisfinger along my lower lip. “Do I want to tie you up and stuff you so full of cocks you scream in pleasure? Do I want to take you until you come so hard you forget your own name?”
Holy shit, he’s making me so wet. I want that. I want him to do those things to me.
Eli drops his mouth to hover over mine. “Do I want to make you mine?”
I almost whisperyes.
His lips capture mine and he sweeps me up into his arms. He tastes me delicately and fights with my tongue for dominance. When he lifts his mouth from mine, I can’t separate him from me.
“Fuck yes, kitten. I want all of you,” he whispers. “Take your time, but know once you let us in, we’ll still want you just as much, if not more.”
CHAPTER 25
The Considering
Harper
“Mom?” I walk into my house after spending the afternoon playing in the pool with the guys. It didn’t take much to break the tension. Jack grabbed me and jumped into the pool with me in his arms. Then we all acted like children with the beach ball.
Of course, they put me on their shoulders a lot. There was plenty of kissing and touching, but nothing overtly sexual.
“In here,” Mom calls from the family room. She smiles when I enter the room. The TV is paused in the middle of an episode ofLove is Blind.
“What have you been up to all day?” she asks.
I sit in the chair across from the couch, twisting the ring on my finger. “Movies and swimming mostly.”
“Have you picked one guy or still playing the field?” Raising a quizzical brow, she sets the pillow on her lap to the side.
“I guess playing the field.” I shrug and take off my shoes to put my feet up on the chair. They don’t seem to want me to choose, and I don’t want just one of them. I want them all. “I don’t see a reason right now to hang out with just one of them, and they don’t mind hanging out with me all together.”
Mom nods thoughtfully. “How very mature of you all.”
“I don’t think playing keep away with a beach ball is very mature.” I smile, remembering Caden stalking me through the pool until I could get rid of the damned thing. Of course, it turned out he wasn’t stalking the ball and pressed me against the corner of the pool to kiss me until I damn near forgot what we were doing.
“I’m glad you’re getting out of the house more.” Mom turns off the TV.
“Kenz is busy with her boyfriend. I’m actually making new friends at school, but I’m afraid their intentions might not be on the up and up.” I fold my hands together in my lap. Both the girls and Tanner have ulterior motives to want to get close to me.
“Trying to hang out with the only cool kid in school?” Mom grins.
