He acted like he was going to charge at me and I squeaked and ran back into West’s bedroom. Hayes stood up from the edge of the bed and came at me, wrapping me in his arms and dropping his mouth to mine in a searing kiss. I stumbled backwards when he let me go and tried not to faint.
“We’ve got practice in an hour.”
I swallowed a sudden lump in my throat. The night was over and we were headed back into the real world. The one where I wasn’t sure what we were doing and what was real. “Oh, yeah, sure. I should get home before Aunt Jolene does something insane in her quest to find me.”
West, who couldn’t be Weston in my head after being so deep inside me, stood up from his bed and stretched. He was stillnaked and didn’t bother hiding himself in the slightest. “Like what you see, sweetheart?”
Cash came out of the bathroom, hands still wet from washing them, and wrapped himself around me from behind. “Want to come to practice and sit in the endzone as my motivation?”
They didn’t seem weird about it. Things just felt normal, with more touching and nakedness. I wasn’t sure what that meant and I’d never had a healthy relationship to base anything on. Was it still fake? They’d said things the night before that made me feel claimed by them but that could’ve just been sex talk.
“Cassidy? You okay?” Hayes walked over and cupped my face in his big hand. “You look like you’re ready to panic.”
“Me? Nah. No, I mean. I’m fine.”
He raised an eyebrow at me. “Bullshit.”
Cash caressed my throat and gently held it. “I felt you stiffen in a good way last night. This isn’t a good stiff.”
“We could do a lot in an hour, Strawberry. Talk or we’ll make you talk.” West came closer, still naked, still as broody as the day before.
“That’s my nickname for her. Get your own.” Hayes stroked my cheek. “What is it, Strawberry?”
I was surrounded by them and I could feel the word vomit start and couldn’t stop it. “I’m just wondering what we are. I mean… I know what we are, but… If this didn’t change things, that’s okay with me. I’m not going to cling to you now. You don’t need to worry about it. Let’s just forget this conversation even almost happened. Why am I still talking? Everything is fine!”
West winced. “Goddamn, you got high-pitched.”
I turned a scowl on him. “No,yougot high-pitched!”
Cash laughed and kissed my shoulder, trailing his lips over one of their marks. “You’re covered in the proof of how much things have changed, sweetheart.”
“You’re ours, Cassidy.” Hayes grinned. “But West is right. You can get wildly shrill.”
I slapped his chest and tried to hide the blush on my cheeks. “Okay, okay. I should go.”
West pulled me into his chest and kissed me with his stiffening dick trapped between us. When his hands started trailing down to my ass I laughed and pulled back. He groaned and grabbed a pillow to hide his erection from his brothers. “Fine. Be that way.”
I skirted away from their hands and stopped at West’s bedroom door. “You know what this means?”
They shook their heads.
I smirked. “As soon as I leave this room you’re just going to be three brothers with their dicks out. Ha!”
I barely dodged West’s pillow.
50
***Cass***
“Cass! You’ve got a male suitor, honey!” Aunt Jolene laughed as she moved past me in a cloud of citrus and glitter. “I’m fighting with my Islands wig. She’s being a bitch. Only bother me if the world is ending and I should see it, or something. Or, I guess if you have another pregnancy scare.”
West was standing in the living room behind her, eyes wide. “Pregnancy scare?”
“Oh, yeah, your brother thought this was the eighties and skipped the raincoat. Don’t worry. There will be no little bastard Ford babies running around this campus. At least not until Cass gets a ring on her finger.”
“Aunt Jolene!” Mortified, I grabbed West’s hand and pulled him to my room. I shut the door and leaned against it. “I’m so sorry. That was humiliating.”
He walked away from me, inspecting my room. He trailed his fingers over a stack of my books and when he looked back at me, his face was serious. “Cash forgot a condom?”
