“That depends on what it is. But sure, we are not unreasonable,” Tal answered with a shrug of his large shoulders. As for me, I twisted the bottle of beer in front of me, chipping away at the corner of the label with my nail.
“You’re not?” I asked, and this was where Victor hit his limit because he pushed from the counter and made his way around to me, where he put down his beer next to mine. Then he spun the stool so I was facing him, before tipping my head back with a firm grip on my chin.
“What is it you want, Nessa?”
I swallowed hard, because I had been asking myself the very same thing. What did I want, other than my freedom? Other than my right to choose? Other than for this to all be real and for them to trust that I would stay because I wanted to?
“I don’t want to be a prisoner,” I told him, making him sigh down at me.
“And I don’t want to chase you all over the damn city when you run,” he countered, which was when I closed my eyes and sighed again, because I knew we were at a crossroads. But I also knew that I had a chance to change it. So, I took a deep breath, opened my eyes, and told him softly,
“What if I didn’t want to run?”
His eyes widened, and he was clearly shocked by my admission. Shocked but pleased… because they soon started to glow slightly. It was subtle at first, his brown eyes seeping away as light stole the color.
“Then you wish to be ours?”he asked, his voice thick and hoarse, as if he feared to hope too soon.
“I don’t want to run anymore, but I can’t live like a prisoner, Victor, or this relationship you both want with me will never work like you hope it will. Bitterness would replace the…” I paused before I said too much. But it was too late for that. I knew that when his eyes narrowed and the silver in them started glowing hungrily as he came closer.
“Would replace what?Tell me, Vanessa.”
I felt Tal move in behind me, once again putting me in a vulnerable position where I felt trapped. Especially when Tal’slips found my ear, whispering, coaxing, luring my secrets from me with only two words.
“Tell us.”
So, I closed my eyes and said the word I knew would give them the last shred of power they held over me.
“Love…”Then I looked up at Victor, and then to Tal as he came to stand next to him.
“It would replace the love I already feel for you both.”
There was only a single flash of wonder shown before they acted. First with Victor, his lips crashing down over mine, forcing him to swallow my cry of shock with his kiss. A kiss that felt utterly consuming, as if he was trying to reach my soul and brand himself to it. To touch it in a way that meant never letting it go.
He wanted to own me.
They both did, and a growl next to me was Victor’s only signal to share. So he pulled back so his brother could claim my lips next. Tal palmed my neck and yanked me into him, his kiss hungry and dominating. The groan of pleasure that rumbled from him was enough to have me near panting. My fists clung on to his T-shirt as if this would help to keep me anchored to the now. As if it would stop me from just floating away on this blissful cloud he had plunged me into.
“Fuck, girl,”he growled when he pulled back to put his forehead to mine as he tried to catch his breath. As for Victor, he had circled around us both, so he was now at my back. I felt his heavy hands rest at my shoulder, and it wasn’t a warning for me, but for his brother to allow him space.
It always amazed me to see how well they worked together. So in sync with one another that they didn’t need words. Just like the way Victor brushed my hair back from the side of my neck so he could dip his face there. His lips trailing featherlight kisses up to my ear before he whispered,
“I’m having bad thoughts, Vanessa.”
I swallowed hard before asking,
“Bad thoughts?”
“So many… delicious… bad thoughts.”He hummed again as he sucked at my neck in between words, making me moan at what he was doing to me.
As for Tal, he nodded once to his brother, as if this was the go ahead to take hold of my waist, and lifted me straight from the chair. I cried out in shock as he swiped an arm out along the island, spilling the beer across it. Then he sat me down on the marble, my ass getting wet from the beer. But I was too lost to care. Especially when he gripped my knees and yanked my legs open before filling the space with his large body. The height of the island was perfect for grinding his hard length against me, after he took hold of my hips and slid me closer.
“Tell me how much you want this…tell me…”he hummed against my cheek but when I didn’t answer, his hand fisted in my hair so he could yank it back. I cried out in surprise at the slight bite of pain, but it was one that quickly morphed into pure desire and arousal. The thrill of what this man could do to me was like a drug I would happily lose myself to.
“Say yes to me… now!”he warned on a growl of words that made me shiver in his unyielding hold.
I was powerless to stop myself as I let the single word slip past my defenses…
“Yes.”
