The entire table laughed, breaking the building tension and giving Ain a moment to think about it. He looked at Liam. “You understand my concern, correct? I hope the Clan will rule in our favor on this, but considering it’s a blood oath, they might not.”
He solemnly nodded. “I do. I realize it’s hard to place trust in me considering ye just met me. Believe me when I say I’d die to protect her. We’ll do our best not to reveal any more than necessary to the Clan.”
Elain looked at Ain. “Please?” she quietly asked. “It’s not that I want to be away from you guys, but…” She shrugged. “I would like some time with my mom and dad. And with Lina and them, too. It’s crazy around here. It’d be nice to get to know them better.”
“When we’re up there,” Lina added, “we’ll have Blackie and Callie with us, too. If you don’t think she’s safe with all of us, then she’ll never be safe with just you three.” She leveled her gaze at Ain. “Don’t worry. We will bring her back, safe and sound. I promise you that.”
With the gravity of the situation and suspecting Elain wasn’t grasping the full ramifications if the Abernathys challenged them for her, Ain hated admitting Elain made valid points. “Okay. When do you want to leave?” he asked Lina.
“I’d prefer late tonight or before dawn in the morning. That way it’s easier to see if anyone’s following us. We can put her in Carla’s car with her and Liam and have them drive between our two cars. You can’t get much safer than that.”
“You don’t want to fly?” Ain asked.
All of Lina’s men and Brodey groaned as her expression darkened. “No. Absolutely not. We’re driving.”
Ain guessed he didn’t want to challenge her on that point from both her tone of voice and the way her men and Brodey reacted. “Okay.”
Elain reached out and squeezed his hand, giving him a grateful smile. “Thank you. I know that was hard for you.”
He leaned in and kissed her. “Babe, you have no idea. And if you don’t get back here safe and sound, there’ll be hell to pay.”
* * * *
They decided it would be best to take off in the morning. Elain packed before curling up in bed with Cail. Brodey and Ain were out in the living room discussing strategy with Liam and Lina’s men.
“I’m going to miss you, babe,” Cail said.
She snuggled close to his warm body. “I’ll miss you, too. All of you.”
“You realize Brodey will probably jump you the minute you walk in the door when you get home, right?”
She giggled. “Yeah. My sweet little horndog.” She hooked a leg around Cail’s. “I’m glad the three of you are different like that. I don’t think I could handle all three of you acting like Brodey all the time.”
He grinned. “Who says Ain and I won’t be horny as hell by the time you get back?”
She laughed. “I know you will. You know what I mean.”
He rolled on top of her. “And I know a certain woman who will most likely be horny by the time she gets home, too.” He kissed her between her breasts, his lips lightly feathering down her flesh toward her navel.
“Yeah,” she whispered, need suddenly taking over.
She buried her fingers in his hair and tried to urge him to move faster, but he wouldn’t be rushed. He took his time kissing his way first to one breast, where his tongue made slow, wet circles around her nipple before sucking it into his mouth. He repeated it with her other breast before finally resuming his slow, southerly sojourn.
The stubble on his cheek felt pleasantly rough against her flesh as he kissed his way down between the juncture of her thighs. He met with no resistance when he pressed her thighs apart with his palms.
“Such a good girl,” he whispered before bending down to her pussy. His fingers brushed over her folds. “You’re already wet, baby.” His breath felt hot against her clit.
He pressed one, then two fingers inside her. Moaning, she rocked her hips in time with his movements. When his lips closed around her clit, she nearly came off the bed from how good it felt.
Cail quickly changed position, turning around and swinging a leg over her, settling on top of her with his hard cock dangling over her lips.
She needed no instructions or encouragement. Opening wide, she wrapped her lips around him, shivering when he moaned against her clit, the sensation running through her entire body. His musky scent filled her lungs as his balls brushed against her nose.
“That’s it, baby,” he whispered before his tongue swiped down her clit and back up again.
She lost herself in the feelings of his mouth on her clit, his cock in her mouth, the warm heat and weight of his body pressing her into the mattress. It barely registered in her mind when she felt the mattress dip first on one side, then the other. Hands reached between their bodies and found her breasts, strong fingers pulling at her nipples and sending scorching tendrils of pleasure to her clit and back again.
Unable to cry out, she moaned around Cail’s cock as the first orgasm hit her, shaking her to her core. She tried to say no more, but she couldn’t, and he relentlessly sucked on her swollen clit until a second release shot through her. Her back arched, but still held down by Cail’s weight she didn’t go anywhere. As a third finger joined the other two inside her, he found that magic spot inside her cunt and pressed, triggering yet another orgasm.
She screamed, his cock sliding deep into her throat as she eagerly swallowed it. Her nose was buried between his balls as she felt his cock harden before spurts of hot juices filled her mouth. Swallowing as fast as she could, she moaned as his balls tightened and one last load emptied into her throat.
Only then did he rise up on shaky arms and legs with a final, gentle kiss on her clit. Gasping for breath, she managed to look to either side and saw Brodey and Ain with nearly identical grins on their faces. The source of the hands, each still had a breast cupped in their palms.
“That,” Ain said, his voice low and pleasantly growly, “was gorgeous.” He pulled her up and to him and kissed her, roughly, possessively, his need glowing hot in his fiery gaze. He scooched back on the bed and buried his hands in her hair. With his legs spread he guided her down to where his rigid cock stood straight up, twitching in eager excitement.
She needed no further encouragement. She pounced on him, wrapping one hand around the base and another around his balls. He laughed at her soft, growling sounds as she swallowed him to the hilt.
“That’s my girl,” he said.
Brodey grabbed her hips and pulled her up onto her knees. “This is where I want you, babe,” he said. Two fingers parted her lips, sinking deep into her wet pussy. “Oh, yeah. You’re way more than ready.”
He knelt between her legs. She wiggled her hips at him as she felt the engorged head of his cock press for entrance, then sink home.
An involuntary moan of pleasure rolled from deep within her. She wanted him to fuck her. Hard.
He lightly smacked her ass. “Is that what you want, baby?”
Beyond words, mental or spoken, she softly mewed around Ain’s cock.
“I think that’s a yes,” Ain said, his grip on her head tightening.
The possessive gesture sent another wave of pleasure rippling through her, and Brodey felt it.
“Oh, yeah. She liked that,” Brodey said. His fingers pleasantly dug into her hips as he withdrew until just the head of his cock was still buried inside her. Then he shot forward again, slamming deep inside her, his balls brushing against her clit from the movement.
She moaned again, triggering another, deeper moan from Ain.
“Fuck, yeah. Do that again,” he told Brodey.
“My pleasure,” he grunted, now slamming into her, only his hands on her hips keeping her head from ramming into Ain’s stomach.
Elain gave up all conscious thought. The pleasant ache of Brodey’s cock bottoming out inside her, combined with the possessive grip Ain had on her head, finished her off. Another orgasm rushed through her. She moaned around Ain’s cock and felt h
is balls tighten in her hand.
“That’s it,” he grunted. “Let him fuck you good, baby. Just suck on my cock.”
She wasn’t about to argue with that logic. Her cunt tightened around Brodey’s cock as another orgasm pulsed through her. She’d be pleasantly sore in the morning and enjoy every second of it.
Brodey slapped her ass again, just a little sting only intensifying the pleasure rolling through her as she sucked harder on Ain’s cock.
His fingers dug into her scalp. “Take it deep, baby,” he grunted before she felt his cock grow hot and hard, then empty into her ready mouth.
With soft growls of pleasure, she swallowed every mouthful, wanting every drop she could suck from him. He finally had to pull her off his cock with a gentle laugh when she refused to let go.
And still pleasure assaulted her from Brodey’s hard fucking. Smaller releases echoed and rebounded through her as he held back, each stroke harder and deeper than the last. She tried to help, fucking her body backward onto his cock, but Cail grabbed her hair.
“Fuck, that’s sexy, babe.” His tone had turned deep and growly, and he guided her mouth back to his cock, which had grown hard again from watching.
She threw her arms around his hips for balance and wrapped her lips around his girth. She didn’t have to do anything but let him fuck her mouth as the brothers seesawed her body between them.
She closed her eyes and moaned with yet another orgasm. She felt caught in a sexy cycle she couldn’t escape if she wanted to, her body responding to every move they made.
Ain reached under her and found her clit. He feathered his lips along her shoulder. Then he said, “Come for us, baby.” He bit down at the same time he pinched her clit, hard.
She screamed, pain and pleasure turning into a volatile mix that robbed her body of strength. Her nails dug into Cail’s ass as she tried not to bite down on his cock. The sensation was enough to send him over the edge, too. Brodey, not wanting to be left behind, picked up the pace.
“Fuck!” he cried out as his cock exploded inside her. She felt hot streams of his cum filling her before he collapsed on top of her.
She tried to catch her breath. She didn’t want to move. She felt too good and too wonderfully sore at the same time.
Brodey was the first to carefully untangle himself from her before Cail and Ain helped her roll over onto her back.
“Are you okay?” Ain asked, concern on his face.
In disbelief she stared at him before she broke out laughing.
Cail smiled. “I think that’s a yes.”
She giggled as she buried her face in Ain’s lap and nodded. She was almost asleep by the time he’d repositioned himself with her cradled in his arms.
He kissed her forehead. “Sleep well, baby.”
“Mmmm,” she softly moaned as sleep took her.
Chapter Nine
Elain awoke nearly half an hour before the alarm went off at four thirty the next morning. As expected, the previous night’s gymnastics left her slightly achy and bruised, but she wasn’t complaining in the least. She quickly grabbed a shower and dressed and started a pot of coffee while waiting for the others to wake up. She wasn’t looking forward to spending several days away from her men, but she was looking forward to getting to know Lina and her gang.
And her father.
Now that the initial shock of recent revelations was starting to wear off a little, she wouldn’t deny excitement had started creeping in. A chance to not only have new friends and adopted family, but she now had her dad and her mom together in the same place for the first time in her life.
Jesus, I’m a wreck. She fought the urge to burst out laughing, sure everyone else would think she’d gone crazy.
Maybe I have.
For the first leg of the journey, Elain would ride with Carla and Liam. Until they got out of Arcadia, at least, both Elain and Liam would stay out of sight on the backseat. Kael and Zack would leave first, followed by Carla a few minutes later, and then Lina and her men. They would rendezvous outside of Arcadia and proceed to the interstate once they were sure no one had followed them.
Elain hugged and kissed her men before she and Liam crept outside under the cover of darkness and climbed into the backseat of Carla’s rental car. Everything went according to their plan, and they soon hit I-75, certain no one had followed them. When they stopped at the Dade City exit for gas and a bathroom stop for Lina, it was barely daylight.
When they were preparing to load up, Lina snagged Elain’s arm. “Come ride with us for a while. Please? Otherwise, I’m liable to fry these two chumps out of sheer aggravation.”
“Hey,” Jan protested. “What’d we do?”
“You didn’t do anything,” Lina shot back. “It’s just that you’re men and I’m hormonal and it’s your fault I’m as big as a house.”
Carla smiled. “It’s all right, honey. Your father and I don’t mind.”
Elain didn’t miss the pleased glance Carla gave Liam.
When they were back on the road, Elain confronted Lina. “Fess up.”
Lina smiled. “They need alone time. No better bonding time than on a road trip.”
“Is this part of your visions? Did you see something?”
Lina laughed. “No, this was just plain old intuition combined with seriously needing some estrogen backup against these two.” She poked her two men in the shoulders over their seats.
Rick, who was driving, protested. “Hey! That’s not fair. What’d I do?”
“You were born with a penis, that’s what,” Lina shot back.
Elain laughed, but she saw through Lina’s false gruffness. She truly loved her men. “So what can I expect when we get to Maine?” Elain asked.
“You’ll love Lacey,” Lina said. “She’s a real sweetheart. She’s like a grandmother.”
“And she makes wicked-good banana nut bread,” Rick said.
“Yeah, there is that,” Lina agreed. “She’s a damn good cook.”
“I think I gained five pounds during our last visit,” Jan said.
Elain sipped at her coffee to buy her a few minutes. “Have you seen anything happening between my mom and dad with your visions?”
Lina shook her head. “Nothing yet. Doesn’t mean I won’t.”
“Oh.”
Lina laid a hand over Elain’s. Elain immediately felt a wave of tender concern from Lina. “I wish I could give you an answer about that.”
“He’s got the hots for her,” Jan said.
“What?” Elain asked.
Rick nodded. “From what I could see with my own two male eyes,” he said with a glance in the rearview mirror at Lina, “he really likes her.”
“You think so?”
“Elain, please don’t get your hopes up,” Lina said. “Let nature run its course. I know it’s natural to want them to end up together, but don’t be disappointed if it doesn’t happen.”
“Will Lacey be able to tell me anything?”
Lina shrugged. “I don’t know. We’ll have to ask her if she’s had any visions. We’ll be there in a couple of days. Try to enjoy the trip.” She offered up a playful smile. “Admit it, you were jealous when I first walked in and hugged Brodey, weren’t you?”
Why lie? “Yeah. It was like this instinctive wave washed over me. Sorry.”
Lina laughed. “No problem. I would have done the same thing, probably. But seriously, are we okay?”
Elain smiled. “Absolutely. For the first time since I met the guys, I feel like I have a girlfriend I can talk to about all of this.”
“I know what you mean. I have friends, but I can’t talk to any of them about the unusual stuff, you know? I actually lost a couple of friends when they realized I was with both Jan and Rick.”
Elain hadn’t even thought that far ahead in the equation. Not that she had that many friends to worry about. Acquaintances, sure. Coworkers? Lots.
Well, former coworkers.
What Elain hadn’t counted on was n
ot missing work. She had been convinced she would be bored silly and ready to beg Ain to let her get a job by this point.
She wasn’t.
Sure, she’d miss her men over the next couple of days, but the adventure of having her parents and new friends keeping her company, as well as meeting new people, overshadowed that.
The thought of going back to work now was a nearly alien thought. Not that she wanted to lay about, either.
Children…
No, she didn’t need to think about children right now. She needed to think about getting through this new batch of bullshit and the wedding before thinking about starting a family.
Jan and Rick might as well not have been in the car for all the attention Lina and Elain paid them as they bounced from one topic of conversation to the next. By the time they stopped for their next bathroom break, Elain knew she and Lina would likely be friends for life.
Feeling a little guilty that she’d abandoned her mom, Elain walked over to her car as she and Liam got out. “How are you guys doing?” Elain asked.
Carla smiled. “We’re fine, honey. Enjoy your time with Lina.” Elain didn’t miss how Carla glanced at Liam. “Your father and I are talking.”
Elain and Lina spent the next leg of the journey riding with Kael and Zack. Elain quickly discovered she liked both men. By the time they called it a day, they’d made it to Virginia. After agreeing upon a place for dinner, they found a hotel. Elain roomed with her parents, sharing a bed with her mom.
As she closed her eyes and tried to sleep, she couldn’t help the smile on her face.
* * * *
Marston felt nervous. He’d intended to get closer to the Lyall house, but despite getting there early in the morning, it seemed he’d missed his opportunity. He parked on the road outside their driveway and, using a pair of binoculars, studied the yard again. Three of the cars that had been there yesterday were now gone. And he knew from observation that two of them had belonged to the dragons.
Damn.
Something had happened, but he wasn’t sure what.
He drove back down the road and parked near a convenience store anyone leaving the Lyalls’ had to pass to get into Arcadia. After several hours and spotting no one, he drove past the Lyalls’ property again.