“Front clasp,” she whispered against his lips.
Keir thumbed over her covered nipples and moved his hands to search for the clasp, easily unhooking it even though he was behind her. It was meant to be opened with ease. She breathed in and out, breasts bobbing against his hands as she was finally freed.
Kade got the best seat in the car, of course. “Fuck,” seemed to succinctly sum up the pretty tits Keir was quick to cup again, nothing between his hands and her soft, warm skin.
“Can I kiss one?” Kade asked.
Tess nodded and murmured agreement to that idea. Keir pinched and played with both of her nipples, reluctant to give up his exploration when he had just started his turn and annoyed that Kade was going to get to kiss her breasts first, just like he had been the first to taste her lips.
“Can I lean you back on my knee so we can both kiss your breasts?” Keir asked, shifting so he had one knee bent on the center console to rest her head and neck against.
“It’s not going to work. She’s going to get a faceful of your dick,” his asshole brother pointed out. Keir had been figuring that out for himself, noticing how awkward it felt as he moved around, but he was still annoyed to have it pointed out to him.
“Then move over so I can get back there and put her over my lap,” Keir demanded.
“This isn’t working,” Tess said. “We really shouldn’t be making out in your car anyway. What if somebody catches us?”
Keir bit back a curse at the frustration he felt. He wanted to kick Kade out so he could take over the back seat with Tess in his arms but she was right. They weren’t here for this. He wasn’t worried about getting caught but the girl was here to see her mother, who was sick enough to need an inpatient admission. This could be put on pause for now.
“Okay, raincheck?” Keir suggested.
Kade ignored him and ducked his head to Tess’s chest. “Oh god,” Tess whispered.
Keir bit back a growl of impatience. “He wishes,” Keir muttered to Tess. “Pull his hair or smack his head. Time’s up.”
“It’s his lip ring, it feels so different,” she whispered, ignoring his advice.
So done with it and owing his brother a little revenge for always beating him to doing naughty things with their girl first—damn it, was Keir going to have to get his tongue pierced now to one-up Kade—he reached back and honked the horn loud.
Tess screamed ‘ouch’ and Kade cursed Keir’s name. He considered it a win until he heard Kade apologizing to Tess.
“You bit her?” Keir said in disbelief. “Oh, fuck, Tess. That’s not...I didn’t mean to startle you guys that much. Fuck, Kade, you idiot.”
“You’re an asshole,” his brother declared.
“Yeah, a bit,” Keir admitted. “Tess, are you okay?” he asked, feeling guilt and worry. Was she ever going to trust Keir to go further than a kiss when he did something so stupid?
“Some girls enjoy that kind of thing,” Tess said, doing her bra back up and straightening her shirt. She turned around and sat down on Kade’s lap, facing Keir. “I haven’t found the rough stuff all that sexy but maybe a little warning next time we try a bit of bite there?” she said with a blush and tiny smile.
Keir breathed out a sigh of relief. “Can I kiss you better, please? On the lips,” he clarified when she gave her clothed chest a quick glance.
She leaned forward, reaching out with her hands to cup his face on both sides and brought her lips over to his own. The kiss was all her, a firm press of her lips against his mouth until he opened up and then she boldly swooped in, tongue finding his and tangling as he got caught up in the passion of her kiss. Kade must have left her still simmering and Keir was receiving all that steamy attention, as undeserved as it might be after he was responsible for her unexpected nip.
He didn't waste time feeling guilty, taking advantage of Tess’s leaning forward position to pull her off balance and against his chest. He wrapped his hand around the back of her head and took over the kiss. She moaned again and this time it was because of him. She was sweet and spicy like Kade described, with a tremble of uncertainty that was in contrast to her earlier boldness as he plundered her mouth.
To his credit, Kade never interrupted, merely clearing his throat rather loudly once or twice while Keir continued to kiss Tess. Keir was mindful of his brother though and wished they were back in Tess’s basement bedroom so they could share her equally. It would be so fucking hot to see which of them could get her to moan loudest or they could work together to bring her to orgasm and make enough honey for them both to get a taste.
With a quiet exhale, Tess pulled back a tiny bit from him, hands clinging now on his shoulders to hold her up. She looked shaken and soft. He wanted to take a nip of her kiss-swollen lips but Kade had noticed they stopped kissing.
“Even now?” Kade said.
“That made up for last night but you had three kisses and I’ve only gotten one so far,” Keir said, childishly counting.
“You took three times as long to get it done so I say that makes things even,” Kade said. “Don’t blame me if you’re slow to fire up.”
“We really should get going,” Tess said, getting her breathing under control.
“Yes, I suppose we should. Can Kade and I still come to meet your mother? Maybe once we all freshen up in the bathroom?” Keir asked.
“Uh, yeah. It’s not like I was wearing lipstick or anything that will show we were kissing,” Tess said.
She had no idea what she looked like right now. Keir glanced over at Kade and caught his secret smile, keeping it between them.
“Come back here with me. It will be easier than trying to crawl up front to get out of the car,” Kade said. He put his hands on her bared upper thighs and pulled her back on his lap. This time his brother’s hands went under her skirt and by the little squeak of surprise Tess made, Keir was sure Kade was feeling up her panties.
“Bastion’s going to wonder what took us so long,” Keir commented. “I’m just going to text him with our current status.”
“Pumpkin, ever want to shove your brother’s phone down his throat?” Kade asked, finally shifting Tess to sit beside him.
“Not the phone, but I wanted to shovel Kraft Dinner into Jason’s mouth when he told me about his special dietary requirements,” she muttered. “Grocery shopping is going to be so fun tonight.”
They all got out of the car on that sour note.
Kade took the lead, quite familiar with the layout of the hospital. He led them to the first set of washrooms close to the entrance. Keir followed his brother while Tess went into her own. Luckily, he had been watching his brother’s back, or else he would have missed Kade stopping so abruptly and have run into him.
“Hey,” Keir protested, backing up a few steps.
“Do you think we took things too far?” Kade asked in a whisper.
The washrooms were close together so that explained the whispering. Kade had to be worried about it to ask the first moment they got alone. It had been on Keir’s mind as well, although he felt Tess had been into it as much as they had been at the moment. It was the regrets afterwards that his brother had to be worrying about now.
“She wasn't complaining. She could have said no. Is it because she kissed me right after she kissed you? Did it weird you out to share our girl like that?” Keir said. He walked around his brother because he really had to use the facilities, although all he needed was to stand up and point. He could still talk to his brother while taking care of business.
“No, I thought she was really sexy between us. It's just, we told her we were going to slow down yesterday. Remember, she said she broke up with her boyfriend recently before she moved here,” Kade said.
That was Kade for you. He had created quite the reputation for being tough and hard, but when it came to girls, his brother had actually developed a real vulnerability in the last few months. He was always thinking that nobody would want to be with him, not after his girlfriend dumped him
in front of the whole school and called him a murderer. There was dark and sexy and then there was black as sin. His brother was filthy on the outside and none of the girls at school would bother to look underneath the surface.
Actually, that wasn't entirely true. There were some girls that had shown interest in his brother. The same kind of girls that enjoyed the thrill of going down to Daniels to do some underage drinking and fucking some random just for the experience of living on a rebellious edge. The dirtier the better with a few of those girls, in the washroom, leg up on the toilet and some protection if they were lucky and the first fuck of the night.
The girls didn’t want Kade, they wanted to forget their own troubles and they were using him exactly for his black reputation. Once and done and discarded like a novelty condom in the trash. Thrilling but disposable.
Tess was different but Kade hadn’t dated for so long now that he seemed to be having trouble accepting a girl wanted him for anything but a quick fuck. Maybe Kade was the one that needed them all to slow down.
“Listen, Tess’s eighteen and she’s not a virgin according to Bastion. Girls have hormones and libidos too, and she’s broken up with her boyfriend. Weeks is long enough to start craving a touch other than her own fingers. Didn't you see how she responded to us?” Keir said, keeping his voice down but trying to coax his brother into not fearing Tess’s normal sexuality.
“I’m just saying we need to check she’s on board and slow down when necessary. We’ve only known her a few days,” Kade said.
Keir zipped up and went to the sink. “Like you’ve never made out with a girl you just met before? You always hooked up at summer camp and it was only a week long,” Keir pointed out.
“And those relationships were summer flings. This is different. Tess is different,” Kade said, getting louder.
“Yeah, Tess is different,” Keir whispered, reminding his brother to keep his voice down if he wanted their conversation to stay private. “We’re different now, too. This whole group dating thing is different. So what?”
“We can’t treat her like other girls,” Kade stated, sounding a little exasperated.
“Duh, we’re not. We’ve never had a girl that was ours. Everybody is feeling out how this will work but that’s why it’s best to follow her lead. If Tess initiates or responds to a come on, then follow through and don’t be a fucking limp dick about it.”
Keir wished he could take back the harsh words but his brother sighed and almost relaxed hearing them. “Fuck, Keir, you’re right,” Kade said, reaching over to one ear to finger one of his piercings. It was a nervous habit. “I don’t want to screw this up,” he added, dropping his hand and giving Keir a wicked smile that was at odds with his worries. “She’s such a sexy fantasy in that kilt. It’s going to be a shame to cover her up. She’s got silky panties on under her kitten shorts with little lace edges that bare a lot of cheek and this peekaboo opening that lets you feel the top of her ass. I didn’t get to feel if the front is the same.”
“You saw her panty drawer, Kade. She’s got a lot of sexy things to wear under her uniform,” Keir said, a tiny bit jealous that his brother got to feel her up so thoroughly in the car. They had all handled her lingerie with a bit of nervous embarrassment, getting them put away as quickly as possible from her half-unpacked suitcases, but no doubt, each of them had wondered exactly how the flimsy, lace and silky underthings would look like on her body.
“So, we cool?” Keir said. “Seduce, but let our girl choose when and how far to take it, and we’ll all try to pay better attention to her signals?” Keir proposed, quickly pulling out his phone to send a group text to Bastion and War. “It’s not going to be easy. When she starts kissing you and making that sexy little noise in the back of her throat...”
Kade cleared his own throat. “Damnit, Keir. We have to go meet her mother.”
Keir put his phone away and adjusted himself right in front of his brother, no shame. “Think of Carl Smith’s hairy balls from wrestling,” Keir suggested.
There was a reason clothes had to be regulation tight in wrestling and only half of it was about grips and the other was two hairy balls that would scar Kade’s memories forever. His brother had given up wrestling not long after.
“You are a terrible brother,” Kade whispered, clapping him on the shoulder. “Just keep in mind that we’re not wrestling when we seduce our girl together.”
Keir grinned.
Chapter 16
Tess
THEY SAY GIRLS TAKE forever in the washroom but apparently twins took twice of long even if they were guys. Was there only one stall and they had to take turns? She sat on a bench and texted the kids to make sure they were okay. Jason had a group project he was working on with friends today and Ashley had said she wasn’t ready to see mom yet, so neither of them came along. It was fine, Tess understood, even if she didn’t completely agree with it.
Nobody had coddled her when it came to acknowledging her mother’s serious mental health issues when Tess was younger. The kids were old enough now to hear more, no matter that Tess always thought of them as young.
Tess had only bought them a year by leaving her school and moving here. Next year, she couldn’t hold back anymore. It was her own future at risk if she stayed longer and her mother’s illness wasn’t curable, just manageable. They all had to work together to make their family strong enough to cope once Tess went to university.
“Hey, Pumpkin-Berry. Are you sexting Bastion all the hot details of your backseat-”
“Twinkledum, if you say one more word in public, I’ll not be responsible for how I choose to respond to your deliberate provocation. Kade is a witness. Right, Kade?” Tess said, standing up.
The bench had been between the two washroom entrances so Keir was close when he made his inappropriate comment on her texting and nobody would have heard him anyway. The hospital wasn’t exactly bustling with visitors.
It paid to be circumspect when Tess was supposed to be the responsible adult in charge and her mother was the incapacitated family member. She didn’t want anyone overhearing and thinking she wasn’t taking her responsibilities seriously.
Still, her response was a bluff but Keir wouldn’t know that yet. They were getting to know each other and none of them knew how far they could push. She had to take advantage of that when there were four boys to keep her on her toes.
“Keir, behave yourself,” Kade advised.
“Always a protector,” Tess said, giving Kade a smile of thanks. “I guess I should introduce Kade first since we met first.”
“And it was in this very building. I believe that’s called fate,” Kade said as they headed to the stairs.
“I thought catching something at the hospital was to be avoided,” Keir said, opening the door to the stairwell to let Tess and Kade go through.
“Your brother isn’t the flu,” Tess protested, but she secretly found it funny. Kade had sounded a bit corny with the fate bit. He had a romantic streak.
“Ignore him,” Kade suggested.
Sage advice but hard to implement. “Keir’s playfulness is what’s really contagious,” she remarked. “I had enough of the silent treatment from Jason to not want to subject someone else to it right now. Besides, he’s making fun of you, not me.”
“Pumpkin-Berry wants to play with me, Kade,” his brother said. “Ladies’ choice,” he added.
What did that mean? “I want to play with you both,” Tess said, trying to include Kade before his brother took things too far. She hadn’t thought how that would sound, however, and it echoed in the stairwell.
Keir snickered.
“Real mature,” Tess muttered, face going red. She stomped up the rest of the stairs.
“I warned you about him,” Kade said, hopping up the last few stairs ahead of her so he could get the door.
“And I just finished warning Keir to behave when it came to flirting in public,” Tess said, turning around at the top of the stairs to halt Keir’s pro
gress. He was close to her height, a couple steps down, so she grabbed the front of his shirt in her fist and yanked him close. She wanted to say something tough but when he was this close to her and those dark eyes were promising he would return anything she gave with pleasure, she decided it was easier to plead instead. “Please, Keir. I have to take care of my brother and sister and the child services is on our backs already because of my mom.”
Keir’s eyes got a lot more serious, shuttering a little as he looked down at her holding him. His hands came up to clasp her on the shoulders and give a reassuring squeeze. “Message received, Pumpkin-Berry. PG-13 rated antics only unless we are alone.”
She heaved a sigh of relief. Being afraid she couldn’t meet child services demands wasn’t really something she had talked about to anyone out loud yet. This was a big responsibility she had taken on to come home and be there so the kids didn’t have to go into custody. The only people that knew really were the kids, the child services worker and her mother, and Tess didn’t even know how much her mother understood about it. The child care services worker had been all business though, no compassion at all, which was particularly brutal given that she was supposed to be working with families.
Tess needed help, reassurance, and someone on her side that believed she could do it.
Keir walked up the stairs still holding her, so she had to back up at the top landing while he stepped up to his full height as he closed the distance between them. The twins were so tall, and sometimes she forgot it. Letting go of Keir’s shirt, she gave him a smile. “Thanks,” she said, trying to express her gratitude that he had taken her concern seriously. She could tell he wasn’t really the serious type, but she wondered if that was to make up for all the stuff that his brother had been going through, a spot of comic relief to provide the laughter to get them both through difficult times.
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