by Nikki Wild
I swiveled my head, watching as Dylan lifted her up off the ground.
“Please… Don’t hurt him,” Phoenix said, tears rolling down her face.
“He drugged you. He gave you downers and fucking alcohol. He could have fucking killed you! You don’t know what you’re even saying!”
“Alex is broken… He needs help… Look around Aiden. You can’t do this,” she said, her voice slurring almost too much to understand.
I turned my head, taking note of the dozens of cellphones that were now pointed at us videotaping this entire moment. Beyond them, a pair of security officers were quickly making their way towards us.
“Tell them what this asshole did to her,” I shouted at Carter. He was still, standing back with Nicole, Trevor, and Jeremy, giving me and Dylan a wide berth. I reached out and grabbing Phoenix’s free arm. “Let’s get you some help…”
While the security guards ran over, I turned to look down at our disgrace of a former bandmate. Why we tolerated his shit for all these years, I didn’t have a clue.
“Don’t you dare step into our lives ever again,” I snarled at him in no uncertain terms. “You are to stay clear of Phoenix, of me, and of all the rest of us. Do you fucking understand?”
Alex meekly nodded.
“Okay,” he replied with about the tenacity of a limp fish.
“Go.” Carter shouted at us, we’ll take care of this asshole.
Aiden
Six hours later we all rode in silence on the way back from the hospital. All of us were scrunched up together. Phoenix was cradled into my arm and resting off the stresses of the night. The shit Alex had given her took a while to wear off, but the doctor said she should be fine.
Looking down on her, a fierce desire to protect her was rolling through every inch of me.
It had taken a long time to see her as anything more than the next conquest. Dylan had been right about that. She deserved more than I could have possibly offered before tonight. There was so much growing I had to do. I’d need to become a much better man if I hoped to take good care of this girl.
If I wanted to keep her, I needed to keep earning her love, and I needed to make her feel like she belonged. Maybe she was out of her mind when she almost stepped onto that bus, but her words still cut me like a knife.
She thinks she doesn’t deserve this…
Alex’s little stunt had sent a jolt of panic through my system, and the silver lining was that it had opened my eyes. Phoenix Flynn was never going to be a notch on my bedpost – she was a girl I knew that I couldn’t afford to lose.
If she’d understood that before, maybe he wouldn’t have been able to guide her away from us so easily, drugged or not.
I guess I could thank Alex for that little revelation, even if I was glad to hear he was going to be enjoying the inside of a jail cell for an unknown amount of time.
We took the rest of the night off. Phoenix and I curled up in the back bed together, and after I got some water in her, I let her sleep off what was probably going to be an intense hangover.
When I woke up early the following afternoon, still sluggish with the intensity of our midnight rescue attempt, Phoenix was there in my arms. Angelic and serene, she mumbled in her sleep as she shifted slightly.
“Hmm?” I asked her concernedly, lowering my ear near her lips.
“Aiden…”
She was still slumbering.
I pulled her close and joined her in sleep.
All of us took it easy for a little while after that. We reconvened for dinner that night, the seven of us crowding around the den with takeout boxes of Chinese food. While we fired up Netflix and watched a comedy together, we chowed down and let the atmosphere slowly turn merry.
I couldn’t think of any time that we’d done this, even before Phoenix had joined us.
We were curled up and filling all of the seating, surrounding the flat-screen TV. My gaze slid across all of us, happily immersed in something together.
Dylan briefly met my glance, nodding his acknowledgement. Nicole was seated next to him and pretending to be totally engrossed in the show, although I could see that she wanted his arm around her too. I think she was shaken up by the prospect of her best friend being drugged and dragged halfway across town. Things could have turned out so much worse…
I shook my head.
The moon had long come out by the time that I stepped outside for some fresh air. While we’d been decompressing in front of the television, the bus had been driving us lazily towards our next horizon, finally stopping at a grocery store to refill the kitchen coffers. Everyone was piling out to load up on some grub, and I pulled Trevor aside as he hopped off.
“Hey, man.”
“Yeah?” He tilted his head.
“Phoenix and I are gonna hang back and talk. Can you handle grabbing us some food from in there?”
“Sure thing, man. Whatcha want?”
“The usual,” I told him. “Except… double it. I’m gonna be burning through a lot of calories on the ride to the next show…”
Trevor chuckled lewdly. “Gotcha.”
I put an arm around Phoenix and stole her back away from the group. None of the others said anything as I led her back to the bus.
“What is it, Aiden?” She whispered to me.
I tried to figure out the words to say. My mind slid back to all those nights together. Maybe it had always been there, lurking beneath the skin. With the three of us in such sexual chaos together, it could have been hiding in plain sight the entire time.
It wasn’t just primal, animalistic sex.
For me, our intense lovemaking had become something entirely different.
I knew that Phoenix could feel it too.
I pulled her back into the bedroom, sitting her down on the bed. Now that I had her undivided attention…
What now?
For the first time that I was staring into a girl’s eyes, my voice caught in my throat. My hands were trembling. I could remember trying to stay focused on her and asking myself: Why are they trembling?
“You are too important to me,” I told her, “for this to just be something fun to do.”
Phoenix Flynn blinked a few times, her eyes widening with surprise.
“This was supposed to be easy, something fun to blow the tension away. That’s what we set out to do, the three of us. But Dylan and I talked. He sees that I… that this is too important for me now.”
“What happened?”
“Before we knew you’d been taken… We discussed the band, and you. There are going to be some changes Phoenix. Dylan wants equal footing and a chance to do lead vocals on a few songs, and honestly… I want that too. I want to share this thing with him, not lead it for him.”
“And?” Phoenix asked, her eyes studying mine.
“And that’s the only thing I want to share with him. He knows how I feel, and he’s pulling back.”
She studied my eyes carefully.
“I know that you told us you couldn’t do this unless it was both of us,” I explained wearily. “If that’s still true, then I’ll give you up too. We can’t go on like this. The three of us can never have a happy ever after. There must be a choice. We made ours. Now it’s up to you… I know I’m not good at this kind of thing, but… What do you want?”
Phoenix grabbed me with both hands, her palms on my cheeks, and stared me directly into the eyes with the sexiest fucking look I’ve ever seen.
“I love you.”
My heart stopped in my chest. There was no way that I heard her right…
“What did you just say?”
Phoenix lifted her face closer, her fierce eyes focused entirely on mine. There wasn’t a single shred of doubt in her expression as she studied my eyes.
“I love you, Aiden Carpenter.”
My soul practically skipped a beat.
Until a few days ago, I hadn’t realized that this was what I wanted. All those nights that we spent together in dirty, amazing
sex, the two of us splitting this girl… I hadn’t dared to contest that. The last thing I wanted was to tip the ship in Dylan’s direction and disqualify myself in her eyes.
But it had become a burning maelstrom in my heart, eating away at me. I’d done what I could to keep it down, all the swirling emotions that threatened to smite me down.
Dylan had sensed that.
The bastard was always good at reading emotions. He’d picked up on the feelings rolling around in my head, and when he’d figured out what had gotten me so riled up, it had eaten away at him…
Staring into her angelic eyes, I didn’t even think. The emotion just poured out of me, like wildfire surging across a dead forest.
“I love you too, Phoenix,” I growled.
God, she looked so fucking sexy. Phoenix Flynn bit her lip innocently and raised an eyebrow at me. “So, is this the part where we seal the deal with a kiss?”
Phoenix
Our bothersome clothes were nothing more than a stray afterthought. Soon, we’d ripped them all off and scattered them along the floor as one of us pulled the other down into that bed.
Our aching, hungry lips descended. Aiden kissed me urgently, the fiery passion in his body threatening to burn down the entire bus.
But my fire burned brightly too, and I met his passion with my own.
“I need you,” he snarled into my ear as his teeth tugged it between his lips. “I need you, Phoenix Flynn, more than I thought I could ever need somebody else…”
“Dylan is really okay with this?” I asked him suddenly, threatening to extinguish the fire. The last thing that I wanted was to kill the mood, but I had to know for certain.
“He’s the one who made the decision,” he growled into my ear. “While you were being snatched up for your little adventure, we settled the score.”
“Oh yeah?” I asked, running my fingernails across his skin needfully.
Aiden nodded, pulling my hair back and kissing my throat. “He saw it, and he’s not going to stand in our way.”
“Saw what?”
“That you and I,” he whispered, nipping my ear, “are destined for each other.”
My skin went flush with wanton desire, hungry for more of his touch. To hear him speak so confidently about it…
“In that case, I’m all yours,” I cooed, pushing my bare breasts out for him. “Take me, Aiden...”
His dark chuckle was laced with ember.
“Gladly.”
His lips were crashing down on my perky nipple now, singed fingertips grasping my bare breast. I rolled my head back and gasped with undying pleasure as I felt that wicked tongue of his, sliding along the perky nub…
A hand clasped around the back of his neck, holding his face down into my breasts. I couldn’t dare dream of letting go of him. I needed him to keep doing whatever that was… to drive me to a higher plane, bringing me to up a new altitude of carnal need…
“I’ve got to taste you,” his voice growled.
My head was swimming as I felt my knees part. Whether they did it of their own traitorous volition, or he was prying them apart himself, I know not.
But soon his face was sliding down my abdomen; a burning trail of kisses glided along my skin until I felt his wet tongue against my needful clit…
“Jesus, Aiden,” I gasped intensely. My hands clutched at the bedding as I bucked my hips, riding his powerful tongue in the semi-darkness.
“I know how much you enjoy that.”
I could hear the smirk on his lips as he groaned the words.
It was so easy to let his predator nature consume me entirely. Aiden Carpenter was the fierce hunter, and I was the willing prey.
This felt so right.
I didn’t need serenity.
I didn’t need to be on a pedestal.
What I did need was a fire that made me feel alive, a burning spirit that would keep me on my toes and force me to lose control. I needed to be dominated and won, not coddled and worshiped.
It could only have ever been Aiden.
My trembling thighs wrapped around his head and I held his face pressed down into my wetness. Aiden’s fingernails dug into my hips as he wrapped his arms around my legs, forcing me to hold him down.
Every flick of his tongue was a promise that this was going to be life from now on. We performed our hearts out onstage, and Aiden always dragged me back here to fuck the ever-living daylights out of me.
It was a life that I was happy with.
After a while I pulled him free and threw him onto his back in the sheets. As he sprawled out, we flipped roles.
He was the prey.
I was the predator.
And as my hand instantly wrapped around his stiff, incredible cock, I swallowed down his shaft and tasted his need.
“Your lips are incredible,” Aiden snarled in utter delight, head sinking backwards.
I moaned a deep, lustful response as I pistoned my mouth along his cock, pulling it free only to run my tongue along it. There was nothing to stop me from worshipping his body, and I intended to do just that.
Aiden had slightly different plans. He coerced me up and spun me around in the instant, pushing my head down into his crotch. Confused, I continued sucking him down until I realized that he was lowering my hips to his face…
I felt his tongue penetrate me again, aided with a coarse finger.
I’d heard of this position before, thinking it required too much work to get right. Somehow, it was natural with Aiden – us both pleasing each other with our mouths at the same time.
My mouth, swallowing his cock.
His tongue, buried in my pussy.
The more I deep-throated him, the more he fingered me alongside sucking my clit. Our bodies were writhing now, our minds obliterated by the satisfaction of what we were doing.
I felt an orgasm begin to build, and I knew he sensed that too. Before I could respond, he was pulling me off of him and throwing me down into the bed.
Damn, I was close! I scowled.
Of course, he knew that.
Aiden snapped a fresh condom onto his cock and stroked himself against my slick entrance. I grabbed at his hips, urging him to push inside me, but he wouldn’t.
Instead, he teased me.
I felt his bulbous tip sliding along my folds, exciting my nerve endings as he dared to test my patience.
“Damn you, Aiden…”
“You know you love this…”
I couldn’t argue the point. But when I bit my lower lip sexily and nodded, my eyes narrowing into a half-lidded smile, I knew I had him.
“Jesus, that’s fucking hot,” the dark voice rumbled as he finally thrust his cock into my chasm. “You goddamn know how to make my heart race…”
“You’re pretty good at it too,” I heard myself murmur as I descended into a cloud of mental ecstasy. “Always knew how to make my panties wet…”
Aiden pushed deeper into my body, shortening the gap between our hips even further. Soon, he was hilting himself on me, and my legs wrapped around his waist and held him bolted in.
“Fuck me, Aiden,” I murmured huskily. “Fuck me with that hard cock like there’s nothing else in this world.”
“Right now, baby,” he whispered darkly into my ear, “there isn’t.”
His cock thrust powerfully into my body, and my lips involuntarily burst open with a loud moan. I realized that I was biting down on his shoulders with my fingernails as he began thunderously rolling his hips against mine.
My mind was being pushed towards a comfortable oblivion; thoughts, higher brain function, none of that mattered anymore. My consciousness was disintegrating with every last, amazing movement of his hips against mine.
Aiden’s voice came out in staggered groans between his thrusts. “There’s nothing… more important… right now… than being… inside you… Phoenix…”
My hips were rolling against his in response: yes, you’re absolutely right, there’s nothing more than your body and min
e…
The impressive accomplishments of the band all faded away. No matter how fantastic the tour was going, how completely at home I felt with my bandmates, and how bright the future looked…
Right now, it was all about us.
Aiden flipped me onto my stomach and mounted me. Instead of pulling me onto all fours, he held me down, climbing onto my body like a creature possessed.
I felt his hand clasp a fistful of my hair, and his other arm threaded around my neck. Aiden Carpenter had locked and bolted me into position beneath him, my face held next to his as he dominated my pussy from above.
“Oh fuck,” I moaned greedily.
His ankles slid into position and drove my own further apart. His limbs were restraining me as his deep, penetrating cock found its new angle inside my wet, quivering pussy.
I loved it when he did this.
It was incredibly hot for him to bind me down with nothing more than his own body, somehow figuring out how to lock me completely into place.
There wasn’t anything I could do besides withstand the full ferocity of his incredible might, threatening to eclipse me entirely.
And the angle of his curved, massive cock in my pussy like this was going to doom me into sexual oblivion.
Just the way I needed it.
Aiden held me down like this for several minutes (or was it eons?), destroying my body with great, mighty thrusts that heavily shuddered the bed.
“Don’t you dare stop,” I groaned, feeling my throat vibrate against his rock-hard arm as I spoke.
“Hold on tight,” he purred devilishly into my ear. “We’re in for a ride…”
The mounting release built up inside me, rising higher and higher with a staggering intensity. I felt my body tensing up as it lifted me to that altitude I enjoyed so much, putting me firmly at the edge of a mental cliff…
And as he picked up the pace and jackhammered my body, it all came crashing down inside.
I distantly heard myself wail in orgasmic bliss as his hand clasped over my lips. I felt something pure and unreal cascade over my body, flooding my nerve endings and sending a whiplash of pleasure down my spine.
Aiden rode my quivering body, his cock thunderously driving into me until one finally push came. He burrowed inside my chasm as deep as possible in his ultimate thrust, and I felt the searing heat of his climax as it pumped into my thirsty depths.
