“That is a sight,” Culter said, joining him outside on the sidewalk in front of the Cherry Hill Café. He smiled, and she stepped forward and hugged Kane as his brothers released her. They looked serious, but happy.
“What’s this?” Culter asked, sliding his thumb along her neck.
She stepped back and reached up. “What is it?”
Culter smiled and Kane winked as Culter pulled her into his arms. “My brother’s handy work I see.” He then lowered down to kiss her lips. She didn’t even know she had a love bite on her neck. Kane chuckled. When she pulled back, she looked like her shy, sexy self. She reached up and rubbed her neck. “What is it?”
“A little love bite,” Chase said, and suckled right over her neck as he wrapped his arm around her midsection tightly. They laughed as her eyes widened and she reprimanded him. Culter didn’t release her as Kane led them into the cafe.
“Good afternoon, Sheriff. Ain’t this a surprise,” Molly Lucas said, greeting them hello and then giving a big smile to Hannah. They greeted them hello, as well as Molly’s husbands, Dan, Brett, and Louis, who yelled from the back kitchen. Locals were looking at them and Kane knew this would happen, and he hoped that Hannah would accept guardianship like the rules required. He really wanted her to, mostly because it would give them the power to protect her fully and push for spending more time together and eventually make the relationship more serious and official. He looked at her as she glanced at the menu, and then at his brothers who were looking at her, as well. She was the one. They finally found a woman they all cared for and could love. He just knew it, and it blew his mind. She was so young looking, yet had this maturity about her and an experienced look, yet classiness, like she could hold her own with the wealthy upper class. He didn’t know why he thought that. Maybe he was just trying to figure out who she was and what was in her past. Did a man hurt her? Abuse her? Was she running from the law? How bad was it really? His brothers were right, he needed answers, and sooner than later.
They ordered some lunch and talked about plans for the rest of the day. The conversation ran smoothly as Culter talked about the classes he had this morning, and how Chase would be running the class tomorrow morning that Hannah was taking.
“I get to see what other moves you have, sweetie,” Chase teased her.
She squinted at him as he sat next to her. “I expect serious instruction, Chase. If you can’t do that, then I’ll need to make sure I at least have a partner who takes it seriously.
He leaned closer and she jerked. Obviously Chase placed his hand on her thigh under the table. “They’ll be no other partners but myself, Culter, and Fox if he decides to join us. No other men will be rolling around on the mats with our woman. Got it?” he asked her. She stared at him, and Kane hid his smile as she nodded and then looked at Kane.
“We’ll pick you up whenever you’re finished with work okay? It’s supposed to bad weather tonight. Heavy rains, and you know what that means,” he said to all of them.
“Accidents, chaos, lots of calls to the department because people just don’t heed caution no matter what the news tells them in advance,” Culter said.
“Exactly,” Kane replied.
“Do you have to drive around in it or wait for calls to come in?” she asked.
“Myself and a few deputies drive around a bit, make sure there’s no one stuck on the long road into town from Central Valley, then we park and just keep watch,” he told her, holding her gaze and staring at the way her blouse peeked open just enough for him to see the deep valley of her cleavage. The woman was well endowed and then some. She smelled good too, but that was interrupted by the smell of food as Molly brought over their lunch.
“Well, be careful, Kane, she said, and it surprised him as he held her gaze and gave her a nod. It felt different to have a woman, to have Hannah, care like that for him. That protective, possessive meter went up a notch. He may just be following them back to her place for a little fooling around to hold him off until tonight.
* * * *
Athena was shaking as the men followed her up to her apartment after lunch. Even Kane and Culter came along in Kane’s patrol car. She knew she had allowed things to get a little wild with Chase and Fox in the parking lot before lunch, and she was shocked that she let them do so much, but she also felt like she could handle it. Plus, by the way women looked at her today, like she landed the hottest guys in town, it made her feel encouraged. As they entered her apartment, she turned to ask them if they wanted something to drink but Kane had a different idea. He wrapped her up in his arms and kissed her. She held onto him and kissed him back, and then he was lifting her up and carrying her to her bedroom. She pulled from his mouth. “Kane, I’m not ready for this.”
He was breathing heavily. “I know you aren’t. We need a little taste, baby. We want you to get used to our touch.”
“To our mouths,” Fox added.
They were all in her bedroom and she gulped. “I don’t know how far I can let you go. I don’t know what my reaction will be,” she whispered.
“Sweetie, it’s pretty easy to figure out that whatever happened to you was violent, and perhaps sexual in nature, and we’re willing to take our time, to show you that intimacy doesn’t have to hurt or be something you’re afraid of. When you accept our guardianship, it’s another show of you accepting us to protect you and make you happy,” Kane said to her.
“I want that,” she replied.
“Then don’t think about anything but learning our touch, absorbing our care for every inch of you. Can you try?” he asked.
She inhaled and her shaky breath was definitely heard by them. Looking at them standing here in her bedroom, so sexy, so capable and authentic, she followed her gut. “I want to try.”
Kane slowly laid her down on the bed. He pressed over her. Leaned on his fist by her side, and clutched her jaw. She stared up into those dark blue eyes. They were almost navy in color, and in uniform all sexy, bulky and capable. She couldn’t help but move her body as her pussy reacted. His thick thighs were wedged between her legs. He stroked her jaw. “Relax and just feel.”
He lowered down to kiss her lips. He scattered those kisses along her jaw, then to her chin, and she tilted her head up, ready to give him better access to her body. The bed dipped on both sides. Fox on her right, Chase her left. Culter stood by Kane and watched, too.
Her lips parted as Fox and Chase unbuttoned her blouse while Kane lowered down, and began to slide his palms up her thighs and under her skirt. She was shaking, so turned on right now, she could focus on nothing but their hands, their presence, and how safe she felt.
“I don’t have a lot of time, but tonight will be different,” Kane said, and he pressed his hands to her hips and began to pull off her thong panties.
“Kane.”
“Shhh…only as far as you’re ready for. Just a little taste, a little bit of pleasure, before I head to work and let my brothers enjoy time with you, too.”
He pulled them down and off of her, and then he lifted her top and began to kiss her bare belly.
“Holy God, woman, you are fit and trim,” Kane said.
“Now those are abs to be proud of,” Culter added from behind him.
Then Fox and Chase leaned into her and started kissing her bare shoulder and lowering the camisole she wore. The pressed it down, and then her straps to her bra too, when she felt Kane’s mouth on her cunt. “Kane.”
She lifted only for them to hold her down.
“Let go and just feel.”
“But I’m not ready to have sex with you.”
“We know that. We want you to get used to our touch.”
She moaned as Kane’s tongue slid deeper, swirled around her pussy and clit, then he tugged. He pulled her lower, so her ass and cunt were off the bed and she gasped as the sensations overwhelmed her. “Oh God. Oh, my God, Kane,”’ she said, and Chase and Fox pushed her bra down, and began to suckle her breasts.
“Holy God she�
��s beautiful. Holy fuck,” Culter exclaimed. Fingers slid into her cunt and she cried out louder.
“That’s it, baby. Let go now. You’re so fucking wet and tight. Give it to us. Let go and just come,” Kane said, and he thrust fingers faster, deeper as Chase and Fox suckled her breasts, tugged on her nipples and slid their palms along her bare belly nearly to her cunt. She cried out and came. She shook and then felt Kane’s mouth replace his fingers, and once again he was relentless. He pulled back, face red, lips wet.
“Culter, then Chase, and Fox,” he ordered, and stood up, then pressed over her to kiss her lips. She tasted herself on him as she lifted, and felt Fox slide his hand behind her and unclip her bra.
“Let’s get this off of you,” Chase said, and she let them. She actually let them pull off her top and her bra, and here she lay on a bed completely naked with four men she hardly knew, yet felt so close to, and she cared so much for that her heart actually began to feel things she thought she might never feel for real.
“Holy Christ, she’s a goddess,” Culter said, and fell to his knees, then slid his hands up her body to her breast and suckled the tips one at a time. He trailed his mouth lower and lower then found her cunt. She reached out and grabbed for his head and thrust her hips upward as he plunged his tongue into her cunt in exploration.
“Sweet Jesus, look at her. She’s ours,” Fox said, and he lowered down to kiss her, causing her to release Culter’s head as he lifted her thighs over his shoulders and went to town arousing her and making her continue to come. In and out, he thrust his fingers then replaced them with his mouth. All the while Kane stood behind him and watched, in uniform, looking dead serious and so damn sexy, she leaked more cream.
“I can’t take it, Kane. You all drive me crazy,” she said, and then Culter lifted up.
“Chase,” he said, and Chase got up off the bed as Culter changed positions, and now he was tasting her cream, fingering her cunt, and nipping the inside of her thigh.
“Chase.” She gasped and thrust upward.
“Easy, baby. You are incredibly responsive,” Culter said to her, and he kissed her lips. She reached over and held his head as Fox restrained her one arm and suckled that breast. He was tugging and then nipping her nipple, until she felt her body erupt once again.
“My turn,” Fox said, and Chase pulled fingers and mouth from her cunt.
“She’s so delicious. I’ll never get enough. Never,” Chase said, and he stood up and took Fox’s position. Fox stood between her legs. He lifted her thighs and ran his hands up and down them. When he pressed her heels to the edge of the bed, causing her to spread wider, cool air hit her ass and cunt and she gasped, but held his gaze.
“Say you want us as your guardians. Accept us with the sheriff right here as a witness, too,” he said as he lowered down and nipped her left thigh, then the right thigh while holding her gaze.
“Fox.” She moaned.
“Say it and accept us,” he said, and lowered down, held her ankles to the edge of the bed, and nipped at her clit. She gasped and raised her hands, but Chase and Culter stopped her. They raised her arms above her head. Her breasts stood out, she was naked and at their power and control, and instead of freaking her out, it turned her on.
He licked her cunt and then her asshole, shocking her. “Fox.” She moaned.
“A nice, tight bud just waiting to be penetrated. Every inch of you will belong to us when we make love. When we officially claim you our woman. We’ll be bound forever, Hannah,” he said, and licked her from cunt to asshole, back and forth and driving her insane.
“Do you accept us as your guardians, Hannah?” Kane asked her as Fox began to thrust fingers in and out of her cunt, and then a finger to her asshole, pressing into her there.
“Oh God! It isn’t Hannah. My real name is Athena.”
“What?” Kane asked, and Fox stopped, then pulled his fingers from her body as tears spilled from her eyes. “I need you to know I had to use a fake name. It’s Athena. Ask me using my real name.”
“Holy fuck,” Chase said, and stroked her jaw. He held her gaze and tears fell. “Athena, that’s so fucking beautiful, like a goddess of our own. Holy Christ.” He pressed his mouth to hers and then she felt Fox slide a finger against her cunt.
“Athena, do you accept us as your guardians, your protectors, and very soon, your lovers?” Kane asked her.
“I accept. Oh God, yes,” she said, and Fox pumped his fingers faster into her cunt while Chase and Culter leaned into her and suckled her breasts. Kane held her gaze as she exploded once again, crying out and shaking from the orgasm that hit her, and the power of being feasted on by four, huge sexy men.
As she panted for breath, Fox lowered her legs and hugged her tight and she wrapped her arms around him and kissed his neck. His big muscles squeezed her, and instead of feeling scared and fearful of him and his brothers, she felt protected and happy. Like maybe, just maybe, the past was in the past and she could move on with a future with them. Maybe.
* * * *
Kane didn’t want to leave. He watched Athena put on a T-shirt then kneel in front of him on the bed. He ran his hand under her hair and cupped her cheek. “Athena? That’s such a beautiful name. It suits you well,” he said.
She sniffled. “I couldn’t say yes to accepting your guardianship of me without you and your brothers knowing my real name.”
“Athena what,” he pushed.
She closed her eyes. “Please, Kane. You can’t look me up I—"
She tried to turn away, but he held her cheek and jaw, plus his palm was under her hair at the base of her neck. “Someone is looking for you? The one you’re running from?” he asked, his gut clenching, his brothers mumbling under their breath as they surrounded her on the bed and next to it.
“I can’t.”
“You have to. He’s the sheriff. He needs to know if someone is looking to hurt you and so do we. You have to tell us what you’re running from, baby. How can we protect you?” Chase asked her.
“I’ve been doing a good job for the last two years,” she said.
“Two years?” Culter asked. “You’ve been running for two years?” Fox asked.
She closed her eyes. “What I did with you today was incredible, and I don’t regret it. I can’t believe after what I went through that I would be comfortable enough and feel safe enough. But look at you guys. You’re incredible and perfect, and so masculine and capable, and I know you can protect me, yet I fear for your lives if I’m found. I have to keep going by Hannah. I need you to know that I want to tell you what happened, but I fear this moment will be ruined.”
He lowered his hand from her cheek and hair. “You need to tell us who is after you and why. The time of hiding out and running, feeling isolated and alone is done, finished. Not only because of the rules of this town and the fact that every resident is protected and we’re all family, but because we care about you, want to protect you and be your men, your lovers, and you our woman. There can be no secrets, no lies, Athena.”
She reached up and caressed her palms up his chest. “I promise I’ll tell you. You’ll need to know before we make love for the first time. You may not want me then, but at least we had today.”
He shook his head. “No matter what, we’ll want you. We’ve tasted your sweet cream, seen you naked and perfect, moaning and coming from our fingers, our mouths and our words. We’re going to be one, a family, Athena. But if you lie, if you don’t tell us, then you’ll put a wedge between us. You’ll destroy this perfect relationship before we even get a chance to love you and show you what love is.”
“Tonight. I’ll explain it all tonight,” she said as tears filled her eyes.
He lifted her up and kissed her. Wanted nothing more than to stay here and make love to her, but she wasn’t ready and they needed to know about the danger she was keeping a secret. Two fucking years on the run, all by herself? What in God’s name happened?
Chapter 7
“We defini
tely have a tail man. What the fuck do you want to do?” Louis asked Voight.
“Well, if what Ferion said was true, and he thinks that someone was following him yesterday, then we need to take care of it, too.”
Louis checked his gun. “We take them out quickly, quietly, and from here on out we better make sure we’re careful about who we contact for help with finding Athena.”
“It makes me think we’re getting closer, or our sources are,” Voight added.
“Either that or Matias is. The slimy fuck is dealing with terrorists. We need time for Ferion to build a case and get the shit we need to take them out before they do some kind of hit or something. Who the fuck would think Matias was into this shit.”
“Dad sure as shit didn’t know. You hear what Ferion said about Dad not being involved with the illegal shit. Since losing Athena he went more legit.”
“Legit my ass. Athena was twenty-two years old, in college, and getting ready for her career. It was all taken away from her and she wasn’t with any man. Never had a boyfriend, a fucking—"
“I know. I know, but obviously Matias didn’t break her down completely. She escaped. She’s out there all alone, but free. We need to find her before these assholes do.”
“Then what, Voight? We can’t get to her and protect her. We’ll lead these men right to her.”
“That’s why we have Ferion.”
As they walked down the side streets in Dallas, their lead, a dead end one, but not entirely. Athena was here, but over a year ago. She didn’t stay long, and she never cashed in her paychecks, she just accepted the cash she made waitressing at the diner in town. They called her Lexi. God, she was being super smart. If only she knew they were alive and could help her. It would make a huge difference.
“They’re right behind us.”
“There’s a couple over there.”
“I don’t give a fuck, Voight. It’s do or die. We need to send a message that we’re willing to kill, too, and we aren’t fucking stupid.”
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