“Then what happened?”
“He threatened me, asked if I overheard anything and warned me, and then he offered me a job and talked about me living in a villa in Germany and being his financial person for philanthropic donations.”
“What did you tell him?” Niall asked.
“That I wasn’t interested and he didn’t need a CFO for that. That he could use his lawyers and accountants. He wasn’t pleased, but I told him I couldn’t leave my parents and my friends and that I wasn’t looking for that kind of job. What does it matter? The night is over, and I’m going to hand in my resignation Monday at work. I’m done.”
Knox’s cell phone rang.
“It’s Mercury.” He answered it.
He stared at her and then looked at Jonah. ‘She’ll stay here. Of course. Vaughn can call if he needs to.” He disconnected the call.
“First Aurik’s men went to her place. Then he and Keno went inside,” Knox told them but looked at Pina.
Pina covered her mouth with her hand.
“Oh my God. What am I going to do?” She stood up and paced, not even caring that her ripped dress fell lower. She felt the tears emerge.
“You’re fine, and you’re safe here,” Jonah said to her.
Her eyes widened as she thought about her parents and about what Keno was capable of. Look what his brother had done to them years ago. Keno could hurt them, threaten them, too.
“My parents. I have to go to my parents’ and protect them.” She’d started to head back toward the kitchen when Knox grabbed her hand and pulled her back and between his legs where he sat on the arm of the couch.
“You’re staying here. Your parents are safe.”
“How do you know that?”
“Because Vaughn and a few of his men are covering them, as well as Mercury’s brothers. They have your place covered, too. That’s how we know Keno and Aurik’s men were there,” Jonah told her.
Knox ran his palm up under her hair and cupped her cheek and neck.
“We’re going to protect you from them. They’re starting a war with us and our friends that we intend on winning.”
She swallowed hard and shook her head.
“Keno is going to kill me the moment he gets his hands on me. He wants me. He’s been pushy and showed up last week at my house after I went jogging. He appears and touches me. He was aggressive tonight, and I won’t be able to stop him.”
Knox cupped her cheeks. “You’re with us. Trust us to take care of you and it will all work out fine.”
He pressed his lips to hers, and then she hugged him tight when he released her lips, her eyes landing on Jonah and then the others as she glanced at each of them.
They didn’t know about her past or how she’d helped to kill Jordene. If and when Keno found out, he was going to beat her, make her suffer, rape her, and possibly kill her parents, too.
* * * *
“What does Nolan have to do with this whole thing? Did you hear about any deal, any connection to business other than the museum?” Knox asked her.
He watched Pina just stare straight ahead.
“You need to tell us whatever you know so we can protect you,” Jonah said to her.
“Nolan mentioned a business deal. Something about buying items and reselling them to private clients, businessmen who would privately display the artwork. I asked if it was because it was stolen art, and he admitted it was.”
“What pieces exactly? They could be ours,” Trace said.
“He wasn’t specific. I asked if it was so profitable, then why didn’t Aurik and Liam do those deals themselves. He said they were after something bigger.”
“Yeah, our fucking companies,” Dane said.
“Wait. Pina, did anyone mention a location where these things were stored?” Knox asked her, and she bit her lower lip.
“Tell us. This affects your friend’s men too and all of us,” Clark stated firmly.
“Nolan agreed to rent space in the storage facility at the new museum and art school. Things could be there now, even though it isn’t open,” Pina said to them.
“Awesome. I’ll call Mercury and Vaughn,” Dane said.
“Any other places mentioned?” Knox asked.
“No.”
“Can you think of anything, any conversations that hinted to any locations where they could transport these stolen items?” Trace asked.
“Well, if Nolan is using the art and museum as a cover for illegal storage, then what about Aurik using the same idea in Germany, in Berlin? He did mention wanting me to run the finances for some philanthropic affairs. Maybe he’s going to store things at those facilities?”
“Holy shit. It would make sense. He could bring the things they steel from us overseas to Germany and sell them privately. We would never find out about it or be able to track any items down. It covers his ass,” Knox said.
“We need more shit on Aurik. Get Falco and his brothers on top of this. We need to hit him harder. Hell, we need to take him out,” Jonah stated.
“We have to be smart, Jonah. There’s the other issue with Ivan,” Knox said.
“We’ll deal with it, and if and when that comes to fruition, then we do what is necessary to protect our brothers and Pina,” Jonah replied.
* * * *
Pina showered and then put on a shirt and some sweats that Clark found for her. She looked around the bedroom, a gorgeous room decorated in cream colors and very beach-like.
She walked over to the window and looked out at the balcony. Opening the doors, she could hear the ocean in the distance and smell the fresh air. She absorbed the positive feelings until her thoughts came rushing back to her. She gripped the railing and closed her eyes, picturing Keno. He’d broken into her house. If she had been there, he would have forced himself on her, and no amount of self-defense training could stop a monster like him.
She thought about his brother and that night in the car. He’d hurt her parents, and he’d forced his hands between her legs and wanted to take from her body and own her. The tears flowed, and then she felt the strong arms wrap around her waist. She gasped, gripped the arms, and then exhaled a cry, realizing it was Clark. She sobbed, and he turned her around in his arms and hugged her to him.
“Shhhh, don’t cry, baby. You’re safe here. They won’t get you here.”
She sniffled, then lifted up to look into his dark brown eyes. Clark moved his hands along her hips and under her shirt. He stroked her back and just stared down into her eyes. He pressed his lips to hers, and she put her all into that kiss, needing him, desperate to soak all of his strength, his protectiveness into her body. When he lifted her up and carried her to the bed, the large sweatpants fell off of her. They were huge, and she tightened up, only for him to lower her to the bed and press between her legs. He kissed her deeper and ran his palm up her thigh to her hip and then to her breast. She moaned into his mouth.
The bed dipped, and she felt the second presence as Clark released her lips and began to kiss along her neck. She tilted her head back and squeezed her thighs against Clark’s waist, locking gazes with Niall. He stroked her hair. He was naked, his muscular chest in full view, and her heart pounded. She feared making love for the first time, yet her body hummed with need so great she wouldn’t fight it. She was done fighting this. She wanted to make love to them and let them in, especially if one day soon she would be forced into a sexual relationship with Keno.
That thought had tears flowing and her gasping for breath.
“Do we scare you?” Niall asked her.
She shook her head, reached up, and stroked his cheek. Niall grabbed her hand and kissed her palm.
“We want to make love to you. Are you on birth control?” he asked, and she nodded.
“Do you want us, too?” Clark asked her, and she cupped his cheeks as he sat up and stroked her thighs.
“I’m scared to feel so much.”
As she said those words, the others filtered in. Knox, Trace, Dane, and Jonah.
They started taking off their shirts, and the sight of their bodies made her shiver with desire.
Clark tugged on her shirt, and she lifted up to hold it in place.
He narrowed his eyes at her.
“We promise to go as slowly as you need.” Clark lowered down and kissed her tenderly. She felt his hand move under her shirt and cup her breast. The material of his pants chafed her bare skin between her thighs. He lifted up and then pulled the shirt up off of her and tossed it.
“My God, you’re sensational.” He lowered his mouth to one breast, and Niall leaned over and kissed her lips.
She lifted up and moaned into Niall’s mouth as Clark maneuvered from one breast to the other and then down her belly. She felt the bed dip and then another hot, wet mouth suckled her breast and tugged on her nipple. Niall released her lips, and she saw Trace there sucking on her breast. Niall lowered down and feasted on her other breast. She tried to let go and just absorb how perfect these men made her feel. She fought the flashbacks from years ago, the fears of Keno and Aurik trying to force a claim on her body. She had control here. She was choosing to put it all behind her and let go with the Mondave brothers. She was attracted to them. She wanted them, and she had held back in fear for so long. She didn’t even know what tomorrow would bring. She didn’t know if she would live or die, but the sensations while all of them touched her simultaneously, ruled her reaction and response to them.
Even when Clark spread her thighs and teased her clit she didn’t panic or worry about feeling pain. She felt numb to pain, to anything bad, hurtful, and evil. With these men she felt alive and sensational.
When Clark licked her pussy and plunged his tongue inside of her, she cried out her first release.
“Jesus, she’s so responsive,” Knox said, and as she opened her eyes, feeling dazed and more relaxed, she saw their hunger and knew this was going to be well worth the wait.
“Have you ever had more than one man inside of you?” Niall asked, after releasing her breast and stroking her hair from her cheek.
“No,” she said, and he bit his lower lip.
“Making love to six of us means every hole is accessible. Do you accept that?” he asked.
She looked around at each of them and then at Jonah holding a tube of something. She wasn’t stupid. They would fill her up, her mouth, her pussy, and her ass. She felt her pussy cream, and then Clark replaced his tongue with his fingers. She nearly shot up off the bed.
“Oh God, yes. Yes I accept.”
In a flash they moved around, taking their positions, and Clark pulled his fingers from her cunt, kissed her deeply, and then turned around and fell to the edge of the bed with her on top, straddling his hips.
He cupped her breast with one hand and under her hair and neck with the other.
“Take me inside of you. Ride me, fuck me, and make me your man,” he told her fiercely. He had yet to remove his shirt, and she started to reach for the buttons and run her hand inside when he gripped her hand and thrust upward.
“Take me,” he ordered.
She felt her pussy cream, and she wasn’t sure what to do or how this would feel making love for the first time and being on top, but she couldn’t let them know how inexperienced she was. It would give them an additional advantage beyond this crazy, intense connection to them. So she eased up, gripped his cock, which made Clark grunt, and then she lowered her pussy over the thick rod and slowly began to press down. Up and down she worked his cock into her channel, but he was thick and barely inside of her when he gripped her hips and grunted.
“Holy fuck, you’re tight.”
She stopped and felt the fear. A second set of hands landed on her back and ass and began to caress her skin.
“Relax those muscles and let him in. Let him claim you as his woman and then the rest of us can, too.” Niall squeezed her shoulders.
She closed her eyes and clenched her teeth. “I want this. I want to do this. I need to do this. It’s right.” She felt Niall’s hands squeeze her shoulder right before Clark rolled her to her back, his cock no longer pushing into her cunt.
Tears flowed from her eyes, and all six men were looking at her. Clark lifted up and held her cheeks between his hands.
“Talk to me. To us. Tell me what’s wrong.”
“I can’t.”
“Why?” Jonah asked, raising his voice.
“Jonah,” Niall reprimanded him.
“No, tell us why you can’t make love to us. Why?” he demanded to know.
“Because I’ve never had sex before. Because the last time a man was this close to me he tried to rape me.” She sobbed.
Clark looked at his brothers, and she heard them curse, and then Knox and Dane stepped away from the bed and paced. She grabbed on to Clark.
“I want to. I want to make love to you. I want to give all of you my virginity, but then I think of him, of what happened, and I know it isn’t right or fair to make you part of my life and the demons in my past.”
“Shhh, calm down. And just explain to us when this happened. Who did this to you? When was all this?” he asked.
Niall lay beside her and caressed her hair.
“You’ll hate me. Getting involved with me will make matters worse.”
“What do you mean? Who tried to rape you? What happened?” Niall asked.
“When I was eighteen and my parents and I were trying to pay off Brian’s debt to Liam and his guy came collecting. He wanted me to give up my body and be his whore to pay off the debt.”
“Asshole. Who was it?” Dane asked.
“Oh fuck, it was Keno?” Trace asked, and they all started cursing.
“No, it was his brother, Jordene, and I didn’t know they were brothers or that Liam was L.R., the man we were paying.”
“I don’t understand. So Jordene tried to rape you when you were eighteen in order to get rid of the debt?” Jonah asked.
She felt more tears flow.
“He beat my parents, forced me from my home, and made me touch him. I thought my parents were dead. It was the second time Jordene had hurt them and my father still limps and Mom’s arm never really healed. Plus, that night they both had concussions and still suffer from headaches. I had no choice but to go with Jordene, or he would have killed me.”
“You said you’re a virgin though and never had sex before. How did you stop Jordene?” Knox asked.
She looked at them, her lips quivering, her heart heavy.
“I shot him,” she told them, and their eyes all widened except for Clark.
“It was self-defense, then?”
“No one would believe that. My brother was a criminal, and these men are criminals. If I told the police, then Liam would have had men hunt me down and kill me and my parents.”
“So what did you do?” Knox asked.
“I shot him twice with his own gun after he touched me and tried to force himself on me. I knew I needed to still pay the money, and Jordene had mentioned having money in his glove compartment and guns. So I took some, enough to pay off the debt to Liam, but when I ran, sirens blared and someone must have heard the gunshots and called the cops.”
“Oh fuck,” Dane stated.
“They showed up. I hid and tried to decide if I should tell them what happened and then take my chances, but I knew L.R. knew a lot of people and even had cops paid off. We were going to die, so I waited, and when the police approached the car, weapons drawn, Jordene shot at them, hitting a police officer twice, and as other cops came onto the scene for backup, Jordene fired at them, and they fired back, filling him with holes.” She sniffled and explained about the case and how forensics had determined he’d died of gunshot wounds from the officers’ shots, not the ones she’d shot.
“My God, baby, you were so brave. Jesus, no wonder you’ve been so scared,” Clark said to her.
“You don’t understand. Jordene was Keno’s brother, and he still searches for the one who robbed Jordene. When he finds out it was me—”
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bsp; “He isn’t going to find out it was you. I’m going to protect you, baby, and your parents. Don’t you worry. You’re safe with me and my brothers. Safe.” Clark kissed her lips, then rolled her to her side and hugged her tight.
She clung to him and then felt Niall behind her.
“We’ll take our time. There’s no need to rush making love. We understand now,” he said, but she heard the mumbled curses from his brothers, upset at what happened to her. She looked at Niall.
“I want to make love to you. I want to be yours.”
“Why?” he asked.
She swallowed hard. “Because you make me feel safe. You make me feel things no other men have ever made me feel. You make me want to fight for what’s right, and make me feel like I can be normal and that a man could love me, not just want me for my body.”
Niall hugged her and kissed her head. “My God, baby, you’re incredible, and you mean more than just a body to claim. This is real, what we all feel together for you.”
“Make me yours. Help me let go and be free,” she said, and a stray tear fell from her eyes.
Niall lifted up, and Clark rolled her to her back. He gently spread her thighs and stared into her eyes. “Trust us. Trust me.”
“I do.”
He caressed up her open thighs, over her mound, and to her breasts.
“Put your arms above your head.”
She panicked.
“Do it. Show Clark and all of us how much you want us and accept us. That means our control, our command, our protection,” Niall said.
She shivered but raised her arms above her head, and Niall licked his lips.
“The first thing you need to do is to get used to our touch. To know that we will never do you harm but will protect you and care for you. I want you to close your eyes and don’t open them. Just feel, Pina.”
She nodded and looked at each of them gathered near the bed, and she closed her eyes.
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