“Somebody is in a lot of trouble.”
She heard Hank’s voice and she saw his face, as well as Will’s and Leo’s. Their eyes widened and she could tell they were upset at seeing her bruises and her battered body. She rolled to her side and tried covering her face with the pillow.
The bed dipped and Hank was there caressing her hair.
“We’ve been so worried, baby. Don’t shut us out. We’re not going to hurt you,” Will told her as she felt the bed dip on the other side then right below her feet. She knew they surrounded her and then she felt the gentle caress from Will’s hand on her thigh, and Hank’s hand moved along her hair and Leo’s lips touched her shoulder.
“I didn’t want you to see me like this.”
“But you’re ours and we’ve been so worried. Plus things are over now. Bentley can’t hurt you anymore,” Hank told her.
She lowered the pillow.
“I told Max not to tell you anything. I said I wanted to be alone and not have you see me like this.”
“Well, things work a little differently in Chance, baby. Everyone knows that a woman’s men take the best care of her and that she’s their responsibility,” Leo said.
Hank pulled the pillow away and held her gaze. He stared into her eyes. The swollen lip and the bruises were definitely making him angry.
“You’re a survivor, Adel. You fought hard and you came out on top,” he said and then leaned forward and kissed her forehead.
“I don’t feel like I’m on top. I feel like I lost what’s most important to me.”
“Your parents? Why, after all they did to hurt you?” Will asked.
“No, not my parents, you guys. Because of what my father and Bentley did to me, I went there looking for closure so I could open up my heart to each of you, but the truth was, I already opened my heart to you. I didn’t need to go there and it nearly cost me the three of you and my life.”
“But it didn’t. You fought him off and even afterward you organized a pretty high-tech plan to get him back and bring him down. Quite impressive, I must say,” Hank told her and she smiled at him. The tears rolled down her cheeks.
“I love the three of you so much, but I didn’t want you to get caught in my problems and wind up losing your company because of me.”
Hank cupped her good cheek. “Well one thing you need to learn right now is that we’re here for you no matter what. It’s not your place to decide if we get to help or not. You’re our responsibility and we love you. Can’t you let us in and let us take care of you?” Hank asked.
“I can try,” she whispered.
“Good, so about these bruises, where else are they, and we want to know exactly what went down,” Leo told her.
“Just kiss me, Leo, and hold me in your arms and never let me go. Any of you.”
“You got it, baby. Always.”
* * * *
Hank and his brothers took turns keeping Adel company as her injuries healed. She wanted to head back to work but they were being overprotective. Even now, as Hank glanced down at her phone buzzing with another text message. Bentley texted numerous times apologizing and asking for forgiveness. Her mother texted, demanding that she stop making up lies and just leave Bentley alone. It made him and his brothers sick with anger and they wouldn’t let Adel see this. In fact, Will was getting her a new phone number and new phone.
“Hank?” He heard his name and looked up from her kitchen table. He immediately placed the cell phone into his laptop bag. He didn’t want to upset her.
He hurried to get to her.
“Hey, baby, did you need something?” he asked.
“I woke up alone and I got scared.”
He caressed her cheek. “I’m right here. I wouldn’t leave you alone.”
She gave a soft smile.
“I think I need to move around and not be stuck in this house and in my bedroom. I feel stiff and sore and I think it’s from doing nothing.”
“Honey, your back is all bruised up, your thighs are, too. We just want you to take your time and heal.”
She reached out and touched his arm. His cock hardened beneath his jeans. He wanted to make love to her so badly and she wanted that, too, but they were afraid to hurt her, to press against her injuries. She hinted about her inner thighs hurting. The thought that Bentley tried raping her made him see red. It was too much. They needed time to get over it all.
“Are my bruises so ugly that you don’t want to touch me or kiss me?” she whispered, and he could see the tears in her eyes. He felt terrible as he caressed her arms and hugged her to his chest.
“No, baby. Not at all. We just don’t want to push you to do something you’re not ready for. We don’t want you to feel any pain.”
“But I do feel pain. In here,” she said, pulling back and covering her chest where her heart lay with her hand.
He held her gaze and he understood what she meant. She was feeling it, too. The desperate need to be connected on that intimate level.
“Will and Leo are headed over here. We’ll wait for them?”
She shook her head.
“I need slow, and they can join us when they come.” She squeezed his hand and led him toward her bedroom.
Hank glanced at the front door which he knew was locked. His brothers had a key. Adel had insisted all windows and doors be locked. She was on edge and it made her sleep better having the extra security as well as having him and his brothers there.
When they got into her room the temperature was cool. The AC was on low and the fan rotated at a slow speed. He could hear the soft sound it made, as loud as he heard his own heartbeat.
He looked at Adel as she stood there in a tank top and shorts. He reached for her, caressed her cheek, and then lowered his mouth to hers. When Hank felt her delicate fingers brush through his hair and against his scalp, he had to calm himself down and remember she was bruised. She needed slow and slow he would do.
She ran her hands up under his shirt and as he pulled from her lips she helped him take it off. He reached for her tank top and cupped her breasts underneath them. She wore no bra. It felt so good to cup the large mounds and bring her pleasure. Her eyes closed and she tilted her head back. He looked at the bruises on her cheek bone, her lip, which was almost fully healed, and of course the scratch that disappeared over her breast. Hank lifted her tank top up and over her head and took in a deep breath. Anger filled his heart at the sight of finger marks and of course the scratch.
Adel brought his palm to her lips and kissed the inside of his hand.
“Take away his touch, Hank. Make me feel beautiful and loved.”
He lowered to his knees, taking a breast in his palm and then licking the tip of it. “You are beautiful. The most beautiful woman I have even known.”
“And loved, by the three of us.”
Hank had known his brothers arrived at the sound of the door opening and then closing and locking. They joined him now and immediately Will and Leo removed their shirts and took position next to Adel. They kissed her shoulders on either side. Will brushed her hair from her shoulder and kissed her cheek and whispered into her ear, but Hank could hear him.
“I love you, baby. Stop us if anything hurts.”
“It won’t hurt. You three would never hurt me. I know that now. I almost lost you.”
Hank released her breast and moved down her belly, scattering kisses against her skin. His brothers kissed her, feasted on her breasts, and aroused her body as he pushed her shorts and panties down.
He locked onto the bruises between her thighs and the one toward her groin. He froze. Thoughts that Bentley came that close to raping her made him sick with anger.
She ran her fingers through his hair.
“Please take it away. Help me, Hank. All of you please,” she begged and he saw the stray tear escape her eye.
“Get her onto the bed,” he told his brothers and Will lifted her up and gently lay her down on the bed. Hank fell between her thighs and caress
ed her ankles.
He looked at her then at the first set of bruises. He kissed right over them.
“He can never hurt you again. We’ll protect you always,” he said, and kissed every bruise while his brothers kissed the others along her ribs and then her breasts.
Her pussy creamed and he maneuvered a finger slowly, gently up into her cunt.
“Yesss,” she hissed and tilted her head back, widening her thighs, indicating she was okay and needed more.
He leaned down and licked where his finger stroked. She lifted her pelvis. “More, Hank. More. I want all of you. Please,” she begged as she reached up and held Will’s hair and tilted up to kiss him. Will met her lips and pulled her upward.
“We don’t have everything we need,” Leo said and Adel released Will’s lips and smiled at Leo.
“Top drawer in the brown paper bag.”
Leo scrunched his eyes together as Hank pulled his finger from her pussy. He pulled her lower, so her ass and pussy hung over the edge of the bed.
“What do you have in there, Adel?” he asked and she blushed.
“Hot damn, I think someone likes a cock in her ass,” Leo said as he held up a large tube of lube.
They all chuckled.
“Well, she’s our beautiful princess. We’ll give her anything she asks for.”
* * * *
Will swallowed hard he was so filled with emotions right now. It was difficult to say the least, to see their woman’s body battered and beaten, but Adel was so strong. She surprised them all the time with her ability to shock them.
Hank lifted her up and hugged her to him. He kissed her deeply as Will removed his pants just like Leo did and then Will laid down on the bed. He stroked his cock as Hank turned Adel around and placed her on top of Will.
The way her eyes lit up as she saw Will lying there penetrated his heart and sealed the deal for him. Adel would be theirs forever.
She lowered down, aligning his cock with her wet cunt and they both closed their eyes and moaned as if it had been forever since their bodies met like this.
She gripped his shoulders and he cupped her cheeks as he thrust up and she counterthrust down. They worked like that together. Moaning, searching for that completion as they anticipated Leo and Hank joining them.
Will caught the tip of her breast with his mouth as Leo joined them, his cock in hand and leaning toward Adel’s mouth.
“Are you sure your lips can handle it? They still look a little sore,” Leo asked so caringly.
“I want you. I need this, Leo, please don’t worry.”
Leo caressed her cheek and Will saw the depth of the love his brother had for her in his eyes and his expression.
“If you’re sure.”
She didn’t reply with words but instead with her tongue as she licked along the base of Leo’s cock then pulled him partially into her mouth.
Will continued to thrust up into her cunt as he licked her nipple and played with her breasts. Then he felt Adel tighten up and he knew Hank was filling her ass with lube and getting her ready for cock.
“Fuck that feels so snug. He pussy muscles are squeezing my cock so fucking hard,” Will said and then he pulled on her nipple with tongue and teeth. Her pussy spasmed with cream as he thrust upward harder.
“I’m coming in, baby. We’re going to be one in about two seconds,” Hank said and Will could feel the excitement, the intensity of the moment as Leo breached her ass with his cock and all four of them were connected so intimately.
They lay still momentarily. Will’s cock in her pussy, Leo’s cock in her mouth, and Hank’s cock in her ass. She moaned and wiggled between them and Will chuckled.
“Someone is very needy,” Leo said, caressing her hair.
“I think we all are,” Hank added and then it began. They worked their cocks in and out of her body, knowing with every stroke they claimed her as their woman, part of them forever. Leo came first, growling out her name and shaking as the sounds of Adel swallowing and licking him clean filled the air.
Will’s cock hardened and grew bigger and he knew he was there.
“Come with us, Adel. Come now, baby. You’re safe with us always. We love you,” Hank said to her as he rocked his hips faster, deeper, making her scream. Will and Hank worked together and Will could feel her body tighten just as it felt like he couldn’t move inside her cunt it was so tight and full.
“Fuck!” Hank roared.
“Oh God. Oh!” she cried out as she came and Will followed Hank as they roared and thrust a few more times until they released their seed and she collapsed against Will’s chest.
Hank eased out of her, kissing her back, her shoulders, and then her ass as Will caressed her skin and moved her damp hair from her cheeks.
“We’ve got you, baby. This is where you belong.
“I love you guys. I have for a while but was too scared to tell you and to admit it, but I’m not now. I love you so much. I need you. Please, don’t ever leave me.”
They each caressed her body and told her how much they loved her, too, and that this was only the beginning.
* * * *
Leo was lying in bed in the dark with his brothers and Adel asleep on her small queen-sized bed. He had a funny feeling in his gut and as he listened to the quietness of the night he thought he heard something.
“Hey, you okay,” Hank asked him in a whisper as not to wake Adel and Will. Will still held her against his chest, a small content expression on both their faces.
The sound of glass breaking caught their attention.
They both sat up. Leo placed his finger over his lips and then stepped into his jeans. Hank did the same thing.
“Call Max,” Hank said to him. The footsteps got closer and they looked around the room for a weapon of some sort.
“There,” Leo whispered next to Hank. Hank saw the thick wooden walking stick. It was one that Carpezi Lynch made and sold at the local fairs. It was solid and would have to do as a weapon.
The door began to creep open and Leo pulled it all the way open, shocking Bentley and catching him off guard. He swung his head toward them and then back to the bed. He looked like some crazy man.
Leo’s heart was racing. Bentley, the guy that hurt Adel, the one they saw in the pictures Max showed them, and he was pointing a gun.
“No!” Leo yelled out as he shoved Bentley to the side, giving Hank the opportunity to strike him with the stick.
The gun went off, once, twice as Hank hit Bentley’s hands, making the gun fall to the floor. Leo decked him in the nose and then Hank began to strike him.
Leo could hear Adel screaming as the lights illuminated the room. He had to pull Hank off of Bentley as his brother beat the crap out of the man.
“Oh God, Will’s shot,” Adel screamed and Leo looked up to see the blood on the pillow right above Will’s shoulder.
“I’m okay. It’s just a scratch,” he said, placing his hand over his shoulder.
Leo reached for the cell phone and dialed 911 for an ambulance and asked for the sheriff to be notified about an intruder breaking in.
“Oh my God, Bentley. Is he alive?” she asked as she held onto Leo, placing a shirt over his wound trying to stop the bleeding.
“I fucking hope so,” Hank said and as he stood up, his fists were bloody and cracked open.
“It doesn’t matter. He’s going to jail for a very long time. His lawyers won’t be able to post bail for him this time,” Leo said then reached over and caressed Adel’s tears away from her cheeks.
“It’s going to be fine, Adel, but get some clothes on. We don’t want anyone seeing this body but us,” Hank told her firmly and she hurried off the bed and stepped into her shorts then pulled on a bra and her tank top. She immediately climbed back into bed and went to Will.
“What about you, Will? You’re naked.”
He smirked.
“Let them come in here and see I was making love to my woman. Our woman, and that should send a clear messag
e that you belong to the Ferguson brothers. Now and forever.”
Hank and Leo chuckled but Adel smacked his arm as the sirens blared from outside and the police arrived.
“Everything is going to be just fine now, Adel. Just fine,” Hank said. Will looked down at Bentley. Only if this guy was behind bars for good.
Epilogue
Adel sat on the bench overlooking the construction site. They’d just broken ground a week ago and plans for the new development and community were on their way.
The Morrisons were thrilled with their proposal, plus they had found out about Bentley’s criminal actions and what he put Adel through and dismissed his bid entirely, not that it mattered anyway. Bentley was charged with multiple counts of rape, plus four counts of attempted murder and one count of murder. He was going away for life and they would never have to worry about him.
“There you are. We were looking for you,” Will said as he, Leo, and Hank joined her by the bench. She stood up and caressed Will’s shoulder where he had been shot. He was being quite the character and playing up the whole bullet wound scar and how cool it was. She got mad at him a few times for saying it was cool, but she had to admit the scar was sexy.
“Are you ready to head to lunch?” Hank asked, taking her hand and pulling it to his lips, kissing the knuckles.”
“Sure. I just like sitting here and imagining what this place will look like in three years. There’s a lot of work ahead of us.”
“There sure is but we’re in this together,” Leo told her and she smiled. They had insisted on offering her part ownership in Fergusons construction. Their dad Harold decided to sell her half his shares in the company, making her a partner.
“Oh, we got something for you, to make this whole partnership thing official,” Leo told her and then pulled out a small black velvet box.
“What is it? You didn’t have to give me anything,” she said.
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