by Cee Bowerman
“Are you drunk?”
“Yep.” Royal popped his lips with the word and then laughed again.
“You’re taking care of the babies, asshole, and you’re fucking drunk?” I roared.
“We did rock paper scissors and Ronan lost. He’s taking care of the kids.” Royal snorted. “I’m not a complete dumbass.”
“That’s arguable. Are the rest of them drunk?”
“Yep.”
“Why the fuck are you guys drinking?”
“You know when one of your friends is dealing with some shit, and you drink in commiseration? Yeah. And now we’re drunk.”
I thought about it for a second and scrolled through the roster of my brothers. As far as I knew only one of them was in a relationship. And only one other brother was on the verge of one. Sure, they had some women they brought around occasionally, but both parties involved knew it wasn’t going any further than companionship. So, who was ‘dealing with some shit’ that they needed to commiserate with?
“You said you didn’t know where Lena was.”
“Actually, big brother, I said I didn’t drive her anywhere.”
“You son of a bitch!” I roared.
Royal laughed some more and then hung up on me.
I tossed my phone over to the passenger seat and put my truck in gear. With a glance in the mirror to make sure the road was clear, I made a U-turn and started to my house. Or, my brother’s house first, to pick up my woman, who I would then take to my fucking house so we could get some shit straight.
Damn it.
18.
“By the time I’m done tonight you won’t be able to walk, and not because you’ve got a brace on your leg…”
Finn to Lena
LENA
Considering that my life was in turmoil, I was basically homeless, probably unemployed and now newly single, I was having the time of my life.
All of Finn’s brothers had made it their mission to get me to laugh in the last few hours, and they had succeeded. I had laughed so much that my sides hurt, and even my cheeks hurt from smiling. They had regaled me with stories from their childhood. What had started out with them telling me all the horrible things that Finn had done to them as a child, turned into some of the horrible things that all of them had done to each other through the years.
Royal had left the room a few minutes ago to speak on the phone, and he was chuckling when he came back to the table, so I knew it couldn’t have been Finn. That would have been a much more serious conversation.
“You said a cuss word, fucker. Take a shot!” Chess yelled at Tavin. “No more cussing. We’re respectable adults raising the next generation of Americans!”
“I’m perfectly respectable, asshole.” Angus slurred. “I’ll raise them up right. Teach ‘em not to fart in church, how to get away with cheating on those stupid fucking math tests in school, and how to get out of a ticket. Those are things that every good citizen needs to know?”
“Maybe we should teach them manners.” I suggested.
“Ahhh, fuck the manners, pretty lady. Women like a rough man.” Mace stroked his beard and grinned wickedly. “At least I’ve never had any complaints.”
“You couldn’t get laid in a women’s prison even if you were holding a fist full of pardons, ugly fucker.” Angus laughed at his brother. “Look at that fucker, Lena. Ugly as the South end of a Northbound skunk.”
“He looks just like you, Angus. Just exactly like you.”
“Nah. I’m prettier.”
“Both of y’all are stupid. Women like us much better.” Tavin high fived Chess. “Ladies falling all over the place when they see us.”
“Is that why all of you are here with your brothers, rather than with some of those swooning women you speak of? Now, as the resident woman in charge, I reserve the right to approve or deny any women you may bring into the family. So, let’s have a race.” I said jokingly. “First one of you that can get a woman over here wins.”
“What do we win?” Chess asked me seriously.
“Um. You’ll have a woman over here?” I asked him.
Every one of the brothers pulled their phones out, including Ronan, the only other sober person in the room.
I picked my phone up and snapped a few pictures of them, some good shots of the men in profile to add to the fun ones that I had taken through the night. I would finally have some pictures of all of them with real, genuine smiles. It took three bottles of alcohol to get the smiles, but whatever worked.
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FINN
I could hear their laughter from my driveway, at least a hundred yards away from Ronan’s house. As I stomped to my brother’s house, I watched all of them through the windows. My brothers were all laughing and cutting up, and Lena was sitting there at the fucking table smiling at them.
I had been all over the damn town looking for her, worrying about her, tearing my hair out trying to find her, and she was sitting there with my traitorous brothers having the time of her fucking life.
I was going to spank her ass so hard and then fuck her even harder. She’d be feeling me for a damn week.
They were so loud, they never even heard me open the door and then close it behind me. But I stopped in my tracks when I saw Lena look longingly out the window, her heart in her eyes. She was looking for me.
As mad as she’d been, mad enough to walk out the door, and now surrounded by laughter, she was still longing for me.
I propped my shoulder against the door frame and stood there, watching the people who meant the most to me in the world laughing together. Sticking together, waiting for me to stop being a dumbass.
“I’m going to head to bed, guys. Let me know who gets a woman over here first. I’m curious to see which beard wins out.” Lena slowly turned her body to the side and then used the table to help her stand and catch her balance. Before I could move to help her, I realized that all of my brothers were watching her, even though they were still laughing and carrying on.
That’s what I needed to do. Let her do her thing but watch to make sure she didn’t need me.
She wasn’t a porcelain doll that could break. She had proven that by surviving twelve hours being held captive by two crazy assholes intent on doing her harm. She had proven it by working her ass off in physical therapy after an infection that almost cost her a leg, and even worse, her life. And yet, here she was, alone in a room full of people who loved her dearly. All because of me.
“I thought for sure that Finn would have figured it out by now.” I heard Chess say sadly.
“I think you’re all wrong, guys. He doesn’t want me anymore. He just feels like he has to take care of me to make up for what he couldn’t do for your sisters.” Lena reached over and patted Chess on the arm. “Enjoy your women, you guys. You’re going to have to help me move tomorrow.”
“You’re not moving anywhere, Lena.” I roared as I pushed away from the doorframe.
The room went silent, and Lena spun her head around to stare at me, wide-eyed. I glanced around and noticed that every one of my brothers was smiling broadly, even Angus, the crankiest one of the bunch.
“I’m not going to let you set me on a shelf and baby me Finn. I’m not breakable.”
“I sure as fuck hope you’re not, woman.” I said as I stomped into the kitchen. Never slowing down, I swooped down and picked Lena up, her hips resting on my shoulder. Her legs were dangling over my chest, and I reached up to hold onto her thighs, being careful not to put too much pressure on the brace over her right leg. “I’m taking you home and showing you just exactly how much I love you, and I’m not going to let you out of the fucking bed until you apologize for scaring the shit out of me.”
Chess jumped up from the table and opened the side door so I could carry Lena out.
“And all you fuckers can kiss my ass!” I yelled at my brothers right before I heard the door close behind me.
“Finn! Put me down. I am not…” Lena’s words turned into a squeal when I slapped he
r hard on the ass.
“Woman, don’t push me any further tonight.” I growled at her.
Within just a minute or two I was striding through my house. I tossed Lena onto the bed, watching as she bounced the tiniest bit. She didn’t even flinch, making me sure that what I was doing was the right thing.
“What in the hell are you doing, Finn Conner?” Lena yelled at me as I started to take my clothes off in swift, jerky motions.
“I’m going to fuck you until your eyes cross, Lena Sullivan. And then, I’m going to fuck you some more. By the time I’m done tonight you won’t be able to walk, and not because you’ve got a brace on your leg, but because you’re so well sated that every muscle in your body is as limp as a dishrag. Then, I’m going to let you nap for an hour and I’m going to wake you up and fuck you again.”
Lena’s eyes were hot, but I could tell it wasn’t in anger now, it was lust.
“I’m pissed at you, Finn.”
“Good. It will make the orgasm that much hotter.”
I yanked her shoes and socks off, and then pulled her stretchy shorts down over her brace and threw them on the floor.
“Take your shirt off.”
“Bite me.” Lena growled.
“Okay.” I said with a wicked smile, and then I threw myself down on the bed between her parted legs and bit her on the inside of her thigh. She screamed and tried to push me away, but I wrapped my arm around the underside of her braced leg and held her hip to the bed while I nibbled and sucked her inner thighs. As I moved from one thigh to the other, I made sure to get close to her clit, occasionally blowing cool breaths on it, sometimes getting closer and making sure she could feel the heat of my mouth as I breathed just centimeters away from her clit. I nipped around it, making sure to never once touch her clit, even when I felt her hands in my hair urging me to move in that direction. When I knew that she was so frustrated she was on the edge of screaming, I sucked her clit into my mouth roughly, at the same time I pushed two fingers inside her wet pussy.
Lena screamed and pulled my hair, her back arching on the bed as I felt her orgasm squeeze my fingers deep inside her.
I moved my fingers and my tongue in tandem until she was screaming and writhing on the bed, making one orgasm flow over into the next one when I pushed my thumb up against the pucker of her ass, working its way in to give her a new sensation.
Once Lena was screaming my name, begging me to stop, I moved back off the bed to stand on the floor. Lena didn’t move, just laid there with her hands at her sides, breathing hard. I wrapped my hand around the ankle of her uninjured leg and pulled her so that her ass was almost off the edge of the bed.
I pushed her legs together, holding both ankles with one hand up by my shoulder. With my other hand I pumped my dick a few times, as Lena watched hungrily.
Without another word, I positioned myself at her entrance and in one thrust drove myself to the hilt in her wet pussy, causing Lena to scream out in pleasure. I almost came with that first stroke, but I denied myself, waiting for another orgasm to envelop Lena before I would let myself fill her body with my come.
“So fucking tight like this.” I groaned as I pumped my hips, slamming into her with each stroke. I used my free hand to reach down and press the pad of my thumb to her clit, knowing that she had to be sensitive after my lips, beard, and teeth had roughly pulled her orgasms from her just minutes ago.
When my thumb pushed the little nub down and started to rotate as I slammed my cock into her, Lena screamed again and clutched my cock so tight inside her that I had no way to stop myself. I joined her on that ledge and jumped off, roaring with my own orgasm as she yelled my name.
Even after I had finished, I still moved slowly inside her, marveling at how slick and wet she was with our juices. As my dick slowly softened, I still felt shocks run through my body as it drug through her wet heat.
“Oh fuck, Finn.” Lena gasped out, her breathing fast and harsh. “That was fucking amazing.”
“I’m sorry.” I said as I slowly moved my cock back and forth inside her. “I’m sorry I doubted you. Your strength and your drive. Your passion for raising the babies and taking care of all of us. I’m sorry I tried to coddle you, and that I listened to someone else about how to take care of you and the kids, rather than ask you what we should do together.”
Lena’s eyes softened for a second. I kept moving, making sure she could feel me inside her, my thumb still covering her clit, my words pouring over her at the same time.
“I’m not trying to take care of you because I couldn’t take care of my family that died, Lena. I’m trying to take care of you because I love you and I almost lost you. I thought that it was going to end me when I lost my family. But when I thought I was going to lose you, I realized it was just as bad, even worse. When my family died, I lost part of my heart. I realized that if I lost you, it would take my whole heart and soul.” I started to strip the rest of my clothes off, tossing them this way and that as I ripped them off my body. “I love you Milena Sullivan. My Lena.”
Lena’s eyes brimmed with tears when I mentioned my family, but at my declaration that she was my heart and soul, they started to fall down her face.
“I can’t live without you, and I’m not going to. You can run. I’ll find you and I’ll bring you home. This is our home; this is our family. You are my everything.”
“Damn, you’re good.” Lena chuckled on a sob. “Really fucking good.”
With that, I started fucking her again in earnest, my cock slowly hardening again inside her as I moved.
“Do you forgive me, Lena?” I growled as I slammed into her.
“Fuck yes!”
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Lena
I listened as Finn got another washrag from the bathroom and waited for the water to warm so he could clean our fluids off my pussy. Again. I could see that the sun was coming up outside, and I yawned as I stretched my arms out above my head.
My entire body was sore. Finn had been very inventive in figuring out ways for us to have sex with the brace on my leg and had completely taken away my worries that he wouldn’t find me attractive now.
My body was skinny. Not a healthy skinny, either, but a bedridden and no solid foods for a few weeks kind of skinny. I had gained back some of the weight I had lost, but I still had quite a bit to go before I could feel comfortable about my body.
I chuckled to myself, thinking of all the times I had wanted to drop twenty pounds, and now I was working on putting back on at least fifteen.
“What are you laughing about?” Finn asked as he walked naked out of the bathroom, a wet rag in his hand. He put his hand on my leg and pushed them apart as he carefully wiped my pussy and thighs clean. Once he was finished, he tossed the rag over on the floor where the other three were lying, and then he leaned down and softly kissed my clit before he crawled up my body.
He and I kissed again, and then Finn fell to the side, pulling me over to mold myself against his body.
“So, what’s funny?”
“I was just thinking of how I always wanted to lose weight, and now I really want to gain some.”
“Isn’t it against girl code to say shit like that?”
“Probably.” I snorted.
“As long as you’re healthy and you like your body, be any weight you want. I’d love you at one hundred pounds or two-fifty.”
“I don’t think I’d be all that attractive at one hundred pounds.” I reached up and slapped his shoulder. “I miss our babies.”
“Let’s get you up and showered, take care of your leg, and we’ll go grab the babies and go see Shirley for some breakfast. What do you think?”
“I want to see if the guys will keep the babies for a little bit this afternoon. I need to go shopping.” I rolled to my side and started to twist my body to get my legs off the bed.
“Okay. What for?”
“I need more clothes. The ones I have fall off me. I guess we’ll need to go to the mall, so I’ll hav
e to use my chair.” Finn nodded as he watched me maneuver myself to the edge of the bed. I looked up at him, proud that he was letting me do this myself. “And, I want to go to the toy shop and buy a sex swing.”
“Okay.” Finn’s voice broke like a young boy going through puberty. I looked down and saw that his cock was getting hard again. I smiled inside and pushed him a little farther with my next words.
“That way we can do all sorts of positions, you can put me where you want me, and we won’t have to worry about my leg too much. I’ve been thinking it through. What do you think? Will you take me?”
“I’ll,” Finn cleared his throat, “I’ll take you to the sex toy shop.”
Finn pushed my body back on the bed, leaving my legs down with my feet on the ground. He reached down and pulled my legs up with his hands and directed his hard cock back to my entrance. I put my hand on my clit and winced at how tender it was after our hours of soft lovemaking, and even more hard, pounding sex.
As Finn pushed himself into me, I realized that sore or not, this was way too good to pass up.
“Fuck, you’re killing me, Lena.” Finn grunted with his next thrust.
“Shut up and fuck me, Finn Conner.” I moaned. When I opened my eyes, I saw that he was smiling down at me. His next thrust was even harder, but the smile on his face never went away.
“With pleasure, My Lena.”
19.
“My physical therapist is a demon who was spawned from the loins of Satan himself…”
Lena to Finn
FINN
As time crept slowly by, I looked to my right and saw all six of my brothers sitting uncomfortably close together on the long bench beside me. All of them were watching the side door of the courtroom that the jury had walked into yesterday, willing the men and women behind that wall to do the right thing.
Put Nellie Sullivan behind bars for the rest of her fucking life.
The woman who had made Lena’s life hell for fifteen years, and then tried to arrange her death, sat stoically beside her lawyer. Her face was calm, and it looked like she was almost smiling. Throughout the trial, she had played the pitiful victim, a scorned woman who just acted on emotion.
