Bleu and I are intruding on this moment that should be private between the two of them, but we have no way of getting out of the room without going through the doorway where they’re standing.
Bleu moves toward the door and grabs Leith and Lorna by the wrists, pulling them into the stockroom and clearing a path for us to exit. “We’re leaving, so the two of you can talk.”
Lorna shakes her head. “No need. There’s nothing to talk about.”
Leith grasps her upper arms. “How long are you going to punish me?”
“I’m not having this conversation.”
Bleu and I bolt for the door and close it once we’re on the other side, leaving Lorna trapped with Leith. “I hope he pins her down and forces her to talk about what happened.” I’m tempted to grab the knob and hold it since it’s her only escape.
“Maybe he’ll pin her down and do more than have a conversation. Some angry sex would do both of them a world of good.”
Angry sex. I’ll need to remember that one for future reference.
“I feel like we haven’t seen each other in forever. How are things with Kieran?”
“Everything is really good. I’m happy, and I think we’re on the road to a good marriage.”
“What a wonderful happenstance.”
“No one is more surprised than I am. I wanted to cut off his balls the night we met.” Good thing I didn’t. We need those balls.
“Sin says that he expects Kieran to get you pregnant right away. Something about sealing your bond so his claiming can’t be undone.” Bleu is still new to The Fellowship and learning our practices.
“There have been cases where a claiming has been undone when the unions didn’t suit the brotherhood. It’s rare, but it has happened. A pregnancy would end any possibility of undoing his claim on me, so yes. He is already working on putting an end to that possibility.”
“It’s such an archaic thing to do.”
“One hundred percent.” But it’s only one of many archaic practices we have.
“I can’t imagine how that must feel for you, but at least you weren’t a virgin. I think that would have made it twice as scary.”
I giggle. “It was twice as scary because I was a virgin.”
Bleu’s eyes widen. “What?”
“I lied by omission. All of you had these great sex stories. I just nodded and acted as though I had them too, but was keeping them to myself.”
“I had no idea. You said you’d never marry a Fellowship man, so I assumed that’s why you weren’t concerned with remaining a virgin.”
We’re still standing in the hallway when Lorna rushes out of the stockroom. “Fuck… Lorna. Would you please come back?”
Lorna says nothing and continues walking, not even stopping to tell us what happened between Leith and her.
Uh-oh. That’s not good.
Leith stands in the hallway, holding the top of his head, watching Lorna leave. “Fuck, fuck, fuck.” Those are the only words he says before grabbing a bottle of whisky out of the stockroom and storming toward his office.
“That clearly didn’t go well.”
“I’ll tell Sin so he can check on him in a while. We’ll make sure he gets home safely.”
I hug Bleu. “I’m guessing that the Hendrys will be ready to go now that the formalities are over.”
“Probably so. I would want to get out as soon as possible if I were in the middle of an Order function.”
Me too. “Maybe I can come by and visit one day next week. I miss the babies.”
“Do. You won’t believe how much they’ve grown since you saw them.”
“Maybe I’ll bring Kieran with me so he can practice.” I’d love to see how he engages with them. I don’t think he’s been around babies much except for his younger siblings. But I don’t guess I should worry about that. Sin was never around babies either until his came along, and yet he’s an excellent father.
I don’t think the bond is the only reason Kieran is driven to have a baby. I think he genuinely wants a child with me.
One more week, or somewhere there about, and we’ll know.
I don’t like the look on Westlyn’s face. Makes me wonder if something went sideways. “Mission Mitch and Shaw is accomplished?”
“Yes. And I was right. She liked him taking her away without any warning.”
Thank fuck. I wasn’t looking forward to fighting for Westlyn if my sister backed out on her marriage to Mitch. “Was there some kind of delay? You were gone longer than expected.”
“I ran into Bleu and Lorna in the hallway on my way back. Lorna was upset, and we had to have an impromptu girls’ chat.”
“Everything okay?”
Westlyn shakes her head. She looks so sad. “No. Everything is not okay, and it hasn’t been for a long time.”
“Lorna has relationship problems?”
“Huge relationship problems.” Westlyn looks at me for a moment before continuing. “If I tell you what’s going on, you can’t say anything mean about Lorna. She’s one of my best friends, and I will be pissed off if you do.”
I probably will judge, but I’ll keep my mouth shut if I do. “I won’t say anything against your friend.”
“Lorna had a really great life until her parents were killed several years ago. She was an only child, completely adored by her parents, but then suddenly all of that love was taken from her when they passed. She didn’t deal with the loss very well, and she made some bad decisions regarding how to feel loved again.”
“I would never judge her harshly for that.”
“No one would, but that’s not the end of it.” Westlyn sighs. “Sin, Jamie, and Leith are best mates. They’ve always done everything together… and that inc
ludes Lorna.”
“She was having sex with all three men?”
“Yes.”
I’m not clear about what she means. “Sex with one and then there would be a lapse in time before she had sex with another? Or do you mean she let them gangbang her?”
“Sometimes it was with one, and sometimes it was… a gangbang.” I hate the word gangbang, but that’s exactly what Lorna allowed them to do to her. Asked them to do.
“Fuck.” That is some kinky shite.
“It happened a while ago.”
I figured as much since Sinclair and Bleu have been married for a while.
“My brother got out not long after it started, but Sin and Leith kept it going with her.”
“I’ve always wondered what something like that might be like, but never enough to try it. Probably best I didn’t. I’ve never been good at sharing. I would be terrible at orgies.”
“People weren’t meant to be shared that way. It causes nothing but problems.”
“All this time later and it’s still causing problems?”
“Big ones. So big that it’s keeping two people who love each other apart.”
Sin is with Bleu. Jamie is with Ellison. “Leith and Lorna?”
“Yes. Sin was a selfish prick before Bleu. He did whatever pleased him without much regard for who he hurt. He was too self-centered to see that Leith and Lorna were falling in love with each other, and he was standing in their way.”
“So Leith is in love with Lorna, but he stands by and watches his best mates fuck her?” I may not be an expert on love, but that does not sound like any form of it to me.
“It’s not that simple. You have to take into consideration that Sin is their leader. They don’t get to tell him to fuck off and then ride into the sunset and live happily ever after.”
“I don’t care. There’s no way I’d stand back and watch another man fuck you.”
“Pretend that I’m unclaimed, we’re at The Syndicate, and your uncle’s oldest son wants me. You’d tell him to fuck off and he’d obey you?”