An ache formed around my heart, but it wasn’t an unpleasant one. “The three of you haven’t been ruining my life,” I said softly. “You’re reminding me how to live for myself again. And I’m not letting anyone take what’s mine away from me ever again.”
“We’re yours,” Lucan said without hesitation. “As long as you’ll have us.”
“So let’s get on with making you ours,” Darius growled. “We’ve waited too long as it is. We’ll fucking christen the site of your victory.”
He hefted my petite frame against his brawny one in a single smooth movement and marched me past the fallen bodies into the deeper shadows of the storage area. As he set me on a box where my legs could splay around his waist, I curled my fingers into his shirt and tipped my head back to welcome his kiss.
It really was the perfect place to reclaim everything that’d been ours for one brief night years ago, that the woman lying dead a few feet away had nearly stolen from us forever, along with everything else she’d robbed us of.
We were never going to be easy people, any of us. We’d been broken and brutal with each other, and we all had our sharp edges still. But the slate was clear now, no more secrets or resentments left between us. Just me and the men some part of me had always known were meant to be by my side. The fierceness of our hearts fit together just right.
All three of those men surrounded me now. Lucan came around Darius to tuck his hand around my waist, peeling back my jacket so he could kiss the bare skin of my upper arm beneath. Felix clambered right up on the boxes next to me and pressed his lips to the top of my head as he eased the jacket off my other arm.
“It’s getting cool out,” he murmured, “but we’re going to keep you nice and hot.”
A giddy giggle that wasn’t at all like me tumbled from my throat against Darius’s lips. He kissed me harder and then pulled back just an inch. “I love hearing you like that. But there are all kinds of other sounds I want to hear from that mouth too.”
I peered at him through my eyelashes. “You’ll get what you deserve.”
He grinned. “Then I’d better get on with earning those moans.”
He tugged the jacket right off me, and Felix wasted no time jerking down the zipper at the back of my dress. The guys didn’t hesitate to make good on his promise to warm me up. They all leaned closer, Darius capturing my mouth again while his hands roamed down my sides, Felix nibbling my neck and teasing his fingers over the curve of one breast, Lucan cupping the other with a flick of his thumb over my pebbling nipple.
Quivers of pleasure raced through my nerves from every direction. I couldn’t restrain a whimper, arching into their combined touch.
It was so much better than the first time. Better because I wasn’t that hesitant teen girl who’d been afraid she’d embarrass herself. Better because we all knew this wasn’t just one night. We were in this thing together, for as long as the world didn’t manage to tear us apart.
Darius lowered his head abruptly, searing a path over my jaw and down my neck. Felix took the opportunity to turn my face toward him and plant his lips on mine. As his tongue darted blissfully into my mouth, Lucan worked his own kind of magic fondling my breast and squeezing my ass.
I gave a little growl of encouragement, my panties dampening. Darius dropped low enough to yank down my bra and bring his mouth to the breast Felix had released. His tongue swiveled around the peak in perfect symphony with the movements of Felix’s dueling with my own and Lucan’s now curling around my earlobe.
They finally earned one of those moans, reverberating through my chest alongside the rush of pleasure. I clutched at Lucan’s collar, Darius’s shirt, rocking instinctively, propelled by so much need I couldn’t hold myself back.
“We’ve got you, Lady Noble,” Darius said in a voice that nearly melted me. He shoved up my skirt and gripped my panties. “I fucking love these dresses. And they make it so much easier to get right where I want to go.”
Then he tore the panties from my hips with one swift jerk. I was already yanking at his fly. As his rigid cock sprang free, Felix passed over a packet with a crinkle of foil.
I laughed. “Of course you’d be prepared.”
He nuzzled the side of my head and nipped my ear. “They’re all for you going forward, Firebird. But I don’t mind sharing with my brothers.”
He grazed his teeth along the corner of my jaw as Lucan tugged my mouth to meet his. Then Darius was thrusting into me, and I was lost completely in the heady rush of sensation.
He filled me so completely that a gasp burst from my lips at the jolt of pleasure. Lucan drank in that sound and devoured me further, Felix stroked my uncovered breast, and Darius plunged in and out of me with rasps of breath that sounded almost desperate.
“Our lady,” he muttered. “You won’t be anyone else’s. Not as long as I’m around to have a say in it.”
I hummed eagerly and let out another moan. “Fine by me,” I said between pants. “Don’t want anyone else. Never did. Can’t imagine I ever will.”
He pounded deeper and deeper, stretching me in just the right ways. The delicious heat of that friction spread all through my torso. I bucked to meet him, kissing Lucan back and then turning to Felix again, my fingers twisted into shirts on either side.
My head felt as if it were soaring right off my body on a surge of bliss. And then I cracked right open under a wave of ecstasy that had me shaking as I clenched around Darius.
He groaned and spilled himself a moment later, ramming himself as deep as he could go one final time. Then, while I was still quaking with the aftermath, he lifted me off the boxes and spun me around.
Some silent communication must have passed between the brothers. The next thing I knew, I was bracing my elbows against the nearest box, leaning forward as Felix hopped down to the ground beside me.
He stroked his hand over my bared ass, and there was the crinkle of another packet. His finger traced over my other opening.