“We’re the only ones who deserve her,” Jude counters and I couldn’t agree more.
I slide my hands up her body, my palms gliding over her bare breasts and then her shoulders. She stirs slightly before she stretches like a cat whose woken up in the best patch of afternoon sun. When her eyes flutter open, her brown eyes meet mine, still hazy from sleep.
The slow smile she gives me is like a punch to the gut. We really don’t deserve her, not when she looks at me like I’m her entire world. I know she has the capacity to make my brother and Jude feel the same way. Because her heart is just that big, that capable, that giving, but only when she trusts, when she can be vulnerable and let you in.
“Hey, pretty girl,” my voice is thick with emotion, and I try and swallow it down. “If you want to stay here all night, we can, we’ll happily lounge around, but we’d really like to take you someplace else. Maybe have some dinner?”
She perks up and looks around, hope lighting up her eyes. “Together?”
Killian lets out a ragged breath before giving her a cheeky grin. “Of course, together, little one. If you thought it was hard to shake us before, you’re going to find it’s now impossible.”
She yawns and stretches again, and I know I’m not the only one whose eyes are drawn to her tits, especially when she brings her arms back down and they jiggle deliciously. She teases Killian as she looks at Jude out of the corner of her eye, “I told you, I kind of like it when you stalk me.”
Killian gasps and presses a hand to his chest, “Stalking is such a crass word.”
I snort, “Accurate. I think the word you’re looking for is accurate.”
Edison gives me a flirty smile before sitting up, she’s close enough that I could grab her and pull her onto my lap. My hands itch to do it, but I hold myself back.
She teases me, “Are you going to stalk me too, Coyle?”
My dick lengthens and the boxers I slipped on do very little to hide it. Her eyes flick down and darken as she takes in what she does to me. I grunt in response, and she arches an eyebrow.
“Don’t worry, pretty girl,” I rumble, “I have plans for you.”
She wiggles her eyebrows at me and we all chuckle, the sound of it settling something in me. This is about more than sex, it’s about her, about family, about us. After only having Killian in my life for so fucking long and having to step up to be what he needed, I lost sight of what a family is.
When my eyes dart down to Edison’s belly, a hunger inside of me throbs with the need to see her grow round with our child. She’s not ready, but I really fucking hope she is soon.
Jude stands up and holds out a hand for Edison to take. “Come on, little mouse. Time to get dressed. We want to take you home.”
“Home?” She blinks up at him and slides her small hand into his much larger one. “Whose home?”
“Ours,” Killian’s tone is so weighted that it’s not difficult to feel just how much gravity it has.
We all get dressed, our eyes straying to Edison as we do. I think we’re all waiting on bated breath for her to run again. For her to push us away. For her to say she’s changed her mind.
Before we step out of the room, I grab Edison’s wrist and pull her against my body. The little oof she lets out is adorable as hell. I peer down at her and search her eyes, needing…something.
“Edison,” my voice is heavy, weighted, before it cracks, “please don’t run.”
Her eyes soften and she reaches up, her hands cupping my jaw. She searches my eyes the same way I did to her just moments before. “You’ve lost people too,” she whispers.
I nod and glance at Killian. “We did.” Her shoulders slump and I wrap my arms around her waist, not wanting her to slip through my grasp like sand. “I’m not telling you so that you feel guilty or anything, but I just,” I let out a shuddering breath, “I can’t lose you when I’ve just found you.”
“I won’t run,” her words are soft, but spoken with steely resolve.
All I can do is put my trust in her and hope she can keep it safe and protected. I’ve already given her my heart; she deserves my trust as well. I kiss her forehead and she melts against my body, giving me just as much as she takes and I do the same.
I nod at the guys, and we head out of Club Sin, again. This time we have our girl with us. We move like a unit, surrounding her and making sure no one, considering there are far more people in the lounge now, don’t really get a good look at her. She’s not for their eyes, only ours.
All ours.
I toss Jude my keys and he smirks at me when he catches them. He gives me a nod before he gives a long look toward Killian and Edison. I hold my hands out for my woman’s keys. I almost expect her to fight me, but she just purses her lips before placing them in my hand.
Killian is smiling ear to ear as he waves and slides behind the wheel of his own ride. When I open the door for Edison, her eyes widen in surprise. I’m not having any of it.
I lean into her and murmur, “Get used to it, pretty girl.”