I shook my head. “You are both cowards. You both are too scared to let me in. To let any form of love in.” I paused to drum up the strength to tell Thomas my true feelings. “I love you. I love you so much.”
He looked at me surprised. “And my brother? Do you love him as well?”
I nodded and looked down at the floor. “I do. Even though you both may never return the words, I’m at least not a coward and can tell you how I truly feel.” I looked back up into Thomas’s deep onyx eyes and added, “But I know my baby and I deserve more. So, if you can’t say the words—”
“I love you too,” he cut in. Sighing, Thomas shook his head. “We can’t give you what you need.”
“Then take me someplace else. Find a place besides the manor, besides the properties everyone is aware of, and build something fresh. Anywhere else.”
“We can’t do that, and you know it. We have responsibilities that keep us in the major cities. We can’t just run off and play house. The slightest show of weakness, and others will move in.”
I reached out for Thomas’s hands and pulled him close to me in desperation. “Figure it out. Fix this problem as you fix everything else with your business,” I suggested, feeling hopelessness take over all sense. “You are a man who doesn’t take no for an answer.”
Thomas wrapped me in his arms and kissed me on top of my head. “Hailey, this is final,” he dictated. “You heard Stefano. And I agree with him. We have nothing to offer you. This is not the way to live. We can keep you safe and that’s the plan.”
My bedroom door opened again. Stefano entered, saying, “Regardless of what you may think of me, I don’t wish you unhappiness. I know what we have planned for you isn’t the perfect life, but if you have our baby inside of you, there’s no other choice. We have to keep you both safe.” Stefano’s voice snapped my head to look in the direction of the doorway that he stood in. He walked toward me and pulled me from Thomas’s embrace and placed his palms on both sides of my arms. “You need to trust that Thomas and I can’t provide the type of love or give you what you need. You are far better off anywhere else than with us. You have to see us as two men you betrayed, who kidnapped you, who used and abused you. Nothing else.”
I closed my eyes for a moment, searching my entire being for the power to not burst in tears and beg to be loved. I had to maintain some pride. I had to do something. Anything but feel this pain and rejection.
Cold.
Survival.
Put that wall back up.
Just be a pain slut and nothing more.
Try, Hailey. Try.
“Fine. Forget I even tried. Let’s just go back to the way it was. Fucking.” I tentatively pressed my palm to Stefano’s chest. “Let me taste you. One at a time while the other watches.” I lowered my hand to the bulge in Stefano’s pants. “I want to feel your cock between my lips.” I quickly undid his pants, releasing him from his confines. “I want you both again.”
Stefano stood still, never making a move to stop me in my mission. I took this as a sign to continue on. I knelt down, softly placed his hardened cock on the base of my tongue and closed my lips tightly around him. Looking up into his eyes, I began to move my mouth up and down along his shaft. Stefano never looked away. I could feel Thomas’s eyes, and didn’t need to see him to know he was watching.
Waiting.
Stefano never closed his eyes for a moment. He watched as I began my enticement. I tightened my lips and worked my tongue in small circles along the entire length. His taste, his smell, and his entire aura was so different than his brother’s but at the same time, so much the same.
Stefano reached for my hair to stop me. “Hailey,” he moaned. He was losing control. Good. Let the man lose some fucking control.
I looked up into his eyes with his cock still in my mouth. I pulled it out enough to whisper, “It’s your turn. Enjoy.” I lowered my mouth down to the base of his cock and slowly back to the tip. Removing his penis just enough to speak again, I rasped, “Watch me, Thomas. Watch me suck off your brother.”
I knew they liked the dirty talk.
I knew exactly what they liked.
I had been trained.
Trained. Just not loved.
Stefano closed his eyes and threw his head back in euphoric surrender. I knew I had won this battle. I smiled wickedly at my success and continued my quest to please Stefano like he had never been. All while his brother watched on—cock hard—while he waited his turn.