30 minutes later…

Pyro laughs his ass off as both Tatiana and Piper suffocate us with attention.

“Why don’t you like me, Shadow? Am I not pretty enough for you?” Tatiana laughs from my lap.

I swear to hell and back, I’m going to punch Pyro for thinking this is funny. Nothing is amusing about Tea sitting in my lap, laughing and rubbing her sweaty, half-naked body all over me. This situation is fucking serious!

“Yeah, Sniper, am I not pretty enough for you?” Piper giggles beside me.

These two are fucking playing off of one another.

Unfuckingbelievable!

“Shadow,” she breathes against my mouth, and my eyes fly back towards her. “Answer me.”

Shit! Get that beautiful mouth away from me, Tea, baby, please! I beg silently.

When her small, delicate hands reach to tilt my shades up, I panic. She can’t see inside me. She can’t fucking read how bad I want her right now, and it takes every ounce of my self-control to keep from throwing her onto the table and fucking the shit out of her. The only thing stopping me is that she’s fucked up, and I have morals. FUCK! But when my shades come off, she slowly puts them on her face, and dammit, she actually looks more beautiful, if that’s possible. I smirk at her. I rarely smile, grin, or laugh, but at this moment, she makes me want to do all of those things.

“How do I look?” She giggles, bouncing her ass against my dick.

Another groan escapes me as I answer her. “Hot, Tea, fucking hot.”

“Thank you.” She smiles big enough to light up the room. She is quiet for a moment as she contemplates what next to say, and instead of words, her mouth comes down onto mine. Instead of pushing her away, I growl into her mouth and my hands clamp down on her bare thighs. As her tongue probes my bottom lip, Pyro’s voice brings me back to the present.

“Brother…”

Yeah, yeah, fuck! I know she’s fucked up. It takes everything in me to tear my lips away from hers. Tatiana won’t have it though, and her hands fly up to hold my face still as her tongue pushes into my mouth.

Oh, fuck!

My fingers dig into her skin as she sucks on my tongue. No woman has ever kissed me like this. As my body heats, I growl into her mouth and take control. She wants to kiss? I’ll fucking give her all I’ve got. I clutch her thighs once more before my hands fly to her hips and I shift her so she’s straddling me. One hand slides up to hold the back of her neck and squeezes tightly as my other hand grips the globes of her ass and my tongue assaults hers. I suck and bite at her until she’s gasping for breath. When Pyro snarls, I slow my attack and ease her back down.

The couch squeaks, and out of the corner of my eye, I see Sniper fling Piper back onto the pool table, her legs wrapped tightly around him. Interesting.

Tatiana squeezes her legs against my thighs, pressing her pussy against my jeans to draw my attention back to her.

My head glides to the side and I beg Pyro with my eyes to fucking help me. I only have so much strength.

He chuckles as he stands and lifts Tea from my lap, and I sigh in relief, shocked to find my cock is almost fucking hard. I look down at my lap and frown. That’s never fucking happened before.

Huh.

“Seems my niece has a wild side,” he says as he fights against a wiggling Tea.

No shit!

I can’t even process what the fuck has happened. Not only did I fucking kiss Tatiana, but my dick fucking almost got hard without me causing her any pain. That hasn’t happened since I was a teen.

***

A few hours later…

Tatiana is once again in my lap, and for the first time I can ever remember, I’m wiped out from doing nothing. Worrying about her all night, and fighting for my dear life to keep her from raping me, has been exhausting as hell, and my eyes fight to stay open as I hold her. I don’t know where Piper and Sniper took off to, but it quieted down after they left.

“Let me sleep here,” she mumbles as the high wears off.

I push the sweaty strands of hair away from her face, relieved I have my glasses back to hide my eyes so I can stare at her. She’s so fucking beautiful, and it makes me ache all over. For the first time since meeting her, I wish I could have her, if only once, without paying a price for it. Tatiana is the kind of girl that’ll develop too much emotion, and I can’t hurt her. I won’t. Yes, the irony is not lost on me as I think that. I mean I can’t hurt her emotionally. She’s too good for all my troubled bullshit.

“She’s something special, isn’t she?” Pyro yawns beside me.

“Priceless.” Sighing, I look over at him with my walls down.

He tries to fight off his smile. “I’m headed to bed. You good?”

She’s fucking wiped out, coming off a high she’s never experienced before, and Pyro knows her well enough to know if it is safe for us all to sleep.

“I’m good,” I reply as he stands and lays his jacket over a sleeping Tatiana.

“Night, brother,” he says before yawning again and walking away.

I let out a breath and tilt my head to the side.

You’re not going to make this easy on me, are you, darlin’?

When she stirs and wiggles closer to my chest, I realize this is going to be the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my fucking life. Denying her is going to be so damn painful.

***

Chapter Six

Shadow

Something kicks me awake, and now, I am straight up pissed off. I was sleeping hard, too. Nothing could prepare me for a steaming hot ZZ and a laughing Storm holding a tray of coffee, standing in front of me, though. Fuck a flying duck. I throw my hands in the air when I realize they are still gripping Tea’s ass, and whisper, “Nothing happened,” as I deposit her onto the couch and stand.