I smiled at her, some of the irritation from earlier managing to come back. She searched my eyes for a moment, then asked, “you’re just irritated with him? Not anything else?” “Having my mind go back to your time in the hospital was unexpected,” I said.
“I see,” she said, chewing on her bottom lip. She looked up at me, her eyes wide and innocent. “I think we need to take your mind off that.” She raised her hand to my face, her finger running lightly over my facial hair. “How should we do that?” she asked, one side of her lips curling up into a smirk, her bottom lip still between her teeth. In one instant, I completely forgot everything but my need for her. *uck. I love her.
Sephie
Adrik had kept his schedule purposely light the rest of the week, given that Niko and Vito were scheduled to be back. He wanted to be available in the event we were needed for anything. He made sure he had extra people throughout the city, just in care.
Because we both knew he didn’t necessarily have to get up at a decent hour, as Nike and Vito weren’t scheduled to land until later that afternoon, we both woke up. much later than usual. It didn’t help that he spent much of the night before claiming me after the doctor incident in the parking lot of my old apartment building.
I was deliciously sore this morning, but I can’t say I minded it. I thoroughly enjoyed his protective streak. I was already considering ways to make it appear on a more regular basis, I enjoyed it so much. I groaned when I stretched, my muscles protesting being stretched. I heard Adrik chuttle next to me. “My fault,” he said, rolling over so he was on top of me.
“I know you’re not even the slightest bit sorry for it, either,” I said, running my hands through his messy morning hair.
“Not even a little,” he said.
I laughed. “You realize he’s only fascinated by me because of the relationship I have with you, right?” I asked. He raised an eyebrow at me, asking for more of an explanation. “Bubba missed it because he was so angry at the other stuff. I don’t blame him. I almost missed it, too. He’s completely fascinated that you were able to control my shaking just by touching me. He saw me lose control when I came back with Ivan to get his stitches out and start shaking. He knows Ivan and Viktor helped me, but he also knows you completely stopped it. He knew I was about to lose my s*it on him the one time he chastised me for not eating at my check-up. That’s when he caught a better glimpse of my eyes, but he knows you somehow contained that as well. He’s almost just as fascinated with you as he is with me, but really, I think he doesn’t understand our relationship. He just knows on some deeper level, he would like to.” I kept running my fingers through his hair while I talked. His eyes closed, enjoying my touch.
His eyes opened, softening as he looked at me. I could feel the pull in his chest as he thought about the doctor being jealous of what we have, rather than him being jealous of the doctor. “Full disclosure, I didn’t tell you last night on purpose,” I said. “I might have to find ways to make you jealous more often.”
There were times when Adrik would smile at me with the look of a man that had no worries in the world, even though I knew he had the weight of the world on his shoulders pretty much at all times. He had a boyish grin that would make my knees weak every single time I saw it. He gave me that grin just before his lips found mine.
I couldn’t help but wrap my body around his, I felt my warmth spread through my entire body, thinking about just how much I loved this man. So completely, in fact, that others were fascinated by it and wanted to study it.
I felt the familiar stretch as he slowly slid inside me, needing once more to make mes. To prove to me that he was mine and I was his. I laughed quietly against his lips, pulling him closer to me as he pushed deeper inside me. He knew exactly how to make my body putty in his hands and he used that information freely.
My breath was heavy, my body sore, but already pushed to extreme levels of pleasure from two strokes from this man. And he knew it. He broke the kiss, leaning up enough that he could look at me, his boyish grin still across his face. It made his features softer and sexy at the same time. If I wasn’t already completely in love with him, I would think he might be trouble from the look he was giving me.
His hand trailed down my body, leaving fire in its wake. I moaned at the pleasure his touch ignited, the warmth helping to wake up my already sore body. He felt my body starting to come alive and increased his rhythm. His hand ran down my leg; looking behind my knee, he pulled my knee up toward his shoulder as he drove into me. He kept his control, as he could feel how sore I was already, but he still managed to push me over the edge almost immediately.
I grabbed his shoulders, trying to hang on as my back arched and my body gave in completely to him. It was my favorite way to wake up. Sore muscles aside, this man could make my body feel things I never thought possible. His rhythm increased slightly just before he found his own release, groaning quietly as he collapsed on top of me.
“Definitely going to need to find ways to make you jealous on a regular basis,” I said, ter a few minutes of silence. His body vibrated as he laughed quietly on top of me.
He got up, pulling me with him. “If we can have a repeat of last night, I’ll happily be jealous more,” he said, picking me up to carry me to the shower. “You drive a very hard bargain, but I accept,” I said, leaning my head on his shoulder
That afternoon, we moved to the house. It took us three times as long to get there, as Henry still had people watching the building. They would try to follow us each time we left. Adrik was enjoying it. He would have at least 10 different SUVS all leave it the same time, all heading in different directions. The tails would inevitably pick the wrong ones to follow, leaving us to go where we pleased. The other SUVS would just drive around the city for hours, keeping the tails busy while we went wherever we needed to go..
I had to admit to enjoying it almost as much as Adrik. The more Henry tried to find about Adrik, the angrier I got at him. I was very much looking forward to the day that Stephen could break him.
Once at the house, we had a few hours of relaxation before Niko and Vito were set to arrive. Adrik wanted to be at the house so Henry wouldn’t see us should we need to step in and help with the situation pertaining to the underbosses collecting taxes.
Vitaliy’s team was ready as well, along with Boris, to step in and help if needed. Given the ample firepower that our side now had at their disposal, we were hoping we wouldn’t be needed, but we were ready just in case.
It was easy to turn it all off and just enjoy a few quiet moments at the house. Adrikave the house staff the rest of the week off, just so we could be alone and didn’t have to worry about anything. We still ended up discussing the situation at hand. We couldn’t help ourselves.
“So what happens after Stephen breaks Niko and Vito? Do we send them to the same home that Armando is in? It can be our collection home of zombie bosses,” I said.
“Somebody else besides Stephen has to deliver them, though. They might catch on if he shows up with them,” Ivan said..
“I’ll allow someone else to deliver each of them. I needed to drop Armando off for me I don’t have the same need when it comes to Niko and Vito,” Stephen said.
“It is fun to make up back stories on all of them, not gonna lie there,” I said, laughing
Ivan’s phone beeped, alerting him to Niko and Vito’s arrival. He glanced at it, telling everyone, “they’re here. Now we just have to wait and see how long it takes them to stir up trouble.” Both he and Viktor sent the necessary messages to the necessary people letting them know Niko and Vito had landed and were back in the city.
Now, the waiting really began.
Sephie
The hardest part of waiting was feeling like we needed to be ready to leave at a moment’s notice. If things got bad in any part of the city, we all felt like we should be there as quickly as possible. It made trying to do anything else next to impossible.
The first day was spent largely sitting around trying to stay “available” just in case. The second day, we finally got tired of doing nothing, so we went about our day as normally as we could. Even though we all felt like we were waiting for the other shoe to drop, we still managed to have a good time. It was one of the countless things I adored about the guys. I knew we were at least going to have fun doing whatever it was that we were doing.
We ended up on the couches in the back room that afternoon. There was a storm rolling in, with dark clouds above us. We could hear the thunder in the distance. Otherwise, I would’ve dragged them all to the lake with me.
“Okay, so now that we’re all in one spot, I have an experiment,” I said, trying to think of ways to pass the time. Adrik and Ivan were able to still talk to me, no matter where they were. Adrik was able to find me anywhere now. Even I couldn’t do that yet. I think he was making sure that he could find me quickly in the event that we were ever separated again. I loved him a little more for it.
“What kind of experiment and does it involve dissection at any point?” Misha asked.
I chuckled. “No dissection. At least not that I know of,” I said, thinking for a minute. “Look, I’m not going to rule it out now that you mention it.”
The other guys looked at Misha like he was in deep sh*t, which just made him laugh. “Okay, gazelle, what’s your experiment? Save me before they all beat me for giving you ideas,” he said.
I grinned at all of them. “Adrik and Ivan can both still communicate with me and with each other even when we’re not together, but I haven’t been able to do it with you three yet. I want to see if we can make it happen.”
Misha clapped his hands together, like he usually did when there was f*ckery afoot. “This is like an advanced level hide and seek game. I’m completely on board with this,” he said, jumping up from the couch. He ran from the room toward the gym. Once he got farther down the hallway, he yelled, “count to 20! I know the perfect spot!”
We were all too busy laughing at him to bother counting to 20. Ivan said, “I think we should just wait and see how long it takes him to come back. Tell him it didn’t work.”
“You’re a little bit evil, Squish. He’s clearly bored,” I said, still laughing at Misha’s exuberance.
“And stressed. We all know he turns up his antics to relieve stress,” Stephen said.
“I’m wondering if this will work as well. I’ve heard Misha before, but I think it was through your head that I heard him. He was with you when we were talking,” Adrik said.
I concentrated on Misha, trying to see if he could hear me the same way he could when we were in the same room. I waited to see if he answered. When I heard nothing from him, I looked at Adrik and Ivan, seeing if either of them could get through to him. There was now a chance that Adrik would be able to do it, even if I couldn’t, since his latest level-up.
Misha eventually came back after ten minutes. He was still smiling, clearly enjoying being a test subject. “I could hear you, but I’m guessing you guys couldn’t hear my response?”
“No, I didn’t hear anything. I thought it didn’t work because I never heard a response from you,” I said. “Could you hear Adrik and Ivan too?”
“I heard you, then I heard Boss, then I heard Ivan. I answered all three of you, but I’m guessing that’s where it went wrong,” Misha said.
“Interesting. I wonder if it will always remain that way or if you just need to strengthen your connection with your own demon before you can do it too?” I asked to nobody in particular.
“It might always stay like it is now. Your dad said the connection between the three of us is always going to remain slightly different. Maybe this is a perk reserved for the three of us,” Ivan said, his hand rubbing his goatee as he contemplated.
“It’s still useful to know we can at least get messages to you when we’re not with you, Adrik said to Misha. “Even if you can’t answer yet. We still need to figure out how to get messages to Stephen and Viktor without someone needing to touch them.”
“I think half the time Stephen already knows what we tell him,” Ivan said,
Adrik laughed. “I’ve been telling Sephie that for months now.”
Stephen laughed as well. “Sometimes I do, sometimes it’s new information. It’s always appreciated, though.”
“I still haven’t figured out how to get around the need to touch you to relay info, though,” I said, chewing on my bottom lip.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.