All or Nothing

by Becca Van

  “Six weeks,” Jalen stated in a cold voice.

  “What?” Kat frowned.

  “We’ve known you for six fucking weeks,” Jalen said. “You’ve lived in our house for five of those six weeks. You don’t think we’re experienced or mature enough to know when we love someone?”

  “I-I…” Kat licked her lips and shrugged.

  “Why are you being so hard-headed?” Jalen asked.

  “Why did you let us make love to you?” Mica jumped to his feet and stomped over to her. “You’d never had sex with any other man. You care for us but are just too scared to admit it.”

  Kat blanked her face and shrugged nonchalantly. When the color drained from her face, Dante thought she was about to pass out. He took a step toward her but stopped when her eyes widened with shock.

  “What’s wrong, baby?” Jalen asked.

  She lowered her gaze and shook her head.

  “Fucking talk to us, Kat. You need to open up with us if this relationship is going to survive.”

  “I don’t know how to love,” she said sadly.

  “Yes, you do,” Mica said. “You love your sister.”

  “I’m going to screw up and you’ll end up hating me.” She met each of their gazes.

  In that moment, Dante sighed with relief. It was all there in her eyes. She looked so fucking vulnerable and scared, his heart hurt, but he wasn’t dropping the subject until she admitted how she felt. She loved them but was too petrified to tell them.

  With a sigh of reluctance, Dante changed his mind and decided not to push her into revealing what was in her heart. He and his brothers would have all the time in the world to work on bolstering up her self-confidence as a desirable, sexy, loving women after they moved her into their home.

  She needed more time, so they needed to back off and give it to even if it was the last thing any of them wanted to do.

  Kat was feeling exposed, and since she’d had to hide all her emotions as much as she could while living with her monster of a father, he understood it. He and his brothers hadn’t gained all of her trust yet, but they would. Every day they would work on gaining her belief in them that they were reliable, trustworthy men.

  They needed to convince her that they were in this for the rest of their lives. That they would never hurt her and never leave her. He and his brothers could lament all they liked about her emotional restraint, but as the old adage went, trust was earned, not demanded.

  * * * *

  Kat felt bad for upsetting and hurting her men, but she still felt as if she couldn’t afford to tell them that she loved them, even if she did. The slight knot that she’d woken with her in her gut that morning had gotten bigger and bigger with each passing hour.

  Something bad was coming, and since she didn’t know what it was, there was no way she could stop it.

  Her men had surprised her when they’d backed off and hadn’t ordered her to answer the questions they’d been asking, and for that she was grateful. Mica and Dante had declared their love for her, but Jalen had kept his own counsel. She’d never heard that icy cold tone from him earlier that afternoon and hoped to never hear it again. Kat would rather he rant and rave at her rather than talk to her without any warmth at all, but it had been the coldness in his eyes when he’d looked at her that had caused pain to surge into her heart.

  Jalen had disappeared into the office as soon as her men had helped carry all her things into the house. Dante had headed for the kitchen, and while Mica had helped her unpack some of her stuff, she could tell by the look in his eyes that the calm tone belied what he was really feeling.

  She wished she could hide in her room so she wouldn’t feel so guilty about hurting he Donnybrook brothers, but her sister and her men were coming over for dinner and she needed to start preparing the food. Thankfully, she had more than enough time to get everything done and cook the food since they wouldn’t be here until seven.

  Kat slowly walked through the bedroom doorway and down the hallway toward the kitchen. Usually her men sat in the kitchen chatting over coffee or a beer or two at this time of night, but there was just silence so fraught with tension, she’d be able to cut the thick air with a knife.

  Mica was sitting at the counter staring into his coffee, and he glanced up as she entered the room. Kat gave him a forced smile and started getting ingredients out for dinner. She’d decided that steaks, loaded potatoes, and salad would do. If she hadn’t gone to work and had had more time to cook, she probably would have made something a little nicer.

  “Do you want some help, sweetie?” Mica asked.

  “Thanks, but there’s not that much to do.”

  Kat set her mind to making the dinner, trying not to be distracted by the tension between her and the men. Preparing the food helped clear her mind, but she knew in the end it was only a temporary balm.

  * * * *

  Jalen kept a close eye on Kat as she laughed and talked with her sister. He’d caught her looking at Niki and her men enviously as the Lyndon brothers took care of their woman.

  “I hear you went back to work today,” Niki said.

  “I did.” Kat took a sip of her wine. “I like working, Niki. You know that. I need my independence.”

  “Has anyone told you you couldn’t work?” Jalen asked.

  He was aware of Niki, Brent, Hes, and Rig frowning at him, but he kept his gaze locked with Kat’s.

  “No.” She took another sip of wine. “Would anyone like dessert?” she asked as she shoved to her feet. “It’s not homemade, since I didn’t have time to do any baking. I bought a couple of apple pies from the diner on the way home.”

  Niki shook her head. “I’m stuffed.”

  “I’ll have some,” Brent said.

  “Me too.” Hes grinned and patted his flat belly. “I love apple pie.”

  “Who doesn’t?” Rig asked. “I’d like some, too. Thanks, Kat.”

  “Same here,” Dante and Mica said simultaneously.

  “I will, as well,” Jalen said.

  “Let me help you.” Niki stood and helped Kat clear the table.

  As the women cut the pies and placed them onto dessert plates, he saw Niki whispering and frowning at her sister. Obviously, their guests could feel the tension.

  While the evening went well, Jalen was glad when Niki and his cousins took their leave after, thanking Kat for a wonderful meal.

  Jalen wanted to sweep his woman up into his arms and make love with her, but he wasn’t sure of the type of reception he’d get if he tried. Kat had him twisted in knots, and he didn’t know which way to turn. He’d never been so uncertain in his life and didn’t like feeling so out of control of a situation. He needed to know where he and his brothers stood with her, but he wasn’t sure he’d get a straight answer.

  Kat was driving him nuts in more ways than one, and he didn’t know what to do about it.

  She was sitting at the kitchen counter with Dante and Mica on either side of her. Her hands were wrapped around a steaming mug, and she was staring into the cup. His brothers weren’t talking, but they had frowns on their faces, too.

  Jalen wondered if something had happened while he’d been seeing their guests out. “This has to stop,” he blurted out angrily. Jalen could feel Kat slipping away from them even though she’d just moved in with them. There was no fucking way he was going to lose her before he had her tethered to them for life.

  He strode around the counter, carefully lifted Kat’s stool with her on it, and pulled it back a few feet. As soon as she cleared the counter where he wouldn’t hurt her, he lifted her into his arms and slammed his mouth over hers.

  He opened her lips with his and delved his tongue deep into her depths. Curling his tongue around hers, he drew it into his mouth and suckled on it.

  At first she held herself tense, but then she suddenly melted against him as she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him back hungrily. He groaned when she hooked her legs around his waist, her breasts squished against
his chest, and he could feel her nipples hardening and pressing into his cotton-covered skin. But that wasn’t all. Her pussy was hot against his hard dick, and he was sure he could feel dampness seeping through their clothes.

  Kat was as turned on as he was.

  Without breaking the kiss, he started walking toward the bedroom. Stools scraped over the floor, and he heard Dante and Mica following him. Instead of releasing her lips and putting her back on her feet, he lowered her to the bed and blanketed her body with his.

  He turned his head for a better angle and devoured her, and she responded in kind.

  When he felt her hands tugging at the back of his shirt, he broke the kiss and met her gaze. Her pupils were dilated, and her blue irises were hazed over with arousal.

  Jalen wanted to claim her for all time with his brothers, and he was going to do just that before the night was over.

  Kat was their woman and there was no way in hell he was letting her hold part of herself back from him and his brothers anymore.

  Kat was so hot and aroused, she could barely catch her breath. Her body shaking with internal heat, and he could tell she was just as desperate for them to douse the flames as he was for her. Jalen needed inside of her body nearly as much, if not more, than he needed air to keep himself alive.

  The desire to make love with her was like an animalistic living entity that wouldn’t, couldn’t be discounted.

  As soon as Jalen released her lips, she tugged his T-shirt up over his head. He nudged her legs wider, sat up between her spread thighs, and pulled his top off his arms. He was aware of Dante and Mica disrobing, but right now he only had eyes for Kat. As she stared into his eyes, he could see so many emotions flitting across her gaze, but only one had the breath backing up in his lungs.

  There was so much love in those gorgeous blue eyes, his own stung with relieved unshed tears. His breath hitched and his heart stuttered, but it was the overflowing warmth in his heart that nearly had him crying like a baby. She’d encased her emotions and heart, had cut herself off from everything and everyone, but no more.

  “Take your clothes off, baby,” Jalen commanded as he got to his feet to strip off.

  Kat sat up, looking from him to his brothers with wide eyes as she began to unbutton her blouse. Dante and Mica, both now naked, got up on the mattress beside her and started tugging at her clothes.

  As soon as Jalen was bare, he removed her shoes, undid the snap on her trousers, then pulled them and her panties off. He flung them aside and crawled up onto the bed.

  “Do you want us, Kat?” Dante asked in a gravelly voice.

  She licked her lips and nodded.

  Jalen grasped her ankles and pulled her down the bed until her ass was resting on the edge. He wrapped his arms around her upper thighs, splaying her legs wider, and then bent his head toward her pussy. He didn’t start off slow in building her lust higher, he consumed her with a primal need he could no longer ignore.

  He lapped, licked, and slurped at her folds, drinking down all her sweet honey, and then he lashed her clit with the tip of his tongue to produce more. She whimpered and sobbed with pleasure.

  Dante crashed his mouth into hers, kissing her voraciously while Mica suckled and nipped at her breasts and nipples.

  Her cries of pleasure were muffled but music to his ears. She’d tried so hard to keep her distance from them, to make them believe she didn’t feel anything for them and had even tried to ruin what they had this very afternoon because she was scared. He wasn’t letting her get away with that any longer.

  By the time this night was over, she was going to reveal what was in her heart.

  Chapter Fifteen

  Kat felt the walls around her crumbling down. With each lick, kiss, and touch, the coldness in her heart dissipated and was replaced with a powerful warmth that overwhelmed her.

  Dante broke the kiss, then sucked and licked at her neck. Mica chewed on her nipple, then laved the slight sting with his tongue. Jalen swirled and licked at her clit, and just as she thought she was about to climax, he raised his head. He shoved his brothers aside, grasped her hips, and lifted her further up the mattress. After gaining the bed, he braced his hands on either side of her shoulders and covered her body with his. He gripped the base of his dick, pressed the head of his hard cock against her pussy, and plunged into her hard and fast.

  “Oh!” she cried out with pleasure and grasped his shoulders.

  “Put your arms around my neck, baby,” Jalen commanded raspingly.

  She looped her arms around his neck and he lowered his body onto hers once more, and then he rolled over.

  Holding her hips, he adjusted her position and spread his legs wide. Since hers were astride his, her legs were parted nearly as far as they could comfortably go, too.

  Dante stood, grabbed something from the drawer, and then walked toward the end of the bed. Kat gazed at him over her shoulder, and she gasped when he smiled at her wickedly and showed her the tube of lube in his hand.

  He placed first one knee and then the other onto the mattress and moved in closer behind her.

  “I’m going to prepare this sexy ass and fuck it, love.”

  Kat moaned.

  “Our woman likes the thought of getting her ass fucked,” Jalen rasped out. “She just clamped around my cock and covered me in more of her honey.”

  Dante caressed a hand up and down her back, and when he got to her butt cheeks, he squeezed them.

  Kat was nervous, but she was also eager. She wanted to be claimed by her three men at the same time so badly, she was shaking, but she needed this, needed them so much she wasn’t going to ask them to stop. In fact, it was hard for her to keep her demand for more unspoken.

  When she heard the pop of the bottle she stopped breathing and closed her eyes. Goosebumps raced over her skin and she trembled even more.

  “Open your eyes, Kat,” Jalen ordered.

  The authority in his voice was too strong for her to ignore and she opened her eyes. The moment she met his green-eyed gaze she was lost. Kat felt as if she was drowning in the heated green orbs.

  “Keep your eyes on me, baby.” Jalen skimmed his hands from her hips, up her sides, toward her breasts. Air burst from her burning lungs when he cupped them, and she moaned as he rolled her nipples between his fingers and thumbs. Her breasts were so sensitive they were aching.

  “You are so fucking beautiful,” Mica said hoarsely. He threaded his fingers into her hair, tilted her face toward his, and kissed her.

  Kat whimpered with need as her tongue tangled and twisted with his. Just a slight touch, a puff of their sweet humid breath on her skin was enough to have the fiery heat coursing through her body, and now she was about to make love with all three of them.

  She broke the kiss and gasped when Dante caressed cool, wet fingers over her ass. Her insides clenched, causing her pussy to ripple around Jalen’s hard dick buried in her sex.

  “Take nice deep breaths, love,” Dante said huskily. “I don’t want you to stop breathing and tense up.”

  The second her muscles loosened, Dante pressed his finger into her ass and she tautened.

  “Relax, baby.” Jalen plucked at her nipples.

  “That’s easy for you to say,” she snarked. “You’re not the one with a finger up your ass.”

  Jalen grinned, and Mica chuckled.

  Dante shifted closer to her, hooked an arm around her waist, and nipped her earlobe. “Don’t you dare deny you like what I’m doing to you, love. We all know you like having your ass played with. You’re probably going to scream the roof off when you come. Hard.”

  “Oh.” She shook with arousal when Dante pumped his finger in and out of her a few times. When he withdrew, she bit her tongue to prevent herself from demanding he put it back.

  A slight burning pressure against her rear entrance had her sighing out with relief, and she moaned as the sensitive tissues of her ass stretched. When the slight pain intensified as he slowly thrust in and out of her
ass, she realized he’d penetrated her with more than one finger.

  Jalen released a breast, cupped the back of her neck, and pulled her down toward him. As soon as she was close enough, he slanted his mouth over hers. While she knew he was trying to distract her and it partially worked because the tension dissipated slightly from her muscles, she just seemed to get hotter, hungrier, needier.

  Kat was so turned on she couldn’t wait until she had all three men inside of her body. If they didn’t get on with it soon, she felt as if she was going to go insane with need.

  * * * *

  Dante’s hard cock was throbbing and leaking pre-cum because he was starving to make love with Kat. He wanted to press his dick against her ass and drive in until he was lodged in her so deeply she’d never get him out, but he’d never do that. There was no way he’d ever purposely hurt their woman, no matter how aroused he was. She’d dealt with enough violence and abuse to last her ten lifetimes.

  He groaned as he pumped his fingers into her a bit deeper. Every time he stroked his fingers into her, she clenched on him. Although he tried not to imagine how she’d feel squeezing his throbbing dick, it was an impossibility. He tried to think of something else, but as soon as he met Jalen’s heated, almost desperate gaze, he realized his brother was having trouble containing his own blazing lust. There was no doubt that Jalen felt every ripple and clench of her hot, wet cunt on his dick. Dante wasn’t sure he’d have been able to hold off as long as his older brother had and was.

  Finally, he had his two fingers in her tight, hot ass as far as they could go and he spread them, trying to stretch her muscles out. She moaned and gasped and wiggled around on Jalen’s cock. His brother growled and closed his eyes. Jalen was clamping his teeth together and grinding them. Dante wondered if he’d wear them down to stubs.

  Mica leaned over after shoving one of Jalen’s hands from Kat’s breasts and swirled his tongue around the areola, then sucked her nipple into his mouth.