Mele Kalikimaka, Baby: Hawaiian Holidays Book One

by Schroeder, Melissa

  “Both of you in your thirties, acting as if you are teens. What are the two of you fighting over?”

  Neither of them said anything, and she nodded.

  “So, you are fighting over the woman, yeah?”

  “Let it go, Tutu.”

  “No. Rolling around on the ground like two boys. Your malihini is gone, and all you can do is fight.”

  “It’s complicated,” Mal mumbled.

  She crossed her arms over her chest. “No, it isn’t. You love her, you go get her.”

  They looked at each other, then looked at her.

  “Who are you talking to?” Jack asked.

  “Well, both of you.”

  They shared a look again, then Mal said, “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

  She rolled her eyes and settled her hands on her generous hips. “You think I don’t know what you two do together? Now you find this wahine who you two go all crazy over, and you let her leave. Why? Are either of you planning to go get her?”

  Mal said, “It isn’t that simple. She has a job—”

  “I told you she quit.”

  “So, see, she can get a job here. Go get her.”

  “What?” Jack asked.

  “Go get your woman, bring her back here.”

  “The woman has known us for twenty-four hours,” Mal said, even though he heard the doubt in his voice.

  “Sometimes, that is all it takes. I saw your grandfather, and I knew he was the one for me. That is why I got him into my bed that night.”

  “Tutu, please,” Jack said.

  “What? You think I didn’t have sex?”

  Mal laughed. “We know you did, but we don’t want the image in our heads.”

  “Go get your woman, or I will go into graphic detail. I would suggest you clean up first.”

  She turned and left them alone.

  “Well?” Jack asked.

  Mal didn’t know what to say, what to do. He wanted it to be true, wanted it more than anything else he had ever wanted. It was crazy to think Sophia would come back to Hawaii with them.

  “You want to fly to Baltimore and ask her to come back here to live? Don’t you know how crazy that sounds?”

  Jack looked at him, then a smile curved his lips. “Yeah. I do. But who gives a fuck, seriously? We’ve had women before, right? Have you ever felt like that? That instant connection with her?”

  Mal shook his head and remembered being pissed off at the attraction. He had been so sure she would be like Millicent that being attracted to her drove him insane. But instead of the corporate ice bitch he had thought she would be, there was a tender, loving woman beneath, one who had enough love for the two of them.

  His heart warmed as his breath caught in his throat. They could do it. She was a woman in need of a family, and they had plenty of that. She was a woman who seemed to have everything…except someone to share her life with.

  Jack must have read the answer because he said, “Well, let’s get our asses cleaned up and find out just how expensive a flight from here to Baltimore is going to be.”

  “Maybe we should wait.”

  “No. We show up on Christmas Eve—that is the way it should be.”

  The rightness of it hit him square in the chest. “You’re right, let’s go.”

  * * *

  “You should have come down here with me,” Eddie said over the phone. “We would have loved to have you here.”

  “Especially me,” Cam, Eddie’s twin brother, shouted in the background.

  Sophia laughed. “Texas, for Christmas? Just not my kind of thing.”

  And she could never have gone down there and seen the happy family scene. It was something that both Eddie and Maribelle had always complained about. But seeing their families together always brought back those horrible memories of that eighteenth Christmas and finding herself alone in the world.

  “Are you going to tell me what happened beyond you quit your job?”

  “What do you mean?”

  Eddie snorted. “Woman, I know you. Something happened over there.”

  Tears clouded her vision again. Good lord, would this ever stop? So, it had been only a day, and less than three days ago, she had not known these men, let alone thought she could fall in love with two men. But she had. She had fallen head over heels in love, and well…it hadn’t worked out. Just like what had happened so much in her life before now.

  She shook the feeling away and got up and walked toward her window, looking out her apartment complex at the cheerful Christmas lights.

  “Okay, well, I did the thing you did in college.”

  “You kissed a girl?”

  That made Sophia laugh. “No. I took up with two guys.”

  There was a beat of silence. “Oh, him of the sexy voice? And the other one—what was his name?”

  “Jack and Mal. They’re cousins.”

  Another beat of silence. “Cousins?”

  She sighed. “Yeah.”

  “Good lord, woman, what did they do, spike the water?”

  She laughed. “No. But…they just sort of took over.”

  “They took over? What do you mean?”

  “I don’t know. I still can’t believe some of the things I did.” Even now, she was blushing at the memory of just how crazy she had gotten.

  “Ohhh, I want details.”

  “Eddie.”

  “Have some heart. I haven’t been to bed with a man in over a month.”

  “Oh, gross, I didn’t need to know that,” her brother Cam yelled from the background.

  She laughed. “Sounds like everything is insane there as usual.”

  “Yeah. The ranch is really taking shape again. I have to admit my brothers really have done an amazing job. This place is hopping with dudes and dudettes.”

  The doorbell rang. She frowned as she rose to answer it. Ten-thirty on Christmas Eve?

  “Was that your doorbell?”

  “Really, Eddie, do I need to give a play-by-play?”

  “Yes. I’m bored, and my brothers are trying to talk me into cleaning up the kitchen since Cam drove off their last cook. I refuse. Besides, I am living vicariously through you. At least now that you have a sex life.”

  “Had,” she said as she looked out her peephole. Standing in the hallway were Mal and Jack, their faces haggard, the clothes wrinkled. “Holy mother of God.”

  “I have been called a lot of things, but never that.”

  “Oh, shut up. I have to think.”

  “Why?”

  “They’re here.”

  “Who?”

  “Them, Mal and Jack.”

  “Oh, as in the cousins them.”

  The doorbell rang again.

  “You have to let them in.”

  “No, I don’t.”

  “Good lord, woman, they flew how many miles to see you? You have to let them in.”

  She knew Eddie was right, but… She looked down at her faded, worn sweatpants and paint-stained t-shirt. Her hair was a mess, pulled up into a ponytail on top of her head. And she had no makeup on. Men had the worst freaking timing in the world.

  “Okay, I’ll let them in.”

  “Call me back, bye.”

  The phone clicked off, and she cradled it to her breast as if it could protect her from the intrusion about to happen. Her palms were sweaty when she finally turned the locks on the door and opened it.

  “Hey, Sophia,” Jack said, a weary smile on his face.

  “What are you two doing here?” Then she realized just how rude it was to have them standing in the hall. “Come in, then tell me what you’re doing here.”

  She stepped aside to allow them by, but Jack stopped in front of her and gave her a quick, hard kiss. It was enough to get her heart beating double-time. He pulled back, gave her a knowing smile, and then moved on.

  Mal stepped in his place, a wary look clouding his blue eyes. She sensed he wanted to kiss her, to lean in as Jack had, but he hesitated. Need stamped h
is features, but she knew it went beyond sexual. Or was that her own heart playing tricks on her? Did she dare take the first step, make that first move? Regret and sadness replaced the craving she had seen. Before she could talk herself out of it, she stepped to him and brushed her mouth over his. He shuddered at the touch of their lips, a sigh filled with so much hunger it shook her escaped from him.

  She stepped back but her lips still tingled. Drawing in a deep breath, she shut the door, locking it before she turned to face them. When she did, her body responded immediately. She needed them, wanted them in a way she had never needed another human before in her life.

  “Now, are you going to tell me why you’re here?” she asked.

  “We came for you,” Jack said.

  She blinked, waited. He said nothing else.

  “I don’t understand.”

  Jack opened his mouth, but Mal stopped him with a look. “We want you, Sophia.”

  His quiet voice brought about his denial just a day earlier, the way he had turned from her. The pain slashed at her heart, and she had to fight back the tears.

  “Oh, God, don’t do that.” His voice was almost panicked as he rushed toward her. She took a step back, and he stopped, his hands falling to his sides. “I guess I deserve your fear.”

  “I don’t fear you’ll hurt me physically, Mal. But…I am not built for this. I don’t do relationships well, as both of you probably figured out. I just don’t know what you want from me.”

  “We want you with us, always,” Jack said.

  She looked at him. “It doesn’t make sense. You don’t know me, barely know me.”

  “I know,” Jack said, with a laugh. “But there is something there, some kind of connection we all felt. Don’t lie, because I know you felt it too.”

  She wanted to deny it, wanted to say that she felt nothing but healthy sexual urges, but she knew it would be wrong. She couldn’t lie.

  “Baby, don’t hold back because of my stupidity. I had bad relationships…I’m sure that Jack told you.”

  She nodded.

  “I just…well, I was afraid.”

  Her eyes widened, and he nodded. Apparently sensing she was weakening, he moved to her and slipped his hands into hers. With a tug, he pulled her along to the couch.

  “Jack and I thought about a permanent threesome, someone…maybe. But it was just a dream, something I didn’t think would happen. When it did, when I felt it with you…I turned into a coward. I used that jackass showing up as a reason to blame you because I couldn’t deal with my own fears.”

  Hope tried to crack through her heart, and she felt herself weakening.

  Jack sat down behind her, and he slipped his arm around her midsection. “After we tried to beat the shit out of each other, we realized that we didn’t want just a night. We wanted a lifetime.”

  She glanced over her shoulder at him, and he nodded. “I know. It freaked us out a bit until our grandmother told us to come to get you. As soon as she said it, we knew we had to come.”

  “See, we didn’t know what we were missing until we returned to Hawaii. We need to be there. It is better for both of us. And if your dumbass boss—”

  “Ex-boss.”

  Mal smiled and she felt herself responding. “Ex-boss. If he hadn’t set that up, we wouldn’t have returned.”

  “And we would have never met you. Don’t you see, you’re ours. We need you. And we can give you everything you need.”

  She wanted this, needed this, but again, she worried that her heart was playing those nasty tricks on her.

  Mal slipped his hands up her arms, past her shoulders, to cup her face. “We need you, as much as you need us.”

  She snorted.

  He shook his head. “No. We do. We had lost that connection we had when we shared women, but I’ll tell you the truth, being with you took it to another level. I do not think there is another woman on this earth made for us. And we can give you that family you always wanted.”

  The hope she had been fighting started to fill her chest and feather out over her body. “Yeah?”

  “We have a ton of family,” Jack said.

  Mal leaned forward and brushed his lips against hers, keeping his gaze on hers the whole time. “And we both would like to have children.”

  Her heart fluttered. “Children?”

  “Yeah. We want to have them with you.”

  She closed her eyes and tried to will away the image of having a horde of children. It had always been one of her secret wishes, but she never thought it would come true. She never believed it would happen with just one man. Now she had two who wanted it with her.

  She opened her eyes and found Mal frowning at her.

  “You want children, right?”

  Sophia nodded. He rested his forehead against hers, closing his eyes as if in prayer. When he opened them, the burning passion there stole her breath.

  “I told myself the whole way here that you did, but we have been traveling for close to twenty hours to get to you.”

  “Speaking of which, how did you find me?”

  “Jack twisted some arms at the Oahu Nouveau to get your information. After that, it was easy to find where you lived.”

  She looked over her shoulder at Jack, who was smiling.

  “I just called in a few favors.”

  “And you traveled twenty hours, spent God knows how much money, just to tell me you want a relationship.”

  Jack shrugged. “The money was nothing compared to claiming our woman.”

  “Still…”

  Mal slipped his finger to her chin and turned her to face him. “We couldn’t let you spend another Christmas alone.”

  “I love you, both.”

  He smiled as he leaned forward to kiss her. As he did, Jack slid his hands beneath her t-shirt, skimming his hands to her unfettered breasts. The moment he touched them, her nipples hardened. Mal’s tongue delved into her mouth, and she sighed at the familiar taste of him. She lifted her hands to cradle his face. The hunger she had felt for them the moment she saw them through the peephole grew, exploded through her senses. Her heart beat out a rhythm so fast she was amazed she didn’t die there on the spot. Every nerve ending in her body shimmered, danced.

  Jack tugged on her earlobe with his teeth, the love bite sending a shaft of liquid heat to her sex. Her blood roared, need burst through the three of them. Two days of not seeing them, holding them, of thinking she would never see them again left a sharp edge to her arousal. She pulled away from the kiss, and Jack’s hand slipped away as she stood.

  “Bedroom. I’m not doing this out in front of my neighbors.”

  She barely made it into the room before their hands were on her again. Mal yanked her pants down and threw them behind him on the floor. Jack did the same with her shirt. Mal took her in his arms, his mouth devouring hers as he eased her on the bed. Once there, he moved down her body, his mouth teasing her flesh as she moaned his name. As Mal kept moving down her body, Jack joined them on the bed. He was completely naked, his cock hard, curved up to his belly. She licked her lips, and Jack laughed. When she moved to take him in her mouth, he shook his head. “No. I won’t last two seconds if you put that wicked mouth on me right now.”

  She pouted, but only for a second. He leaned down to take a nipple in his mouth. As he laved one, she pinched the other. The dual sensations sent another wave of heat barreling through her veins. Liquid-coated the lips of her sex as pressure built between her legs. She felt the graze of his teeth on the tip of her breast, and she almost came right there.

  Mal had worked his way down to between her legs. He eased her thighs apart, then parted the lips of her sex.

  “Ahh, all pink and wet. Just for us.” Hunger, deep and mutual, threaded his voice, pushing her further to the edge. Jack hummed against her nipple, the vibrations moving over her body.

  She felt his breath the moment before his tongue moved over her clit. Shock waves of pleasure coursed over her skin as he sucked the ti
ny bundle of nerves into his mouth. It sent her tumbling over into her orgasm, her body convulsing violently as she came.

  “Damn,” Jack said, his voice filled with lust and awe.

  Mal pulled back from her, and she opened her eyes to see what he was doing. He was tearing at his clothes, his movements jerky. His cock thrust out from the nest of black hair, and it made her mouth water anew, but she did not think he would give her the chance. She knew she was right the moment he pulled off a package from the foiled condom wrappers, then tossed the other one to Jack.

  “Where’s that lube?” he asked, his voice gravelly, his need easy to hear.

  She moved to get it, but Jack pushed her down. His face was flush, his eyes dark. “Just tell him.”

  Sophia’s body responded to the desire that laced his words. Her sex clenched, wet with need again, and her whole body shook. She pointed to the side table on the right of her bed and Mal went to retrieve it.

  Jack slipped back on the bed, then pulled her over to straddle him. He skimmed his hands up her arms and cupped her face. She leaned down and kissed him, sweet, tender, but it soon turned carnal, their tongues dancing together.

  He pulled back slightly, his lips just inches from hers. “Take me in.”

  She knew it was more than just a request to join, it was a request for love. She lifted herself, then positioned his cock at her entrance. Slowly, she descended, enjoying the way his cock filled her, stretched her. She flexed her hips once, twice, then started to ride him. His fingers dug into her hips as she impaled herself over and over onto his shaft.

  Mal joined them, moving between Jack’s spread legs, coming up behind her. He moved her hair aside and kissed her shoulder.

  “I need you to bend over a bit.”

  She froze, knowing what was coming. She wanted this, had enjoyed when Jack had taken her anally, but this was different. Still, she knew she needed this joining as much as they did.

  Sophia did as he requested, and Mal slipped one coated finger into her anus. Jack urged her up and down, but soon, he was holding her in place as he thrust up into her. Each time he did, his cock grazed her clit, just enough to drive her crazy, not enough to let her have another orgasm.

  Soon, Mal was pulling his finger free and positioning his cock at her back entrance. Jack thrust into her, then held her still.