by Maia Dylan
Keiko’s expression turned pained. “No, no! You didn’t do anything wrong, neither of you, not one single thing. Everything that we said, everything that we did that night was perfect. There is absolutely no regret for me that night, or any time we have spent together in the last eighteen months. Please, you have to believe me. My leaving had nothing to do with how I feel about you.”
Cooper nodded and lifted her hand to his lips, pressing a kiss there, no doubt in an attempt to calm their mate. “You can’t blame us for jumping to that conclusion, love, but we are very thankful that you have cleared up that misunderstanding for us. So if it wasn’t that night we had together or your concern over the fact that two men wanted you as theirs, what was it that made you leave?”
Keiko nibbled on her bottom lip and Logan knew she was nervous. “I lied to you that night. That’s not something I’m proud of, and I certainly do not make a habit out of lying, but I just simply did not know how to answer your question.”
“You’re talking about when we asked you about whether or not your brother’s death had anything to do with his lifestyle choices, right?” Logan asked.
“Yes.” Keiko sighed and closed her eyes briefly. “I never could lie for shit. Naoki’s death was no accident. He was murdered. His body was found in the field behind my parents’ house. He had been beaten to death and the mark of the Ussuri was c-carved into his t-torso.” Logan shared a shocked and horrified look with his brother. He had no idea who or what the Ussuri were, but from the calculated way her brother had died, it seemed to Logan that there was some kind of organized crime aspect behind it.
Sensing Keiko’s growing distress, he moved in and wrapped an arm around her shoulder, leaning in to press a kiss to her temple. “It’s okay, Keiko, we’re here. Take your time.”
They waited while Keiko took a few deep breaths and visibly composed herself. “It was my mother who found him.” Logan’s heart bled at what that poor woman must have gone through in that moment. “She called my father immediately but received no answer. Father is a carpenter by trade, and works out of a workshop he runs with my uncle, so she called him next. The person who answered the phone was a paramedic who was loading my uncle into an ambulance for transport to a hospital. My father was not with him.”
“My mother hung up, still in the field with my brother, waiting for the authorities when her cell phone rang. She answered it, expecting it to be my father, but… it wasn’t.” Keiko whispered the last two words and Logan could hear the fear in her voice. His bear started to pace aggressively within him. “It was a man by the name of Ken Shimoyama. He advised my mother that her son’s death was a result of his own actions, and in payment, he took not only Naoki’s life but also my father.”
“What!” Cooper growled, throwing his hands in the air, his eyes going completely black. Logan knew that his brother’s bear was very near the surface. “Who the hell is this guy? He basically admits to murdering your brother, and kidnapping your father, to your mother?”
“Calm the fuck down, Cooper.” Logan spoke lowly, not wanting to scare Keiko or drive his brother into a spontaneous shift. “Keiko, ignore Cooper and continue. Take your time, baby.”
Keiko smiled sadly and patted Cooper’s hand calmingly. “I know it sounds crazy. Hell, I’m in the middle of it and can hardly believe it myself! But you must understand that this town falls under Ken’s jurisdiction. He can admit this and not face any type of formal charges because he is the head of the local sector of the Yakuza.”
Logan nodded slowly, obviously surprising Keiko, if the look on her face was anything to go by. “That’s what I thought when you told me about how your brother died and where he was found. It’s very common in the States for organized crime operations to make an example out of someone in that fashion and then leave them for a member of the family to discover. It adds an element of fear for the family.”
Keiko sighed. “Well, yeah, they succeeded. My mother was scared shitless that night she called me at the bus stop, and who the hell would blame her?”
“What about your father?” Cooper asked, his eyes clear now that he had gained control.
Keiko’s eyes darted to the wall, and Logan knew that she was hesitant about telling them the rest. “Come on, baby, don’t lose courage now. Just keep going.”
“I’m scared about how you’re going to react.” she whispered. Once again, there was real fear in her tone. Logan shared a worried glance with his brother, but they held their tongues and waited. Keiko took another deep breath and continued. “They still have my father, but it’s not him that they’re taking as payment for the slight they believe my brother made against the Ussuri clan. It’s me.”
“Now, that you are going to have to explain in detail. What do you mean, it’s you?” Logan asked, his tone deadly.
Keiko looked up at him under her lashes and began to nibble on her bottom lip. “Ken went to the same high school I did, and he never made it a secret that he wanted me. My father noticed it one day, and that’s why he sent me to live with his mother in America to finish my schooling and then go to university. He wanted me gone from here and out of Ken’s reach, but I guess he found a way to get what he wants, anyway. He has given me three days from the funeral, as tradition dictates, to grieve for my brother. Then I must deliver myself to the Ussuri clan compound on Mount Kuro.”
Logan’s skin felt too tight for him, and he knew that the red rage he was feeling was definitely coming from his bear, as well. “And let me guess, if you don’t show up two days from now, then that fucker kills your dad, right?”
Keiko nodded. A solitary tear slid down her cheek, and her sadness and grief effectively evaporated his rage. He plucked her up off the couch and pulled her into his arms. “Shh, baby, don’t cry. We’ve got a couple of days to come up with a plan.”
Keiko growled, a sound Logan found extremely adorable. “You say that like it’s plenty of time! Logan, that’s only forty-eight hours, and then I have to go up that mountain like the proverbial sacrificial lamb. And if I don’t, then my mother will lose her husband and I would be responsible for the death of my own father. Do you think I could live with that? Because I’m telling you right now, I wouldn’t be able to. So where does that leave us? I have had a lot longer than you to think about a way out of this, and there just isn’t one. The Ussuri have a secret, and even I’m not entirely sure what it is. My mother believes that there is only one woman in the village who knows the secret.”
“Okay, then,” Cooper said reasonably, obviously trying to bring a little calm to the moment. “Tomorrow morning, we get up and go see this lady and find out what this Ussuri secret is.”
Keiko made a scoffing sound, and Logan started to get an idea of the stress Keiko had been under for the past few weeks. “And then what? Do you think it’s going to be something we can blackmail them with? This is the Yakuza, Cooper. Organized crime on a level and scale I’m not sure you can appreciate. It’s not like we can just fly back to Houston and that will be that. What if they have connections in the States? This is—” Having heard enough, Logan gripped her chin, turned her face to his, and he swallowed the rest of her objections with his mouth. He licked into her, savoring the addictive flavor that was uniquely hers. When he heard her moan, and felt her melt against him, he eased up, and pressed three soft kisses to her warm lips, drawing a sweet sigh from her.
Logan pressed his forehead to hers, locking their gazes. “Baby, you have to trust us. We’re not going to let you go. That’s simply not going to happen, so the outcome that you have in your mind, where we simply can’t come up with a solution and you drive off as the proverbial sacrificial lamb, is never going to happen.” He pulled back and Cooper took his place, kissing their mate just as passionately as he did.
When Cooper pulled back, they were both breathing heavily, and Logan’s arousal went from a simmer to a boil within him. “You have to give us the benefit of the doubt, love,” Cooper said gently as he gazed into their mate’s
eyes. “And if you can’t do that, trust in the love we have for you. We can accomplish anything if we have faith in each other.”
Logan sat quietly, holding on to the urge he had to simply take over and insist that Keiko believe in them. He waited and watched their mate as she looked at him and his brother. Then she smiled, and Logan’s whole world lit up. He never knew how dark his future had seemed until that moment.
“Okay,” Keiko whispered. A solitary tear that Logan was fairly positive was a happy one slid down her soft cheek.
Cooper exhaled a deep sigh and leaned down to rest his chin on her shoulder. “Thank you for trusting us with this, love. I know it was hard to admit.”
Logan rubbed his hand along her pajama-clad leg. “And although I would really love to put you over my knee and turn that beautiful ass of yours red for running from us in Houston instead of trusting us then, I can understand why you had to run.” He lifted his hand to gently coax her face upward so that she could meet his gaze. “But if you run from us again? All bets are off and your ass is mine.”
Keiko smiled and Logan felt something click into place within him that had been askew since the moment he found out she had run from them. “Okay, Logan. I promise not to run again.”
“Good. Now, Cooper and I have missed you like fucking crazy, and there will be stuff we’ll need to discuss and talk about over the next couple of days. Granted, this is stuff that not many couples have to deal with, but hell, baby, we don’t have a regular kind of relationship, so we’ll deal with it all in good time. But there is one thing that we absolutely need to do tonight. Now.”
Keiko tilted her head in an inquiring way and Logan’s gaze fell to the soft curve of her neck. His dick swelled within his jeans, and from the way her beautiful almond-shaped eyes widened, she felt it, too.
Logan grinned with an exaggerated waggle of his eyebrow. “Now you’re on the same page, baby.” Cooper leaped up from the couch and plucked her from Logan’s arms. “Hey!”
Cooper threw a shit-eating grin over his shoulder as he carried their mate toward the door. “Come on, bro! We won’t wait for you!” Logan leaped up from the couch and followed them into the bedroom. Cooper had always been an impatient little shit, and Logan sure as hell wasn’t going to miss out.
Chapter 6
“If you’re in such a hurry, bro”—Logan mocked from behind them, and from her position in Cooper’s arms, Keiko could see the impatience and the desire burning in Logan’s eyes—“move your ass outta my way and get our woman to the nearest damn bed.”
Keiko giggled as Cooper grinned at her and went a little faster down the hall. “First door on the right.” Cooper turned and they stepped into her bedroom. Cooper placed her on her feet, and the three of them turned to look at the double bed tucked into the corner of the small bedroom.
Cooper laughed and pointed at the bed, which was much smaller than what they were used to. “Well, it doesn’t look like we have a lot of room to move here.”
Keiko shrugged her shoulders as she imagined the three of them squished together on the bed and couldn’t help but giggle. “You’re right about that, my love, but I know you two are nothing if not creative.” Keiko hadn’t meant that as a challenge, but from the look the brothers shared and the hunger in their eyes when they both turned to look at her, she knew that was how they took it.
Logan reached out and gently gripped her shoulder, pulling her around to face him. “I think we can come up with a plan that will satisfy all of us, and I have a feeling that tonight we’ll more than illustrate how creative we can be.” Keiko shivered at the promise in his tone. In a very short period of time, she was stripped out of her pajamas until she stood naked before them. “Damn, Keiko, you are so beautiful, you make my heart ache just looking at you.”
Keiko’s breathing sped up and she watched through desire-hazed eyes as her men quickly removed their own clothes. She felt her pussy leak as more of their bodies were revealed for her pleasure. “I must admit that I feel the same way about you both. When I see your bodies hot, hard, and heavy for me, it makes my breasts heat up and ache to be touched, my pussy begins to feel empty and needy, and I get so damn wet thinking of the two of you, taking me, fucking me.”
With a growl, the brothers moved into her, trapping her between them. Keiko would have, at one time, thought it would feel almost claustrophobic, but now, having been here once before, she craved it. As if they had a detailed plan, they walked with her, gently guiding her until they stood at the foot of the bed. Cooper sat down and placed his hands on her hips. She stood facing him, and Logan was pressed tightly against her.
“One day, and one day very soon”—Keiko shivered as Logan spoke directly against the sensitive skin on her neck—“Cooper and I are going to take you at the same time, one of us in your pussy and the other in your ass.” Keiko moaned at the picture he painted. She had never had anal sex before, but she couldn’t help but admit to a certain curiosity about it.
“Damn, Logan,” Cooper groaned. “She just creamed herself at the thought of having one of us in her ass. I can see that sweet cream sliding down her thigh. She really is fucking perfect for us.”
“That she is, brother,” Logan murmured as he pressed her shoulders forward and down. “Now, Keiko, I want you to show Cooper how much you’ve missed him.”
Keiko leaned down, a wanton, wicked smile on her face. “Cooper, you might want to lean back a little and give me some room to work.” Cooper grinned and leaned back, spreading his legs wide to give her room to move. She felt Logan tapping at her feet, gently telling her to widen her own stance. She stepped each leg out a little, being sure to give a little wiggle as she moved.
Smack! Keiko squealed, then laughed at the feel of Logan’s hand striking her butt cheek, not hard enough to actually hurt, but with enough force to raise a little heat in her skin. “Yeah, like I said, baby, I’m more than happy to tap your ass when you’re being a little wicked.” Keiko leaned down and swiped her tongue up Cooper’s entire length, reveling in his hiss of pleasure. Taking her weight on her right arm because of his size, she used her left hand together with her mouth to pleasure him.
She had just set up a good, steady rhythm when the feel of Logan pressing the blunt head of his cock against her had her faltering. “Concentrate on Cooper, baby, let me do all the work.” Logan slid in with a gentle push until Keiko felt his thighs pressing into the back of hers. She felt full, and in this position, Logan rubbed up against her in the most delicious way. Not wanting this to end anytime soon, Keiko made herself do exactly what Logan said and then went to work trying to drive Cooper as crazy as possible.
“Ah, fuck!” Cooper growled, sliding his fingers into her hair. “Jesus, I love your mouth. Christ!” Keiko moved faster on him, loving the fact that every time she pulled her mouth up his shaft and paused at the top, Cooper would tug gently on her hair. From the way his cock swelled in her mouth and she felt his thigh tensing beneath her hand, Keiko knew that Cooper was walking the edge. Wanting to make sure he came before she lost herself to Logan’s rhythmic thrusts, Keiko used her tongue along the raised vein that ran the length of his cock, then reached down and palmed his balls. And that was all it took.
“Keiko!” Cooper roared her name as the flavor that was uniquely his exploded in her mouth. Greedily, she drank it down, not wasting a single drop. Keiko stayed with him while he shuddered and growled through his orgasm, and she cleaned him lovingly with her tongue. When she released him, he gently pulled her closer to him. “Thank you, love. That was amazing, but I could see you trying to resist what you were feeling and block out Logan, and I sure as hell could see the restraint on both your faces. Now, it’s your turn.”
Logan withdrew, then slammed into her, twisting his hips to rub against that secret spot within her that she’d never known existed until she had been loved by these men. “Oh, God!” she cried out as Logan unerringly hit the spot time and time again, driving her approaching orgasm higher and faster th
an anything she had ever felt before.
“Goddamn, you are so fucking wet, baby,” Logan growled from behind her, and Keiko moaned as his rhythm faltered and his movements became jerky. “Shit, I am so damn close. Go over, baby.” Logan leaned down and reached his hand around her hip to gently strum his finger against her swollen clit. She threw her head back as her mouth opened on a silent O. Then, when Logan slammed forward, adding that fateful twist of his hips, Keiko flew in a maelstrom of pleasure that was frightening in its intensity.
She heard Logan roar her name as he gave himself over to his release, and it triggered yet another orgasm within her that had her shaking and shuddering as she keened her pleasure to the room. She collapsed against Cooper even more, and Logan staggered on his feet.
“Jesus Christ,” Logan gasped, drawing great gulps of air into his lungs. “I hope that’s creative enough for you, Keiko. I’m not sure my legs would hold out for anything more.” Keiko laughed breathlessly, groaning at the feel of Logan, still semi-hard, sliding from her body.
“Fuck being more creative,” Cooper muttered in a hoarse voice. “That was hot and has me so fucking hard. I say this level of creativity worked just fucking fine for us, so why mess with a good thing? Logan and I can swap places. That is, if you’re up for it, love.” This time, it was Keiko that saw that as a challenge, and she pushed up on her arms to look him in the eye.
“Oh, baby, I am more than up for it.” Then Keiko proceeded to prove to them that she was.
* * * *
Cooper stood in the doorway watching their mate sleep. Granted, they had kept Keiko up pretty late the night before, showing her just how creative the two of them were, but Cooper thought her deep sleep had a lot to do with the fact she hadn’t slept well in weeks. And now that they knew what she had been dealing with all on her own for the past few weeks, it was no wonder she was exhausted.