Fighting Our Forever (Panthera Security Series Book 3)

by Elisa Leigh

  The custom wood bed frame holds two king size mattresses. We ordered three dressers to match the bed, and everything has been set up in the master suite at the end of the hall.

  Ryan and I never did anything with the room at first, not wanting one to have it over the other. When Callie is here, we usually end up in Ryan’s room since it’s the first room you come to in the hallway. We’ve been getting the room ready and have gotten Olivia’s advice on Callie’s favorite colors. Now that the room is finished, we spent all morning moving our stuff in, hoping we’ll get to move in our woman’s things as well in the next couple of days.

  “She’s here,” Ryan says from the kitchen where he’s been nursing a beer and playing on his ipad while keeping an eye on the window.

  “If she says no, we just keep wearing her down. She might need time to get her head around it.”

  “Should we talk to her dad? He’s going to flip his shit when he finds out his only daughter has moved in with us, especially since we aren’t married yet.”

  “One step at a time. If we put all of this on her up front, she’ll bolt. I’d rather take it slow and wait for her than have to fight to get her back.”

  “Agreed.”

  When she knocks I walk to the door and open it, letting her in. She drops her bags and jumps into my arms, wrapping her legs around my hips and her arms around my neck. “I missed you so much! I hate when you have to work nights. It totally blows donkey balls.”

  “I’ll let Kingston know you feel that way love, especially the donkey balls part.”

  “Hey, what about me? You weren’t complaining when I gave you that massage while you watched those Winchestnut brothers.”

  She laughs and kisses me before wiggling out of my hold and rushing up to Ryan, squeezing him tight and kissing him quickly. “That’s the Winchesters, and they are fine as hell.”

  We both glare at her.

  “Don’t even start. You two get checked out wherever we go. Now can we get going?”

  “What’s the hurry love?”

  “I haven’t seen Winnie or Olivia in over a week. The sooner we get there the faster I get to hold that little girl and squeeze her momma.”

  “Before we go, we wanted to show you something.”

  “Like a surprise?” Callie asks giddily.

  “You could call it that.” Grabbing her hand, I pull her through the house, down the hall where all the bedrooms are.

  She stops in front of my empty room then looks at me. “What’s going on?” No hint of the carefree woman who was just giggling down the hall. “Are you moving?”

  “God no, just come with me, so I can show-”

  “I’m not moving until both of you tell me what the hell is going on!” She snaps, crossing her arms over her chest, and glaring her emerald eyes in my direction.

  Ryan, having about enough of her attitude, picks her up over his shoulder, smacks her ass then marches her into our bedroom. He tosses her on the bed where she lands with a humph.

  She looks like she’s about to spit fire, but then she looks around the room. I can tell when she starts to put the pieces together when she focuses in on our dressers all lined up in a row. The closet is open with mine and Ryan’s clothes, with a large space left open for her things.

  “You both moved into the same bedroom?” She asks, and we nod. “But why?”

  I sit down on her right, Ryan on her left, and we lace our fingers with hers.

  “Please tell me what’s going on. I have a hundred ideas running around in my mind, and I need you to set me straight.” Calliope tells us, her eyes filling with tears.

  “Baby please dry your eyes. This was always the plan, what Paul and I wanted from the start. As soon as we met you, we knew we’d have to share you, that there was no other way. We fell for the same woman. What better way to love you than to offer double the unconditional love we had been searching for.”

  “I still don’t understand.”

  “Calliope we want you to move in with us, share our home, make our family complete.”

  This is the moment that she turns us down, tells us we’re crazy. She’s going to come up with a hundred excuses about why we can’t move in together.

  Callie stands and starts pacing in front of us, wringing her hands together. “You know I took over Olivia’s lease when she moved in with Garret and Logan. It’s a cute little cottage for one person, but that’s not me anymore, ya’ know? I mean when you guys come over it’s kind of cramped and the kitchen is tiny. Well, the lease is almost up, and I have to decide by next week if I’m going to renew or not. I thought to talk to you about it, but then I felt silly discussing it with you both.”

  “Callie, stop right now. Come here, baby.” Ryan commands her, and she comes immediately, standing between his legs.

  “I’ve got a few things to say, and I need you to listen without interrupting me.”

  Crossing her arms over her chest and narrowing her eyes at Ryan, she waits, silently.

  “You know you like to interrupt us, so lose the attitude because what I’m about to tell you is important moving forward.”

  When her shoulders drop, and she sits on his lap, I know she’s ready to listen to what he’s about to say.

  “Why did you think it would be silly to talk with us about renewing your lease?”

  Biting her lip, Callie looks from Ryan to me then down at her hands. “I wasn’t sure how you guys felt. You’re always telling me this is it, that we’re forever and I’m yours, but we’ve only been dating for a month now. I didn’t want to assume, and then things get awkward. I love how things are going. I don’t want to screw this up by assuming too much.”

  “That was our fault that we didn’t make it clearer to you Precious. I hate that we even let you think we might not be ready for forever with you.” I tell her. “You have every right to assume we’re it because we’re never letting you go. It’s simple love, do you want to live with us? We can work through everything else. We’re better together than apart, and I hate leaving you home alone most nights.”

  “I hate it too! God yes, I want to move in with you. I want everything with you.”

  “Thank you, Christ. Paul told me I had to play it cool if you weren’t ready, but I might have just packed up your house and moved you in anyway if you said no. Fucking school nights are killing me, baby.”

  “We’ll slowly start moving your stuff over next week, but you’re never spending another fucking night alone again Precious,” I tell her kissing her quick so that Ryan can get some loving too.

  Chapter Fifteen

  Callie

  I can’t believe this is my life. Sitting around a fire, with my men and friends that are becoming family is more than I could have wished for. Sitting around the fire they have set up on the Panthera compound, the whole unit is here with their families, as well some who are still single. It's the first time I’ve been here as Ryan and Paul’s woman, not Olivia’s best friend.

  For the longest time, it was only dad and me. Mom died when I was six and left dad to raise me on his own. They were both only children, and his parents had died when I was only a few years old. He tried his best to do it on his own while I was growing up, but I know losing my mom was hard on him. Being the daughter of a police officer had its ups and downs, but I always respected my dad no matter what. He was the only family I had for the longest time, and though I fight him on almost everything, our bond is solid.

  When I went away to school and met Olivia, she became the sister I never had. It was ‘Liv and Cal’ for so long. Then Simon came along and screwed everything up, forcing Olivia to leave Memphis and move over five hours away. I guess everything happens for a reason because now she’s married to the two men that make her whole and is the mommy to my sweet niece, Winnie Grace.

  I look around at the group gathered by the fire tonight, and I feel complete in a way that I never have before. The men in this unit share something stronger than friendship, they’ve learned to rel
y on each other for anything, they’re a family. I’ve heard the stories about when Maci-Kate was taken, and I know how protective they were over Olivia and me last year when Simon was causing problems. To be a part of their family is more special than you’d know.

  Cash, or Owens as everyone else calls him, is showing Ryan some new app that he developed to help track the bad guys they are protecting their clients from. It’s a lot of high tech verbiage that I don’t understand, but it’s cool that he is able to create new apps and gadgets for the team.

  Reece and Maci-Kate are sitting with Bennett and Layla between them. At almost two years old, Layla is one of the cutest little girls I have ever seen, and I already know her older brother Bennett is going to be her biggest protector.

  Then I look over at Olivia who’s holding Winnie Grace and sitting between Logan and Garret. Every time I see those two with their daughter my heart melts. They’ve been nothing short of amazing and have always treated Olivia like a queen. I couldn’t be happier for my friend.

  Kingston is standing off to the side, watching everyone, like the leader he is. He catches me staring at him, and he winks and nods his head at me. I get it. I’m accepted, I’m his now too.

  I’m no longer looking in and wishing this was my family, it already is. There’s no other group of people I’d want to claim as mine than them. This is what family is. What life is. This is the life I want to have, the life I’ll fight to keep.

  ∞∞∞

  Nearly everyone has gone home except for a few of the men working the overnight shift, but they’ve gone inside to keep an eye on their client’s properties. We’re shrouded in darkness, but the glowing embers of the fire still burn, lighting up the dark sky. Crawling into Paul’s lap who is sitting on one of the wooden benches, I straddle his waist and place biting kisses up his neck. When I reach his ear, I pull the lobe between my lips and suck, loving the shiver that runs through his body. He rubs his hands from my hips up my back, over my shoulders, and into my hair. Tugging gently, he kisses and sucks on my neck. I know he’s marking me, simply because I’m his.

  I rock over his thick bulge, not quite hitting the spot I need him most. “I need you, Paul. I need both of you inside me.” I whine, knowing that I’ll only feel complete when I’m between the two men I love.

  “Yes love, right where you belong.” He says, grabbing my ass he moves me back and forth on the edge of coming.

  “Jesus Paul, that feels… that feels so good. Don’t stop doing it.”

  “Fuck, you two are a sight. My dick is harder than steel right now Callie.” Ryan says walking up behind me, rubbing his dick against my back. I lean against his front, and he shoves one of his massive hands down the front of my shirt, into my bra and twists my nipple between his fingers, while his other hand holds my tummy, pressing me to him.

  “I’m not even inside you Precious, and I can feel how hot your pussy is for us. How wet are you? I bet your panties are fucking soaked.” He groans as we both move together in just the right spot, making me come undone.

  “I’m coming, oh my god, I’m coming. I love you, both of you, shit…” I cry out, embarrassed I said that but still riding out my orgasm. My head hits Paul’s shoulder, and I stay there a second in awkward silence as I catch my breath.

  “Calliope look up at me love.”

  I shake my head, not ready. I’m pretty sure they love me too, but hell, what if they aren’t ready to say it yet?

  Ryan moves away from my back and comes to stand in front of me next to Paul. “Look at us baby, let us see those gorgeous green eyes.”

  The bastard knows that flattery gets him everywhere with me. Looking up I do my best to hide my grin, but I fail epically, smiling nervously at my men.

  “Tell us again Precious, because once will never be enough.”

  I look from him to Ryan and know that I’m foolish for even being scared to tell them. “I love you, God do I love you two.”

  “I love you more than anything baby girl, and I do mean anything. Nothing in this world could tear me away from you.” Ryan says, brushing my hair behind my ear and kissing me sweetly, then pulls away.

  Paul reaches up and rubs the pad of his thumb against my bottom lip, tracing it lightly, as if dazed by the sight. “Every single part of you is precious Calliope. You’re my treasure that I’ll never let go of. I love you seems too simple for how I feel about you.”

  I lean forward and kiss him deeply, wrapping my arms around his neck. He stands, and I pull away and lean over to kiss the other part of my soul. Ryan grabs my face between his hands and takes over the kiss, making love to my mouth. He pulls away all too soon, leaning his forehead against my own. “We have to get her home, now!” He growls through clenched teeth. “My need to be inside her is all I can think about. If we don’t go now I’m liable to take her in the truck.”

  “I won’t complain about that.” I moan, too love drunk to care who sees us.

  Chapter Sixteen

  Ryan

  As soon as I put her in the truck and buckle her up, I share a look with Paul, letting him know it’s time. Tonight, is the night we take her together, sealing our bond. He nods and slides in on the driver’s side. I’m too keyed up to drive, knowing that in less than an hour I’ll be inside the woman I’m making my wife.

  She didn’t mean to tell us that she loved us tonight, and I feel like a bit of an asshole that she told us first. We should have told her how we felt, made it perfectly clear. If I'm honest, I was scared it would freak her out. I’m finding that she doesn’t scare as easily as I thought, and I need to put more faith in her to take the hard with the easy.

  As soon as we get home, I carry my baby girl up to our bathroom and set her down on the counter. I start a hot bath for her, pouring in the bath salts that I know she loves. Turning back to her I pull her shirt over her head tossing it to the side. Before I can take her bra off, she’s got her legs wrapped around mine, pulling me to her. Her hands go straight for my belt, and she has it undone, and my jeans unbuttoned before I can stop her.

  “This bath is for you baby.”

  “I’m not getting in there without you Ryan. That goes for Paul too, wherever the hell he is.”

  I unhook her bra and pull it down her arms, drawn to her huge tits. She has the best pair I’ve ever seen, and sadly I’ve seen my fair share, but I can’t remember a single set before hers. The round orbs fill my large hands, perfect for squeezing around my dick, fuck I can’t wait to do that with her. I tweak her nipples, knowing how sensitive she is there, then pushes them together, sucking and biting one before switching to the other.

  “Ryan, I love when you do that.”

  “When I do what?” I ask, stopping my ministrations.

  “You know.” She whines.

  “Say it, baby, if you want me to keep going.” I tease, just wanting to hear her say it.

  “I love when you suck on my tits and twist my nipples between your fingers…” She moans when I continue, and then I nibble on the tips. “That too, fuck Ry, don’t fucking stop…”

  My woman has her hand wrapped around my dick that’s leaking precum all over her small silky hands, helping her glide over me effortlessly. The harder I suck the faster her hand moves. I know she’s about to go off without me touching her pretty pussy, and fuck if that doesn’t turn me on more.

  Nipping her ear, I whisper, “You going to come for me baby? Are your tits so sensitive that all it takes is a little love and you’re going off? Hmm, Callie, tell me baby, you going to come so hard that I’ll need to clean you up with my tongue?”

  That’s all it takes, and she’s coming. Pulling on my dick two more times, I paint her tummy and tits with my cum, loving the sight of it covering her. I look over when I hear Paul grunting to see cum hitting his stomach as he watches our woman.

  Distracted, Callie pushes me away from her and hops off the sink. Kneeling before me she grabs my shaft and licks up the base, cleaning me up. Fuck me, how did I get so fucking luc
ky with this woman? Sucking my head between her lips and into her hot mouth she twirls her tongue and sucks. She’s too fucking good at this, and I already feel like I’m ready to go again.

  Paul stands beside me, and Callie pulls her mouth off my cock and grabs his dick with the same hand that is covered in my cum. Fuck that’s hot. She jacks his dick with the mix of our cum and cleans him up with her tongue, finally sucking him into her mouth. Callie is sucking his dick while steadily jerking mine in tandem. I can’t look away from what’s happening to my best friend, and the sounds they’re both making in the act of what’s happening are making me lose control. She pulls off Paul and switches back to me, and I spear my fingers through her hair, watching my dick slide between her red, slick lips.

  “Callie baby, if you don’t pull off right now I’m going to come down your throat.” This only spurs her on, and she somehow gets more of my dick down her throat, and I swear she’s swallowing it. With both of my hands in her hair, I fuck her face, and she takes every inch. “I’m coming baby, Jesus Christ fuck!” I growl as I come down her throat and she swallows every single drop.

  As soon as I’m done coming, she has Paul’s dick back in her mouth and her hand down her unbuttoned jeans, fingering herself while she gets him off. The sight of them together has my dick getting hard again. I look over just in time to turn off the water in the bath to keep it from overflowing. Paul and Callie both groan in completion a minute later.

  Undressed I step into the large bath we had put in that can fit up to four people comfortably. Not that there would ever be a fourth, the only person I’m sharing her with is in this room. Paul helps her up from the floor, jeans and panties falling to the ground, she stands walking to me. I hold out my hands and help her in and settle her in a seated position next to me while Paul gets in on her other side.