by Avery Gale
Tracing the folds with his tongue in slow sweeping motions was pushing her limits and he knew he needed to move on before she built an orgasm that would shatter her and prevent her from being capable of enjoying the rest of the pleasures they had planned. He stiffened his tongue and began thrusting it just inside her vagina in a preview of what was to come. When he felt her muscles twitching rapidly he locked eyes with Kalen and blinked once giving his friend the okay. Kalen had been running his tongue around her tight, pink nipples but pulled back and licked the shell of her tiny ear as he whispered, “Come for us Abigail.”
Logan was surprised at the immediacy of her response, it was a testament to the speed at which her mind processed information and the strength of their connection. She was coming before Kalen had even spoken her name. Logan was grateful he’d already encircled her thighs with his arms or she would have arched right out of his hold. Her scream had likely triggered the sound and motion activated cameras in the hallway. Holly had done the same thing not long ago when her men had taken her in their kitchen. Jace and Gage had bragged about that fact for several days.
Before Abby had even finished with her climax he moved into position and slid up against the barrier. “Are you ready, baby? I’m sorry, I know this is going to hurt you, but I promise you it will be worth it.” She was still catching her breath and her eyes were beautifully glazed with passion but she found enough focus to nod and he pushed through in a quick stroke. This time her scream was entirely different and it broke his heart. He could feel the warmth of the blood and wondered for just a moment if he should check and make sure she wasn’t bleeding too much. But she surprised him by wrapping her legs around his waist and pressing herself against him in a thrust of her hips and pull of her legs that pushed the tip of his cock up against the opening of her womb in the time it took him to blink.
“Fuck! Oh my fucking God, Abby. I cannot believe you did that. Christ, woman I—oh my God you feel unbelievable. Your cunt is squeezing me like a fist and I can barely catch my breath. And resisting the urge to pound into you is getting harder by the second. Stop moving baby or this is going to be hard, fast, and over before you are ready to come with me.” He was grateful that she seemed to be at least trying to still the flexing of her vaginal wall muscles.
Logan could count on one hand the number of times he’d failed to anticipate a sub’s movement, but Abby hadn’t given him any clue and he suspected that it hadn’t been planned on her part, rather it had been some kind of instinctual response, but he still planned to paddle her sweet ass for it. At the very least she’d topped from the bottom by taking control of the situation. And even though they’d told her this wasn’t a scene, she’d taken a huge risk with her safety and he couldn’t and wouldn’t ignore it.
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The pain Abby had felt as Logan pushed through the membrane guarding her virginity had shocked her and when he stopped moving all she could think about was that she hadn’t taken that moment of agony for no reason. She damned well intended to get her money’s worth out of it that was for sure. She knew there was likely going to be hell to pay later for what she’d done, but damn it had felt good to feel Logan slide into her pussy. She was sure he had stretched the walls of her channel to their max and there had been a flash of heated pain that morphed into pleasure so quickly she wasn’t sure that the pain had been a figment of her imagination.
But as her sensitive tissues stretched to accommodate him she wondered for a moment if she was going to be able to take Kalen. Letting go of the worry she looked up at Logan and saw him grin. He kissed her and then whispered in her ear, “He’ll fit just fine. Don’t worry, baby.” Abby relaxed for just a few seconds and then the slide of Logan’s cock in and out of her sheath had her heart racing to the point she was starting to see spots in front of her eyes. “Breathe, Abby.” Logan’s words were sharp and she knew he’d used that tone to snap her mind back into gear. “I’m going to paddle your ass until you can’t even sit down for that little stunt, baby.”
She felt her pussy go almost liquid at his words and she was mortified that her body had just snitched her out to the gorgeous Dom with his cock as deep inside her as he could possibly get. “Well, well. Kalen, it seems our little subbie likes the idea of a paddling. She just soaked my cock with her sweet honey.” He had been speaking to Kalen but his eyes had never left hers and it had felt like she was being electrified from the inside. “Tell me what you need baby, because all of the sudden I’m getting the idea that slow and sweet isn’t gonna do it for ya, is that about right?”
Abby’s heart almost melted because she knew he was stalling to give her body a chance to adjust to his size, but he was also giving her a choice and from everything she’d read about Doms, this was not the way things usually went down. Even though Logan was holding her tightly in place so she couldn’t tilt or thrust her hips the way she wanted to, she could flex her internal muscles and caress him in the most intimate way she knew how.
“Jesus Christ, baby – that felt amazing. And while I do understand that answer, we’ll always require you to answer our questions with words. Answers need to be immediate, complete, and honest—always.”
Abby felt the bed shift and Kalen kissed her ear and then his words were a warm touch against her skin. “You better get your voice and brain to work in tandem quickly, love. If you are ready for Logan to fuck you like he wants to, you better answer his question right now.”
“Yes, please. I don’t want slow and easy, I’m ready and I’ve waited so long.” Abby let the words tumble out in a rush before she had time to think about them, fearing that if she applied logic she might not be honest with herself or them.
Logan’s answering smile was a flash before he pulled out slowly and then pushed back in with more force than she had been expecting and Abby caught the scream just before it passed her lips. She damned well didn’t want him to think he’d hurt her and stop, and she was sliding over the edge quickly. “Your body and soul both respond so beautifully, love. You have no idea how deeply that touches your Masters. Let it take you, Abigail.”
In some corner of her mind, Abby registered the word Masters, but she couldn’t protest because there was a truth woven so tightly into his words that she knew it was an argument she didn’t even want to win. Logan was pushing in and out of her with barely restrained thrusts that were hitting her G-spot and Abby suddenly realized she was already screaming her release. She hadn’t even known she was that close. The entire world seemed to burst into sparkling colors and the feeling of flying was the freest thing she’d ever experienced. She heard Logan’s shout as he followed her into oblivion but she really couldn’t think about anything but the beauty of the place he’d just sent her and how thrilling it had been to finally be able to shut out the voices that were always chattering in her head. Abby knew her heart was lost to both men, but Logan had been the first man to show her the bliss of that silence and that was an even sweeter gift than making her first sexual experience so perfect.
Chapter Eleven
Kalen had nearly come just from watching their woman’s response to Logan. Ordinarily a Dom wouldn’t fuck a virgin the way Logan had just done with Abby, but she was far from ordinary. They hadn’t intended to treat this as a scene, but it had quickly become obvious that Logan had known exactly what their sub had needed and he’d given it to her in spades. Kalen handed Logan the warm cloth he’d gotten for him while the two of them had been trying to regain their bearings. They both cringed when they saw the blood smearing her thighs. Kalen had never taken a woman’s virginity so he hadn’t been prepared for that particular visual or how much it haunted him.
Logan left Abby in his care and went to clean himself. Kalen looked down at her and was surprised to see insecurity in her eyes. “Abigail? Talk to me, love. What has put that uncertainty in your beautiful eyes?” When she shifted slightly and tried to cover her naked body he stopped her by simply placing his palm on her abdomen. “No hiding, Abigail. Tal
k. Are you hurt?”
“No. I was just wondering why you aren’t, I mean why you don’t seem to want…frack.” Her confusion would have amused him any other time because she was usually so self-assured and he’d rarely seen her off her game in any way. But this was not a moment to tease her. This was too important and having her believe he didn’t want her was absolutely unacceptable.
“Oh, Abigail I assure you that I want you with every fiber, every cell, and every breath. But I want your body to have a few minutes to talk to you because if I’d asked you immediately if you were too sore to take me, you would have still been swimming in endorphins and those are great little pain killers so you might have said you were all right when you really weren’t. Does that make sense?” Kalen saw her eyes widen in understanding and she quickly nodded her head. “Now that you’re back on a more even keel, what do you think? And I want an honest answer, love, not one that you think I want to hear.”
“I am a bit sore, but not too sore.” When she reached up and raked her fingers over his stubbled cheek and smiled he was undone by his love for her. “I want you too, Kalen. And I think it’s important that you and I have this moment together. From everything I’ve learned we need to start in the way we want our relationship to proceed. I know in Dom-speak it’s ‘begin as you intend to go’ but from my side of things it is equally important.”
In one move Kalen rolled her to her back and positioned himself over her. Feeling his throbbing cock slide through her wet folds caused him to groan. “You call to me in a way no other woman ever has, love. The magic of the universe swirls inside your soul.” He flexed his hips just enough to move the head of his cock inside her heat. “Fuck you are so hot and wet for me. I want to savor this but you are testing my control.”
All of his plans to take her slowly, making sweet love to her, disintegrated when she rotated her hips just enough to let the tight outer ring of muscles at the opening of her channel rub over the sensitive skin at the base of the corona of his cock. That one movement was all it took and Kalen started pushing in and out of her gaining depth with each thrust. And each new inch brought another layer of desire until Kalen wasn’t sure he’d survive.
Hearing Abby’s soft sounds of pleasure sent his own arousal up so quickly he was worried he was going to come before she found her own release and that was absolutely not how this was supposed to go. Filling his mind with abstract concepts from his studies—different principles from obscure philosophers that were still studied but puzzling in their significance—was barely enough to pull him back from the edge. “You are stealing my control, love. The rippling of the inner walls of your sweet pussy tells me you are close and I want to feel you come apart in my arms. Know that you are always safe with us. We want every part of you because you already own both of us—heart and soul. Come for me, Abigail.” In less than the time it took him to sink deep she clamped down on him so tight Kalen wasn’t sure he would have been able to stroke her again. The rippling contractions of her walls were more powerful than the tightest fist and milked his seed from him. Feeling his cum splash against her cervix brought out an animalistic roar from deep within him that he barely recognized.
No other woman—ever. She owns me and she belongs to us. There hadn’t been any question about whether he and Logan wanted Abby, but now he wasn’t sure he would ever be able to live without her in his life. Kalen knew that before they started working out exactly how the three of them could spend their lives together, they needed to make sure Abby was safe. The thought of someone harming her sent a shard of ice-cold fear straight through his heart.
With his mind racing and his body gasping for air, Kalen rolled to his side so he didn’t crush her under his weight. He didn’t know how long he lay there with his cock still inside of her, but when he moved and felt their combined juices slide from her he was filled with a primal sense of satisfaction that he knew men had felt since the dawn of time. There was something very grounding about sharing an experience that men through the ages have relished.
Taking the warm cloth from Logan, Kalen cleaned Abby carefully and was relieved to see there wasn’t any blood. Even before he’d dried her, he could tell she’d fallen asleep. Logan’s voice brought him back from his thoughts. “She’s even more than I’d ever dreamed she’d be, but we haven’t gotten to the hard stuff yet. She had been essentially on her own since she was fifteen and it’s going to be a big adjustment for her to have two very Alpha Doms who want nothing more than to shield her from the world.”
Kalen nodded in agreement but didn’t add anything to his friend’s remarks because quite frankly he thought Logan had summed things up pretty well. By the time he returned from cleaning up, Logan had tucked the covers around Abby and dressed. Kalen quickly donned his own jeans and pulled on a t-shirt and followed him out to the kitchen.
“I just called Jace and asked for an update. He and Gage are on their way over and Ian will be here in just a few minutes.” Kalen looked at his watch and was surprised to find out it was already early evening which meant he and Logan had been awake for almost forty-eight hours. Ordinarily he didn’t like to use caffeine as a crutch to stay awake, but he needed to be alert for this meeting. Keeping Abby safe was much more important than his discomfort about relaxing his own rules.
As he set the coffee pot to brew he looked over at Logan and laughed at his friend’s surprised expression. “Don’t even start. I’m running on fumes and I think we both know this thing is probably not going to be as simple as it appears on the surface.”
“I agree. My gut is screaming at me about this. Jace mentioned they’d already talked to the Lamonts and they’ve agreed to help.” Logan’s words went a long way to settle Kalen’s sense of foreboding because the ShadowDance team was second to none and their connections were the stuff of any security team’s dreams. But before he could answer the door opened and the room quickly filled with people, and for the first time, Kalen wasn’t unnerved by having so many people in his private space because each and every one of them was here to help the woman who had just stolen his soul.
Chapter Twelve
Logan had known the threats against Abby probably ran deeper than just some competitive bullshit related to her project’s financial implications but he’d been surprised at everything they’d learned during the meeting they’d hosted around their kitchen table. The first thing he’d asked was when Abby’s presentation before the Senate committee would be, he knew it had been rescheduled after her abduction, but the news that she was expected to present her findings the next morning had shocked him.
Ian had been the one to address his concerns. “It’s a power game. The ass-hat that is demanding this take place so quickly has close ties to the current administration and they are not at all happy that Abby is still working for the private sector. Keep in mind we are talking about billions of dollars in revenue from the patents alone, not money the powers that be are anxious to see slip through their fingers.”
Jace explained, “Ian’s right and there are some fairly significant rumors out there that this snatch and grab might not have been the work of the Consortium, although they certainly aren’t above it. And when you consider that one of the cabins at the end of the road Abby’s kidnappers were traveling is used as a safe-house for various alphabet agencies, including all our local spooks, the evidence starts to look pretty daunting.”
Alex and Zach Lamont were joining them via video conferencing and Zach addressed his question to Kalen and Logan, “Have you guys asked her what she remembers or were you too focused on assuring yourselves that she was alive and well?” His tone had been teasing and Kalen appreciated his effort to lighten their mood. The irony was that Zach had been absolutely right, neither of them had even thought to ask Abby any questions and Logan was actually a bit stunned at that realization, but he was even more surprised to hear Abby’s sweet voice behind him.
“Hi Zach, and does Kat know you’ve gotten to be so ornery?”
Zac
h Lamont leaned his head back and roared out his laughter. “Short Round you know I love you like a sister but you go blabbing to my wife and I’ll sic Alex on you.”
Alex Lamont just shook his head at his brother’s empty threat before turning his attention to Abby. “Abigail. Sweetness, you seem to have made some mighty important people nervous. What can you tell us that might help us keep you safe?” Logan appreciated the way Alex had framed his question even if he was surprised at how much the former SEAL had mellowed since becoming a husband and father.
Abby stepped up and sat in the space he and Kalen made between them. “First of all, I want to thank each and every one of you for whatever parts you played in my rescue.” Logan saw her eyes fill with unshed tears and was proud of her for taking a couple of deep breaths to push the emotion back and get back to the subject at hand. “And you are right, it seems I might have underestimated the threats that I’d been getting.”
Logan felt his entire body tense and watched as every face surrounding him clouded with the same frown. “Abby, you better explain yourself quickly before Kalen pops a vein.” Zach was smiling at Abby and she seemed to relax a bit at his words. Logan was sure she’d known the reaction her words were going to get, so he knew it hadn’t been easy for her to admit her error.
“Well, it built so slowly that I really thought it was just the same political b.s. that I have been dealing with since word of my research was first leaked. After the first leak, I reevaluated my team and made some big changes. I took everyone off my file access list on the server and also pared down my team to the bare bones. It slowed down the progress, but I was sure it was the right thing to do and both of my dads agreed. There hadn’t been any specific threats recently, but the climate on my team changed after two people in my inner circle had bad car accidents. Suddenly it was if I had the plague. Now in hindsight I can see that those left on my team were probably getting pressured to hand over our results. The problem would have been they didn’t really have anything other than what they could remember about their small sliver of the information pie and that wouldn’t have been enough for the people pushing them. So I probably set myself up for what happened by making myself the only person who could access the files.”