She didn’t hesitate. Brooke burst inside, landing in the middle of their circle. Their eyes darted toward her. She suddenly felt like she was surrounded by a pack of lions. Luckily, two of them were hers.
“What are you doing here?” Tyler asked. His face was stern. Lee was as determined as his friend. He made a protective stance toward her.
“Brooke, you don’t need to be here.” He shook his head.
She stepped forward, locking eyes with her cousin. “Yes, I do. Niall has no right to do any of this. I can take care of my family problems. It’s what I should have said this morning.”
Niall laughed viciously. “So you sent your men to take care of your little fuck-up, but you don’t trust them enough to take care of it?” he mocked. “This little arrangement the three of you has is fucked up.”
Her eyes narrowed. She could claw at his face. She could kick him in the balls. She could spit on his cheek. But she held her ground. She didn’t want him to know how much she hated him. Niall would love to see the hatred in her eyes. It was as if it fueled him. As if the way people despised him pushed him to be worse. She never understood that about him.
Tyler stepped in front of her, but she didn’t want him to protect her this time. She could handle Niall.
“I can do this, Tyler.” She pressed a hand to his elbow. “Please,” she added softly. She watched in amazement as he cautiously moved so she could face Niall on her own.
She stared at Niall. “You’re not going to the media.”
He rolled his eyes. “You sound like these two. I’m happy to keep your illegal escapades to myself if you hand over a hundred thousand to start. But that’s just the start.”
She didn’t let her eyes bulge or her jaw drop. She had to stay steady. Of course he would threaten more blackmail. He was going to hang the hacking over her head as long as he could milk them for money. It would never stop.
“You aren’t getting the money and you aren’t releasing the story.” She gritted her teeth. “Your threats don’t mean anything to me.”
Lee was behind her. She felt the warmth of his body as he laid a hand on her shoulder. She looked up at him, trying to convince him she could do this. But God, did it feel good to have him behind her. It was as if she could draw strength from his body. She needed every ounce of it right now.
Niall sat on the couch, crossing a leg over his knee. “See, what you don’t get is that I have dirt on you. I’m the one with all the card. I set the terms and you pay up. That’s how this works.”
“What you don’t get, is that I have way more on you,” she hissed. “That’s how this works.”
He raised his arms in the air, chuckling. “My hands are clean. I had nothing to do with your internet heist. You can’t trace that to me. Not even the accounts. You know they are ghost accounts. You insured I was in the clear. And it was exactly what I wanted. So thank you again for that.”
Brooke reached in her pocket and held up a thumb drive. “But I have every other piece of dirt on you I could find.” She slammed the drive on the coffee table. “And that is just one of many, many copies.” She tilted her head in his direction.
Niall reached for it, but Tyler cut him off. “Don’t touch it,” he snarled, knocking Niall back on the couch.
“There’s nothing there,” Niall snapped.
“Are you so sure?” Brooke glared. “You don’t have multiple accounts? Texts to associates? Email chains? Are you sure your hands are so clean?”
“You collected evidence against me? Against your own family?” He sounded stunned.
Brooke nodded. “You wanted me to be the hacker. Don’t you remember? You created this little skill I have. And I took full advantage of it.”
“But you’re using it against me? You’re turning on me?”
“It’s all there, Niall. And if something happens to me, or to one of them there are plenty of copies that can be discovered that will incriminate you. I’ve planted them all over town, so don’t even think about trying to find them. As soon as one is discovered, you’ll be in prison the rest of your life. I can guarantee it.”
He looked at her and then his eyes flicked to Tyler and Lee. “Fuck.”
Tyler collected the drive from the coffee table. “We’ll take this as one of the insurance pieces that you aren’t going to release that story about Brooke.”
Niall turned his head, ignoring the three of them.
“Let’s go.” Brooke feathered her fingers through Tyler’s strong hands and then Lee’s. “I want to go home.”
They followed her outside, closing the door to the compound behind them.
Brooke felt her knees buckle, but Tyler held her steady. “I think you better ride home with me, sweetheart. Lee can drive your car.”
“Of course.” Lee looked for her keys.
There were so many things she wanted to say, but she used everything she had back there to get through the confrontation with Niall. And it had worked. She was free. They all were.
Lee buckled her in the front seat as Tyler stuck the key in the ignition. She looked at them. “That drive is blank.”
“What the fuck?” Tyler stammered.
“I had to think of something. It was all I could come up with,” she admitted.
Lee laughed so hard he almost hit the top of his head on the inside roof of the car. “You are the smartest woman I know, Brooke.”
She bit the inside of her cheek. “I can hack him now and get the insurance policy. If you want, I can do it. Should I? Is that the smart move now?”
Tyler shook his head. “I think he’s scared shitless. We’ll worry about that later if we have to. I have a feeling he isn’t going to bother any of us. You took care of that.”
Lee kissed her on the cheek. “You were incredible. I’ll see you at the house.”
“I’ve got a meeting.” She remembered the design team expected to see more details about Soar. “I can’t go back to the house. The foundation needs me today.”
Lee shook his head. “No. The three of us are taking the rest of the day off. I think we need you more.”
“And doing what?” she asked.
Tyler’s hand squeezed her thigh. “What we do best.” He winked.
Forty-Three
Tyler
When had he become this man? Tyler took one look at Brooke and he could see the future. He knew she belonged with them. Lee felt it too. It was undeniable that there was something different about her. No other woman made them feel the way she did. It was terrifying. It was thrilling. Damn it, he knew it was love.
He drove her home faster than he had ever pushed the pedal on the car before. She needed to know how much she meant to them. That they had a future together, no matter what.
He clutched her hand. “You were incredibly brave back there.”
She sighed. “I can’t believe it worked.”
He grinned. “I think everything you do turns to magic. Of course it worked.”
“I didn’t know what else to do. I couldn’t let Niall ruin our lives. Not yours. Not Lee’s. Not ours,” she whispered.
It was the way she said ours that jabbed at his lungs. He felt his ribs tighten. This woman had turned his world upside down. And she wasn’t finished. There was no denying he had finally fallen.
He pulled into the garage, parking the sports car in one of the twelve spots. Lee was behind them in Brooke’s car. He parked next to them. They turned the ignitions off.
A brief silence fell between them in the car.
“Brooke,” Tyler groaned.
She turned toward him as he tangled his hands in her hair, dragging her mouth to his. He had to taste her. Kiss her. Lick every inch of her.
And then Lee was at Brooke’s door. He opened it. She twisted toward him, wrapping her arms around his neck as his mouth crashed over hers. It was the first time Tyler wished he drove a huge SUV or minivan instead of this small car.
He climbed out of the driver’s door and walked around the car. Lee spun Brooke towar
d him. He kissed her, thrusting his tongue in her mouth.
“Ohh,” she whimpered as Lee tugged her jeans over her hips.
They weren’t going to make it inside if they didn’t slow things down. This kind of passion hit them all hard.
“The penthouse,” she whispered.
Lee groaned in her ear. “Ever been fucked on a sports car?”
Tyler’s cock ached. He wanted to bend her over the red hood and press her gorgeous tits into the glossy paint job. He wanted her nipples to cut through the paint when he fucked her from behind.
She shook her head.
Lee grinned at his friend. Tyler nodded. “Over there.” He pointed to one of the cars in the corner. It was slightly obstructed from the main part of the garage if anyone wandered in.
“You’re serious?” Brooke’s eyes lit with desire.
“Put your hands on the hood,” Tyler growled.
“Oh shit.” She wiggled forward, jutting her ass into the air as her hands splayed over the hood. Her thong was white lace. He snapped it between her cheeks. “Oomph!”
Lee pulled the shirt from her arms and unclasped her bra. He hung it on the side mirror. Her tits were hard peaks in the cold. But she’d been hot in about five seconds.
“I think I need a better view for this.” Lee shirked his suit off, climbing on the hood. His cock bounded free and Brooke licked her lips in anticipation.
He stretched back on the windshield offering up his dick. He folded his hands behind his head. His large body covered the hood.
“Oh Lee,” she purred, fisting his thick shaft in her hand. Her tongue traced over the wide vein and circled his balls.
He groaned, yanking her hair until her mouth settled over his cock.
“Suck, sweetheart.”
Tyler watched her blow him like a pro. He unbuckled his belt and kicked his pants to the corner. His cock was on fire. He pressed his thumb to her pussy, smearing her juices over his fingers before trailing them to her rosebud.
She gurgled with Lee’s cock in her mouth, but he knew she was sore and sensitive. He’d be more gentle than Lee. He always had been.
“I need this too, baby,” he explained. “I need to fuck your ass so badly.”
Lee lifted her head from his dick, so she could take a breath. She twisted her neck around and her eyes landed on Tyler’s. “You want it too?”
“Oh yeah,” he groaned.
Lee slid along the hood, pushing her toward the front of the car as if he was the one offering her precious rosebud to Tyler. He was the one to claim it after all. “We share everything. And this is the last step to giving yourself to both of us completely. You want him to come in your ass, don’t you? Don’t you want to feel him fuck you? While I come deep in your pussy, baby.”
“Oh shit,” she whispered. Her body quivered.
Tyler massaged her tight ring of muscle. He pressed the tip of his cock to her entrance just as Lee pointed his dick toward her pussy.
“Remember what Tyler said to you this morning. Relax and let him in,” Lee instructed. “Let us come together, baby. Let us fill you. Be inside you. Claim you like you deserve. Ride our dicks, baby.”
“Oh God.” Her head reeled back just as Tyler sliced into her. He grunted with satisfaction as his cock slid inside the hottest sweetest ass he’d ever known. He let her adjust to him an inch at a time. Her tightest muscles clung to him like a vice.
Lee pulled her down, sinking her onto his swollen cock, wet with her saliva.
“That’s it. We love you. Let us show you.” He held her face between his palms.
And then suddenly Brooke unleashed everything she had on them. She threw her hips back into Tyler, taking his cock fully inside her. She let out a scream as she crashed down on Lee’s cock.
“Fuck,” he groaned.
The men stared at each other. She was wild and untamed.
Tyler fucked in and out. “You’re so tight, Brooke. Even after Lee’s been inside you. You still feel like a virgin.” His cock had never been so hard.
“And this pussy is perfect.” Lee looked at her.
She panted as her climax started to surface. Tyler had never seen anything hotter in his life than Brooke in this moment. She took everything they gave her and gave them so much more in return. He watched in awe as he filled her ass. It was incredible. She was incredible. He didn’t want it to end, but his spine started to fire and he knew he was going to come soon. How was he supposed to hold off when she was this tight and wild?
Maybe it was the idea that she had been in danger. That she had been willing to sacrifice herself for them. He didn’t know what it was about this woman, only that he had never felt so fulfilled by another soul in his life.
“I’m going to come hard, baby,” he warned.
“Harder,” she begged. “More, Tyler.”
Lee growled with pleasure. “You heard her.”
Tyler sank his fingers into her waist as he felt the explosion start to take off. “Fuck,” he shouted searing his cock into her. The come shot hot and fast filling her ass. He wanted to empty everything he had inside her. He wanted her ass as much as her pussy. This was his time to take it. To coat her with his essence before he gave it back to Lee.
“Shit,” Lee hissed. “You like it so much, Brooke. Do you have any idea how hot you are right now?”
She whimpered. “It’s so intense when you’re both inside me.” Her hair shook wildly over her shoulders.
Lee grabbed her tit just as she screamed into her release. He groaned, jerking his hips upward. They all shook together.
And finally collapsed in a heap on the hood of the car.
Tyler reluctantly pulled his cock from Brooke. He wasn’t the ass man Lee was, but fuck if her hole wasn’t perfect. He wanted to fuck her again and again.
He leaned forward, kissing her neck while Lee planted a kiss on her lips.
“Mmm,” she murmured. “That felt good. It hurts and then turns into something that doesn’t have words. It’s like magical glitter.”
Lee laughed. “You can call our cocks magical all you want.” He feathered the hair from her shoulders. “I think we need to get you upstairs and in a hot bath.”
Tyler picked up all the clothes from the floor, tossing them in their direction.
“Today is officially Brooke day.”
She laughed. “And what does that mean?” He was sad she had to get dressed to walk back to the penthouse.
“It means you get hot baths, room service, and your choice of sex all day long.”
“Choice?” Her eyebrows rose.
Lee laughed. “Oh yes. We have some new toys for you.” He winked before adding, “And they are waterproof for your tub enjoyment.”
She blushed bright red. “For the tub?”
“Yes. So let’s go inside and get Brooke day started.”
Tyler lifted her from the hood of the car. “You are incredible. You mean everything to us.” He kissed her deeply as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
Lee buttoned his shirt and followed them in the private elevator to the penthouse. Today was a day none of them would ever forget.
Forty-Four
Brooke
Brooke straightened her skirt and looked out at the press gathered in front of her. Tyler and Lee were in the wings, arms crossed with serious gazes plastered on their faces.
She swallowed hard, wondering why she had agreed to hold the press conference on her own. The least she could done was have an assistant next to her. Somehow this felt more monumental than the first day back in Denver did. Dreams with Wings had become her project. It meant almost as much to her as the two men in her life.
Knowing they were there to support her was all she needed to get through this. She inhaled a full breath. They counted on her. Dreams with Wings was their cornerstone.
She smiled at the crowd.
“Welcome,” she spoke into the microphone. “I’m so excited you’ve joined us at StarCon Global today to talk ab
out Dreams with Wings.”
She beamed as the cameras flashed rapidly.
She didn’t have to see them to know they were proud of her. For the first time in her life Brooke knew what it meant to have a real family. To be able to trust and love with abandon. To let herself fall like no one was watching. To let her heart get swept in the magic of their touches. The heat of their sheets. The strength in their powerful bodies.
Her life would never be the same and she didn’t want it to be. She couldn’t picture a life without Lee and Tyler.
The screen flashed behind her and she launched into her presentation about the newest component of the foundation. The words flowed easily. Her voice grew louder. The confidence emanated from her as the presentation went on.
After the Q&A with the reporters the lights dimmed and Brooke walked off the stage.
“Brilliant.” Lee smiled. He kissed her on the cheek.
“You were a tiger out there.” Tyler snaked a hand around her waist. “You killed it.”
“You think so?” She searched their eyes for confirmation she had done exactly what she set out to do—represent Dreams with Wings like the pillar it deserved.
“I know so.” Lee winked. “I think this calls for a celebration.”
“My office. Five minutes,” Tyler grinned.
“Five minutes?” Brooke pouted.
“I promise it will be worth the wait.” He winked, turning away from her. He left a faint wake of cologne.
She watched them walk out of view and felt the familiar tingle in her core. It didn’t make much to make her feel tipsy around them. They were all masculinity and protectiveness.
Brooke decided to stop by her office on her way to Tyler’s corporate suite. Maureen was bustling around with flowers.
“Where did those come from?” Brooke pointed to the arrangement.
“You do have your share of admirers around here.”
Brooke still didn’t know how they were going to handle the public portion of their relationship. At home it was one thing. The staff at the penthouse knew they shared a bedroom. There was one giant king-sized bed and it was rare that the three of them didn’t sleep in it together. Everyone had his or her own room, but it didn’t seem to make sense to sleep alone when there was so much to share together.
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