ConfinedLove

by Lacey Thorn

  Xanthus took the lead and I automatically took up the spot behind Radek. He had Kain. He had to be protected. I knew I’d earned my spot on the team when neither of them batted an eyelash or said a word. I’d gone from the one in the middle to taking rear position. I’d be the one to make sure we weren’t followed, to defend us if we were.

  Four men had attacked. I’d taken out two. I’m an Enforcer, hear me rooooaaaarrrr!

  * * * * *

  I piled my hair on my head and stepped into the personal cleaning unit. It felt so good as the heated beam caressed my skin, cleansing all the dirt and sweat from my body. A second rotation of the beam, focusing from my neck down, removed any fresh hair growth that might be starting so that I was as smooth as a baby. The beam stopped and I released my hair, letting it spill around my shoulders. The final beam washed over me, cooling my heated skin and treating my hair to a thorough cleansing.

  Goddess, I felt good. I stepped out of the unit and hurried to the door that connected to our sleeping quarters. I was so primed and ready for the promised exploration. I was almost there from thought alone. After our last two bouts, I had plenty of material to work with.

  I caught my breath as I stepped through the door. Radek lay flat on his back on the bed. His erection rose high in the air with his fist wrapped around it, pumping his shaft. I licked my lips, couldn’t hold back if I wanted to. I just looked at those guys and my horny meter spiked off the charts.

  “See something you want?” Radek all but purred the question to me.

  “Absolutely,” I moaned, crossing to the bed and crawling up his sprawled legs until that gorgeous cock was level with my mouth.

  I took it deep, swallowing around the head and taking all of him that I could. I cradled his balls in one hand and softly rubbed the velvet skin there. I loved the taste of him, all musk and man and uniquely Radek. Hands gripped my thighs and I let Radek’s cock pop free to glance behind me. Kain smiled as he palmed my ass and slid a hand under to slip through the slick lips of my pussy.

  “Mmmmm,” I moaned, licking Radek’s shaft while Kain’s finger found my opening and slid deep.

  “You like that?” Kain hooked his finger and gave my inner walls a rub. Every nerve fired to life and I clenched around him.

  “I want your cock, Kain. Fuck me. Please.”

  Husky laughter filled the room. I felt warm lips caress the globe of my ass. “Fucking isn’t exploring.”

  “Kain.” His name came out as a wail. His fingers were driving me mad. His thumb tapped over my clit, but not quite forcefully enough to get me where I wanted to be. But enough to drive me higher and higher.

  “Explore me with your cock.” I was willing to say anything to get what I wanted. “Please, Kain.”

  “Slow and thorough.” He spoke through gritted teeth as he slipped his fingers free and I finally felt the nudge of his cock.

  “Yes…” I hissed out.

  “Don’t forget about me,” Radek murmured, bumping his cock against my chin.

  I wrapped my mouth around his cock head and slowly slid down his shaft, sucking all the way. I swirled my tongue over every inch that filled my mouth, tasting and doing some exploring of my own.

  Kain slipped his cock deep with one firm thrust. He rested there, his fingers flexing on my ass as he just breathed behind me.

  “I’ll never get enough of you,” Kain moaned. “The way you feel around my dick. The softness of your skin. The gold of your hair. So beautiful. So sexy.”

  “Mmmmm,” I groaned around Radek’s cock, sending vibrations down into his balls that had him lifting his hips up into me.

  Kain pulled back and sank deep once more. Slow and easy seemed to be the pace of choice at the moment.

  “You fit my dick like a glove, Soph. Like we were always meant to be together.”

  The words touched me. I wanted to believe that maybe we were always meant to be together, the four of us.

  “Want to share some of that?” Xanthus’ voice washed over me.

  Kain gave me a few more deep thrusts before pulling free of the snug grip of my pussy and moving away. I could feel Xanthus take his place. The large head of his cock notched in my opening and he pushed inside. I felt the slap of his balls as he began a nice rhythm of vigorous fucking.

  Radek’s hands flexed and released in my hair as I worked him with my mouth. I could taste drops of pre-cum now and kept tapping my tongue in the slit to search for more. I couldn’t get enough. Every stroke of Xanthus’ cock made me hungrier, made me suck harder. I was lust. I was sex. And I wanted it all.

  Xanthus pulled free and I wanted to scream with frustration. I had been so close, so incredibly close to coming.

  “Time to explore some more,” Kain said. His hands reached for me, lifting me off Radek so that he could move out from under me.

  I was turned on the bed so that I now lay flat on my back. The three of them loomed over me, eyes sparkling with a desire I knew was reflected in mine.

  “I’ve been dying to get my lips on that sweet pussy since you walked into the room.” Xanthus suited action to words and spread my legs wide to make room for his shoulders. The first slide of his tongue had me panting, my hands reaching down to grip his hair and urge him closer.

  Kain laughed. “I’ve got a hunger for those tight pink nipples.”

  I groaned with anticipation, watching eagerly as he took position on the bed beside me and reached out to palm and squeeze my breasts. His fingers worked my nipples, both easing and increasing the ache. I watched his dark head bend and felt the lap of his tongue over first one sensitive nub then the other. I wanted to feel the hard suction of his mouth, wanted the sharp nip of his teeth.

  Radek’s fingers brushed my hair back out of my face. “You are so beautiful, Soph, inside and out. You have heart and soul. You’re the kind of woman who makes a man want to lock out the rest of the world just so he can be alone with her.”

  “We’re not alone,” I replied with a laugh.

  “We are. It’s just the four of us. That’s as alone as I hope we’ll ever get.” Radek’s words pierced my heart and brought the smart of tears to my eyes. I shuddered, thinking of potential reasons that might limit our numbers. It wasn’t something I wanted to think on, much less experience.

  His head bent close to me and his lips laid claim to mine. I moved my hands from their grip on Xanthus to wrap around Radek and hold him close. Kain’s lips finally sucked on my nipple, tugging it high against the roof of his mouth. Xanthus’ tongue flicked over my clit, while two fingers filled my sheath.

  Radek swallowed my cries of pleasure as my orgasm built within me. I’d come to realize something. Being an Enforcer hadn’t been my only dream. I’d had another dream. One I’d never voiced even to my closest friends.

  Emma and Mandy knew me better than anyone, but I’d held a key part of myself away from them. They’d seen the fighter, the one motivated to reach full-fledged Enforcer status, earning the tiger my uniforms now had. They’d seen the party girl, the one always dancing, smiling and engaging in sex. But there was another part of me as well. The one who hid, too afraid of rejection to share herself.

  That was who I was discovering now. The woman hungry for love, for a male to call her own. And this was my chance, for more than just an active-duty assignment. This was my chance to see if love was a possibility for me, with not just one man, but three. I could fall for them. Who was I kidding? I was falling for them and their words made me think I might just convince them I was worth their love as well. I was no longer afraid.

  So I held on, held tightly to the three men who rocked my body with orgasm after orgasm. They rotated around me, each taking a turn tonguing my pussy. Each sucking my nipples and rubbing my breasts. And each sharing a passionate kiss with me. I grew more lax, my body softening with each new orgasm until I was nearly boneless on the bed.

  Soft lips caressed my skin as I slowly came down from the latest orgasm. I couldn’t have moved if I wanted to. My
eyes, which I hadn’t realized I’d closed, fluttered open. They were all smiling at me. The girth and length of their bobbing shafts reminded me that, although I’d come several times, they had not. Still they smiled and said nothing. And there I went, falling head over heels with no guarantee that my love would be accepted, much less returned. No guarantee that what we shared right now would always be, that it wouldn’t fade.

  Yet still I held my hand out and it didn’t matter that only I knew that my heart came with it.

  “Take me,” I asked. “Make love to me.” I didn’t realize my words at that moment, how I used the term to make love instead of my normal choice of fuck.

  Radek came to me first, slipping between my thighs and plunging deep. I held him while he rocked in and out of me. I thought I was beyond another orgasm but I was wrong. He brought me up with him and held me balanced on the knife edge for what felt like forever.

  “Now,” he whispered and began a fast and furious pace that sent me flying high. I felt the heat of his cum fill me as I clung to him.

  “I’ll never let anything happen to you, Soph. Never.” His lips placed a soft kiss on my brow and then he was gone.

  “Ready for more?” Kain whispered the question as he took Radek’s place and plunged home.

  My knees rose of their own accord to grip his pumping hips. My nails found purchase on his shoulders. I arched my back, rising into him, pressing my breasts against his chest. Kain was all rigid muscle as he took me, all masculine energy and grace.

  “Can’t hold back,” he groaned as he slid a hand down between our bodies where we joined as one. His sure fingers found the swollen bud of my clit and rubbed over it.

  My cries had to echo around the room. My body was drenched in pleasure. I shuddered against him, holding tightly as I felt him come inside me. Hot jets of white heat filled me, warming me from the inside out. I didn’t want it to end, didn’t want him to stop, but it was inevitable.

  Kain’s lips brushed mine softly. Back and forth they caressed while we both panted. “There will never be a time when you won’t be in my thoughts. I would fight unto death to defend you.”

  “Shhh,” I whispered, placing my fingers to his lips and stilling his words. “No one will die for me.”

  But I could see the sincerity of his vow reflected in the ebony pools of his eyes. He slipped free of my arms without saying another word. But those he’d spoken still sounded in my head. Please, goddess, let none of these men die for me.

  “No tears, Soph.” Xanthus filled my vision, his fingers wiping the moisture that I hadn’t even realized had fallen from my eyes. “I won’t allow any of us to die.”

  I smiled. If pure will could grant such a thing then Xanthus spoke only the truth.

  “I know.”

  “Then don’t allow doubt or worry to fill your mind.”

  “Are you going to make love to me?” He had yet to slip between my thighs and I really wanted to feel him there.

  “Every day for the rest of our lives,” he vowed.

  My breath caught and that stupid rush of tears filled my eyes again.

  “Shhh, Soph. Just let me love you.”

  Xanthus turned me on the bed and tugged until my knees hung off the side of the bed. Only then did he step between my thighs. He placed his hands on the backs of my thighs and lifted them high and wide.

  “Just lie back and feel.”

  And that is just what I did. My eyes slipped closed as the first thrust seated him deep. Xanthus was slow and easy. His hands caressed my skin, touching and igniting a passion I’d thought already spent. His hands moved to the front of my thighs and he straightened my legs against his chest until my heels found purchase on his shoulders. Xanthus leaned into me then, his cock hitting deeper than I thought possible.

  “We’ve always felt like there was something missing. We’ve been together so long. So long that we often act as one person instead of three. I know what they are thinking before they put it in words. And they know me just as well.”

  He drove deep, his cock filling me and then retreating, leaving me empty. I wondered if they would ever know me as well, if I would know them with that type of depth. I wanted to. I longed to have that intense bond. But that wasn’t something that could be commanded with a signed document, creating a quad unit. That was something much more human in nature.

  “So when I speak to you, know that my words are not just my own.”

  “What?”

  Xanthus smiled. “How many times must I tell you to stop doing that?”

  “Stop doing what?”

  “Overthinking.”

  “I’m not this time. I’m just thinking.”

  “Stop. That’s an order.”

  I wanted to laugh but he was making me moan instead.

  “Feel, Sophia. Feel and listen.”

  “Yes,” I panted.

  “I think I finally figured out what was missing for Radek, Kain and me.”

  “What?”

  “You, Sophia. We were just waiting for you.”

  I cried out, jerking my legs wide and dropping them to wrap around his waist and tug him to me. Xanthus fell on top of me, his hands catching his weight and preventing him from crushing me into the bed. But I wanted him to.

  We held each other just as I had with Radek and then Kain. We clung and reached the heights together, tasting orgasm as I tasted his tongue.

  Later, as we all lay in bed, I was comforted by the sound of their even breathing in sleep. It was amazing to me how much I’d changed in only a few short days. I was no longer the Sophia Burrelis who had sat in Lt. Certze’s office and agreed to form a quad squad with three Alpha Enforcers I didn’t know. That tiger symbol no longer held everything for me.

  Kain mumbled something, shifting in his sleep and reaching out to cup my hip where I rested on Xanthus’ chest. I was soothed by the steady rise and fall of his chest beneath my ear. Radek was on the other side of us, our fingers entwined. I felt treasured and loved whether the words were spoken aloud or not. We had all found what was missing from our lives, and I truly believed that soon the words would spill from our lips.

  I am an Enforcer. I’ve trained for it all my life. Soon I will enter the battleground fighting an enemy that I am still only learning about. Here I am exhausted from the pleasure given to me by my men. Yet at this moment it was the faces of the women I’d seen during my briefing that filled my mind. I was tormented by the pain and anguish I’d read in their eyes. I wanted to save them, to set them free from the life they were even now enduring.

  But I wanted more than that. It wasn’t enough for me to save them. I wanted to know where they had been taken from, how they had been hunted and captured. And I wanted to see to it that no other woman ever endured such a fate.

  “Sophia.” Xanthus whispered my name.

  “Yes?”

  “Stop thinking and go to sleep.”

  I smiled against his chest and let the gentle motion of his hand caressing up and down my spine soothe me. My eyes floated shut on a sigh of acquiesce. Xanthus was right. Worrying and thinking would grant me nothing but a morning finding me more tired than when I sought slumber in this bed.

  It had taken a twist of fate to see me officially an Enforcer. Only by agreeing to become a willing member of this quad unit had opportunity opened up for me and I didn’t intend to squander it. I would be the best Enforcer that I possibly could. Even more important to me was that I kept Xanthus, Radek and Kain safe and happy. There was no going back, no changing of mind or heart.

  My confinement was lifted. I was no longer on the outside looking in, just waiting for the opportunity to prove that I was good enough. For the first time in my life, I felt as if I had everything. There was no doubt that I would do whatever it took to keep it, and them. After all, I am an Enforcer, and we don’t know the meaning of the word quit.

  About Lacey Thorn

  Lacey Thorn spends her days in small-town Indiana, the proud mother of three. When she i
s not busy with one of them, she can be found typing away on her computer keyboard or burying her nose in a good book. Like every woman, she knows just how chaotic life can be and how appealing that great escape can look. So toss aside the stress and tension of the never-ending to-do list. For now, sit back, relax and enjoy the ride with Lacey as she helps you to unlace and unleash the woman inside.

  Lacey welcomes comments from readers. You can find her website and email addresses on her author bio page at www.ellorascave.com.

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