“Beautiful,” Maddox whispered again. Riley glanced over Amber’s shoulder to find Maddox’s eyes locked on the place where Amber and Riley were joined. He sat on the coffee table, his legs outstretched on either side of Riley’s, leaning back with one arm braced behind him. The other had to be wrapped around his cock, because Riley could see the muscles tensing in the man’s upper arm, though he couldn’t see Maddox handling himself with Amber directly in front of him. Still, the thought of Maddox jerking himself off while watching him and Amber together was almost enough to set Riley off right then.
Amber bit her lip, took a deep breath, and started riding him. Riley moaned every time she let gravity drive her downward onto his dick, gasped every time she raised herself back up. Amber closed her eyes, a look of ecstatic bliss on her face as she rode him, her small fingers digging into his shoulders. Every muscle in Riley’s arms bulged as he took a death-grip on the back of the couch, cursing Maddox’s command to keep his hands over his head even as he acknowledged how hot that command made him. Somehow, knowing Maddox was the one in control of this encounter without even being directly part of it set his libido to new heights. He was riding the edge of orgasm almost instantly.
“Keep it slow,” Maddox admonished just as Amber started moving a little faster. “I like watching your cock disappear inside her, Riley. And since she’s riding you for my pleasure, not yours, Amber’s going to keep to the pace I choose. Aren’t you, angel?”
Amber let out a mewling little groan, her inner muscles contracting around Riley’s cock deliciously. Riley shuddered, cursing a blue streak, but didn’t argue against Maddox’s sensual command. Not when it felt so fucking good, feeling every inch of Amber’s silky wet sheath slide up and down his length. She kept the pace leisurely, just as Maddox commanded, her body and face tightening with every slow stroke.
Riley had always thought he needed sex to be hard and fast, convinced he couldn’t find release unless he was pounding the woman beneath him as hard as he could. Yet here he was, completely mesmerized by Amber’s easy ride, the gradual build-up of heat sparking little whirlwinds of pleasure throughout his body. He found himself entranced by her face, watching every incremental change in her expression as she got closer and closer to her release. A glance over her shoulder revealed Maddox was just as enthralled as he was, his silver eyes practically glowing in the dark, his gaze so hot it practically burned Riley’s skin every time it passed over him. Riley’s eyes pinged back and forth between them, mouth hanging open as he sucked in air and fought the urge to come like a freight train.
Finally, when he and Amber were both trembling with the effort of keeping the ride so slow and steady, Maddox ended their torment. “Stop.”
Amber froze mid-stroke, gasping as Riley’s cock twitched inside her. Panting, Riley watched Maddox rise to his feet and move to one side, his quicksilver eyes intent on Riley’s face. “You can let go, now. Wrap your arms around her waist and shove her all the way down on your cock. Then I want you to slide off the couch, get to your knees, and turn around so Amber is lying on the cushion beneath you. Do it now.”
Riley complied, practically ripping his shirt in his haste to get it untangled from around his wrists before clamping both arms around Amber’s luscious body. He cinched her in tight, fucking loving the way she gasped and shuddered in his arms, rubbing her clit against his pelvic bone while he ground her downward. With a healthy groan, Riley slid forward, shuddering as his bare ass came in contact with leather than hadn’t been heated by his own body. He dropped to his knees and slewed around with Amber in his arms, finally settling her in the center of the cushion he’d just vacated. Now she lay on her back, her legs wrapped high around his waist as he braced his knees against the front of the couch.
With his pants still around his ankles and his boots still on, he couldn’t do much more than shuffle awkwardly, but damn if it mattered. Not when Maddox immediately knelt behind him, straddling his calves, and placed a hand in the center of his back. Maddox shoved, forcing Riley to bend forward and brace his elbows on the couch to either side of Amber’s torso. She wrapped her arms around his neck, both of them crying out as the motion drove Riley’s cock even deeper inside her.
Before Riley even had a chance to think, Maddox’s big, thick fingers were at his entrance, working lube into the striated muscle. He buried his face in Amber’s throat, crying out hoarsely as those fingers pushed past his resistance with steady, insistent pressure. Riley convulsed, eyes rolling back in his head as Maddox finger-fucked him, stretching his muscles, filling his whole being with that burn he was coming to love so fucking much. That combined with the feel of Amber’s tight sheath around his cock had him practically hyperventilating with the force of pleasure roaring through his system.
Maddox worked him for a few moments, then withdrew his fingers and took a strong grip around Riley’s waist with one hand. The other guided his cock into Riley’s waiting chute, pushing inside him in one long, slow thrust. Amber’s inner muscles strangled his dick while Maddox sank into him to the hilt, the tops of his thighs snug against the backs of Riley’s. Then Maddox wrapped his other hand around Riley’s shoulder, holding him still, and began to thrust.
Riley lost it. The feel of Maddox’s heavenly cock stroking his anal walls was enough to drive him insane all by itself. That combined with the feel of Amber’s tunnel squeezing his shaft, caressing him as the kinetic motion of Maddox’s hips drove Riley into her, was almost too much to bear. Riley threw back his head, shouting his pleasure for the world to hear. He was grunting, gasping, moaning, shaking uncontrollably while his lovers fucked him from both sides, sending him spinning right back into that place he’d discovered this morning, when Maddox was fucking him at the work site. But this time, it was so much more intense, his entire being engulfed in the most awe-inspiring, mind-altering pleasure he’d ever experienced.
Was this what sex was supposed to be? Was this how it was supposed to feel? He’d never, ever, not in a million years, expected to experience this kind of pleasure. Somehow, Maddox and his erotic commands kept bringing him here, kept catapulting him into this sea of never-ending bliss he hadn’t even been aware of missing. And after tonight, he knew he’d never be able to live without it again.
Maddox fucked him relentlessly, slamming into him over and over again while Riley and Amber both shuddered beneath him. Amber’s fingers dug into his shoulders as she held onto him, her face buried in the curve of his neck. He could feel her breath puff over his right nipple every time she gasped from the force of Maddox’s thrusts. Maddox might be inside Riley right now, but he was definitely fucking both of them.
Definitely the one with ultimate control.
After an eternity, Maddox’s rhythmic thrusts grew frantic. His hand moved from Riley’s shoulder to his throat, collaring him. Riley’s eyes flew open wide as he sucked in a breath, amazed at how erotic it felt to have Maddox’s hand wrapped around his neck. A long, low moan poured from his throat as Maddox pounded him harder, faster, driving him deeper into Amber, making both of them tremble. And finally, just before Riley was certain he was going to explode from sheer pleasure overload, Maddox snarled, “Come! Now!”
Maddox and Amber froze for a moment. Then her sheath clamped down around him even as Maddox’s cock pulsed inside him.
Too much. Riley detonated.
The orgasm crashed through him like a tsunami wave. Riley nearly screamed as his lovers shook and moaned with the force of their simultaneous release, claiming him inside and out. It went on for an endless, breathless eternity, so shattering Riley lost a significant chunk of time.
A long, long time afterward, Maddox pulled out and helped Riley get to his feet before both of them reached for Amber and helped her up. Then both of his lovers wrapped their arms around him, holding Riley so tenderly, so sweetly, the burn behind his eyes became a firestorm. He held onto them both as desperate, heart-wrenching sobs clogged his throat, his whole body shaking as some of the soul-deep p
ain that had been eating him alive for the last year finally began to purge.
It took a while. He didn’t know how long the tears ran, but eventually, they did run out. When he finally got control of himself, Riley tried to take a step back, embarrassed by the outburst. But his lovers refused to let him put distance between them again. Before Riley really had a chance to process everything, he found himself tucked in Maddox’s bed with Amber in his arms and Maddox wrapped around his back. And just as it had the night before, their combined body heat settled something deep in Riley’s soul.
“I love you,” he whispered, unable to help himself. “Both of you.”
Maddox’s arms immediately tightened around him, as Amber turned around in his arms to settle her cheek against his chest.
“I love you both, too,” she murmured, her voice a velvety-soft whisper in the dim room. “I don’t know how it happened, but I fell in love with both of you the moment I met you.”
“Same here,” Maddox rumbled. “I fell in love the moment I laid eyes on both of you.”
Riley frowned. “Did we…I mean, did you and I…Did we really both say ‘I love you’ at the top of our lungs earlier?”
Amber giggled, squeezing his shoulders. “You did. Both of you did. I’ve never heard of people yelling the words ‘I love you’ like that, but you guys surely did.”
Maddox chuckled. “We’re guys. Give us a break. Sometimes screaming is the only way to get the point across.”
Riley and Amber both laughed appreciatively. He snuggled in their arms, closing his eyes as more of their heat sank into him. He’d never realized how cold he’d gotten, like his insides had been taken over by Antarctica. Not until he met these two people, both of whom possessed more inner heat than a white dwarf star. How did he get so lucky? And why the hell would these two such perfect, overwhelmingly gorgeous people want a loser like Riley? But they did. They swore they did want him.
And he wasn’t about to fight them on it. Not anymore.
The three of them were quiet for a time, just basking in their newfound regard for each other. But, eventually, Riley let out a deep sigh. “We should talk.”
Maddox tensed. “Riley…”
“It’s okay,” he assured them both quickly, looking into Amber’s eyes as she raised her head and looked at him with a frown. “I’m not going to try and leave again. But we do need to talk. About what happened when I went down to the station.”
Amber stared at him for a long moment, searching his expression. He didn’t know what she found there, but eventually she nodded and looked over Riley’s shoulder at Maddox. The taller man sighed softly and rolled away from them, reaching over to turn on the bedside lamp. He settled against the headboard as Riley and Amber disentangled themselves and did the same.
Riley threaded his fingers through Amber’s, met Maddox’s eyes briefly, and took a deep breath. “Shawn had me come down to the station to file charges against your brother, Amber. You know that. But things had changed by the time I got down there.”
“What do you mean?” she asked, a little frown wrinkling her brow.
Riley shrugged uncomfortably. “When I got there, your brother wasn’t being processed. He was being released.” Amber gasped as Maddox cursed softly, viciously. Riley nodded. “Yeah. Sucks. But, it’s not the end of the world. Shawn said that your father agreed to leave you alone, Amber, so long as we didn’t file charges against Robbie. Your dad won’t be trying to get you back home. You’re free.”
“Free?” she echoed, her eyes widening. “He said that? He really won’t come after me anymore?”
Riley nodded. “Apparently, he told the officers who called him that he would forget about you as long as they didn’t sully his son’s record with an assault and kidnapping charge. Said he’d let you go in order to keep Robbie’s record clean.”
Robert Whitman had said a hell of a lot more than that, actually. But Riley wasn’t about to repeat the foul words that bastard had said about her.
“That bitch who claims she doesn’t need her family anymore can go straight to hell. She’ll learn the error of her ways, I promise you that. No son of mine is going to suffer for the sins of my youngest daughter. She’ll pay for this, one way or another. Mark my words.”
Amber already knew her father was a bastard. No way was Riley going to add more fuel to that fire. She’d been hurt enough.
“Shawn and Ryder are still going to do drive-bys for a few more weeks,” he continued quietly, “just to be certain Wes really does intend to leave you alone. But we won’t have to worry about your father or brother coming here. You’re free of that much of it, at least.”
Amber stared at him, her eyes bright as a tear wended its way down her cheek. Maddox reached across Riley’s chest and cupped her chin, wiping the tear away with his thumb.
“No more of that,” Maddox admonished, smiling softly. “No more tears, angel. You’ve got me and Riley, now. Not to mention Allen, Sidri, and Tatum. You are not without support, do you understand me? We’re all here for you.”
“Damn straight,” Riley agreed, earning a watery giggle. She threw her arms around both of them.
“Thank you both,” she whispered. “I love you so much.”
“We love you, too,” Riley assured her. Maddox echoed the sentiment with a fierce nod.
Amber looked back and forth between the two of them, opened her mouth to say something—
And was interrupted by someone banging on the front door like they intended to knock the fucker down.
“Open up! Houston Police!”
Chapter 23
Bang! Bang! Bang!
“Open up! Houston Police!”
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Amber sat bolt upright in bed, heart making a desperate attempt to escape through her throat as the pounding noise echoed through the house. She pressed a hand to her chest in a vain attempt to slow her heartbeat. Both of her men were on their feet, pulling on jeans and scowling dangerously.
“What…” Amber began.
Maddox leaned over her, pressing a kiss to her forehead. “No idea, angel. Stay here. Riley and I will go find out what’s going on.”
Bang! Bang! Bang!
She watched as Maddox buttoned his jeans while Riley rummaged around in the closet—and came up with a baseball bat. Wait, what? Why would Riley be looking for a weapon if it was the police? Unless he thought they weren’t the police. Unless he thought it was a ruse, a deception to get them to open the door. Frowning, Amber scrambled from the bed and started throwing clothes on.
“What are you doing?” Riley growled.
She shot him a sardonic look as she pulled on jeans and a T-shirt. “I’m not staying up here alone.”
“Let it go,” Maddox said shortly, cutting off Riley’s protests. Thank God, Maddox’s Alpha male protectiveness didn’t insist his woman stay behind, safe and protected, while he drove the big bad guys away. Kind of made her all warm inside, knowing he trusted her to be able to take care of herself. She smiled at him, earning a raised eyebrow in return.
Maddox pulled the bat from Riley’s fingers, turned and presented it to Amber. His gray eyes were deadly serious. “If anyone but me or Riley comes up the stairs, you beat the shit out of them, okay? Otherwise, you stay out of sight.”
She clutched the warm wood to her chest, nodding earnestly. Riley grumbled, but didn’t protest further. The two men headed for the hallway with Amber just behind them. She found a place near the upper bannister where she could see the foyer yet still huddle in the shadows. Her hands shook as she clutched the bat to her chest, watching her men descend the stairs in silence.
In the foyer, Riley reached for the door handle, glancing over his shoulder at Maddox as he did so. Maddox nodded, and Riley popped the deadbolts and threw the door open wide.
“On the ground!” Several voices shouted at once. “On your knees! Hands above your heads! On the ground, now!”
Maddox and Riley both held their hands out in front of
themselves, backing up as three cops dressed in full raid gear swarmed through the doorway.
“There’s been a mistake, officers,” Maddox said loudly. “You’ve got the wrong address.”
“On the ground!” one of the cops barked, ignoring Maddox completely. He shoved the muzzle of his gun right in Maddox’s face, kept barking his command until Maddox lowered himself to his knees in capitulation.
The cop gave a sharp nod, lowering his weapon but not removing his finger from the guard on the trigger. “Maddox Henley, you’re under arrest for kidnapping and assault.”
“What the fuck?” Riley roared, trying to go to Maddox’s defense. He got two guns pointed at his chest for his efforts. Riley froze, obviously fuming, and lowered himself to his knees. “You guys are nuts! Nobody kidnapped anybody!”
“Riley Jones, you’re under arrest, too,” a different cop snarled. He took a menacing step forward, reaching for a pair of handcuffs at his belt. “Both of you need to come with us.”
All the blood drained from Amber’s head as realization dawned. Robbie had made good on his threat. He’d told the cops she’d been abducted, that she was being held against her will by two men. Her asshole brother had actually reported Maddox and Riley as kidnappers. And the cops, not knowing there was a hell of a lot more to the story, had believed everything that jackass was telling them. She watched helplessly as the men she loved were read their Miranda rights, both of them trying to reason with the cops while being ignored completely.
Amber couldn’t stand it anymore. She surged to her feet and raced halfway down the stairs, dropping the bat in her haste. “You can’t do this!” she yelled, making all three cops turn and look up at her. “They haven’t done anything wrong!”
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