Duplicity (Victory Lap Book 2)

by Mercedes Jade

  Their mother would have loved her.

  Tess

  Beach vacation was scratched off the bucket list.

  The guys made sure she relaxed and had fun, taking care of everything for her. Someone had brought Tess her luggage while they were walking, so she’d changed into another pair of jeans and a t-shirt after her shower. They also took her luggage away when she was done. Whoever it was that had done it, did so discreetly.

  She was happy to be clean and wearing underwear once more.

  Bastion had called the house to arrange lunch and to ensure the kids received a check-in call. He let her know that everyone was fine and they wished for her to enjoy herself.

  That’s exactly what she did.

  Kade and Keir kept her between them for most of the afternoon, first walking the beach, and then hunting for shells like they were all little kids.

  Tess had given Bastion a spoilsport look when he grumbled about her getting wet in her jeans and mentioned the wind was cool, putting a stop to her going too far to play in the waves.

  The twins had gone swimming.

  That was when Tess decided to fess up to Bastion that she wasn't really a good swimmer. Her parents never paid for private swimming lessons. She had relied on the ‘swim to survive’ sessions that were mandatory at school.

  Bastion allowed the twins to swim undisturbed for ten minutes, then hollered for them to come back in. He walked along the beach with Tess while they waited, telling her about vacations he had been on all over the world, each one focused on a different beach.

  She noticed that he didn't say anything about his family or the luxurious details of each expensive, overseas trip. All of his stories were about other people, and through his perceptions of them, Tess learned more about Bastion himself.

  He liked to try out new fruits. Although it probably didn't make much of a difference, Bastion preferred to try new fruits for the first time at a farmers’ market or even from the orchard if he was lucky enough to come across one.

  She heard about him splitting open a durian fruit that he described as a prickly, cactus-like, heavy fruit that encased a number of sectioned sacks with soft, custardy-yellow fruit flesh that enrobed the seeds.

  It had sounded like something she would be willing to try until Bastion explain that the smell of the ripe durian was like cutting into a carcass. Old gym socks and sulphurous eggs were other unpleasant comparisons.

  The twins had interrupted as they return from their swim before Bastion could get into any more gory details. Durian was definitely off her bucket list.

  “You really need to find a swimsuit. We can come back out here after dinner,” Kade said. “The water is refreshing.”

  “She can't swim,” Bastion informed the twins.

  “I can still play along the shore. Besides, I have you guys with me,” Tess said, eyeing up the cool drops of water playing over the muscled chests of both twins.

  Just like in the shower that she had with them together in the motel, Tess’s mind started thinking about licking her way down those muscles, one drop of water at a time. It might take a while.

  Knowing Keir, he would want to make it some sort of competition. She would have to take turns between them. They’d see which one of them succumbed to the pleasure of her teasing them with her tongue first.

  “Pumpkin-berry?”

  Tess shook her head to clear the steamy thoughts.

  “Yeah? Sorry. I was distracted.”

  “By my brother's chest?” Kade asked, sounding a bit jealous.

  “By both of you. I was thinking about the last time I saw you with water droplets everywhere in the shower. Do you think the ocean water will taste salty?”

  Bastion clamped his hands on her upper arms and yanked her back against him to his own impressive chest. She could tell he worked out. Not everyone could be War-sized, but none of the guys were chumps.

  “I want to go up to the house and talk to War. Do you think I can trust you and the twins to behave yourselves?” Bastion asked.

  “Of course,” Tess answered right away.

  Keir smiled warmly. “We’ll have lots of safe fun. I got a ton of condoms from War’s stash on the jet.”

  Tess rolled her eyes. “Safety first,” she teased.

  “No glove, no love,” Kade added.

  “There will be some servers coming down with a quick lunch to hold you over until dinner. They said they had everything Tess requested,” Bastion told them.

  He released her arms.

  “Really?” Tess asked, turning around to look at Bastion.

  Bastion shrugged it like no big deal.

  “Pretty simple. The biggest part was the pineapple because they don't keep a barbecue down here. One of the servers will bring a charcoal griller with a spit.”

  “Thanks,” Tess said, beaming up at him.

  Bastion smiled back. “Anytime. It’s War’s place, but we also want to spoil you once we get back home.”

  “Yeah,” Kade agreed. “No more making such a big deal about breakfast and coffee at Starbucks in the morning.”

  Bastion waved goodbye to the rest of them, not getting involved in their little argument. The twins liked to bicker a lot. He would be stuck here all afternoon if he took the bait.

  Not that being stuck with the twins was that hard.

  Tess imagined she could get used to it.

  Maybe the real problem was that it was so nice that she didn’t want to imagine another day without them beside her.

  “What do you want to do until lunch is ready?” Keir asked.

  Tess turned from where she’d been watching Bastion disappear and looked back at Keir to answer. The sun blinded her for a moment, peeking out from behind the clouds and giving Keir an almost angelic glow.

  Wouldn’t he laugh if she shared that impression?

  Especially given what she was going to suggest next. Keir would only encourage her devilish thoughts.

  “I want to get wet,” she said.

  Keir smiled. Kade laughed.

  “That can be arranged,” Keir replied. “Any particular stipulations on how or where?”

  Tess reached over and gave Keir a playful knock on his right shoulder.

  “We’re at a beach. Shouldn’t it be obvious?” she teased, drawing out her oblique request further.

  Honestly, she was okay with getting wet by splashing in the waves more... or beach sex. As amazing as it had been to be with War on the plane, she felt like it had unlocked the gate to getting to know all of her guys more intimately.

  They were all alone out here on the beach.

  “She must be so hot after her initiation into the mile-high club that our girl needs some cooling off,” Kade joked, proving he had a clue about what she was thinking.

  He bent down and scooped her up into his arms, racing across the sand to get to the water.

  She shrieked, though she loved it.

  “Ahh, no! I can’t swim!” she yelled.

  No way they wouldn’t ensure her safety. Getting dumped into the cold water all at once wasn’t in her plans for the afternoon, however, even if it might mean she’d need to cuddle up with the twins to get warm afterwards.

  Keir raced ahead of them. He purposely splashed them both with water as he turned around in the knee-high waves.

  It was brisk, the breeze making every drop felt on her skin exposed to the air as well.

  “That’s cold!” Tess yelled. “Don’t you dare drop me, Bluebell.”

  “You’re clinging to me like a baby monkey,” Kade said. “I’m pretty sure that I’d have to risk losing a limb before I shook you loose.”

  “An arm at least,” she threatened.

  She wrapped herself around Kade as he waded into the water, slowed down by the waves tugging at his feet and lower legs. Now she had her arms over his shoulders and her thighs squeezing his hips.

  Keir came up from behind her and put his cold, wet hands that had been splashing the water on her waist, sneak
ing under her shirt.

  “Okay, I’m wet, Trouble,” Tess said with a shiver.

  “Not enough,” Keir said, nibbling on one of her ears.

  “Think we’re far enough away from shore?” Kade asked.

  “You’re blocking the important bits with your body,” Keir answered.

  “Important for what?” Tess asked.

  She tried to crane her neck around Kade’s shoulders to see if the servants bringing them lunch had started to set up.

  Keir slipped his wet hands down to the button and zipper fastening her jeans close.

  “I want to finger your pussy until you purr in my brother’s ear,” Keir explained.

  Tess felt Kade’s hands tighten on her, ensuring he had a good grip. “Lean back,” he encouraged her.

  Keir was right behind her. He tugged her zipper down and then one hand slipped into the opening he’d created, wiggling until he was doing exactly what he’d said.

  “Ohh,” Tess moaned.

  “We’re just getting started,” Keir warned her, making circles around her clit.

  She felt so open and exposed with her thighs spread open by Kade’s hips, even the jeans not much of a barrier to Keir when they were unzipped.

  “Move your hips,” Kade directed, giving her a little thrust of his own hips to demonstrate.

  That made Keir’s fingers dance.

  She shivered again.

  “Are you cold?” Keir asked. He flicked her clit with a little nail.

  “N... no.” She shivered again. “Well, maybe a little. Get closer,” she requested.

  Part of her shivers were her response to how Keir was playing with her body.

  Kade shifted, just a step nearer to Keir, but it jostled her. She felt the unmistakable nudge of his erection bumping her as she wiggled between their bodies. Keir pressed up harder behind her and she felt the same reaction from him.

  “What about you guys?” Tess asked.

  “Tonight,” Kade answered. “We’re going to have a little bonfire out on the beach. No other guests, no servants invited. Just the stars to witness what we want to do to you.”

  “It’ll be dark. Some of us have rather a lot to hide,” Keir teased.

  “Not with me,” she teased, then slowly reached her hands down to try to give each of the twins some of her own teasing touch.

  All three of them moaned together.

  “Work her harder, Keir. She’s gonna make it a race,” Kade said, ordering his brother.

  “Head start,” Keir said with confidence. “I’m not coming until I’m inside you, Pumpkin.”

  Determined fingers and Kade’s hip rolling thrusts had her throwing her head back on Keir’s shoulder.

  She gave each of the guys a stroke through their clothes. Felt her whole body tighten up, but she didn’t go over. The ache was shooting through her, begging for satisfaction.

  “I don’t know if I can come again,” she said with a frustrated growl.

  She was so turned on but that climax kept climbing higher as she tensed.

  “Slow and easy,” Kade said, rocking his hips.

  “We’ll get you there,” Keir assured her.

  She gave in, grinding against the delicious feel of the pending orgasm making her clit ache in anticipation. Thank God for Keir’s natural competitiveness. He wasn’t going to stop, or beg off. Kade worked with his brother to make sure she came.

  The two of them couldn’t even imagine any scenario where she failed to climax.

  With another guy, she might have found the persistence more an arrogance, but her candy twins were sweet and loving. They truly put her pleasure first. Took their time, as long as she needed for her body to surrender.

  “Do you have her?” Kade asked, checking with his brother. “I want to touch her, too.”

  “Give it to her,” Keir answered, circling her clit as he slowed down his teasing so that his brother could add to the torment.

  Kade didn’t try to get a hand into her tight pants as well. He kept one hand gripping her ass to free the other hand that trailed up her side and over to a breast.

  He flicked a nipple through her shirt and bra, using his nail to scratch back over it with enough pressure, she’d felt it through all the layers covering her. The cold had left her nipples sticking out underneath her clothes. Now they both suddenly ached.

  A hot mouth would be perfect.

  “I want you to suck on them,” Tess demanded.

  She squirmed as Keir’s fingers plucked at her clit. It tested her limits as the far-off climax suddenly galloped up from behind and threatened to cross the finish line.

  “If you want your shirt up, we’ll have to hurry before lunch gets set up and we’re risking an unintended voyeur or two,” Keir warned.

  Kade was less hesitant. He pulled her shirt up and bent his head to suck her nipples through her lightly-padded bra. It should have been dull compared to his mouth on her skin, but he was using his teeth, harder and more aggressive than he could have been without the barrier. His hand shifted up to her throat and applied light pressure, fingers wrapping possessively under her chin.

  Keir pinched her clit again, ground his knuckles against her swollen, aroused flesh, giving her rougher pressure to match the intensity of his brother devouring her from above.

  The orgasm suddenly clenched her thighs against Kade’s hips. She arched as much as her tight fit between the twin’s hard bodies would let her, head thrown back as she shouted her pleasure. It had been slower to come but lasted good and long, her body spasming in aftershocks as Keir kept a lazy finger on her clit.

  Kade gave her one last nip on the chest, above the bra. The pinch snapped her out of her dazed lassitude once the strong orgasm had left her wrung out between them.

  “That was intense,” Tess whispered, a bit embarrassed as she thought of how she’d yelled.

  Did orgasmic screams sound a certain way? Would others guess if they heard her?

  Keir laughed behind her, quickly zipping and re-buttoning her jeans. Kade released her throat and used both hands under her ass to support her as his brother took a step back.

  “Can almost hear you thinking again, Pumpkin,” Keir teased.

  “Probably analyzing positions for tonight,” Kade said, adding to his brother’s light-hearted taunt.

  “Definitely a sandwich,” Tess said, playing along.

  Keir gave her jeans-clad ass a slap.

  “Get off my brother for now. The servants just showed up with lunch,” he advised.

  She almost jumped out of Kade’s arms like she’d been electrocuted.

  “Just now? Are you sure? That kind of timing is perfect,” Tess said, turning to give Keir a calculating look.

  Was he being serious or joking?

  “We’re so far away, they can’t hear or see a thing,” Kade assured her.

  Keir smirked.

  Damn it.

  “You guys are terrible lookouts,” she whined.

  “I can’t be expected to have eyes on the back of my head, but weren’t you facing the right direction to keep watch, too?” Kade pointed out.

  Tess blushed. “I was distracted. Keir had the best view.”

  “I was busy with my fingers in your hot little pussy. You’re not really complaining about where I focused my attention, are you, Pumpkin?” Keir asked, coming up closer behind her again to slip his hands around her waist.

  She’d started shivering again as soon as she’d gotten back into the water. The wind had calmed down but it wasn’t warming up much, the sun on the way down from its peak of the day. Keir’s body seemed so much warmer than hers, immediately calming the chills.

  “No, no complaints,” Tess admitted, snuggling back.

  “By the way, I took longer, but it was better this time than the vending machine or the side table, right?” Keir asked.

  “Three-way tie,” Tess spat out with a laugh as Keir tickled her sides.

  Kade groaned.

  “You know, you just dar
ed him to make a tie-breaker,” Kade said.

  “Tonight!” Keir whispered into her ear.

  She added her own groan to Kade’s, but secretly, she figured there were worse things than four boyfriends competing to give her orgasms. If they wanted to keep her mind focused on pleasure for the rest of the weekend, she would happily go along with the plan.

  As long as she got to play with them as well.

  10

  Bastion

  How to Spank the Boss

  The afternoon had gone by quickly. He’d spent most of his on the phone. War had been busy talking to his dad in an office at the house. The twins kept Tess company on the beach and ensured she was fed. Rested had also been in his instructions to the twins before he left, but he doubted they’d planned to take her to bed in the way he’d intended for a nap.

  Bastion was left with time to burn before dinner.

  The precious commodity was at a premium now that Jensen was onto Tess’s involvement with them. The Wolf was a new player to position on the game board. Bastion didn’t waste a moment, getting a hold of his private investigator to put together profiles of all of the gang members he and the twins had tracked through the months of Kade going undercover.

  Who handled the drugs, what hands exchanged the dirty money, and where the key players could be found on a Friday night. They’d found out an incredible amount of information in a relatively short time and without the resources that War should be able to access for them now.

  Someone had to put it all together for the new help about to be hired.

  The game was more serious than ever. Haunani’s death had been such a blow, but now, they risked the loss of Tess if they didn’t buckle down and prepare for the shitstorm that was coming.

  Tess had waved a flag at the bulls. They were coming. This weekend was a brief interlude for her. For Bastion, it was prepping for the final battle.

  War had definitely brought Tess here with them to relax, not worry her. That’s why Bastion had left her with the twins so that he could make his phone calls without intruding on her fun.

  The island was a nice place for a vacation. This was his second time being brought here by War, and the last time had been an escape, too.