Bad Blood (Rock Goddess Reverse Harem Book 5)

by Romy Lockhart

  She beams and I say goodbye, almost tempted to see inside her. I caught a glimpse without touch, and I know that this favour for her friend is going to be enough to ignite their spark. They were close to getting together already.

  It warms me inside as I walk out and find Nick waiting for me by the exit.

  I walk over and he takes the bag from my hand. “Presents?”

  “The clothes from the shoot.” I’m sure Skyler will love to just borrow them.

  Chapter Forty-Eight

  Asher

  “That went well.” Aside from the fact that I’m now slurring my words a little. I get the feeling I’m going to regret overdoing it in the morning.

  “It did.” Eli seems completely sober, though I saw him sink at least five beers once we cracked open the mini-bar. He’d stayed out of the room while I talked with Logan, giving us a chance to settle things without interference. He nods. “Two down.”

  I know what he’s saying. The thought makes me cringe. Eli already tried to talk to Nick about this and he didn’t want to hear it. My turn to convince. “Not tonight.”

  “Tomorrow,” Eli tells me.

  “Tomorrow,” I echo.

  “Tonight Eden decides what’s happening.”

  I won’t get a chance to talk to her until the morning either then. Though I won’t complain considering what we’re likely to end up doing in place of talking.

  The door to the suite opens, making us both turn. Eden walks in, and my head clears of everything but her. I smile as her gaze meets mine and her full lips form an ‘O’.

  “Asher!” she cries out, rushing towards me and throwing her arms around my neck.

  I hold her close. It sucks that I won’t be able to spend a lot of time with her on the road, but I could get used to this kind of welcome when I do.

  “What are you doing here?” Nick asks with one eyebrow raised as he closes the door. He has a big bag from a clothes store or something in his hand that he puts down by the side of one of the sofas.

  Eden sighs happily as she rests her head against my shoulder.

  “I missed you too,” I say, stroking her back. The dress is slinky and feels decadent beneath my fingers. It’s nice, but I’d prefer to touch her soft skin.

  “How long are you here for?” She steps back and looks me over.

  “Three days.” Hopefully that’s long enough to put the problem with Logan to bed.

  Eden’s gaze stays on my face before she drops her hands from my chest. She glances over at Nick as his phone starts to ring, then at Eli who’s sitting on the sofa across from us.

  Nick curses under his breath as he looks at his phone. “I’ll be back in a minute.”

  He leaves the room and Eden lifts her gaze back to me. “You’ve forgiven Logan.”

  I nod slowly, realising she bit her tongue when she saw into me. She knows Nick is still against the idea of Logan truly becoming her fourth. She only mentioned it because he left the room.

  “I’m going to speak to Nick in the morning.”

  She frowns. “You can’t force him to change his mind. He doesn’t want Logan to be a part of this. This isn’t a vote. All of us need to be sure about it.”

  “We will be,” I tell her, knowing it’s true. Nick hasn’t met a rule he didn’t want to break. He’s flexible. He’ll bend on this too, when he sees how much it means to Eden.

  She sighs. “I don’t know.”

  “Meet other potentials if you need to,” Eli tells her. “We’re not saying this has to happen. We’re only telling you we’re okay with him if he’s the one you want.”

  She flushes and I know without having to touch her that Logan is the one she wants. Maybe she’ll feel that way about the other potentials too. I don’t know. But I do know she has history with Logan, and that their feelings for each other are strong. I don’t know what it would take to upturn that.

  My phone buzzes in my pocket and I bring it out. Nick has left me a text.

  “Nick’s out for the night. An emergency at the club. He’s telling us to have fun.”

  Chapter Forty-Nine

  Nick

  The call from Tanya kills the last bit of happiness within me. Talking to Arianna had pissed me off, but I couldn’t let Eden see that. She was wound up enough. A Dark Forces Goddess whispering a few evil nothings into my ear isn’t worth bothering her about. Neither is a bitchy ex-fling.

  I take the call in the corridor outside the room. I walk along the hall far enough away to avoid being overheard by security. “How the hell did you get this number?”

  She sobs and I almost hang up immediately. Then she talks, and I damn well wish I’d hung up. “It’s my sister, Nick. I need help.”

  Goddamn it. Of all the excuses she could use to get me where she wants me, this one is the worst. It’s the only one that will stop me from hanging up. Tanya and I might have had nothing more than a couple of drunken nights together, but Elise is another story entirely.

  “What happened?”

  “She overdosed. I don’t know what to do, I just got to the hospital and they won’t let me see her.”

  Shit. That poor girl. She was so broken when we met. I gave her a job, and let it slide the handful of times she let me down. It wasn’t her fault. She was trying. One day she just left and never came back. Tanya came to tell me she was in rehab. That’s when our ill-advised one night stand happened.

  “How long have you been there?”

  “I don’t know. Ten minutes.” She sighs. “They’ll let you in if you come.”

  “What?” Why the hell would they let me in if they won’t let Elise’s own sister in?

  “She named you as her husband in her records.” She laughs. “I don’t know when she did that, but clearly she trusts you more than she does me. The nurses are telling me she doesn’t have any siblings.”

  My gut instinct is to go running, but I’m halfway afraid this is a trap. In the end, I ask which hospital and tell her I’m on my way. As weird as it is, I don’t think Tanya would use something like this as a way to manipulate me. She does actually have a heart even if she seems loathe to use it the vast majority of the time.

  I start to head back down the corridor and stop. Explaining what I’m doing is going to be awkward and Eden has enough on her mind right now. I think about it before I send my message to Asher. I know the battery died on Eden’s phone so it won’t seem weird that I chose to text him instead.

  Then I get moving. I want to get there fast.

  Chapter Fifty

  Eden

  Asher and Eli are both drunk, so I decide to have a glass of wine. After the day I’ve had, I could use it.

  “Arianna was on the shoot,” I tell them, as Asher pours the wine into a glass. It’s sparkling white but I’m not going to complain. I could call room service if I really wanted red.

  “She was?” Eli seems more alert instantly. “What happened?”

  “Nothing,” I tell him. “She wasn’t there for long and we were never alone.”

  He relaxes. “We need a plan for her.”

  “We do,” I agree. “But we can talk about that later. I’m in the mood to relax.”

  It’s just a shame Nick couldn’t be here too. With Asher’s surprise visit it would be nice to have all my men with me together for the night. Almost, I think. Logan’s not quite officially been accepted as my fourth yet. I don’t want to get too excited at the thought of that while it still might not happen, but it’s kind of hard not to.

  Asher turns on the stereo system and finds a classic rock station. I smile at him as I sip my wine.

  “I can’t believe you’re here.”

  “Neither can I,” he says, with a wry smile as he takes a seat next to me.

  I move onto Asher’s lap and put my legs up so my feet are on Eli’s thigh.

  “So what else can we do to relax you?” Asher asks, as he wraps his arms around me.

  “Oh, Nick and I discovered a new way to relax her,” Eli says, with a
wicked smile.

  “You did?” Asher asks.

  “Asher might not be into that,” I tell Eli, thinking of how incredibly intimate it was.

  “Now I’m really intrigued,” Asher murmurs.

  I feel my face flush. Will Eli tell him? I glance at my Sheriff and his dark gaze is focused on me.

  “Let’s let Eden decide how she wants to be relaxed tonight.”

  Oh thank God.

  “Okay. Eden, what would you like?” Asher asks.

  I move, putting the wine glass down and straddling him in his seat. “What I’d really like is to be fucked relentlessly all night until I’m too exhausted to move.”

  He kisses me as his hands push the skirt of my dress up. He rips my panties and throws them away in a deft move that makes me smile against his lips. Oh how I’ve missed this man.

  I unzip his pants and he moans into my mouth as I release his rigid cock from the opening. I impale myself on his length and break the kiss.

  Asher glances at Eli. “Here’s how this is going to work.”

  He strokes my ass and starts to pull and push me up and down his dick.

  “I’m going to fuck Eden until I come. And then you’re going to take over.”

  I look Eli’s way and don’t know how he can agree to it. The lust in his gaze is heavy. He’s thinking about what would be happening if this was Nick beneath me. There would be lube on the table, or he’d be standing behind the couch so I could suck on his dick.

  “Can’t I have you both?” I ask, hearing the grunt from Eli at my suggestion and wondering at the strict expression on Asher’s face.

  “I thought you wanted fucked raw, all night?”

  “There’s more than one way to do that, Asher.” I glance at Eli. “Come stand over here.”

  Asher continues moving me on his dick, taking control and making me gasp. His dick is so long. I feel every inch of it when he’s inside me and I love it. “Whatever our Goddess desires,” Asher breathes, gazing me over as I reach for Eli’s zipper.

  When I have Eli’s shaft in my hand, Asher’s gaze becomes more heated. It occurs to me that the three of us haven’t done this before. I’ve spent a lot of time with Asher alone, Eli alone, or either of them with Nick, but I’ve never been with just Eli and Asher together.

  I lean forward more to take Eli’s length into my mouth. The artsy couch has the perfect back-height for this and it’s easier than I thought it would be to ride Asher while wrapping my lips around Eli’s cock.

  “Oh fuck,” Asher whispers.

  I can feel his gaze on me. He’s watching every movement. I start using my hand and just licking the tip, once I’ve wet Eli’s shaft with my eager mouth. I glance Asher’s way and find him close to the edge. He’s ready to come just watching this. I stop rocking on him and pause licking to give orders.

  “Asher, stroke my clit until I come, and I won’t move again until that happens.”

  He finds the best angle to do it, while I turn my attention on Eli.

  “Eli, I’m going to need you to tell me when you’re close. I want Asher to watch me drink you down so I’ll need to stop sucking and have you finish in my mouth when you’re ready.”

  “Holy fuck, Eden,” Asher murmurs.

  “Don’t worry,” Eli says. “I’ll be ready in minutes.”

  “Think you can speed it up a bit?” Asher asks. “I’m holding off but honestly, watching her lick you is doing something depraved to my brain. I can barely keep it together.”

  Eli laughs. “Hold off. It’ll be worth it.”

  Is it evil to love how much control I have over two gorgeous sexy men right now?

  “Okay,” I breathe out, starting to love Asher’s attentions on my clit. “Go.”

  I start to inch forward onto Eli’s dick again, and hear Asher groan at the movement. His soft strokes are warming me up now, but I’m aching to start moving. My pussy feels like it’s starting to throb around his shaft. I deep-throat Eli and speed up those movements. He moans a little but doesn’t tell me to stop, so I keep going.

  Asher’s other hand strokes my ass as he bites back a groan. He’s desperate to start thrusting but I won’t let him. Not yet.

  “I’m close,” Eli tells me, his voice thick.

  I stop sucking to take him in hand. I lick at the tip and Asher begins to thrust slowly. I open my mouth wider as Eli starts to come, letting Asher watch him fill my mouth.

  Asher starts to thrust harder under me, making my body tense as I start to swallow Eli’s come. He gasps loudly as he comes inside me, shuddering as he holds me close.

  My pussy is tight and my clit is swollen but I haven’t had my release yet. I let go of Eli’s shaft and he comes around and lifts me off of Asher, laying me down on the other couch and spreading my legs apart. His slow, penetrating kiss is a welcome relief to my wet and aching pussy.

  “I just came inside of her,” Asher whispers, falling to his knees by my side.

  His words echo through my head. Eli’s licking me out, tasting Asher’s seed as he does so. It doesn’t surprise me given how kinky he’s been around Nick. I’m only a little surprised he’s letting Asher see this side of him. I love it, and Asher seems to as well.

  I feel Asher rip my dress to free my breasts. Well, that’s new. He fastens his lips around my left nipple and hardens it, flicking his tongue over the rigid flesh. I moan as Eli’s languorous kiss begins to bring me to ecstasy, stroking Asher’s head at my breast and Eli’s head at my pussy at the same time.

  My body arches as I start to come. Asher sucks my nipple hard as I cry out, pinching the other between his fingers. My body feels electrified beneath them.

  “That was amazing,” I say, breathlessly.

  “It was,” Eli agrees as he sits up, and wipes his palm over his mouth. “I hope you’re ready for more, because the night isn’t over yet.”

  A slow grin spreads over my face as Asher finishes his job with the dress and drops the remnants on the ground. It’s the best news I’ve heard all day.

  Chapter Fifty-One

  Nick

  Elise is out of it, hooked up to machines and looking as frail as the last time I laid eyes on her. She’s unconscious, but I’m glad I came. Seeing she’s alive has calmed my racing heart.

  “When did she start using again?” I ask Tanya, who hugged me when I arrived and has kept her hands to herself ever since.

  She wipes at her eyes again. “I don’t know. I honestly thought she was clean. She had a new boyfriend. Seemed like a nice guy with a job and actual prospects. I don’t understand how this happened.”

  I do. No-one else can fix the broken parts inside a person like Elise. She needs to do that herself, and I don’t think she could ever quite figure out how.

  “Will she go to rehab again?”

  Tanya shrugs. “Maybe. It was tough on her the first time, but it worked.”

  The longer I stand by Elise’s bedside, the more helpless I feel. This woman is one of the reasons I quit sleeping around. One of the first wake up calls I ever got that I was screwing up my life and using countless women without considering way they might want.

  We were never intimate, but finding her on the street that night, silent tears streaming down her face and hearing the heartbreak in her voice as she told me what her creep boyfriend did was enough to show me how empty my life had been. I had to find a way to protect her, so I gave her a job and rented her an apartment of her own.

  “You think she’s dreaming?” Tanya asks softly.

  “Maybe,” I say, thinking the medication running through her veins is probably giving her a dreamless sleep. I don’t know that for sure. I just remember hearing it somewhere.

  “I hope she’s having nice dreams.”

  “Why did she name me as her husband? When did that happen?”

  Tanya sighs. “I don’t know. The last time this happened was more than a year ago. She did it then, and I thought about calling you but it was right after the second time we slept to
gether and I don’t know. I didn’t want you to think I was calling for other reasons.”

  Now I feel worse. “I’m sorry.”

  “No, I am. I knew you weren’t interested in a relationship but I kept hoping. That’s on me.”

  We fall into an uneasy silence that I can’t find the best way to break. I’m not used to things getting so serious.

  “Are you happy?” She glances at me, waiting for an answer.

  “I am,” I tell her.

  “Congratulations then, I guess,” she says, with a weak smile.

  “Thanks.”

  “If you ever get sick of being with a rock star, you know where I am.”

  I smile, but don’t reply. She’s joking, and I can’t joke back without leading her on.

  “I’ll go get coffee. We could be in for a long night.”

  Chapter Fifty-Two

  Eden

  “Miss Masterson, someone’s here to see you.” One of my day-shift bodyguards comes inside to tell me this, while I’m sitting on the sofa in the slinky violet chemise that designer gave me alongside the clothes from the shoot. He’s lucky he didn’t come in three minutes earlier, when I was naked from the shower and just wondering if I should go back into the bedroom to dress or if I should give my men a surprise and stay naked. I realised I might have a third option when my gaze drifted to the bag. I didn’t know until I looked that there was more inside than my dress from the shoot. There was a gorgeous emerald green cocktail dress and some sexy underwear my guys would love in there too. I’m going to have to send the designer a thank you note.

  “Who is it?” I’m not expecting anyone, aside from Nick who stayed out all night and he would just walk right in anyway.

  “His name is Xander Kraus. He said Ms Frost sent him.”

  I stare at him. What did he just say? I shake my head. “I can’t see him.”

  Can’t I? He’s a potential. So what the hell is Ari doing sending him here? My stomach starts to twist into knots as I realise what must be going on. She must have seen it when we touched. She must know. And she’s Dark Forces. He needs to leave. Right now. I don’t know what she’s up to but I’m starting to freak the hell out.