Elle didn’t know how he did it. He was tired. Physically and mentally exhausted, and he was in considerable pain from the pounding he’d taken. Dallas stayed all four days, giving Merrick a thorough assessment each morning.
The fifth morning, the late nights and endless appointments had caught up with Elle, and she was sleeping soundly when Merrick slid out of bed to meet Dallas.
She stirred and automatically stuck her head up, bleary-eyed, ready to be with Merrick, but Cade slid his strong arm around her and pulled her back down next to him.
Merrick bent over the bed, smoothed her hair from her forehead and then kissed her. “Stay in bed, baby. I won’t be long. Dallas is heading home this morning, and he wanted to check in on me one more time before his flight to Denver.”
“Love you,” she murmured.
The smile split his face and wrinkled his lean jaw. “Love you too.”
She watched lazily as he dressed and then left the bedroom of the suite. Then she turned, seeking Cade’s warmth and the comfort of his body. She snuggled tightly against him and sighed in utter contentment when he wrapped his body around hers and held her close.
His cock was rigid and straining at his boxer briefs, and without thought, she let her hand wander down his body to cup the bulge between his legs.
“Watch it,” he murmured. “You have no idea how much I want to fuck you right now.”
She kissed his neck, inhaling his scent as she nestled even closer, her fingers sliding delicately over the ridge in his underwear.
“And this would be a bad thing?” she whispered. “But you know, if you’re going to, I’d suggest doing it now before Merrick gets back. He gets sort of demanding after Dallas gives him his checkups.”
Cade chuckled. “Are we too much for you, sweetheart?”
Over the last three days, since the incident in the locker room after the fight, the two men had fucked her together, separately, in as many ways, positions and locations as possible. And every morning, without exception, the minute Dallas left their room, Merrick very possessively made love to her.
For so long, the men had treated her so very gently, as though they were afraid of pushing too hard and too fast, and then when they’d finally broken the ice and consummated their physical relationship, she’d been hurt so they hadn’t made love to her for several weeks.
But now? It was as if the floodgates had been opened and they were making up for lost time. They couldn’t seem to get enough of her, and she couldn’t get enough of them.
She reveled in their possession. The tenderness with which they made love to her but also the rough edge of their possession where she could tell they were holding a tight rein on themselves because they didn’t want to hurt her.
“Never too much,” she said against his skin. “Never enough.”
“Climb on top of me,” Cade said in a husky voice. “I want you astride me.”
While she pushed away the sheets, Cade quickly divested himself of his underwear, and then she swung her leg over his muscled thighs and tentatively reached down to run her fingers over his length.
“Put it inside you.” Cade’s eyes darkened with excitement, and he reached for her hips, his fingers digging into her skin. “Take me whole, honey. Hard and deep.”
Breathless with excitement, she rose up on her knees and slid the head of his cock over her clit and through damp flesh to her opening.
He seemed so much bigger this way. He stretched her, filling her as she eased down his length. His eyes never left her face as she took more and more of him, but when she came to rest at the base of his cock, he closed his eyes and inhaled deeply, his entire body shuddering with pleasure.
When he reopened his eyes, they were glowing with arousal. There was a dark, primitive spark there that made her shiver.
His hands left her hips and skimmed up her arms, rubbing lightly over her skin and then to her breasts where he toyed with her nipples.
“Tell me something. Have you ever imagined taking me and Merrick at the same time? Like this, you on top of me, but him behind you?”
A delicate shiver began in her legs and worked its way up her belly and into her chest until the hairs at her nape stood out.
“Yes,” she admitted. “I think about it, but I don’t know how it would be possible. You and Merrick are so… big.”
Cade chuckled. “You’re good for my ego. Yeah, we’re big and you’re small. But you were made for us, honey. And we’d be careful with you. We’d never hurt you.”
“I’d love to try,” she said honestly.
“You might get your chance sooner than you think,” Cade said wryly.
His gaze had moved beyond Elle, and Elle turned to see what he was looking at only to find Merrick standing in the doorway, his eyes hooded and hungry. His pants were already unzipped and shoved down past his hips.
“Do you want this, Elle?” Merrick asked in a strained voice. “Do you want me to take your ass while Cade’s in your pussy?”
“I trust you,” she said.
Without another word, Merrick went into the bathroom and returned a moment later with a tube of lubricant. He was also minus his pants. He dropped the tube on the bed and hastily finished undressing.
“I’m going to need to move you, honey,” Cade said. “Just stay where you are. Let me do the moving. I like you just where you are.”
With Elle atop him and his cock still buried in her body, he rotated around so he was cross-ways over the bed and his legs dangled over the edge, his feet planted on the floor. It put her at the very edge, accessible to Merrick.
“Lean forward, into me,” Cade whispered. “And relax. If at any time you want us to stop, say so.”
She nodded and leaned her body forward into Cade’s hands. He stroked her breasts, tugging gently at her nipples. He caressed every inch of her belly and chest until she squirmed restlessly around his cock.
When Merrick’s hand came down over her ass, it was instinctive to flinch. But then he kissed her on the cheek and murmured, “Relax, baby. I’m going to take my time here. I won’t hurt you.”
He fingered the opening of her ass, tracing a line around the tight ring. Then the cool glide of lubricant traveled the same path. With the blunt tip of his finger, he pushed inward, adding more lubricant to ease the passage.
Her breath skittered over her lips, and then she sharply inhaled when his finger slid deeper.
It was an utterly wicked sensation to have both openings breached. Raw hunger gripped her. She wanted this. Wanted both men inside her, possessing her, staking their claim.
She shuddered when he eased a second finger inside her opening. Her entire body went tight, and she sat rigidly atop Cade, holding her breath so she didn’t orgasm this soon.
“Okay?” Cade asked, his eyes flashing with concern.
“Not yet,” she said from behind clenched teeth. “I’m so close. Don’t want it yet.”
Merrick kissed her shoulder and then nipped playfully at her skin. “No, not yet, baby. I need you on edge when I put my dick inside you. If you’ve already come, it’s not going to feel as good.”
He kissed a path over her shoulder and down her spine. He held his fingers still inside her, waiting for her to come down from her impending release.
“Easy,” Cade soothed.
She planted both palms over Cade’s chest, loving the hardness of the muscles and the supple feel of his skin beneath her fingers. This was hers. He was hers.
They were hers.
Merrick ran his fingers up and down the cleft of her ass, spreading the lubricant liberally around her entrance. Then she felt both hands cup her cheeks and gently spread.
She went still, and Cade automatically lifted his hands to her waist, holding her and caressing up and down her sides in a soothing pattern.
