Sharing Hailey (15 page)

As the call was winding down, Hailey signaled to Tony that she wanted to speak to Jake.

When he handed her the phone, she hurried to apologize before her brother could even say hi. “I am so sorry, Jake. I’ve ruined your vacation. I never dreamed he would attack Nikki. I can’t—”

“Hailey, shut up,” he said gruffly, but without much force. “You didn’t ruin my vacation. I didn’t want to come in the first place. I didn’t want Nikki so far from her doctor.”

“Then why are y’all here?”

“Nikki. She said she’d come without me.”

“Then tell her I’m sorry I ruined
her
vacation.”

“Tell her yourself.”

Before she could answer, Nikki’s voice replaced Jake’s. “Are you okay, Hailey?”

“I’m fine. You’re the one I’m worried about. I can’t believe he touched you. I can’t believe he threatened you. I don’t understand why he’s so angry that he would hurt you.”

“He didn’t hurt me. Just scared me a little. But, Hailey?”

“Yeah?”

“I don’t know how to ask this. I’m not being nosy. I’m just worried about you.”

“Ohhhkay.”

“Has he hit you?”

Hailey closed her eyes and took a deep breath. “Yes.” She didn’t try to justify it. Didn’t try to explain what he’d done. Didn’t sugarcoat it. She couldn’t.

“Y’all need to be careful when you go home.” Her voice was heavy with worry.

Hailey tried to soothe her fears. “We will. You just take care of my niece or nephew. Okay?”

Her next words were muffled. “Yeah, hang on.” Then, clearer, “Listen, Jake wants to talk to you again. Just be careful. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. You could even come to Austin and stay with us for a while.”

“I appreciate the offer. I’ll keep it in mind.” But no way was she bringing trouble to her brother’s home. She’d already ruined their vacation.

“Okay, here’s Jake.”

“We’ve got a flight out this evening,” he told her. “We’ll be home by tomorrow night. Keep me updated on you plans. Call me day or night if you need me. Understand?”

“Yes. I’ll be fine. Don’t worry about me. Just take care of Nikki.”

“Listen to Mark and Tony, okay? Maybe stay with one or both of them until this blows over?”

She glanced at the men bracketing her. They’d heard that. As loud as Jake was, they couldn’t help but hear it. Their eyes widened in surprise that Jake had gone over to the dark side. He hadn’t just given them his blessing. He was encouraging her to live with them…at least, temporarily. “I’ll think about it.”

“Good enough.” He sighed, and when he spoke again his voice was lower, more emotional. It sounded like he was fighting tears. “Hey, little sister…I love you.”

Wow. He didn’t say that very often. She knew he loved her. It just wasn’t something he said. “I love you too, big brother. I hated leaving with you so angry.”

“I’m sorry about that. You know how I am. Yell first, think last.”

Only about people he cared for, like his family. Well, his family and politics. Oh, and Aggie football. She couldn’t help but smile.

After she and Jake hung up, no one said anything for a while.

Hailey finally broke the silence. “He sounded a lot better…about Nikki, anyway. I think it helped him to talk to you. Thank you.”

“I’ll try to call him more often while Nikki’s pregnant,” Tony said. “He just needs someone he knows he can trust to tell him she’s going to be okay and explain the medical lingo.”

“Do you really think she’s going to be okay?” Hailey asked.

“Yeah, I do.”

Just like that, she believed him.

“Any problems with the front desk?” Tony asked.

“We are now registered under the name Mark Carpenter.”

Hailey giggled. “Seriously?”

“I figured it would be easy to remember.”

“Brilliant,” she said. “Have you done this before?”

“Nope, but I think I’m a natural.” He picked up the TV remote and turned on the large, flat-panel television in the corner. “We need a distraction.”

“You said Tony went to get something to distract me.” She turned to Tony. “What did you get?”

He didn’t answer. Just shook his head.

“I thought it would be something good,” she said, suddenly worried that another distasteful surprise awaited her.

“Don’t worry. You’ll enjoy it. But the timing needs to be right. I’ll show you tomorrow.”

“Tomorrow would be better,” Mark agreed.

“Can you give me a hint?” she asked.

Mark flipped through the channels while Tony answered. “It requires more energy than you have right now.”

She snorted. “That’s not a hint. I don’t have the energy for anything but vegging in front of the tube.”

Neither man said anything.

Hailey ran her tongue over her teeth. Even after drinking the soda, she tasted barf. “I’m going to brush my teeth.”

Both Mark and Tony stood up and began to follow her to the bathroom.

“Guys, I can do this alone. I’m almost certain Daniel isn’t hiding in our bathroom.”

“Okay,” Mark said reluctantly.

They needed to do something to feel useful. “I’ll be back in a few minutes. Find a good movie to watch. No car crashes, no chase scenes, no blood and guts. Something funny.”

She shut the bathroom door behind her and locked it. After brushing her teeth, she sat on the edge of the garden tub and flossed. How long she could drag this out? She needed some time alone to think, to figure out how to stay safe once she got home. After tossing the floss in the trash, she began pacing. She didn’t like feeling helpless, like a damsel in distress. But thanks to Daniel, that’s exactly what she was. She’d never considered self-defense classes, but maybe she should look into it. Karate or judo or something. And maybe a security system at her house.

A knock on the door interrupted her.

“You okay, babe?”

“Yeah, I just need another minute.”

“You want
The Devil Wears Prada
or
The Break-Up?
”

The second choice startled a laugh out of her, and not because it was a Jennifer Aniston movie. “
The Break-Up?
Are you serious?”

“That’s what I thought.
Prada
it is, then.”

A plain brown bag next to the men’s sink caught her attention. It hadn’t been there this morning. Could this be Tony’s distraction? She opened the bag and peaked inside.

Two boxes of condoms and two different kinds of lubricant.

And since she didn’t need vaginal lubrication, she assumed they were for anal sex. They had one thing right. This was certainly a distraction.

Control.
The word popped into her head like the speech bubble of a cartoon character.

Sexually, they’d dominated her. And she’d enjoyed it, had even learned some things about herself. But it was time for a change.

It was time for her to take control.

Chapter Fourteen

Hailey awakened a little after five the next morning. With Daniel stalking her, sleeping with the doors or windows open hadn’t been an option, so she couldn’t hear the surf or birds. It was quiet and still.

Light from the partially open bathroom door slashed across the floor and the foot of the bed, bleeding into the rest of the room and faintly illuminating the men on either side of her. Mark on his stomach, Tony on his back.

The sheet covered Tony from the hips down. Mark was sprawled on top of the bed linens. They were both gloriously nude. Judging from the sheet tented over Tony’s groin, he was ready to go.

Perfect.

She crept out of bed and tiptoed to the bathroom. After discarding her T-shirt, she freshened up then found the lube where she’d left it last night—a box of prepackaged, single-use tubes of lubricant and a bottle of water-based gel.

She pressed the palm of her hand to her nervous stomach. Did she dare? How would they react? Would they be okay with her initiating sex play? Would they respond to her directions as easily as she’d responded to theirs, or would they ignore her?

She drew in a couple of deep breaths to calm the butterflies and bolster her courage. Before she could talk herself out of it, she opened the box of condoms and grabbed a handful.

She carried the supplies to the bedroom, divided them between the two nightstands, then went to the end of the bed and eased back in between Tony and Mark. Sitting cross-legged between them, she opened the bottle of gel and poured it in her palm, then flipped the lid shut, laid the bottle on the bed in front of her and rubbed her palms together to warm the gel.

Where to start? Tony was positioned perfectly. One gentle tug of the sheet would reveal all. But the dips and curves of Mark’s hard ass tempted her. His narrow waist and hips flared out to defined back muscles and broad shoulders that begged her to run her hands along them and test their strength.

But there were the smooth muscles of Tony’s chest, his biceps, rock hard even in sleep. The tip of his erection peeked out from the sheet. Yeah, she’d start with Tony.

Taking the sheet between her thumb and finger, she eased it down and off his erection. He was darker than Mark…everywhere. Even his cock, which twitched when the sheet slipped over it. She touched one finger lightly to his skin along the inside of his thigh and dragged it across his quad, over his hip and around to the head of his cock. With the pad of that one finger, she touched the slit in the head. His cock jerked. She circled the velvety tip, so exposed, so vulnerable.

She heard his breath catch and peered up between strands of hair to find him watching her, his lips parted, one arm thrown above his head and the other at his side, fingertips digging into the mattress. She wrapped her palm around his shaft and easily slid her lube-slickened hand to the tip, then back down to the base.

His hips lifted off the bed, and he moaned.

She put a finger to her lips. “Shhh.” She nodded in Mark’s direction and mouthed, “He’s asleep.” Not that she believed that, but she could pretend.

Getting to her knees, she straddled Tony’s hips. Hand over hand, she stroked, heightening the throbbing between her own legs until she lifted his cock and pressed it against her. Heated flesh against heated flesh. She tilted her hips forward and back, leisurely gliding along his shaft, enjoying the slow buildup. His balls tightened, and she stopped. She wasn’t ready for him to come yet. She skimmed her hands along his abdomen and chest to his shoulders. Her nipples grazed his skin and puckered in response.

She bracketed his head with her forearms and kissed his jaw before whispering against his ear, “Good morning.”

“It sure is,” he murmured as he cupped her breasts and brought one nipple to his mouth, touching it with just the tip of his tongue, sending ripples of desire through her body.

The mattress shifted next to her, and she tilted her head to see Mark on his side propped on an elbow, watching them. His other arm rested on his hip, his hand fisted just above his cock.

She’d never considered genitals particularly attractive. Didn’t matter if they were male or female. In fact, although they felt wickedly delicious, they really were rather ugly. And the hair growing around them didn’t make them any prettier. But when she looked at Mark and Tony’s cocks, she saw strength and beauty.

“I put some things on your nightstand,” she said.

He flipped his fist over and opened his hand. In his palm was one of the single-use tubes and two condoms. “I found them.”

Now what? Would they take control?

“What do you want me to do with them, babe?”

Her breath caught. Relief and anticipation mingled. Embarrassment heated her skin. Every inch of it. They’d had no trouble telling her what to do, and in the most graphic terms. If she wanted control, she couldn’t be shy or squeamish. Tony’s hands grazed her sides before resting on her hips. She sat up, the movement pressing the steely, hot length of him into the soft, warm shelter of her sex.

Her gaze flicked to Mark’s erection then back to his eyes. “I want both of you…” Her voice was so low she wondered if they could hear her.

Mark cocked his head, waiting for her to finish.

“…in me.”

He dropped the condoms and lube then touched her shoulder and let his fingers drift down her arm. “At the same time?”

Her nod was jerky.

“Where?”

“Everywhere.”

Tony’s hands tightened on her hips, but it was Mark who spoke. “You’ve got three tempting places that we’d love to slide into. Four, if we count the valley between your breasts.” He grasped the base of his cock and slid his hand to the broad head. “Five, if we count those sweet hands of yours.”

She stopped breathing.

“Unfortunately, Tony and I only have two dicks between us.”

Her skin flushed hotter.

Tony’s thumbs brushed the hood of her clit, and he rocked his hips, sending pure pleasure from her sex to her fingers and toes. But it was Mark’s words and his hand on his hard cock that had her licking her lips in anticipation.

Deliberately holding his gaze, her words spilled breathlessly in a rush. “I want you both to fuck me in my ass and my cunt.”

Tony’s cock jerked against her folds. Mark got to his knees and moved behind her, straddling Tony’s thighs until his cock settled in the cleft between her cheeks. His chest pressed against her back. His scent mingled with Tony’s. He wrapped one arm around her and splayed his hand against her belly, holding her tightly. With his other hand he brushed her hair over her shoulder and pressed a warm, openmouthed kiss against the nape of her neck.

His splayed hand slid down her belly to her mons, where his fingers tangled with Tony’s. The intimacy reminded her of their kiss, and her breath caught for a moment. She watched Mark slip a finger between her sex and Tony’s cock and continued to hold her breath, wondering how Tony would react to Mark’s hand touching him. When Tony didn’t protest or flinch, she relaxed and breathed.

Mark dipped a finger into the juices dripping from her. “Ah, fuck, she’s ready.”

He grabbed one of the condoms and gave it to Tony, then pressed her down flat until the side of her face rested on Tony’s smooth, muscular chest. She rubbed her cheek against his skin, reveling in his musky scent.

Mark placed his palms on both globes of her ass and teased the sensitive nerves of her anus with his thumbs. She arched back into his hands. He spread her juices around the sensitive puckered hole, while Tony teased her clit. The cool plastic of the lubricant tube caused her to clamp down as Mark slid it in.

“Relax,” he said.

She breathed deeply, in and out.

“Good girl,” he crooned.

The tube slid out, and his thumb circled her anus. Tony placed a hand on the back of her head, turning her until his lips captured hers. When his tongue thrust inside her mouth, Mark pressed his thumb against that forbidden hole and thrust in time to Tony’s tongue, not breaching the rim but stimulating the nerves into a frenzy of sensation. When he pushed past the barrier, her eyes widened and her breath hissed out at the scraping pain. She held her breath, hoping it would ease.

Before she’d had a chance to adjust, Mark’s finger slid out, and he moved to the empty half of the bed. “On her side,” he said.

Tony rolled, settling her on her side facing him. He eased her top leg across his hip.

Hailey didn’t know what to do. She didn’t want to give up so easily. The anal teasing had felt so good. But penetration had hurt just with his thumb. She hadn’t expected that. What would something as large as his cock feel like?

“Breathe,” Tony said.

She obeyed.

Mark sandwiched her and murmured against her neck. “This position will work better, babe.” His fingers, now dripping with lubricant, traced a circle around her anus. “You won’t be able to take our cocks—” he tapped the puckered hole, “—here, right now, but we’ll work up to it.” He paused. “When we’re done with you, you’ll feel so good you won’t give a damn.”

She tensed as he shifted away from her. But he simply kissed her shoulders and ran his callused palms over her skin.

Tony claimed her lips briefly before kissing his way to her breasts. His teeth gently took one bud and tugged while he rolled the other between his thumb and forefinger.

She reveled in their touches, their attention to every bit of her body. They’d taken control from her, but it felt too good to take it back. Maybe control was overrated. At least when it came to sex.

Mark kissed down her back, and by the time he reached the base of her spine and spread her cheeks, she’d begun to believe that the pain was an anomaly. When he circled the puckered rim with his tongue, she was convinced of it.

With Mark’s tongue on her anus, Tony thrust his sheathed erection inside her. Her mind emptied as every nerve in her sex became engaged. A finger slid past the breach of her anus. No stinging. It didn’t move, just rested there. Then Mark toggled his finger against the rim. She gasped as the sensuous tickle intensified with just that small movement. Tony began a pelvic grind that not only kept her filled but also stimulated her clit. All the new sensations combined with the old, sending her into a powerful orgasm unlike any she’d ever experienced.

She was barely aware of Tony’s climax. Didn’t feel his cock spurting. She did feel him slip out, leaving her momentarily empty, bereft, before Mark replaced him, filling her, thrusting from behind once, twice, then stiffening and coming as her orgasm faded to twitches.

Plastered together with sweat, gasping for breath, they clutched each other as if they were falling. When her mind cleared and her breathing slowed Hailey released her death grip on Tony’s shoulders and drifted to sleep, safe between the two of them.