Devotion (Club Destiny #7) (32 page)

Glancing down at the piece of paper and then back up at them, Sierra smiled. It was the most beautiful smile he’d ever seen.

“I’ve learned from some very open and honest people, who have been so kind as to share their experiences with me, that we aren’t the only ones who have wanted something more… how should I say this? Permanent?

“Hold this,” Sierra handed him the piece of paper, “but don’t read it.”

Luke grinned. He was just about to do exactly that. Watching her, he noticed that she had a small black velvet box in her hand that had been hidden behind the paper. She slowly opened the lid and reached inside before looking back up at them both.

“I’m not willing to marry just one of you because I wouldn’t be able to choose and quite frankly, I don’t want to. I want to marry both of you. I don’t need the State of Texas to give me permission to do this in order for me to make it official. When you read the paper – not yet, when I tell you to,” Sierra inserted the last part as Luke was just about to look down at the paper.

The crowd behind her laughed.

“I want this to be binding because no matter what, my heart belongs to both of you and it always will. I know that the two of you feel the same about me, as well as one another,” Sierra said as she swallowed hard. Luke wanted to reach out and pull her into his arms. He fought the urge.

Sierra reached out and took Luke’s hand, sliding something over his left ring finger and then doing the same to Cole before she looked back up at them, more tears filling her beautiful blue eyes.

“What you’re holding might not be a marriage license honored by our great state, but it is a legal contract. It’s real. Paper or not, I need you both to understand that you belong to me. Today, tomorrow, forever.” Glancing down at the rings and then back up at them, Sierra continued, “I had them engraved.”

Sierra pulled her ring from her finger and held it up for them to see. Luke noticed that she did have the original rings they had given her, only now they were soldered together to form one.

“All three of them say the same thing,” she said, her voice breaking. “Everlasting Devotion.”

As though her last words opened the dam, Sierra’s tears began flowing steadily, and Luke was unable to stop himself from reaching for her at the same time Cole did.

Applause broke out behind them as the three of them stood motionless in front of a sea of people witnessing this moment right alongside them.

~~*~~

“I have a question,” Cole said when they took a step back from one another after she managed to silence her sobs somewhat.

Startled, she looked at Cole as he stared down at her, a serious expression on his handsome face.

“Did my mischievous brother help you to get this taken care of?”

Sierra noticed Luke glance her way, but she didn’t take her eyes off of Cole. She settled for a sheepish little smile, one that she hoped would soften the lines on his face.

When she’d talked to Tag, he had been more than happy to help her get the legal documents necessary to make the changes and he’d actually been happy for them. Tag had told her that although they’d had a reception of sorts, he felt as though they’d possibly missed a step. Sierra took that to mean that Cole had obviously talked to his stepbrother at some point, which only reaffirmed her reason for wanting to do this.

In their attempt to ensure their friends and family were at ease with their decision, they’d managed to deny themselves one thing. Granted, they didn’t
need
a piece of paper, or even rings, but they did need the openness that they’d been missing all along.

It was clear that what she felt for them, they felt for her, but they hadn’t confirmed as much in words. Now, they had the opportunity to go beyond words, making it as legal as they possibly could to show that they were in this together.

“So, what do you think was going through Tag’s mind when I asked him to help
me
?” Cole asked, reaching beneath his tuxedo jacket and pulling a piece of paper from his back pocket and holding it out for her to take.

Sierra cocked an eyebrow as she took the paper from his outstretched hand, feeling the presence of so many eyes still on her, probably all waiting for this to be over with. She unfolded it slowly, then started at the top. Cole had essentially had the same contract drawn up as she had, only there was one addition. Out of all of the legal mumbo jumbo listed, the one thing that stood out clearly was the request for a name change from Hannah Gabriella Ackerley to Hannah Gabriella McCoy-Ackerley.

With tears in her eyes and a sob escaping, she handed the paper to Luke and moved into Cole’s arms, her eyes never leaving Luke’s face.

She knew the instant he read that part because his eyes got wide and she was almost positive she saw a sheen of moisture, but he quickly masked it and grabbed her arm, pulling her against him at the same time he pulled Cole in close. Sierra wished she could be as
strong
as they were, but she couldn’t
control
the sob that tore from her chest. Never had she believed she would be so lucky as to share this unconditional love.

And the fact that these two men had enough love in their hearts to share with her
and
each other only made it that much more
significant
.

Chapter Thirty Two

Luke was finally beginning to feel his limbs once more. There for a little while, he thought he was having a heart attack. As if Sierra’s impromptu little ceremony hadn’t sent his heart soaring into another realm, Cole had to follow it up with his request to change Hannah’s name. From the second he saw the words, he’d pulled Sierra and Cole into his arms to keep from breaking down in front of so many people.

Hannah was going to have his name. Although she shared part of his name – Gabriel – as her middle name, this was beyond what he ever anticipated. In his heart, she was just as much his daughter as Cole’s, but now…

“I love you,” he whispered to both people standing within the circle of his arms. Looking up, Luke forced the
lump
in his throat down as he pressed his lips to Cole’s. When he pulled away, he cupped Sierra’s face in his hands and kissed her, tasting her tears and feeling her love as it bubbled there for everyone in the room to see.

He knew without a doubt that the three of them had been working toward the same thing all along, and maybe they needed this formality to ease some of their insecurities, but in Luke’s heart, he knew where he belonged.

Another round of applause broke out around them, and thankfully Trent’s voice came across the speakers as he took the microphone and began his little spiel about the club.

“Well, I guess it’s no secret as to why we named the club what we did,” Trent told the crowd.

Luke glanced up instinctively at the single word etched in
script
on the glass mirror behind one of the bars. Maybe there had been a reason that he’d come up with that name, and he hadn’t even realized it.

When they’d been tossing around names, Luke kept coming back to one word that reminded him of what he felt for Sierra and Cole. With all of the crazy names that Trent and Xander came up with, Luke was still surprised that the moment he suggested it, the two men had looked at one another and
instantly
agreed.

Devotion

It sort of said it all.

As Luke and Cole led Sierra away from the crowd and toward the stairs, they had to endure hugs and pats on the back from
various
people, some probably the very ones whom Sierra had gotten advice from. Although he wasn’t trying to disappear, Luke needed a few minutes of alone time with these two, and it would give the rest of the guests a chance to get back to normal. Whatever that meant.

When they reached the top of the stairs, Luke went straight to his office. Once the three of them were
inside
, he locked the door behind them and turned to face two of the people he cherished most in this world.

“I’m sorry for putting the two of you on the spot like that,” Sierra began apologetically, but Luke quickly cut her off by stalking her across the room and pressing her into the wall, his mouth coming down on hers as gently as he could
manage
. It wasn’t an easy feat.

Cole was right there with them, moving in close until the three of them shared a kiss hot enough to melt the polar ice caps and then boil the water afterwards. Before Luke had a chance to catch his breath, Sierra stunned him as she easily morphed into the aggressive one, seemingly fueled by her emotions. He didn’t put up a fight when she pushed him down on the couch and straddled his hips. His cock immediately swelled at the feel of her heat against him, and he wasn’t sure they’d get their clothes off fast enough.

“Naked,” Sierra said between kisses, making Luke laugh. “I want you both right here. Right now.”

“I can’t wait that long,” he told her, unwilling to wait until they were undressed. “And anyway, I want you to wear that just a little bit longer.”

Turning to Cole, he locked his gaze with midnight blue eyes that seemed to be hiding the same
emotion
he was feeling. “I’m not wasting any more time.”

Cole didn’t move.

“Honey, I think he needs our help,” Luke told Sierra when she stopped planting kisses along his jaw.

“I think so too,” she said, eagerly reaching for Cole’s arm and pulling him until he stumbled and fell onto the couch beside Luke. With hurried movements, Sierra moved off of him and over onto Cole’s lap, straddling Cole the same
way
she had him.

When she had Cole thoroughly distracted, Luke stood from his seat, making quick work of removing his jacket and then unbuttoning his pants. As much as he wanted to take all night, he knew they’d be expected back down in the club soon so he would have to make this quick. There’d be plenty of time to take his
time
later
, which he fully intended to
do
.

Sierra was already working to get Cole freed from his tuxedo pants as their mouths remained fused together. Luke used the time wisely, going over to his desk to retrieve the bottle of lube from his top drawer. When he returned, he noticed Sierra had managed to get Cole’s pants down over his hips, and she was now riding his cock with her dress bunched up around her waist.

Lord have mercy, the woman didn’t have on panties.

“Sonuvabitch!” Cole cried out when Luke leaned down, easing two fingers inside of Sierra’s ass while fondling Cole’s balls at the same time.

“Fuck that feels good,” Cole groaned, his head falling back on the couch as he began pumping his hips, working his cock deeper inside of Sierra as she rode him hard.

Based on the urgency in Sierra’s movements, Luke knew he had some catching up to do. Watching the two of them go at one another like wild animals right there in his office was certainly not hindering his progress either. This was the first time they’d taken advantage of this office, but he knew it obviously wouldn’t be the last.

“Don’t make me come,” Cole begged, lifting his head and meeting Sierra’s gaze, then looking past her at Luke. “I want him inside of you when I come.”

Luke released Cole’s balls, continuing to screw two fingers into Sierra’s ass as Cole began fucking her with slow, measured strokes.

Getting himself situated took a minute because his legs were so damn long and he needed to get better traction. By the time he was sliding his cock inside of Sierra, Cole had managed to angle his body so that the three of them could almost fit on the couch together. With one leg on the floor, one knee on the couch, Luke began thrusting inside of Sierra while Cole picked up a
rhythm
of his own beneath her.

Luke’s emotions were a tangled mess inside of his chest, and he couldn’t seem to get close enough to either of them right then. Tonight, the two of them had made every single dream he’d ever had come true. There might have been a couple of doubts that disrupted his normal course from time to time, but Luke had given himself to them, heart and soul, a long time ago. To know that they had shared the same
insecurity
was bittersweet.

Between the love he felt for them, and the lust that he constantly battled, Luke wasn’t sure he’d ever get enough. It didn’t
matter
to him whether this was hard and fast, or slow and
easy
. Luke felt them right there with him. Three hearts, three souls, connected in ways he never even imagined.

“I’m going to come,” Sierra whispered. “Make me
come
, both of you. And I want you coming with me.”

Sierra’s demand was fierce, and Luke aimed to please. Locking his gaze with Cole’s he began thrusting inside of her, rocking Sierra back and forth on Cole’s cock until the three of them were moaning in unison, their bodies covered in a fine sheen of sweat as they fought to reach that place that only the three of them could
go
.

“Fuck,” Luke growled, leaning in closer to Sierra’s ear, staring down at Cole’s midnight blue eyes and willing him to see everything that was in his heart right then.

“I love you,” the three of them said at exactly the same time, followed by Sierra’s piercing cry as her orgasm took her, her body gripping Luke so hard, his orgasm leveled him at the same time Cole let go.

Chapter Thirty Three

From the outside looking in, Cole wasn’t sure anyone would think his life was really any different now than just a few short months ago. As he sat quietly in Luke’s office, Sierra’s warmth settled against him as they tried to get their ragged breathing under control, he knew that it was.

Not only had they moved to a house that now reflected the three of them as a whole, but they were the proud parents of a beautiful little girl. They’d taken a risk and
practically
started over with a new club, and on top of that, they’d managed to open themselves up to one another.

It was the last
part
that Cole considered the most significant. Although he couldn’t count on both hands the number of times they’d come together just like they had minutes before, never had it felt
quite
like this. Their love was
real
, there was no doubt about that. He’d known that from the beginning and always suspected it would be Luke who would have the hardest time expressing himself. Turned out that Cole was the one holding back.