Flesh 01 (29 page)

“What game?”

His beautiful face dipped, firm lips aiming for hers.

She turned her head aside. There Daniel lay, twirling a strand of her damp hair around his finger. His face was impassive, concentrating on her damn hair without meeting her eyes.

She was on her own as promised. The wanker.

Finn rested his forehead against her cheek, his breath warm on her skin. The heat of his body pressed her into the mattress and everything became good and right. He made breathing an effort.

“Look at me.” He rubbed the tip of his nose against her cheek, waited. Sighed and kept on when she didn’t comply. “The game I’m referring to is the one where you start a fight when you’re scared. The same game where you don’t say what you mean. Those kinds of games, Al. Do you love me?”

“What?” Ali tried to turn her face back to him. She needed to gauge his feelings, figure out where he was going with this. But now he didn’t let her move. His face pressed against hers, lips sliding along her skin, stopping near her ear.

“You heard me,” he prodded. The feel of his mouth moving against her skin sent shudders through her. Resisting him was doomed to failure, she should have learned that by now.

“Finn.”

“Answer the question. Truthfully.”

Her mind reeled. The rabbit fought harder than ever, rattling the bars of its cage like a lion. “You know I do.”

Finn said nothing, lifted his head. His face eased and he nodded. Nothing more.

She swallowed hard. Stared back up at him. “I mean it.”

His angel’s lips curved into a smile. “I believe you. Now tel me what the real problem is.”

She turned her face to the other side, eyebal ing the bulge of his bicep. He was so strong, willing and able. His strength set the perfect example. They both were perfect, and they were far more than she deserved. Not that she would give them back.

The rabbit kicked hard, frantic. Letting them down terrified her. It was a nasty little knot inside herself. Being petrified of everything all the damn time made her sick to her stomach. Up on the roof she’d sworn to sort al this out and she would. Right about now.

Ali shut her eyes tight and opened her mouth. “What if this crap against me involves you two? What if they go after you, if they hurt one of you? I couldn’t … I can’t be the reason for one of you getting hurt. It was all I could think of last night. What if you tried to come get me while it was dark? You would have died.” She couldn’t look at them without her eyes going hot with tears. It felt like there was a stone in her throat, but she had to tell them everything. There was no turning back now. “And this place. I’m not sure I like it, but you two love it. You’re like local gods here. You fit right in. What if I never do? Some asshole here already wants me dead or infected. And what if I get pregnant? How do we protect a child? Let alone the lack of modern medicine. I’m not sure I could do that without drugs.

Dan and I forgot to use a condom the other day. What if one of you decides you don’t feel like sharing anymore and opts out? What if

…”

She pressed a hand against his chest, turned her face away again. Finn’s heart beat reassuringly against her palm.

“Actual y, that’s it,” she said after a minute. “I’m al whined out.”

Silence. More silence. It was really quiet out there.

She dared a peek. Finn lifted a brow at her in response.

“I think I’l wait for both eyes.” He took his hand from her crotch, set an arm on either side of her head. The tangy scent of her lingered on his fingers. “Still waiting.”

Ali opened her eyes, stared back at him. He was so beautiful. Her defenses were shredded, lying in tatters around them, but she put on a brave face. “What?”

Finn frowned. “Where to start …”

Dan cleared his throat like a pretentious bastard. “I find chronological order works best. Clear, concise, that kind of thing.”

She snorted. They ignored her.

“Right.” Finn shifted against her, getting comfortable. The heat of his cock rested against her inner thigh, hard and heavy. He made it near impossible to lie still. Fear and lust made for odd bedfellows, but lust was winning.

“Point one, Dan or I getting hurt? We’re both capable. We’re both on the alert. Point two, this town?” He turned to Dan, questioning. “Was it this place? Is that next?”

Daniel gave one judicious nod and got back to playing with her hair.

“Right, this town …”

“Hold it. You can’t just discount one of you getting hurt,” she said, her voice strained. “Not that simple.”

“Ali, I can’t promise you Dan or I won’t get hurt. I can promise you we’l try our best not to,” Finn said. His throat worked and his pale green eyes searched her face. “We’ll be careful.”

“Absolutely. I hate getting hurt,” Dan interjected, al sincere. “Pain does nothing for me.”

The hint of a smirk on Finn’s lips became a full-blown smile, as beautiful as the rising sun. Heaven sent. A dimple flashed and he licked his lips, the gesture doing things to her nether regions, even if it did nothing to soothe her nerves. “See? All due diligence.”

“Great. I’m so glad my concerns amuse you both,” she bit out, sounding the bitch. And not particularly repentant. Egotistical wankers, the pair of them. “Thank God we’re done with that.”

Dan rolled onto his back, finger stil entwined with her hair, tugging just enough to keep her attention. “Ouch. Babe, we just spent the night wondering if you were alive, unable to do a damn thing to help you. A little levity won’t hurt things. You haven’t told her you love her yet, either, moron.”

“Fuck’s sake,” Finn said. “I was getting there.”

Dan clucked his tongue. “You were taking too long.”

“Thought I was handling this.”

“Again, you were taking too long.” Dan rose up on one elbow, taking a strand of her hair with him. He stopped when she yelped and gently untangled it from his finger. “Oops. Sorry. Anyway, Finn loves you, babe. So do I. You already knew that, right?”

She held out a hand to him, and he took it, holding on tight. Yes, she knew it. Hell, she counted on it.

“Give me strength.” The voice against her neck was muffled. The tone, however, was perfectly clear. “I don’t suppose he’s a passing fancy?”

“Sorry.” Ali wrapped an arm around Finn, holding him close against her heart. Something she hadn’t been sure would happen again when she’d been stuck on the roof. It had been so dark, so lonely.

She clutched at him till the muscles in her arm ached, ignored the pain and hung on some more. A low rumble sounded his approval.

She was so wet, pinned to the bed beneath him, her sex throbbing.

Finn rubbed his lips over the sensitive skin below her ear.

“You know you’d miss him if he wasn’t here,” she said.

It earned her a sharp nip to the neck. The sort of sweet sting she associated solely with Finn. “If you say so.”

Daniel squeezed her hand. The three of them together thrilled her all over, inside and out. Already the scent of sex seemed to linger in the room. Her head swam with it.

Finn’s cock rubbed against her. He swore fervently. “The only thing I can think about is being inside you bare. But you’re hurt.”

“Not that hurt.” Al pressed her short nails into his back in warning. “Don’t even think of stopping now, or I will definitely go for the guns.”

Daniel chuckled, sighed and rolled onto his back beside her. “So, children, are we making babies or sleeping? Just wondering.”

“Oh, we’re making babies alright.” Finn’s hand trailed down the side of her body with a happy hum. Fingers stroked the length of her thigh, then lowered to her knee where he dallied, delivering feather-light touches. She rolled her hips, rubbing herself against him. It felt so good, her heart racing for al the right reasons. “Put your legs around me and tell me again.”

“That you’d miss Dan if he was gone?” she said, smiling as Finn began to press into her. The slow stretch was perfect, the heat and hardness of him just right. A ragged groan slipped from her lips.

Utterly shameless.

“That you love me, and I can be inside you without a condom,” he corrected in a voice gravelly low beside her ear.

His hand glided up from her knee and cupped a butt cheek, bringing them closer together. “Never done that before with anyone.

God, I love how wet you get. Love how …” Finn groaned against her ear, the sound vibrating through her as his cock did a long, slow slide into her body. “Fuck. There, right there, as deep inside you as I can get.”

“Finn.”

Ali didn’t know what to say while he gave her the full body tingles. It felt too good. He was all the way inside her, buried to the root, his pelvis flush against her and angled to rub just right.

She was still overexcited from his earlier touches and toeing the edge already. “I love you, Finn.”

“She’s blushing.” Dan chuckled, still holding her hand like they were on a date while Finn fucked her. The whole set-up made her dizzy with want.

“She’s being seen to,” Finn replied.

A bark of laughter escaped the big man beside her. “She certainly is.”

Ali ignored the both of them. It happened to be a simple enough task, given the sensations engulfing her.

Finn rose up above her, pale green eyes hazy and half-lidded, beautiful beyond words.

He pulled out of her, pushed back in, owning her heart with the force of his gaze. Being loved like this deserved sonnets, bal ads – the most she could manage was a stuttered “oh, w-wow, Finn.”

“Yeah,” he rumbled. “You see? We fit perfectly.”

Having long since been converted to a true believer, she could only nod.

His cock stroked all sorts of magic places inside of her, places going crazy for the attention. Sweat pooled between her breasts, trickled over her bel y. The heat made her insane. Her fingers slipped against the smooth, slick plains of his back. He was just as hot and overexcited as she was.

The connection was everything.

“Hold on,” he murmured, moving his hand from her butt, slipping it between their bodies and touching her. “Listen to me, Al. Are you listening?”

“Yes. Please, Finn, I need to come.”

“You will.” He circled her clit with the tip of his finger. Round and round till she couldn’t think straight, could only feel. The pressure nearly hurt, building to a pinnacle inside of her she couldn’t possibly contain. Overwhelmed, she clung to him. He played her so soft and subtle, but not quite enough. Then his words were there, making everything just right. “I would never leave you by choice. I will always want to be whereever you are. I love you. Do you understand that?”

“Finn …” Her climax hit her hard, stealing the breath from her, making her body shudder and shake beneath him. The whole world went away. She wasn’t the least bit scared, bound to him like this.

“There we go,” Dan murmured.

Finn swore profusely and held on tight, hips pressed hard against her. He was still there when her vision cleared. The tendons in his neck strained, pulse visible. Still hard and buried deep inside her. “That’s what I wanted, the full body blush. I can make her cheeks pink by talking dirty any time, old man.”

“Old,” Dan snorted, shook his head. “And it doesn’t make it any less fun.”

“True.” Finn’s hand moved back beneath her butt and hoisted her upward, angled her pelvis higher so he was rubbing her still-sensitive clit. She didn’t know whether to push him away or pull him closer. But she clamped her thighs around him tight on the off-chance he had any intention of trying to escape. “But nowhere near as much fun as this.”

Dan shifted closer, got within whispering range. “That’s my girl. Does it feel good, having his cock inside you?”

She nodded, beyond words.

It was dirty, decadent, to have Dan whispering in her ear with Finn above her and inside her. They had never all been in the bed at the same time for anything other than sleep. By some unspoken agreement, one of them had always made himself scarce during intimate moments. They had shared her fairly, equal y, and apparently by common consensus.

Having the both of them present was a whole new thing. Everywhere it counted, she loved it. Her head, her heart and every inch of her body craved it.

Her pussy contracted around Finn’s cock, making him groan and grin at Dan. “Man, keep going. Keep talking to her. She loves it.”

She might have suffered some embarrassment if she hadn’t been otherwise occupied.

Dan, of course, took up the invitation with a squeeze of her hand. “You do love it, don’t you? Having both of us here in bed with you?”

Her mouth fell open but nothing that made any sense came out.

“We weren’t sure it was what you wanted,” Dan informed her. “But then, you can be a very dirty girl sometimes.”

Another shaky nod.

He lifted her hand to his mouth, kissed her fingers, stopped and sucked at the tip of one. “I can’t wait to be inside you.” He moved up the bed, placed her open hand over the hard length of his cock. Curved her fingers around him. The feel of his hot bare skin was enough to make her lick her lips in want. Wanting to pleasure him. To please him. “That’s it,” Dan said.

Suddenly Finn pulled out of her, sat back on his haunches. She wanted to kil something at the loss but wasn’t given a chance.

His hands reached beneath her arms, turning her before her sex-addled mind could work out quite what he was up to. “Finn?”

“Ass up, Al.” Hands pulled her hips into place, and she set her elbows beneath her. “You want him in your mouth, don’t you?”

“Yes.”

“What a wonderful idea.” Dan moved into position in front of her. Those muscular thighs, dusted in dark hair, the flat planes of his stomach. Not to forget his penis. Thick and full, the tip weeping salty pre-cum. “Babe?”

“Please,” was al she could say.

Dan’s fingers rubbed at her scalp. “Best idea ever.”

“I hate to see a grown man cry.” Finn slid back into her, his body bumping against her ass with each thrust, hands tracing over her spine.

Dan’s chuckle ended on a groan as she curled her tongue around his cockhead, drawing him into her mouth. He fed his cock to her slowly, one hand threaded in her still-damp hair. Eagerly she took him in. The taste and feel of him against her tongue like a drug.