Page 181 of Malice and Surrender
“Sure, I believe that.” I stood and stretched.
“Get that smug fucking look off your face,” Kai growled as the sounds got louder. He took a step in the direction of the stairs and stopped as if he couldn’t help himself. Kai slammed the glass down on the table before balling his hands into fists. It was easy to tell it was taking everything in him not to get involved. Trying to kill Avro was also possible.
“Sorry, no can do. I’ve been told that I have a resting asshole face.” Kai crossed his arms over his chest but didn’t move further for the door or the stairs. “I guess make yourself at home. You can sit here and listen, leave, or join, I don’t care, but I’m not missing out,” I said.
“Oh, like hell you are leaving me down here alone,” he growled as he stomped along like an elephant behind me. I wasn’t sure if he was making sure they knew we were coming, but the stairs shook with each step. If Avro saw that, he’d lose his mind, but I didn’t think this was the best time to mention it. Score one for me on not being a total asshole.
As soon as we rounded the corner to the bedroom, I knew we were the butt of a joke. They were jumping around and making noises as they tossed pillows at one another.
Raine stopped first. “Yes, I win. Pay up,” she said, laughing.
“What the fuck is happening right now?” Kai tentatively stepped over the threshold like it might swallow him whole.
“They’re jerks, is what’s happening. Got me all hard for nothing.” Leaning against the door frame, I couldn’t be angry even if I wanted to.
“Who said it was for nothing,” Avro asked.
His amber eyes practically glowed with the sun’s rays pouring through the window. He whipped off his T-shirt and threw it at me. I caught it a second before Avro pushed me against the wall and captured my lips. Whatever else was happening was forgotten as his body pressed into mine.
I had no idea if this would ever work, but a part of me felt that Kai and I had at least come to a truce. Don’t fuck with me, and I won’t fuck with you. It was simple, and yet I could only hope it held. I didn’t give a fuck about me, but the idea of Avro behind bars for something I did, lanced my heart. I’d never let that happen. I’d kill Kai first or die trying.
Kaivan
What the hell was going on? Avro marched across the room and threw his shirt at Jace before attacking him. I’d never been into guys, and if Roach kissed me like that, I’d kick his fucking ass, but I had to admit there was something hot about the two of them together.
My body jerked like I’d been electrocuted as Raine’s hands slipped around my waist. She pulled at the bottom of my T-shirt and slid her hands across my abs. I sighed and felt like growling at the same time as she drew her nails along my skin. Fuck, that alone had me hard.
Grabbing her arm, I pulled her around so she was in front of me. “Not very nice to trick me.” I loved the devious glint that was staring back at me.
The girl I knew was still in there. She’d been buried and hidden, but the more time we spent together, the more of her I saw. She didn’t bother to cover the faint bruise where I’d bit her days before. My thumb rubbed over the mark, and she shivered under my touch, biting her bottom lip.
“We had to get the two of you up here somehow,” Raine whispered, and my heart pounded so hard that I needed to take a moment just to admire her.
“I fucking missed you.” I needed to taste her and wasn’t waiting a second longer. Dropping my lips to hers, I kissed her hard. She gripped the front of my jacket and moaned as I bent her body backward. Our tongues fought a battle that neither of us backed down from.
“Oh fuck,” Jace yelled. Breaking the kiss, my hand went to my gun, but as my eyes found him, he was definitely not in any position to attack me. He leaned against the dresser with his jeans around his ankles while Avro went to town on his cock.
“Never mind them right now. Just keep looking at me.” Raine’s voice was soft as a whisper, her breath fanning my neck just before she pressed her lips against my skin. “This is no different than the clubhouse,” she said, but it was different.
I’d made a statement, a proclamation to everyone there that she was mine and I was hers. This felt very different. Even if Raine and Avro hadn’t been up here having sex, they’d been together and would be again. The rage that stirred was dangerous and explosive, and it scared me how much I wanted to kill them and fuck Raine between their dead bodies.
“Please, Kai.” I looked down and met Raine’s pleading look. Her eyes were the only thing pulling me back from the edge of insanity. She pushed the leather jacket off my shoulders, and it fell with a thud to the floor. “This is for us. Don’t think about the time we’ve lost, but what we can have. You know I love you.” Raising up on her toes, she nipped at my ear, and my hands gripped her ass, pulling her flush against my body. “Are you really going to let Jace and Avro have all the fun? Are you going to let them show us up?”
“I know what you’re doing, Tink, and you’re not playing fair.” She knew I loved a challenge. The harder, the better. I’d always been that way, and she was poking at me, but it worked. My cock was hard and begging to be buried inside her. To make her scream where they could see it and know that no matter how many times they fucked her, her heart was mine first.
“Maybe, but it’s the truth. I missed you too.”
Tilting Raine’s head up with my finger under her chin, I stared into the eyes that had gripped my heart like barbed wire and never let go. “Did he really tattoo you?”
Raine’s face flushed a bright red, and she licked her lips. “Yes.”
“I swear to fuck, I’m going to bury his body somewhere no one is going to find it,” I growled, my head snapping back to the two men that had changed positions. Jace didn’t glance my way, yet it still felt like he was laughing at me.
“Kai, I let him, he didn’t force me, but you’ll always be on the front where everyone will see it first. It was only fair. There are three of you, and I can’t play favorites as much as each of you would like that.”
“I don’t like this fair crap. I don’t like any of this,” I said and grabbed her hand, pulling her over to the large seat in the corner of the room. “Take your jeans off. I need to see this.”
Her hands went to the top of her jeans and unfastened them in record time. I smirked as she wiggled them down her body. Standing straight, she stretched her leg to show off her new ink. I glared at the signature on the inside of her thigh. Then she turned to show me the outside of her leg and Avro’s name. I should’ve fucking had a ring of my name done all the way around, but the prick would’ve just picked another spot. Tattooing her whole body with my name suddenly didn’t sound crazy.
