Confined Love (7 page)

“We are. It’s just the four of us. That’s as alone as I hope
we’ll ever get.” Radek’s words pierced my heart and brought the smart of tears
to my eyes. I shuddered, thinking of potential reasons that might limit our
numbers. It wasn’t something I wanted to think on, much less experience.

His head bent close to me and his lips laid claim to mine. I
moved my hands from their grip on Xanthus to wrap around Radek and hold him
close. Kain’s lips finally sucked on my nipple, tugging it high against the
roof of his mouth. Xanthus’ tongue flicked over my clit, while two fingers
filled my sheath.

Radek swallowed my cries of pleasure as my orgasm built
within me. I’d come to realize something. Being an Enforcer hadn’t been my only
dream. I’d had another dream. One I’d never voiced even to my closest friends.

Emma and Mandy knew me better than anyone, but I’d held a
key part of myself away from them. They’d seen the fighter, the one motivated
to reach full-fledged Enforcer status, earning the tiger my uniforms now had.
They’d seen the party girl, the one always dancing, smiling and engaging in
sex. But there was another part of me as well. The one who hid, too afraid of
rejection to share herself.

That was who I was discovering now. The woman hungry for
love, for a male to call her own. And this was my chance, for more than just an
active-duty assignment. This was my chance to see if love was a possibility for
me, with not just one man, but three. I could fall for them. Who was I kidding?
I
was
falling for them and their words made me think I might just
convince them I was worth their love as well. I was no longer afraid.

So I held on, held tightly to the three men who rocked my
body with orgasm after orgasm. They rotated around me, each taking a turn tonguing
my pussy. Each sucking my nipples and rubbing my breasts. And each sharing a
passionate kiss with me. I grew more lax, my body softening with each new
orgasm until I was nearly boneless on the bed.

Soft lips caressed my skin as I slowly came down from the
latest orgasm. I couldn’t have moved if I wanted to. My eyes, which I hadn’t
realized I’d closed, fluttered open. They were all smiling at me. The girth and
length of their bobbing shafts reminded me that, although I’d come several
times, they had not. Still they smiled and said nothing. And there I went,
falling head over heels with no guarantee that my love would be accepted, much
less returned. No guarantee that what we shared right now would always be, that
it wouldn’t fade.

Yet still I held my hand out and it didn’t matter that only
I knew that my heart came with it.

“Take me,” I asked. “Make love to me.” I didn’t realize my
words at that moment, how I used the term to make love instead of my normal
choice of fuck.

Radek came to me first, slipping between my thighs and
plunging deep. I held him while he rocked in and out of me. I thought I was
beyond another orgasm but I was wrong. He brought me up with him and held me
balanced on the knife edge for what felt like forever.

“Now,” he whispered and began a fast and furious pace that
sent me flying high. I felt the heat of his cum fill me as I clung to him.

“I’ll never let anything happen to you, Soph. Never.” His
lips placed a soft kiss on my brow and then he was gone.

“Ready for more?” Kain whispered the question as he took
Radek’s place and plunged home.

My knees rose of their own accord to grip his pumping hips.
My nails found purchase on his shoulders. I arched my back, rising into him,
pressing my breasts against his chest. Kain was all rigid muscle as he took me,
all masculine energy and grace.

“Can’t hold back,” he groaned as he slid a hand down between
our bodies where we joined as one. His sure fingers found the swollen bud of my
clit and rubbed over it.

My cries had to echo around the room. My body was drenched
in pleasure. I shuddered against him, holding tightly as I felt him come inside
me. Hot jets of white heat filled me, warming me from the inside out. I didn’t
want it to end, didn’t want him to stop, but it was inevitable.

Kain’s lips brushed mine softly. Back and forth they
caressed while we both panted. “There will never be a time when you won’t be in
my thoughts. I would fight unto death to defend you.”

“Shhh,” I whispered, placing my fingers to his lips and
stilling his words. “No one will die for me.”

But I could see the sincerity of his vow reflected in the
ebony pools of his eyes. He slipped free of my arms without saying another
word. But those he’d spoken still sounded in my head. Please, goddess, let none
of these men die for me.

“No tears, Soph.” Xanthus filled my vision, his fingers
wiping the moisture that I hadn’t even realized had fallen from my eyes. “I
won’t allow any of us to die.”

I smiled. If pure will could grant such a thing then Xanthus
spoke only the truth.

“I know.”

“Then don’t allow doubt or worry to fill your mind.”

“Are you going to make love to me?” He had yet to slip
between my thighs and I really wanted to feel him there.

“Every day for the rest of our lives,” he vowed.

My breath caught and that stupid rush of tears filled my
eyes again.

“Shhh, Soph. Just let me love you.”

Xanthus turned me on the bed and tugged until my knees hung
off the side of the bed. Only then did he step between my thighs. He placed his
hands on the backs of my thighs and lifted them high and wide.

“Just lie back and feel.”

And that is just what I did. My eyes slipped closed as the
first thrust seated him deep. Xanthus was slow and easy. His hands caressed my
skin, touching and igniting a passion I’d thought already spent. His hands
moved to the front of my thighs and he straightened my legs against his chest
until my heels found purchase on his shoulders. Xanthus leaned into me then,
his cock hitting deeper than I thought possible.

“We’ve always felt like there was something missing. We’ve
been together so long. So long that we often act as one person instead of
three. I know what they are thinking before they put it in words. And they know
me just as well.”

He drove deep, his cock filling me and then retreating,
leaving me empty. I wondered if they would ever know me as well, if I would
know them with that type of depth. I wanted to. I longed to have that intense
bond. But that wasn’t something that could be commanded with a signed document,
creating a quad unit. That was something much more human in nature.

“So when I speak to you, know that my words are not just my
own.”

“What?”

Xanthus smiled. “How many times must I tell you to stop
doing that?”

“Stop doing what?”

“Overthinking.”

“I’m not this time. I’m just thinking.”

“Stop. That’s an order.”

I wanted to laugh but he was making me moan instead.

“Feel, Sophia. Feel and listen.”

“Yes,” I panted.

“I think I finally figured out what was missing for Radek,
Kain and me.”

“What?”

“You, Sophia. We were just waiting for you.”

I cried out, jerking my legs wide and dropping them to wrap
around his waist and tug him to me. Xanthus fell on top of me, his hands
catching his weight and preventing him from crushing me into the bed. But I
wanted him to.

We held each other just as I had with Radek and then Kain.
We clung and reached the heights together, tasting orgasm as I tasted his
tongue.

Later, as we all lay in bed, I was comforted by the sound of
their even breathing in sleep. It was amazing to me how much I’d changed in
only a few short days. I was no longer the Sophia Burrelis who had sat in Lt.
Certze’s office and agreed to form a quad squad with three Alpha Enforcers I
didn’t know. That tiger symbol no longer held everything for me.

Kain mumbled something, shifting in his sleep and reaching
out to cup my hip where I rested on Xanthus’ chest. I was soothed by the steady
rise and fall of his chest beneath my ear. Radek was on the other side of us,
our fingers entwined. I felt treasured and loved whether the words were spoken
aloud or not. We had all found what was missing from our lives, and I truly
believed that soon the words would spill from our lips.

I am an Enforcer. I’ve trained for it all my life. Soon I
will enter the battleground fighting an enemy that I am still only learning
about. Here I am exhausted from the pleasure given to me by my men. Yet at this
moment it was the faces of the women I’d seen during my briefing that filled my
mind. I was tormented by the pain and anguish I’d read in their eyes. I wanted
to save them, to set them free from the life they were even now enduring.

But I wanted more than that. It wasn’t enough for me to save
them. I wanted to know where they had been taken from, how they had been hunted
and captured. And I wanted to see to it that no other woman ever endured such a
fate.

“Sophia.” Xanthus whispered my name.

“Yes?”

“Stop thinking and go to sleep.”

I smiled against his chest and let the gentle motion of his
hand caressing up and down my spine soothe me. My eyes floated shut on a sigh
of acquiesce. Xanthus was right. Worrying and thinking would grant me nothing
but a morning finding me more tired than when I sought slumber in this bed.

It had taken a twist of fate to see me officially an
Enforcer. Only by agreeing to become a willing member of this quad unit had
opportunity opened up for me and I didn’t intend to squander it. I would be the
best Enforcer that I possibly could. Even more important to me was that I kept
Xanthus, Radek and Kain safe and happy. There was no going back, no changing of
mind or heart.

My confinement was lifted. I was no longer on the outside
looking in, just waiting for the opportunity to prove that I was good enough.
For the first time in my life, I felt as if I had everything. There was no
doubt that I would do whatever it took to keep it, and them. After all, I am an
Enforcer, and we don’t know the meaning of the word quit.

Lacey Thorn spends her days in small-town Indiana, the proud
mother of three. When she is not busy with one of them, she can be found typing
away on her computer keyboard or burying her nose in a good book. Like every
woman, she knows just how chaotic life can be and how appealing that great
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