Newmar, Lola - Unzipping Levi [Scarlett Rose and the Seven Longhorns 4](Siren Publishing LoveXtreme Forever) (9 page)

Jones smirked and rolled his eyes. “Jameson, not every bitch on earth wants your dick.”

“Yeah they do.” Jameson turned and watched a few groups of people enter the club. “All right, little one,” he addressed his six-foot-three baby brother, “let’s go have some fun. Get our dicks wet, hopefully find the strawberry girl, and finally get that fucking money once and for all.”

Jameson had received an e-mail from an insistent woman named Alisa. She sounded a bit desperate, but from the nude photo she’d attached to the e-mail, he supposed she could fill a little of his free time should he get bored with any of the subs at Whipped Cream. She’d been particularly interested in his “animal illusions” as she’d called them.

In their experiences with human women at sex clubs, even when the men shifted certain body parts, it seemed like the woman’s logical brain could never let them accept that what they were seeing was in fact reality. It was pretty hysterical. But no matter what, the women were always hot and ready for it. Being a panther-shifter seemed to bring out the primitive, cave woman streak out of them.

Alisa had directly requested as many brothers as he could gather, and she wanted them all to perform the “illusions” on her. Normally, he’d be a little turned off by the blatant desperation he smelled in her message, but he’d sensed something else when he read her inquiry. It was as if she had some sort of ulterior motive on top of lusting for his shifter cock. Whatever it was, he’d find out soon enough. His Dallas to-do list was growing by the hour, it seemed.

Chapter 8

Sonny stopped walking halfway down the hallway and stopped in front of several framed pictures of him and his brothers, most of them taken during rodeo competitions. It was so funny looking at them. There was no way anyone would ever know the Lenox brothers were anything more than a band of normal, All-American cowboys. But their shifter genetic makeup hadn’t been the only dark secret they held. They all harbored skeletons and baggage after how they’d been abandoned by all their parents. Even Sonny, as happy as he generally was, tried his best not to let his mind wander to the painful pit he held inside.

A soft, sad sound coming down the way made him pause.

Scarlett.

He followed the low whimpers coming from Byron’s room as he walked down the dimly lit hallway. Once they’d arrived back, Levi had gone on a long run while the rest of the Lenox brothers did their best to comfort the distraught Scarlett. She’d opted to sleep with Byron tonight since he wouldn’t be getting up anytime soon.

For the last hour, Sonny had stared at his ceiling as he wondered what Scarlett was thinking after tonight. She’d told them in detail about what had happened in the diner. He couldn’t say he blamed Levi all that much for reacting the way he did, but his brother had failed to protect the most precious thing, and that was Scarlett’s heart. When he heard the small sounds down the hall, he felt relieved he wasn’t the only one awake in the house.

He gently pushed Byron’s bedroom door open until it was open enough to see his little mate curled into a ball in front of his brother. Byron was fast asleep with his arm draped around her from behind. She wore a simple, wife-beater top and white cotton boyshort underwear.

“
Psst!
”

Her blue eyes looked up at him, and he could see in the dim light that they were slightly puffy and red. He motioned for her to come out into the hallway. She looked over her shoulder at Byron as if she were making sure he was, in fact, asleep, and then she slowly lifted his arm from her body and slid off the bed. She tiptoed out of the room and carefully closed the door behind her.

Not able to wait a second more, he turned her to him and held her small, soft body against his. His cock had an immediate reaction, and he felt it grow against her upper belly. He buried his nose in the top of her head, loving the soft smell of her shampoo. She wasn’t crying anymore, he noticed, and he was relieved to know she was no longer emotional. Scarlett was much easier to deal with when the waterworks weren’t on full force.

“Let’s go back to my bed. I want to talk a little, get something off my mind.”

She nodded in response, so he lifted her easily and walked her back to his bedroom. His small side lamp was still on, keeping his large bed in the early morning shadows. His bedroom was large, spacey, and simple, mostly everything white and minimal.

He placed her on the mattress, and she retreated under the covers as he pulled down his pajama pants. He cuddled in beside her, reveling in how silky she felt as she pressed against his side, her head on his chest.

She was quiet for several moments before she broke the silence of the room. “Sonny, do you really think this is going to work?”

“All we can do is hope, right?” He smoothed her feathery hair down as he spoke. “Shifter or not, every relationship is one day at a time, and they require you to work every day in order for it to be a healthy one.”

He felt her nod against his chest. “Want me to tell you a little about Mama?”

Her body shot up, and she turned to him, disbelief in her eyes. “Really?”

He nodded, and she smiled wide in return.

“Mama used to dance to the radio while she made dinner and waited on our daddies to get home. It seemed like just the coming of their arrival brought sunshine to her.”

Scarlett was still smiling when he looked at her.

“But one day, she stopped. One day, she just stopped making dinner like she used to, stopped dancing to the radio.” He took a moment to think about the way he felt. No one had mentioned their mother in years. He’d always managed to keep the memories tucked deep inside so he wouldn’t have to deal with them. But he took a deep breath and held it together because this was something Scarlett needed to know to understand the Lenox clan a little better. “She was a human, and she eventually found that taking care of such a big family wasn’t something she really wanted. She complained that my dads worked too much, didn’t show her enough attention. Soon, the postman started coming more than just once a day, if you know what I mean.”

He felt a little comforted when Scarlett gave him a little smirk, inappropriate as the joke was. Her sadness was like a heavy weight on his chest that made it hard to breathe. “Then out of nowhere, she just packed her bags and left. My four dads took it very hard. They all became extremely depressed. So Leo had to step in and raise us boys while he was barely a man himself. After only his first year at school, he had to move back home to take care of all of us. He had to travel two hours into the city and back for class, and taking care of so many kids held him back a few years, but he got himself through medical school through all the chaos. A few months after Mama’s death, a neighbor found Papa Neil and Papa Nick, the twins, dead in the lake across town. Cops said they’d had too much to drink and drowned. Two weeks later, Papa Wyatt ran his pickup into a telephone pole while Papa Michael rode in the passenger seat. They were both skunk-drunk and neither had their seat belts on. I still wonder whether it really was an accident, though.”

Her soft arms wrapped around his neck as she laid down on her tummy closely beside him, her left thigh covering his, and she rested her chin on his chest. “That’s so tragic. So awful. I just wish I would have known how much y’all have been through before I judged Levi like that.” The silver sparkles of tears in her blue eyes glittered in the dim lamp light, and he couldn’t resist brushing away the small lock of raven bangs hovering above them.

“Don’t feel guilty, baby. You’re right. We all need to heal and move on from the past if we’re going to have any sort of future as a family.”

“Sonny,” she began nervously as she worried her plump bottom lip. “Does Levi think I’m going to end up being like your mama?”

“Maybe.”

Her raven hair shifted side to side as she softly shook her head. “That would never happen, Sonny. I know you boys don’t really believe me yet, but I’m not going anywhere. I love you just as much as you love me.”

From the earnest look on her face, he knew she was being honest with him. At that moment, she really did love them as she claimed. Although he was aware of the fact her love was no guarantee from day to day, unlike Levi, he was smart enough to know that the present mattered much more than the probable future.

He realized his cock was now rock hard from having her silky thigh resting atop of it, making him shift a little underneath her. “How ’bout you climb on top and give me some of that love you’re claiming?”

Her eyebrow arched, and she smiled wickedly before slowly climbing on top of him. Her silky legs straddled him, and she moved in a short, slow rocking movement over him, making him groan with pleasure as the cotton material covering her hot pussy rubbed into his cock. He reached under the hem of her night top and pulled it over her head. Her soft breasts looked back at him, teasing him with their sheer beauty and fullness. He smiled when her body quivered at his touch as he cupped each one. He loved how easily she responded to him and his brothers, and his cock twitched with the encouragement she gave.

He didn’t realize he was staring at her until she shifted as if she were uncomfortable and held her forearms over her naked breasts. “You’re looking at me like you’re studying me.”

His eyebrows knitted together. “Crazy you say that because I guess I kind of am. When I look at you, I try to take in every curve, every beauty mark, so that I can remember it all vividly when you’re not with me.”

“But if you look too long, you may end up seeing something you don’t really like,” she said shyly.

“Try me.”

That irresistible blush he’d come to love so much swept across her pale cheeks. They looked like two little peaches. Watching them change color caused his temples to ache as the horns pushed against his skin. He growled and released the short horns.

He leaned up on his forearms and captured one of her hard nipples in his mouth.

“Yes,” she hissed out then grabbed the back on his head, arching her body into him further. He swirled his tongue around the hardened nub, and her hips began to rock provocatively over him, silently begging for more. “Kiss me.”

The nipple popped out of his mouth as he looked up to meet her sweet lips. As his tongue intertwined with hers, he softly then harshly pinched each of her nipples. Her moans grew louder, and the sweet smell of her arousal became stronger, causing his control to slip just a little more. With both hands gripping her boyshort panties, he quickly tore them in half.

Suddenly, his bedroom door squeaked open, and Levi walked through. He felt Scarlett stiffen as she watched him slowly walk over. Sonny held his breath for what would come next.

He smiled in relief when Scarlett held her hand out to Levi, and he took it.

“I’m sorry I lost control of my temper earlier, darlin’,” he said as he stepped closer to Scarlett who still straddled Sonny on the bed. His face leaned in closer to hers, and Sonny could see in his eyes that his identical brother felt immense remorse for the pain he’d caused their mate.

“I’m sorry I didn’t take the time out to understand first,” she replied just before their lips met. The romantic kiss quickly heated, and Sonny could feel the damp mound resting on top of his cock shift, causing him to moan.

* * * *

She felt Sonny’s cock jumped happily as he stroked his gentle fingertips along her exposed, wet pussy. She moaned into Levi’s mouth as Sonny spread her cream over her engorged clit. “Damn, baby, you sure do like being shared. This pussy is already ripe for us.”

Levi broke their kiss to remove his clothes, and she drank in the sight of large, muscled perfection in front of her, the mirror image of the gorgeous man she straddled. Her heart skipped with nervous excitement as Levi then took position behind her. His warm body pressed against her back, his hard erection resting along her spine.

“Oh, Levi, I’m so sorry,” she whispered as her head fell back on his left shoulder.

“Shh.” Levi passionately kissed the side of her neck as if he were starving for her taste. She felt him softly cup her breasts from behind, using his thumbs and forefingers to firmly yet gently pinch her nipples. Her body arched with desperation for more pressure there. “It’s a new day, darlin’.”