The couch squeaks, and out of the corner of my eye, I see Sniper fling Piper back onto the pool table, her legs wrapped tightly around him. Interesting.
Tatiana squeezes her legs against my thighs, pressing her pussy against my jeans to draw my attention back to her.
My head glides to the side and I beg Pyro with my eyes to fucking help me. I only have so much strength.
He chuckles as he stands and lifts Tea from my lap, and I sigh in relief, shocked to find my cock is almost fucking hard. I look down at my lap and frown. That’s never fucking happened before.
Huh.
“Seems my niece has a wild side,” he says as he fights against a wiggling Tea.
No shit!
I can’t even process what the fuck has happened. Not only did I fucking kiss Tatiana, but my dick fucking almost got hard without me causing her any pain. That hasn’t happened since I was a teen.
***
A few hours later…
Tatiana is once again in my lap, and for the first time I can ever remember, I’m wiped out from doing nothing. Worrying about her all night, and fighting for my dear life to keep her from raping me, has been exhausting as hell, and my eyes fight to stay open as I hold her. I don’t know where Piper and Sniper took off to, but it quieted down after they left.
“Let me sleep here,” she mumbles as the high wears off.
I push the sweaty strands of hair away from her face, relieved I have my glasses back to hide my eyes so I can stare at her. She’s so fucking beautiful, and it makes me ache all over. For the first time since meeting her, I wish I could have her, if only once, without paying a price for it. Tatiana is the kind of girl that’ll develop too much emotion, and I can’t hurt her. I won’t. Yes, the irony is not lost on me as I think that. I mean I can’t hurt her emotionally. She’s too good for all my troubled bullshit.
“She’s something special, isn’t she?” Pyro yawns beside me.
“Priceless.” Sighing, I look over at him with my walls down.
He tries to fight off his smile. “I’m headed to bed. You good?”
She’s fucking wiped out, coming off a high she’s never experienced before, and Pyro knows her well enough to know if it is safe for us all to sleep.
“I’m good,” I reply as he stands and lays his jacket over a sleeping Tatiana.
“Night, brother,” he says before yawning again and walking away.
I let out a breath and tilt my head to the side.
You’re not going to make this easy on me, are you, darlin’?
When she stirs and wiggles closer to my chest, I realize this is going to be the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my fucking life. Denying her is going to be so damn painful.
***
Chapter Six
Shadow
Something kicks me awake, and now, I am straight up pissed off. I was sleeping hard, too. Nothing could prepare me for a steaming hot ZZ and a laughing Storm holding a tray of coffee, standing in front of me, though. Fuck a flying duck. I throw my hands in the air when I realize they are still gripping Tea’s ass, and whisper, “Nothing happened,” as I deposit her onto the couch and stand.
“Nothing happened,” he yells.
I shush him as I look over my shoulder to make sure he didn’t wake her.
“Other than her attacking my mouth, no, nothing happened. She did Ecstasy last night, and a few of us stayed up with her until she came down.”
Storm swallows her laugh and gulps when she sees ZZ’s jaws flex.
“Who gave her the X?”
He isn’t about to turn me into a fucking rat. He knows better. What the hell!
“You know it was Piper, so don’t even get like that,” Storm chastises.
Hey, as long as that shit didn’t come out of my mouth.
ZZ sighs his aggravation as he bends down to pick her up off the couch. Tatiana nuzzles against his shoulder as her sleepy eyes crack open.
“I did Ecstasy last night, Daddy,” she whispers.
Storm can’t hold her laughter any longer, and her body shakes uncontrollably as she lets it fly.
“I’m daddy right now, huh?” he says as he kisses her forehead.
“I’m sorry, I won’t do it again. I feel like hell,” she mumbles.
I bet she feels like hell. I never pray, but I want to. I want to pray that she remembers absolutely none of this. But something deep in my gut tells me I won’t be so lucky, when she peeks over at me as ZZ turns to walk her out.
“Attacked your mouth, huh?” Storm asks as she hands me a coffee.
I don’t reply until I’ve gulped down half the scalding cup of Jo and light up a smoke. It’s way too damn early to be answering 101 questions, but seeing as she cares about Tatiana as much as I do, I’ll tell her.