“I’m sorry.” Knox swiped at his face. “I didn’t know.”
“That’s my fault.” Brody took another step forward, “Because I tried to shelter you from that pain and grief. Your family loves you in ways you will never grasp, baby. And I never wanted you to know how bad it was for me my entire life. It all just boiled over when you seemed so unphased by Lex’s triggers and acted like you weren’t capable of understanding how to be cautious with someone else’s heart. Because since I was eighteen years old, I’ve hidden this wound to protect your heart.” Brody turned to me and I stared back with tears streaming down my face. “I just wanted to keep you both from hurting. But I turned out to be just like him.”
“No.” I shook my head and crossed the kitchen to him, unable to stay out of it any longer. “You’re nothing like him!” I cried, wrapping my arms around his neck and clinging to him. “I’m so sorry you lost her that way.”
“I shouldn’t have kept it from you.”
“No, you shouldn’t have,” Knox interjected, walking to us hesitantly as I untangled myself from Brody’s arms. “You should have trusted us with your pain instead of shielding ours.”
“I know that now.” Brody sniffed, “I know, Knox. I’ll never forgive myself for putting you through this.”
“Never again.” Knox grabbed the back of Brody’s neck and pulled him forward aggressively, kissing him. “Don’t you dare ever hide anything from me again.”
“I won’t.” Brody clung to him, and I felt a sense of relief trying to lighten my anxiety. Were we going to be okay after all?
“And if you’re riled up like that and run off at the mouth again, I’m knocking you the fuck out instead of running from it!” Knox declared, “I’m fucking fighting for this. From now on.”
“Me too.” Brody declared and sighed as they both took a deep breath, fighting off the emotions that threatened to pull us all under for good. “Fighting tooth and nail. For all three of you.”
“I like the sound of that,” I spoke up, pulling Lex toward us, who watched it all with tears in her eyes and a proud smile on her face as the guys worked it out.
“Me too,” Lex added, sliding her arms around Knox’s waist as Brody pulled me into his. It was like with us all together, we could work our way through whatever came up.
“So who wants bacon?” Brody joked weakly, nodding to the full spread laid out behind us on the counter. “I burned the shit out of my abs with that grease splatter, so you’d might as well enjoy it.”
“I think I’ll enjoy it more knowing you suffered a little,” Knox smirked, and though I could tell it was a bit brittle, it gave me hope that with time we’d all be fine. Perfectly fine.
Chapter 31- Knox
“You’re killing me smalls, you know that, right?” I groaned as Hannah sashayed excitedly down the blacktop, swinging her hips back and forth as she tested the abilities of that mini skirt.
She glanced over her shoulder, blowing me a kiss with her bright red lips before turning back around.
“She wants us to break our knuckles tonight,” Brody added from my side as he lowered his sunglasses to watch her plump ass cheeks peek out from under the skirt as she jumped up and down at the railing.
Lex looked at us and then laughed out loud as we caught up to them. It was drag night, and Brody had recommended it as a date night opportunity. At the time, it sounded like a great idea. But that was two days ago, and I regretted the decision with every ounce of my body.
After our breakthrough in the kitchen, we spent the next couple of days locked away, learning.
Learning about each other again as if I hadn’t known Hannah and Brody for more than half of my life, while simultaneously learning about Lex and her incredible life. It had been easy and relaxed and while there was still tension between Brody and me; we were on the right track.
The only problem I had with the entire time spent bonding and getting to know each other was we didn’t fuck.
Not once.
No one came.
And while I had meant it when I told Hannah that my balls ached from how many times I had come that night with her and Lex, they had more than recovered. Yet still, no one fucked.
No sex, even though we were all physically touching, all the time.
Cuddling. Kissing. Embracing.
We played board games and read or worked on art in the bright sunshine in the living room while enjoying the peacefulness.
It felt like we were four teenagers who didn’t know how far we were going to go but were enjoying the build-up on the way.
The problem was that we were all ready to burst, and the sexual tension had been building to insurmountable levels. It was just a game of who was going to beg first.
And with the way the girls looked tonight, it was easily going to be me.
Hannah’s red pleated mini skirt gave naughty schoolgirl vibes and the white lace tank top she wore with it made my knees weak because it was so sexy and low cut. It was no surprise to learn it had come out of Lex’s closet when they went to her place to restock her clothes and essentials at our place.
It didn’t escape my attention that she went to get more clothes, but she didn’t return any of her other ones, she just accumulated more at our house.
And I fucking loved that because I wasn’t ready to let her leave anytime soon.
I woke up the last few mornings with one or both of them wrapped around my body, and I was desperate to keep it that way.
I pressed up against Hannah, pinning her to the tall concrete wall as the two dragsters lined up for the next race. “You’re being naughty,” I growled into her ear, pushing my cock against her lush ass.
“I am.” She giggled, looking at me over her shoulder as she rocked back against me, rubbing my cock with those cheeks. “I have a bet with Brody that you’ll break first.”
“Fucker.” I growled, looking over at our guy where he smirked with Lex boxed in like I had Hannah.
He shrugged and winked. “It’s going to be so good when you beg for it. I’m going to enjoy the show before I give it to you.”
Lex licked her lips and turned in his arms and seductively adjusted her thin white tank top that matched Hannah’s over her black leather miniskirt, drawing his eyes to her big juicy tits. “Did you know,” She purred to him, running her hands up his chest, “That Knox can make me come on his tongue in thirty seconds flat?”
