damien grinned. “it’s a stupid inside joke. we called ourselves the knights of the round table when we were over there. it was the first thing we thought of when trying to come up with a company name.”
“my knights,” i said softly, kissing his cheek again. “i’m sorry for what you had to go through.”
“i’d say the payoff was worth it.”
i grinned. “yeah i think you’ve all done pretty well for your—”
“i meant meeting you, actually.”
i blinked, my heart flip-flopping suddenly as i met his gaze.
“i mean it when i say we’ve never felt like this, ari. i don’t know what this all is yet, but i know none of us ever want it to stop.”
he kissed me then, before i could say a word, and i let myself melt against him.
“look, why don’t you soak a little longer, and then go change?”
“into?”
“there’s a dress on your bed.”
“what’s the plan tonight?”
damien stood and grinned. “tonight, we wine, dine, and take you dancing.”
“all for me, huh?”
“tonight, arianna, we treat you like the queen you are.”
he winked as he started to move towards the door.
“hey, damien?”
he turned back.
“thanks. for telling me, i mean.”
he held my gaze another second and smiled before ducking from the bathroom.
***
and wine and dine me they did. dinner was fresh caught seafood overlooking the very ocean it’d been fished from, washed down with phenomenal wine, and topped off with laughter and lingering touches and kisses from all three of them. a live island band took the stage as dinner was cleared, and before i knew it, i was being brought out on the dance floor to be twirled, dipped, and swung by all three of them.
i couldn’t remember being this happy. i couldn’t remember ever feeling as close to perfect as i did surrounded by them — laughing, kissing, and just having the time of my life with the three of them.
my knights.
***
later, we were back at the cabana, all of us lounging on the big open deck that jutted out over the water. i was laying draped across the three of them, watching the moonlight and stars flicker across the waves as we sipped cold beers and just sat there in perfect silence.
“this is pretty good,” i said finally.
hunter, who’s lap i had my head on, grinned as he leaned down and kissed me. “agreed.”
damien’s strong hands rubbed my feet. “look, ari, this is…”
“this is uncharted ground for us. for all of us,” sean butted in. “nothing that came before felt like this.”
i swallowed, feeling my pulse skip. “like this, huh?”
“you know what we mean, because you’re feeling it too,” hunter murmured.
i nodded. “maybe.”
sean chuckled, leaning over me to press his lips to mine.
and then he lingered. slowly, my lips parted for him, his tongue slipping inside as the kiss grew fiercer. that familiar fire started inside of me — the fire just being around them seemed to kindle. i moaned softly as sean kissed me deeper and harder.
hunter shifted, moving out from underneath me and letting me sink back into the big lounger we rested on. with feather touches and teasing kisses, the men slowly began to pull the clothes from my body. my dress slipped up, over my head and dropped away, panties sliding down my legs.
i moaned as i lay back in the lounger, watching the men strip down bare, tattooed muscles on full display. i started to sit up, but sean stopped me with a finger to my lips.
“no. tonight’s all about you, baby.”
“what do you—”
the words fell away, and i moaned as i felt the tongue sliding right up the center of my pussy. sean moved away, and i gasped as i looked down to see damien between my legs, his tongue teasing up my slit.
i eased back, panting as hunter joined him between my legs, his lips sucking at the skin around my thighs. strong hands spread my legs and lifted my ass off the cushions, and i cried out as i felt the second tongue slowly move towards my ass. sean knelt beside me, his hands skimming over my skin and his lips trailing over my breasts. he took a nipple in his mouth and swirled his tongue across it, somehow completely in time with damien’s tongue on my clit.
“close your eyes, arianna,” sean whispered in my ear, his hands moving over my body. “just close your eyes and let us do this.”
and i did. my breath stuttered as i fell back into the soft cushions and closed my eyes. the waves crashed , and my pulse beat like a drum in my ear as the three mouths moved over my most intimate places, teasing, tasting, and coaxing the pleasure from me. damien’s tongue swirled over my clit, his fingers teasing my inner thighs, and hunter’s insistent tongue teased slow circles around my ass. sean’s hands massaged and teased over my torso as his mouth and lips and tongue kissed and sucked and worshiped my breasts.
i was falling. i was spinning wonderfully out of control and barely holding onto my sanity as the three men slowly, slowly pushed me higher and higher, until i was gasping and begging for release. i pleaded with them, begging them to let me come as my hips bucked off the lounge chair. but they kept it up; that same deliberate, slow, intense pace until my eyes suddenly squeezed shut.
i went off like a bomb, the orgasm exploding from my throat as my whole body shattered. it felt like i was being thrown into the stars, sent into orbit, and the world blurred at the edge as the three of them tongued and fingered and teased me right into a second climax before i finally collapsed.
i was only dimly aware of the three of them scooping me up and bringing me to the bedroom. i remember just grinning and babbling nonsense as they slipped under the covers with me and pulled me against them as i closed my eyes.
this was better than anything i’d ever felt before, and i never wanted anything to intrude on this moment.
but then, it did.
It was the phone that woke us later. I stirred, frowning at the sound and raising my head from Hunter’s chest where it’d been resting.
The phone went off again as I turned in the sheets and reached for the beside table.
“What's that?” Sean mumbled.
“It’s my phone.”
“Party foul,” a very sleep-voiced Damien chuckled.
I answer without looking. “Hel—”
“Ari!”
Sasha’s voice was chilling and half screaming over the phone.
“Sasha?”
The panic in her voice and the way she sounded like she’d just been running had me awake instantly.
“Sasha, what’s going on?”
“Ari! Ari, I need help! I need help!”
She was screaming then, and I immediately sat bolt upright.
“Sasha, breathe, honey, tell me what’s going on!”
The three men in the bed with me instantly sat up as well, hard looks on their faces.
“They’ve got them!”
My heart skipped a beat.
“Who has—”
“They’ve got Luke and Jordan!”
It was as if time stopped for a second. Sasha kept going though.
“I don’t know who they are, but they want money, and... and…” she trailed off. “Hang on,” she said tightly.
“Sasha, who has them!?”
Without warning, there was suddenly a crashing sound on the other end of the line — the sound of shattering glass mixing with Sasha’s blood-chilling scream.
“Oh my God!” She screamed. “They’re here! Oh my God, they just smashed their way in the front door! Arianna!”
I screamed as I lurched from the bed, my whole world spinning.
“Sasha! Sasha, run! Sash—”
The line went dead, and the phone dropped from my hand.
I was spinning, the room tilting and my whole world crashing around me as
I lunged for something — anything to hold onto.
It was Hunter that caught me, pulling me tight against him as I shattered.
“What is it,” he said tightly. “What do you need?”
I pushed him away before I could stop myself, lurching for my clothes. “We need to get back to the city.”
My voice felt like it was outside my own head — mechanical and on autopilot.
“Ari, whats—”
I whirled, shaking Sean’s hand from my arm, knowing he was just trying to soothe me, but not knowing what else to do but lash out.
“My friend Sasha—” I swallowed the horrible lump in my throat. “I think someone just took her. Her and her boyfriends.”