STORY EXCERPT

Nick bit back a groan as he let his body relax into the couch, accepting the beer Chris handed him. This was the first time in three weeks that all three of them were here at the same time. They had all been working crazy hours since wrapping up the case that had brought Cassie into their life.

He thought about the first time he saw her. She had taken his breath away. She was so beautiful that he had forgotten for a moment that he was in the middle of a crime scene. When he brought her to his home, he noticed the same reaction in his brothers. They talked briefly about their attraction to her. Noah and Chris had wanted to pursue a relationship with her immediately, but Nick didn’t think the timing was right. They were all too busy, and he had seen too many wives and girlfriends walk in his line of work after one too many broken promises. That was the nature of their job. They had no choice when working a case—they needed to focus on it one hundred percent.

Like the one that fell on his desk just the other day. They had reports of three different girls being dumped in parking lots, beaten and raped, with no memory of how they got to be that way. His focus needed to be on finding the person attacking women in this city. Instead, he was worried that he had made the wrong call by not agreeing to pursue Cassie. He didn’t tell his brothers, but she had reached to him shortly after they wrapped up Sam’s case. Asking how he, Chris, and Noah were doing, wondering if maybe they would like to get together for dinner. He ignored the text message even though it was one of the hardest things he had done. She didn’t reach out again, which was for the best. She deserved more than he or his brothers could give her. With them, she would have sleepless nights, broken promises, and lonely nights that would eventually turn to resentment and then broken hearts for all involved.

“So, I heard about the newest case you were assigned. How is the investigation going?” Chris asked as he sat in the recliner catty-corner to the couch, absently peeling the label on his beer.

“We have jack shit to go on. The drug the girls were slipped completely wipes their memory. It’s frustrating that they can’t give us any information about the attacker,” Nick said before raising his beer to his lips, chugging. No matter how frustrating it was, he was almost glad they couldn’t remember. He had been looking at the photos and reading the medical reports all day, and what was done to those girls was sadistic. They appeared to have been systematically beaten and according to the reports were raped both anally and vaginally.

“Want help going over everything? Maybe we will see something you’re not,” Noah offered.

Nick thought about it for a minute. It wouldn’t be the first time he bounced things off his brothers. With Chris being a crime scene investigator and Noah being a patrol officer, they would see things from a different perspective.

“Yeah, I’ll go get the files,” Nick said on a sigh.

“I’ll grab another round of beers,” Chris said.

Nick accepted the drink his brother handed him, thanking him before opening the first file. This was going to be a long night, but it would be worth it if they could make any headway on the case. He wanted this guy found and locked up where he couldn’t hurt anyone else.

 They had just cracked open their third beers when Nick’s phone rang. Looking at the screen, he saw it was dispatch. His stomach dropped—he wasn’t on call tonight, so this could only mean that there had been another attack. He answered the phone and what he heard on the other end made his heart stop beating for a minute.

“What hospital?” he barked into the phone, hanging up after the dispatcher answered.

He raked his hands through his hair as he kept his back to his brothers. When he had a better handle on his emotions, he turned to face them. They sat in the same positions they had when he got the call, but he could see the tension in their bodies, waiting for the bad news they could tell was coming. He opened his mouth to tell them and nothing came out. Clearing his throat, he tried again.

“Another girl was attacked tonight.” He took a deep breath before continuing, “She was found unconscious in an alley by one of the bars downtown. According to the identification in her purse.” He paused again.

“Spit it the fuck out, Nick,” Noah growled.

“Cassie. It’s Cassie,” Nick practically whispered. He watched as Noah threw his beer at the wall, flinching at the sound of it shattering.

“This never would have happened if we had gone after her when we should have,” Noah practically spit the words at him. His anger was well placed as he had been the one to convince them that she would be better off without them.

“What hospital is she at, Nick?” Chris asked in a flat monotone.

“St. Vincent’s,” he answered. 

ADULT EXCERPT

Noah came home to a quiet house, a very quiet house. Where were Nick and Cassie? He started looking through the rooms. When he got to the kitchen, he found a pair of pants and a very tiny pair of shorts lying on the floor. Hmm, that was interesting. Making his way upstairs, he had a feeling that he would find them in Nick’s room. Noah pushed open the door, finding Cassie wrapped up in Nick’s arms, naked, sound asleep. Well, maybe they hadn’t fucked things up with Cassie as badly as they initially thought.

Noah leaned against the door, admiring the sight before him. In sleep Cassie’s face was relaxed, and she had a small smile on her lips. She looked content there in his brother’s arms. Moving down the length of her body, he licked his lips at the sight of the swells of her breasts, the sheet slipping down just enough to reveal a hint of rosy nipple. He ripped his eyes from the sight of her nearly naked breasts back to her face to be greeted by the sight of a sleepy smile as she reached out her hand in invitation to join them. Noah’s heart rate picked up when he heard a hitch in Cassie’s breathing. Looking down, he caught the movement underneath the sheet, knowing that his brother’s hand was more than likely playing with her sweet little pussy.

Noah stripped the clothes from his body, being careful as he slid the zipper down over his swollen cock, groaning at the sight before him. Climbing onto the bed, he pulled the sheet off, exposing all of Cassie’s beautiful body to his eyes for the first time.

Her skin was creamy porcelain, her nipples a rosy pink, and he did a double take when he caught sight of the red thatch of curls between her thighs.

His voice didn’t seem to want to work, so instead of telling her how beautiful she was, he was going to show her. Leaning over, he brushed his lips over hers once, twice, before taking a deeper taste of her mouth. She opened on a sigh, sliding her tongue along his, arching into the palm grazing her breast as she ground her hips down on Nick’s hand.

Their woman, it seemed, was intent on taking her pleasure from them. Noah smiled at the revelation of how impatient she was. He was going to enjoy teaching her how much better things could be when they were drawn out.

Dragging his mouth from hers, he leaned down to suck on one of the hard nubs of her nipples. Cassie slid her hand into his hair, pulling his head down, encouraging him to suck harder.

“Noah, Nick, more I want more,” she begged.

Drawing his mouth from her breast, he looked down her body and watched Nick pumping two cream-soaked digits into her.

“You heard her, Brother. Let’s give her more,” Nick said, removing his fingers from her.

Noah rolled Cassie over, pushing her thighs wide.

“Nick, pass me a condom,” Noah growled. It was taking every ounce of his self-control to not slam his cock into the warm, slick center of her.

“I’m on the pill and clean. If you’re clean, then you don’t need one,” Cassie said.

Noah stilled. He hadn’t ever been inside someone bare before. He notched himself at her opening.

“I’m clean,” he said before thrusting home. Nothing, and he meant nothing, felt as good as Cassie’s slick pussy clenching around his bare cock. He took his time sliding out before slamming back in. Noah was completely lost to her, and he doubted she knew it, but she would understand before the night was over.

Noah shoved back into her, needing to go deeper. It was like he was consumed with need. The need to mark her, to make her understand that she was theirs. Jerking out, he flipped her over, pulling her hips back, slipping his hard cock into her warm, slick, depths. Watching her pussy lips stretch around his cock was his new favorite thing. The sight of her pretty pink lips spread wide encircling his cock consumed him.

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Nick placed his fingers under Cassie’s chin, tilting her face up.

“I need to feel your mouth on me, sweetheart,” Nick said. He watched, mesmerized, as she licked her lips before opening her mouth and without any preamble sucked him all the way to her throat. Holy shit, Nick felt his eyes roll to the back of his head as she sucked him.

She relaxed her mouth and let the momentum of Noah’s thrusts do most of the work for her. Every time Noah thrusted into her, it pushed her down on Nicks cock, and then as she withdrew, she would suction her mouth on him as if she was starving for his cum and couldn’t wait to swallow it.

He wasn’t going to last, and judging by the look on Noah’s face, he wasn’t going to last much longer either. Nick was determined to send Cassie over with them. Reaching down, he found the hard nub of her clit. She moaned around his cock when he began rubbing, causing his balls to climb up closer to his body. He watched, as she seemed to be going wild with the added stimulation, slamming back on Noah’s cock, increasing her efforts sucking him. Cassie started shuddering, and Noah grabbed her hips, anchoring his cock deep inside her as he groaned. Nick let himself go, shooting his seed down her throat.