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Mateo

After a small break to stretch their legs, Mateo took Vince’s place to drive with Scarlett. Vince still felt good to drive, so he gave Ezra a break.

They’d already been driving for a while, the night dark around them, when Scarlett turned her head towards him, her brows fused. “Can I ask you something?”

“You can always ask me anything.”

“Why do you put your family before yourself?”

“My family?”

“Well, yeah. Ezra and Vince are your family, right?”

“They are.” Scarlett didn’t repeat herself, patiently waiting for him to find the right words. “It brings me joy seeing them happy. I feel better with them around. I don’t do well on my own. It might sound odd, but they have brought a lot to my little world that makes me happy.”

“But is it worth putting yourself aside to bring them together?”

“I don’t feel like I do.” He shook his head and sighed, seeing from where she was coming now.

“The last few weeks have been challenging, yes. I chose to give them both the time with you, because they both struggled with our bond to you the most. I don’t and never have, I wanted you even before I knew you existed.

By letting them spend time with you and figuring out their individual relationship with you I’ve helped all of us become closer. ”

“I’m just afraid that you will forget about yourself in some way.”

He reached out and took Scarlett’s hand, his heart melting under her words.

“I was jealous of the time they spent with you, yes. Who wouldn’t be?

But that doesn’t mean that I regret it. You’ve developed trust and love with them that wouldn’t have flourished if they hadn’t spent that solo time with you.

” Then he lifted her hand to his lips and kissed her knuckles.

“Rest assured, you and I will take a small trip without those losers once we’re all recovered from this adventure. ”

“I was hoping you would say something like that.”

“Maybe I’ll take you somewhere south—maybe the beach?”

“That sounds really nice.” Scarlett shifted to be a little closer, stroking the back of his neck. “I see everything you do for them and how exhausting it is to be the glue that keeps everything together. Your efforts and love for them are amazing and appreciated.”

“Scarlett—”

“I love you, Mateo. I’m here for you. I’m here to stand by your side as we hold everything together. We will share your burdens, and I will carry them when you feel like they are too heavy for your own shoulders.”

Against his will, Mateo’s vision blurred and his throat tightened. “Scarlett,” but he had no words to describe the mess her words left him in. His whole being was shook and for the first time, he felt like someone truly saw him and the lengths he went to keep his little family up and running.

“I love you, Mateo,” she whispered, leaning closer and closer and kissing his cheek. “I will always love you.” Then she laughed lightly and rummaged through the glovebox. “I should have chosen a better time for this.” Withdrawing a tissue, she patted Mateo’s tears away.

“I love you too, so very much. I had a thousand words I wanted to say when I finally told you this. I prepared a whole monologue! But three words out of your mouth and it’s vanished.”

“Whenever those words return to you, I would love to hear them.”

“I’ll make sure to write them down.”

“And I’ll hold them out of your tears’ reach when you read them for me. Because I will frame it and keep it forever.”

“Scarlett…”

“Mateo.” His name came out a sweet hum, and Scarlett leaned over to kiss his cheek again. “I’m sorry I caught you off guard—and in a very unromantic setting.”

“Please don’t be sorry. I just wasn’t expecting it, and my brain is kind of no longer functioning.”

“As long as you can drive, we’re all good.”

“I can,” he quickly promised, brushing his lips across her knuckles.

“Good.”

Without letting go of his hand, she fed him wine gummies and kept him awake with music and small talk.

The shock of finding out her family friend had been killed seemed to have worn off, but maybe she’d just put off thinking about it.

Her two worlds were colliding, and it must have been hard for her.

The people she’d grown up to know as enemies were now her family.

Hunters had always been the bad guys, and now three of them were all she had left.

Scarlett tried to stay awake and before she could doze off, Mateo pulled into the parking lot of a diner. He wanted to give her the opportunity for a restroom break before she fell asleep for the night. Besides, Vince’s endurance had run out, so it was time for a driver switch.

“Sweet, precious princess,” Ezra hummed, helping her out of the truck.

With a sleepy grin, Scarlett reached round Ezra’s neck and pulled him into a kiss. “How are you feeling?”

“Good.”

“Can you walk me into the diner?”

“Anything for you.”

“Do you want food while we’re here?” he called after them.

Shaking her head she looked over her shoulder, Ezra’s fingers weaving with hers. “Not for me.”

“Maybe we should stack up on coffee though,” he mumbled more to himself than Vince. “I’ll see if we can get something to-go. Are you going to stay by the trucks?”

Vince nodded, so Mateo walked inside and ordered their usual coffee orders to go while Ezra waited for Scarlett outside of the restrooms.

The waitress rolled her eyes at them as she handed Mateo the coffee order. “Can’t even give a woman space to pee.”

“She asked for one of us to stay by her side and what she wants we give without question,” Mateo retorted.

He turned without another word, finding Ezra pressing Scarlett against the truck, his tongue in her mouth. Ezra had been horny this whole time, his desire growing with each passing minute.

“No one will see us princess.”

“Ezra…”

Mateo opened the truck door to give the both of them even more privacy. Since Vince had backed up next to them, he opened a door as well, securing the gap between the trucks.

“Turn around, princess.” With a kiss to her forehead Ezra added, “Please.”

The coffees set aside, Mateo leaned against the truck, eager to see this play out. After a moment of hesitation, Scarlett turned.

Ezra slipped one hand beneath her dress, tugging on her hip with the other. “Come here.”

Scarlett’s head rolled back as Ezra trailed kisses along her neck. And though she was slowly relaxing, she bit down on her lip to stifle her moans. Mateo hurried to her rescue, but halted, not wanting to intrude into Ezra’s private moment with her.

Ezra rolled his eyes at him, his words like the devil’s tongue in Scarlett’s ear. “Has Mateo been good to you?” When she nodded, he taunted just a little more, “He has, huh? Does he deserve a reward too?”

The second Scarlett nodded again, Mateo was by her side, pulling her lip free and pushing his thumb into her mouth. “Suck,” he commanded, his other hand already under her dress. When he touched bare skin, he swallowed a moan of his own. “Have you been without panties this whole time?”

Vince grunted behind them and Scarlett stiffened, a blush creeping up her neck. Vince seemed to enjoy watching her be fucked by them, his eyes full of greed and lust, while his soul was content with enjoying the view.

Ezra laughed and by the sounds of it his fingers were thrusting into a very wet pussy. “Did our little mute claim those for himself? I didn’t know he had a lace fetish. What a kinky bastard after all.”

Mateo found her clit and made her whimper, her lips vibrating around his thumb.

He only wished it was his cock between her lips instead.

Impatient, Ezra couldn’t hold out long, sheathing his erection the moment he thought she was ready.

He grabbed her hips again and bent her a little more, slamming into her in one swift thrust. Scarlett whimpered and her eyes fluttered shut.

Ezra wasn’t a gentle soul, even though he tried to be for her, so Mateo tried to distract her with his fingers working her clit faster.

“You look breathtaking,” he hummed with Ezra pumping into her and claiming her clit too.

“So beautiful.” Mateo took her hand that she was bracing herself with against the truck and guided it down to his straining erection.

Without instruction, she unzipped him and pulled his cock through the opening. “Perfect little princess you are.”

Scarlett shuddered and downed her moan with a hard suck on his thumb.

Mateo closed his eyes, fucking into her fist. The fact that Scarlett was letting them use her so freely in public only heightened their mutual arousal.

When she let her thumb circle over his cockhead and her teeth sank into his thumb, Mateo lost the fight.

He angled away from her, shooting his cum onto the ground so he didn’t dirty her dress. His knees buckled his lips claiming hers to silence both of them. She came into his kiss, feeding him her orgasm as her body shook in Ezra’s hold.

The second her muscles stiffened, she pulled Ezra right over the edge.

Sucking on her neck, Ezra made her shudder even more.

He marked her where a wolf would have completed her bond, and it seemed to drive Scarlett wild.

When they all calmed down, both men stepped back, buckled their pants, and helped her straighten her dress.

Ezra took her hand in his and spun Scarlett on shaky legs to face him again. “My little madness.” Then he picked her up, carried her back to her seat, and buckled her in. “Sleep now. We still have a long way to go.”