Page 131 of Heartless Heathens

I stepped back into the hallway, one foot behind the other until my back hit a stone wall. I didn’t have to turn around to know who it was.

“Why are you prancing around outside my room, little lamb? It’s late.”

“You cleaned it all up?” I asked him, turning my head to the side so I could get a better look at him.

“Cleaned what up?” He frowned but there was a faint curl to his lip that gave him away.

“Won’t they notice he’s gone?” I asked.

“That seems more like athemproblem and not anusproblem. They can’t prove anything evenifthey were to find his body.” He draped his arms over me, pulling me even closer to him.

“Where’s your keeper?” he taunted in my ear.

I smirked.

“Where’syours?”I turned around, pressing my hands to his chest and looking up at him.

The smile on his face was genuine.

“Touché, brat. Wanna risk it all tonight?” he asked, gesturing to his open door and I bit my lip, looking back towards the sleeping Escura on the couch.

They were identical but they were so different. Two puzzle pieces cut in the same shape that were meant for two separate images. You could make it fit, but it didn’t work. Somehow both their pieces fit inside mine though, and maybe that was the point.

I nodded, taking his hand and following him in.

He’d barely shut the door before he’d spun me around in his arms, sliding his hand up my torso and cupping my breast.

“Mmm,” I moaned, the feeling of his rough touch against my skin was too electrifying to pretend otherwise.

His hand gripped me from behind and pulled me even closer. I wrapped my knee around his waist and he took the opportunity to drop me down on his bed.

“Are you okay?” he whispered.

I took a moment to appreciate the entirety of the question before nodding my head. It was far too big of a spectrum of possibilities that I couldn’t answer entirely truthfully. Not with words.

Because I wasn’t okay.

Not unless there was one of them near me, suffocating me with their presence and keeping me safe. My heart was bursting at the seams every time I thought something might take me away from them, or them away from me.

“We can just sleep if you want.” He pulled me under the blankets when I didn’t respond.

I didn’t realize I was crying until he’d already wiped the tear with the back of his finger. He held me tighter, turning me so that my back was to his chest and he curled his body around me like protective armor. I let out a sigh I didn’t know I had been holding in and drifted off to sleep.

I woke up to the scorching heat of two bodies pressed against me, opening my eyes to find Felix’s head on my chest and his leg draped over my hip. To my left Corvin nuzzled into my neck and his feet tangled around mine.

“Mmm,” I grunted, turning towards Felix.

I heard a low growl behind me. The hair on the back of my neck stood up to attention and I froze. Felix’s eye’s jarred open and a smirk painted his face mischievously.

“You left me,” he said accusingly, but all I could hear was the seductive tone hiding behind the words.

“You looked so peaceful sleeping.” I placed my hand on his chin and at the same time I felt Corvin’s fingers slide over my hip.

“Just tell him the truth, you came looking for satisfying dick,” Corvin grumbled in my ear and my face must have turned beet red, because I felt like it was on fire.

“If that was the case, she would have stayed with me,” Felix argued, his tone still playful as he slid his thigh between my legs.

Corvin’s grip on my hip tightened to a bruising pressure and his hand found its way to my breast again, or maybe it’d been there all night and I hadn’t noticed. He rubbed his fingers over my nipple and I dropped my head back against his chest, his hands directing my hips to grind down against his brother’s leg. His erection was hard, thick steel planted against my behind.