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Author’s Notes

TRIGGER WARNING... um, yeah, after care after three men… whew, chile. I’m turned on and … O M G. HOW, Sylvia? I keep asking myself. Why was I so meticulous? I mean the cleanup and then…

I should give you a heads up. If you are not faint of heart and the last chapter flipped you on your head, then heads up… we ain’t done.

And three chapters of lovemaking? Really? Well, a lot was going on.

I’m exhausted. I need a cigarette, and I don’t even smoke.

Be prepared… well-prepared, and don’t go in if you’re the kind of person who clutches pearls. You’ve been warned.

BTW, I know I’ve mentioned it before, but Beck Hardy, her construction manager and friend, has his own story as well. She Works Hard for the Money. He was initially on Kindle Vella, but he has since published his own book.

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Chapter 15 – Another Favor?

Shawn moved up her body, kissing over her legs and over her groin as Kevin pulled the cover out of her hold. As Shawn kissed her stomach, Kevin switched places with his younger brother while Duncan moved to her other side.

Simultaneously, Duncan and Shawn latched on to her nipples. Tori felt dizzy at the various sensations they evoked.

Kevin moved his body between her legs and slid easily inside.

“You’re almost filled,” he remarked as if she should be proud of this. “This is going to feel so good, Shawn.”

Duncan raised and kissed her at the same time, Kevin pressed his hardened shaft inside of her. He took her hands and held them between her legs.

“Hold yourself open for me, Tori,” he ordered.

Parting her lower lips and holding her thighs apart, she shuddered, feeling Kevin’s very thickened member pushing into her. Her fingers were slick with her juice, and soon her hands had no room, and she had to move them out of the way as Kevin pressed to the hilt.

Tori could feel his entire length deep inside her, but they’d already prepared her for him, and she understood why he had to be last. Kevin was more aroused than usual, where she could build up to it, but his manhood was completely hard upon entering. Shivering all over, she reached down and grasped Shawn and Duncan’s manhood with her already wet hands from herself.

As Kevin pumped into her, she mimicked his strokes with her movements on his brothers’ shafts. When her womanhood tightened, so did her palms, allowing them to be a part of what Kevin was feeling.

Hearing all of them groan was a sexual charge melody that was beautiful to her ears.

Duncan was still ravaging her mouth, while Shawn beautifully suckled her nipples, and their older brother was tantalizing her body to unknown sexual heights.

“Kevin!” she cried. “Duncan! Shawn! I’m coming!” she whimpered and cried as her soul left her body and rose into a lust-filled euphoria. Tori was sure she had blown some brain circuits. Kevin stroked so deeply her pelvis rocked back, and then Shawn and Duncan’s spewed over her stomach and thighs concurrently.

Damn! Tori felt worshipped in this moment when she should have felt disgusted. Duncan broke their kiss, directing her face so she could kiss Kevin and then Shawn.

Between Shawn’s kisses, he whispered with his voice filled with adoration, “You’re so fucking beautiful, Tori. So fucking beautiful.” He still had that tone of amazement and fascination.

His words almost made her cry.

Kevin dislodged from her, and before she could protest, Shawn swooped down and with the flat of his tongue laved from her perineum to her clitoris, and then he made circular motions all over her labia. His hands securely held her down, while he cleaned her stomach and waist and then returned to dig his whole face between her legs, salaciously lapping and slurping like it was his last meal.

By this time, Duncan was kissing her again, and Kevin was sucking on her breasts.

Tori grinded, twisted, and cried from the tantalizing sights, feelings, and sounds from all three brothers.

Rolling waves of lust and passion smashed through her as Shawn’s mouth siphoned and gulped her, not only cleaning up their mess but also bringing her body to fruition.

She broke away from Duncan and pulled Shawn up to kiss him, showing her appreciation and loving the taste of all of them swirling around in her mouth from him.

Damn!

Could these brothers get any more freakier?

“That was a favor I didn’t mind granting you,” she said, satisfied with a shameless giggle.

The brothers laughed with her.

Tori knew she needed to get cleaned up and use the bathroom, so she scooted out of bed.

Shawn took her hand and helped her to her feet.

Still a gentleman, she noted.

After using the bathroom, she used the shower. She physically checked all parts of herself and was shocked that there was no bruising or tearing to her rear entrance. A lot of women had heard that did anal the first time, it happened to them the first time they did anal sex, and they couldn’t sit for days. To her surprise, Kevin had been incredibly gentle. Did he know it was her first time?

The towel available was still damp, likely from one of the brothers who had used it.

Pulling the towel to her nose, she smiled because she could smell Duncan.

Wow! Would she always be able to distinguish their smells?

This wasn’t going to happen again! she scolded herself. This was a one-time deal!

Since she didn’t bring a change of clothes into the bathroom, she had to loosely wrap the towel around her when she came out of the wet bath.

Shawn was the only one in the bedroom, dressed in last night’s suit, and sitting on the bed holding a single red rose.

“How do you feel?” he asked, looking her over with concern from head to toe.

“I’m good, “Tori answered, surprisingly. Now that she had him alone, she thought she would get the questions answered that still lingered in the back of her mind and see if all their stories lined up. “When you planned this night, did it involve your brothers?”

Shawn flushed. “Yes, Tori. That was the plan. Are you angry about that? I will understand if you are.”

“No. Remember I’m malleable, hypersexual, and amazing,” she responded in a tease, remembering their words from earlier. “Of course, I shouldn’t think you had some evil intentions and be mad about it.”

“I can’t tell if you’re upset or grateful.”

Perhaps in her subconscious, Tori didn’t like that they’d seduced and manipulated her, and some of that was coming to the surface, but she wasn’t going to go into it with Shawn. “I’m still piecing that together,” she admitted.

He pulled her into his arms, handed her the rose, and gave her the sweetest kiss on her forehead.

“We appreciate you sacrificing your night with us, Tori,” Shawn said and kissed her on the forehead.

With his speaking in plurals again, she asked, “Do you all have independent thought? Or want to do something for yourself?”

“Yes, but when it comes to you, Tori, we are all in agreement. We want to be with you?”

She wasn’t mentally ready to discuss how long they wanted her, because in her mind, no one would like this in the long term. What would their family say? Their friends/ Business associates? A relationship like that wasn’t realistic.

Society would never permit her to have three husbands – there were laws in place to prevent such a thing. And even a husband and two boyfriends? Brothers! All related. It was ridiculous even to machinate.

Malea alone would never want to associate with her anymore, and her father had always stressed family first.

Although she would no longer have to deal with those lunches with her sister, where Malea would drone on about her life, it would be nice.

“Kevin agrees about being with me?” she asked suspiciously. “He seems angry all the time when he’s out of bed.”

“If you’re asking, should you be scared of Kevin hurting you? He’s all fluff and puff. Physically, you should be worried about Duncan. He served in the Navy, completing a tour and undertaking special missions on behalf of the government. I’ve seen him punch a man out cold in one shot. Kevin is more of the protector, and he’s still lingering about some past emotions he’s felt about you and what you did to our mother. It’s taken him a moment. Honestly, he was still skeptical until he met with you alone, and then he changed his tune immediately,” Shawn admitted. “I can see why. You bring something different out in each of us, without even trying.” There was a brief moment of regret before that look of fascination and awe returned to his face.

She remembered Duncan in the club and how he had become physically overprotective of her. Most of what Shawn had said lined up with what she felt about the older brothers.

Shawn said, “Oh yes, I forgot you’ll need a tag for your car to park at my place. The form is long, but could you sign something for me real quick? It just has to do with all their rules. It’s a highly secure condo with some notable individuals residing there. I hope you understand.”

He motioned to some papers on the table by the chair where her shawl was.

Still caught up contemplating all that he had said, Tori said, “Yeah, sure.”

At the exact moment, Duncan came down and wrapped his arms around her waist. He was also holding a rose, and as she signed their papers, Tori took his rose while gasping as he nipped at her neck.

“Thank you for joining us, Tori,” Duncan whispered in her ear.

Gawd! Why did her whole insides flutter when they worshipped her? She smiled, but also wondered whether their roses were part of their planned romantic night.

“Sign here too, Tori,” Shawn said, pointing to another page that she thought she had signed.

Quickly scribbling her name, not really paying attention, she saw that Duncan was holding a pink jogging set for her.

“After you get dressed,” Shawn said, kissing her cheek. “I’ll take you home. And I’ll make sure you don’t have to walk over that ramp.”

“Thank you,” she said gratefully.

Duncan kissed her other cheek and followed Shawn out the other door to give her a moment of privacy and to think.

After she dressed, Tori went up to the main floor, noticing the boat was docked at the marina again. The table was gone, and only Kevin was sitting with a rose on the bench, which she had fond memories of from last night. When he saw her coming up, he stood up.

Kevin handed her the rose and knelt to adjust the straps on her shoes, which she had hurriedly put on.

“Shawn said I should carry you to the car.” When he stood up, Tori stepped away slightly, remembering what Shawn had told her about Kevin’s feelings for her.

“Do you want to?” she challenged.

“If you’re asking me, do I like you, Tori, I think from last night, that should answer your question.”

“Fucking and feelings are two different things.”

Kevin smirked, roving those eyes up and down her body like he wanted to drag her down in that bed again. He said, “You’re right about that. Very insightful, Tori, but I did have a great time last night, and you have somehow changed my feelings towards you over the past few days. I can see you’re not that spoiled, selfish bitch anymore.”

Leaning to him, she said, “I can still be the selfish bitch, I just don’t have anyone around to spoil me,” she teased. “Now, can you carry me across the ramp?”

He snorted at her sarcasm, insulted. “‘Cause Duncan would whoop my ass if I don’t.”

“I notice you guys look to him a lot for guidance. You’re the oldest.”

“That doesn’t mean I’m the wisest,” he answered, taking her dress and purse from her and throwing them over his shoulder, before scooping her up easily.

So she wouldn’t have to look at the water, she buried her face in his neck, closing her eyes tightly, and occasionally held her breath.

Kevin tightened his hold on her, making her feel very secure as he walked over the ramp to the parking lot.

Chuckling, he said, “You really are scared of water?”

“Terrified,” she whispered. “Thank you for that.”

“You’re thanking only me, or all of us.”

“You, Kevin.”

He was past the ramp and could have put her down, but he didn’t. Yet he did stop walking and looked down at her. “Why are you tanking only me, Tori? I did nothing my brothers would have done or wanted me to do.”

“You made that whole thing special. I know you look at Duncan for leadership outside of the bedroom, but you said yourself you like to be in control in the bedroom, even with your brothers. You guys know your places, and they respect your authority in the bedroom. I saw that.”

He still had that angry, confused look on his face. “How do you pick up on all the little things about us that we try to hide, Tori? You don’t care about us. Like you said fucking and feelings are different.”

She liked how he turned her words back on her, which indicated he was listening to everything she said. “But I’m in tune with you, guys. You all have your differences that make you very adorable and innocent.”

Kevin flinched and deeply frowned more. “You’re just yanking my chain, Tori, because there’s nothing innocent or adorable about me.”

Cupping his face, she relayed, “That is why you’re wrong, Kevin. You’re innocent when someone gives you the truth because you’re not used to people being honest with you. And you become confused and adorable. I like that look. I like giving you the truth because those looks from you turn me on.”

They were still twenty steps away. He still held her and could have put her down now that they were away from the water.

“You need a woman who will give you that feeling all the time because you’ve had to grow up so fast as the oldest and missed a lot of real human connections because you’ve had to be so strong.”

Cruelly, he asked, “And you think you could be that woman I need, princess?”

Tori laughed. “Oh no. As much as I enjoy that beautiful mouth of yours, some other woman should have the pleasure of you because I’d sure hate for that beautiful mouth to go to waste. Compersion, remember?”

A look of pain filled his stern gaze for a moment, and he asked, “Did you sign those papers for Shawn yet?”

“Oh yeah,” she said, finding it strange that the parking pass was a concern of his.

He then had that look as if he wanted to say more, but he didn’t, and carried her to the car, kissing her cheek. “Have a good day, Tori,” he said, handing her dress and purse to her.

After she was buckled in, Kevin closed the door and walked away.

“I never saw my brother look so… soft,” Shawn noted as they drove away from the marina and headed to her home. “It was almost romantic watching him carry you to the car.”

‘Well, that can’t be a good thing,” she teased. “But I promise I won’t rub it in.”

Shawn chuckled, “Tori, you really weren’t what we were expecting.”

She wondered why they kept saying that.

* * * *

Getting back home at sunrise, Tori jumped into the hottest shower and put on the proper clothes, since she knew Beck would be heading over. He had the code to her back door. As her project manager during the day, she wanted him to have access to better facilities, including a bathroom, and be able to come to her for anything if she was home.

Most times, Beck had lunch with his crew and spent time with them, but would occasionally come in to visit her office, where she always kept the master building plans on a massive, architect-style desk in the corner. Underneath the desk was a large, fireproof, water-safe file cabinet on the floor, where she kept all the paperwork for the entire project. Beck was the only one who had the other keys to the cabinets.

Ignoring a couple of phone calls from her sister all morning, Tori cleared up a couple of pages of emails, addressed some tenant issues, and looked at a similar apartment complex that had caught her eye near her sister’s house.

Once she had cleared her workload by noon, she looked over Scott’s current business endeavor. The partners were asking for two different types of investment. One was a small monetary investment with short-term payback that was excellent, but the second was a larger investment plan with a longer payback and a much larger return. Tori researched the Bellini Entertainment Division and saw the various successes in their diversity partnership deals. She felt Scott would come out on top if he got in early and significantly.

Picking up her phone to call him, Tori saw her sister’s text.

Stop ignoring my calls. Tell Scott it’s a bad deal. We don’t have the money! Please do this for me, Tori! Please!

Tori could say she never got her sister’s message because Scott would see the truth once he tried to invest, and it would tear him and Malea apart. Yet, Scott shouldn’t have to pay for what her sister was doing.

Her father would disapprove of what Malea was doing!

Why are you trying to be so holier than thou? Your father isn’t around anymore. You just had an orgy with the Carter Brothers. Your father is probably rolling in his grave.

Tori pushed those salacious thoughts away and tried to focus.

“Good morning,” Beck said at the doorway to her office.

He looked scruffier than usual, with his ginger beard looking scrappy and uncut. Being bald most of the time, he kept on his construction hat, but whenever he came in the house, he’d remove it.

Good morning,” Tori returned politely. “I paid for the order for the rest of the shed materials, and if you could get me the invoice for the electrical, I’d get to that too. I spoke to some grant people these past couple of days, and I know my grants will be pushed to the top with all the networking I’ve been doing.”

“Sure. Is everything okay?” Beck’s darkish eyes narrowed, giving a reddish glow, as if there was something seriously wrong with her.

Tori got up from her desk to look at a mirror on the other side of her room and said, “I feel okay. What’s wrong?”

“For the past couple of days, you’ve been off or not around, and that’s not normal. And today, you look… glowing? I guess. I don’t know. Just different,” Beck explained. “I almost missed you blowing up my phone with your overthinking texts and overconcerning emails at all hours of the night and day.”

Tori looked at herself in the mirror. Is that what a fresh fuck looked like? she wondered to herself, but said out loud. “I’m completely fine.”

“Tomorrow, I’ll have my men start on the shed. All the equipment is here, and the special doors will be delivered this afternoon. They’ll have both of the sheds assembled by tomorrow.”

“Thanks, Beck.” One of the hold-ups in her projects was that she couldn’t purchase any of the materials for the courtyard because there was no place to store them, and she didn’t want to pay for extra storage space. However, in the back of the property, where there was room connecting her apartment backyard as well, she could build two huge sheds to house everything she needed. The special doors were designed to be both beautiful and secure.

Now that the courtyard was complete and her group home was getting back on track, Tori could focus on what to do next. From her memory, she could recall the next step her father would have wanted her to take, but there were the journals her sister had mentioned, and she made a mental note to look them up. For now, she could concentrate on the apartment that had caught her eye by her sister’s.

Beck only nodded with that worried look in those hard eyes of his and left her alone.

By three, Tori had completed the majority of her work and decided to take a drive over to the apartments to see if she wanted to make an offer to the land bank, as the bidding was set to end the next day. Her check engine light came on, and she huffed because she knew she needed to make time to take her car in.

Tori pushed Malea to voicemail again as she arrived at the apartment and started to look around. This used to be a nice neighborhood in Detroit, but the area had gone down after the bankruptcy, gangs, violence, and a lot of poverty hit. Many properties were left abandoned and ravaged for the copper and appliances, and then there was weather damage. However, she knew she could invest in the property, fix it up nicely, and even gift it to her niece and nephews once they finished school.

With Malea and Scott’s finances in a rut, Tori bet they had run through their savings to get their children into college, and if it weren’t for the scholarships that Tori had helped the twins receive, they wouldn’t still be attending school.

When she came back out to her vehicle, she saw Scott’s pickup truck parked in front of hers.

“Hey, I was on my way home and I saw your car here,” he said, still sitting in the driver’s seat.

“You sure you aren’t following me?” she questioned with a teasing light.

He chuckled. “Nah. I got off early and came straight home. I know you’ve been busy, but did you have a chance-“

“Go for the larger deal,” she blurted out.

Something gut-punched her, knowing what her words would do to Malea and Scott, but he’d realize things sooner or later. Tori didn’t want to be in the middle of everything.

If her sister wouldn’t take the sanctity of marriage seriously, Malea would have to lie in bed with the consequences of her action.

“Wow, but I know Malea is going to fight me tooth and nail if I try to take from our savings for this,” he said worriedly.

He was such a sweet man, and it hurt Tori’s heart that he was being treated so disrespectfully by her sister.

Yet, knowing a divorce would cost Scott the funding he would need and seeing that it was all her fault, Tori added, “If you need help with the investment, you come to me, Scott, no matter what. We’ll work something out. I could loan you the amount you need, and you could put it in a separate company account under your name. We can continue to keep it a secret until you know Malea will be proud of it. I’d wait to tell her about it, and you can pay me back with no interest added.”

He looked shocked. “But Tori, that’s not fair to you.”

“It’s fine.” She pointed to the apartment building. “Give it to my niece and nephews to help them take care of this building while they’re in school. I insist. I’ll forward the paperwork and money by tomorrow with a notary to sign everything.”

“This means a lot to me, Tori, because I was going back and forth. I know Malea would want us to get the money and get out, but I really believe the long-term was the better deal. I haven’t been feeling confident since I failed at business. Were you able to look at the other folder?”

“Not yet, but I’ll try to look at it next week,” she promised.

“I know asking you to keep it from your sister was wrong, but Malea said I should discuss our hardships with you because it makes her look bad. I’m an only child, so I’m not familiar with sibling matters, which Malea likes to remind me I don’t have any. In no way would I come between you and her.”

Tori looked at the time as if she needed to be somewhere more important. “I promise to look through things, and maybe we can all get together and figure things out,” she promised. “No matter what, Malea will always be my sister, but you’re family as well, Scott, and when I see something is good for the family, I’m going to do what I can to help out.”

“Good. Well, I’ll let you go. Thanks, Tori. Be careful around these parts. There is a lot of glass and garbage on the street. The city hardly maintains this area.” Scott drove away, and Tori relaxed, but her gut punch was still there.

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