Page 52 of House of Kallan
There was no bigger threat than them to my thirteen-year-old mind. To this day, I wasn’t sure if there was a bigger threat. Yes, ORKA was moving up the ranks, but still, Silence was the one to beat.
Aden and I remained curled on the chair for most of the day as we talked together as a family. I might not have known these men for long, but already they felt like a home I’d been away from for years. A comfortable hoodie that you put on and just snuggle into with a happy, content sigh.
There were times throughout the day when I wondered how I’d lived without them for so long. Where had they been my entire life?
The answer was simple enough—right here. Waiting for me.
When Aden started to get up, saying it was time to begin dinner, Hadrian stopped him and said we’d order delivery tonight. We placed an order for almost the entire menu from a local Hungarian restaurant and remained right where we were for the next hour until our food arrived.
Then we gathered on the floor around the coffee table to eat our meal.
I sat back at one point while we were laughing about a story Toby was telling us concerning one of his expeditions, and I thought,I don’t want to leave here.It felt like an out-of-body experience. Like I was watching it from just above my body where everything moves just slightly slower than real time and the sounds were muted.
After dinner, we headed into one of the back rooms where there was an enormous couch made into a bed. One of those sectionals that breaks apart into squares and you can assemble them in any configuration. It was currently laid out in a five by three rectangle, and there were arms all the way around except for one at the end for us to climb in and out of.
I watched, somewhat amused but largely impressed, as they opened the cushions around the outside and began pulling blankets and pillows out, tossing them into the center. Toby and Rahael got in first to arrange while everyone else busied themselves around the room—closing blinds, turning down lights and turning on electric candles, getting the enormous screen wall set up to play a movie.
Then I was ushered into the couch-bed, followed by everyone else, and we cuddled together to watch a movie. It was perhaps one of the best days and evenings that I’d ever had. Ever. In my entire life. The feeling of comfort and home was just surreal.
While I tried to pay attention to the movie, I couldn’t recall what we were watching half the time. It was one of those small-town romances where someone has to go back to a place theynever wanted to be and amazingly falls in love with their high school bully or the jock who never looked at them but secretly had a crush on them. You know the ones. They’re all more or less the same.
It was nearing midnight when Aden said he was going to bed. I watched with a wide grin as they rolled him through the group and kissed him goodnight while he laughed. Finally, he crawled out of the couch-bed and disappeared through the door into the dark hall.
I yawned, feeling my eyes get heavy. Maybe Aden had the right idea. I must be at work tomorrow for real. No skipping out like I did today, scheduled day off or not.
Hadrian pulled me toward him and rolled so that he could press his face into my neck. I sighed, closing my eyes.
“We’re really happy you’re here,” he murmured.
“I am too,” I said.
His lips brushed my skin. Instantly, my body heated. It was such an innocent, light touch that I thought everything else inside me was just overreacting.
Clearly, I’ve neglected my needs for a while.
On my other side, Toby pressed his lips to my shoulder, his hand landing on my stomach. With my eyes still closed, I concentrated on their touches. The soft ways their hands moved on me. How their kisses were gentle and not necessarily seeking more.
That is, until Toby asked, “Can I touch you?” To make sure his question was understood, he slid his hand down toward my pelvis without getting too close.
I nodded.
As if they worked as one, Hadrian’s mouth found mine as Toby slipped his hand inside my pants and wasted no time working my clothing off the lower half of my body. The heat that had already been rolling through me heightened and I moaned softly into Hadrian’s mouth.
Toby succeeded in removing my pants and the next thing Iknew, he was between my legs, nuzzling into the junction between my leg and heat. The scruff on his face made me shiver.
Then his mouth found my clit. My back arched as my leg came up, my hand went into Toby’s hair and the other into Hadrian’s as I moaned loudly into Hadrian’s mouth. He was an excellent kisser. So good that my attention was split between the two men on me and not solely focused on Toby between my legs.
Maybe Hadrian knew this. He pulled his lips from mine and moved to my neck, letting my moans fill the room. Now I could feel the full strength of Toby’s mouth. The expert movement of his tongue as he teased me to the point I might think he doesn’t know where the clit is, only to dedicate his attention there until I was going to come apart entirely.
I was sure I was dripping as my body arched almost unnaturally while it tried to accommodate all the surges of pleasure that traveled through body from my clit.
He added his fingers inside me. Slowly at first. Maybe gauging my resistance or measuring how much I was dripping. But when he slid them inside, he pushed in deep until he hit my spot. There might have been a homing beacon since he wentright therewith no directions needed.
My body nearly folded in half as my pleasure doubled. Tripled. My head spun and even though my eyes were wide open, I couldn’t see a thing.
But then this man, he fucking backed away. When I blinked through the haze of bliss, he was grinning up at me with a wet chin and glistening lips. “You like that, huh?”
I groaned, letting my head drop back.
