Page 40 of Come Inside

Why does it feel like this is such a long time coming?

Kazi’s lips curled; his russet eyes brightened in promise.

“Yes, come here.” Mateo pushed Kazi off of me, tugging me up onto his lap, forcing me to straddle him. He smirked. “First secret?” His hand found my arm where a scar had formed from the night of our first encounter. “This is a tracker. Your birth control is gone.”

It took a few moments to process exactly what he said, it was so out of left field. My mind flashed back to the memory of the mysterious gash on my arm that I had no recollection of causing. “What the actual–” I couldn’t even finish the thought as I hissed the words trying to pull back from him.

Except why wasn’t I feeling any anxiety? Why had the confession caused desire to shoot directly to my core?

What is wrong with me?

Was I just as broken as I had thought? Had the years of abuse actually torn me apart, and I was just a ticking bomb just waiting to go off?

He held onto my arm with his sturdy grip, his long rough fingers wrapping around it. “I did it. Don’t want to lose you now that I’ve found you.” Mateo’s eyes churned in promise. “Except the damn thing doesn’t work well, I’ll need to get you an upgrade, wouldn’t want you slipping off again.”

I shut my eyes, breathing in and out slowly. The feminist in me wanted to fight Mateo, tell him he had no right, that it was my fucking body.

But why was said body coiled in anticipation, why did I want more of this crazy man, why did I melt under his attention? “You don’t even fucking know me.” I finally let out.

“Don’t I?” He let go of my arm to find my wrist.

My eyes flashed open. “No, you don’t. Let me go.”

“Mateo.” Kazi was lying next to us, watching our interaction guardedly.

“I know you’re stronger than you think. I know you’re going to let Kazi and I fuck you. I know you’re going to accept that I’m not going anywhere, that I am just as damaged as you are. And I know you are going to love every fucking piece of me, just as I love you. Inside and out.” He tugged my wrist up to his mouth.

I watched in frozen shock as he brought his lips to my wrist, and before I could yank back, his teeth met the flesh there, he bit down over the scars, sucking onto the flesh. I anticipated it hurting. It didn’t.

It felt…good.

Kazi reached over and I expected him to stop this, but to my surprise, he took my other wrist and mimicked Mateo, biting down over the scars there.

I let out an uninhibited moan as new emotions were swept up into the cause of my scars.

Enjoyable memories, ones I could look back on happily.

“Okay,” the word whooshed out.

It was all either of them needed.

Chapter 28

Kazi

“This is how it’s going to go. I’m going to fuck you, fill that pussy with my cum and then when I’m ready to? I’m going to fill that ass up too,” Mateo grumbled at Yara.

Kazi watched her warily. Sure he had read through what she had allowed the other man, James, to do to her. But that was because she told him it was what she wanted.

Kazi imagined the same wouldn’t occur here. But he was happy to sit back and watch them duke it out. He already knew what he planned to do with Yara.

Smack!

Yara’s hand landed against Mateo’s arm. “No, that very muchisn’tgoing to happen. You just said you removed my birth control, you ridiculous man!”

Kazi chuckled to himself as Mateo snarled. Kazi was no longer worried about the man with Yara. He could recognize Mateo’s infatuation, his growinglove. And while Kazi didn’t ever expect to be in this predicament, he wasn’t sure if he would have been enough for Yara.

Over the years, he had barely been enough for himself.

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