Page 64 of Trouble

“I would have come back—once you were no longer indanger.”

I scoffed. “That’s really nice, Liam. And, what, you’d have expected me to just take you back? How long would you’ve been out of my life for at thatpoint?”

“I did it because I fucking love you, Audrey!” Liam was shouting too now, the frustration and hurt plain on his face. “I thought he might hurt you, and I panicked, okay? Being away from you… it wasn’t fun for me, either. All I wanted was to crawl back and beg you to forgive me, but I couldn’t. If the choice was between never being with you again or seeing you hurt because of my Family, I had to choose toleave.”

“You could have told me,” I insisted, wiping harder at the tears that kept falling faster and thicker down my cheeks inrivulets.

“Told you what? That I am in the mafia? You wouldn’t have fucking run, if you’d had achoice?”

I opened my mouth to deny it, but then I remembered my horror when I’d finally found out what they were. Yeah, I probably would haverun.

Then what he’d said finally sank in. He’d said… he lovedme.

I’d thought he’d told me before, but that was Louis. I turned to his twin, eyebrows knitted in a frown as I took in the emotion in his eyes. “On thatbalcony…”

“I meant every word,” he said, his voice quiet but rough. “I’ve loved you since our first night together. I didn’t admit it to myself at first, because it was fucking ridiculous—I’d known you for mere hours. But I know you’re meant to be mine, Audrey. There’s only you, and there only ever will be, regardless of what youchoose.”

Regardless of what I choose.I blinked when the implication finally setin.

They wanted me to… choose betweenthem?

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“This is crazy—choose?Are you really asking me tochoosebetween you?” I stared from Louis to Liam, mouth open. The tears finally stopped from sheerstupefaction.

“I love you,” Liam said, softly this time. “I know you’ve felt our connection since day one, too. And if none of this bullshit would have happened, there would be no doubt in your mind. You would never have been with Louis—you would have been withme.”

“But itdidhappen,” Louis said, his hand coming to rest on my shoulder. I was too numb with shock to brush it away this time. “And I was the one you said you loved.Me. I know you saw me, even if you didn’t realize at the time. Like I saw you.Ilove you,Audrey.”

I shook my head. “What even gave you the thought I’d be with either of you, after what youbothput me through? You had your reasons, I get it, butyoutricked me—” I pointed at Louis, and then turned to his twin. “—andyoubroke my heart. And you’re both fucking mafia! What—mmph!”

My indignant tirade was cut short when Liam pressed his lips against mine, hard. Behind me, Louis wrapped his arms around me underneath my breasts and pulled me back against his body. His lips skimmed up the back of my neck, nibbling at the tendon there as his twin kissed me with such overwhelming passion, it took my breathaway.

I parted my lips, more on instinct than any deliberate decision, and moaned when his tongue swept in to stroke mine. Heat mixed with the zings of sensation from my nape where Louis’ lips and teeth danced over my sensitive flesh, tightening my nipples and making me pant into his twin’smouth.

I’d missed this so much. The yearning from their kisses that pulled on my heart so perfectly, and the teasing seduction from the hands caressing up and down my sides and Louis’ lips against my neck that had my body aching withinseconds.

Some distant part of my mind tried to protest, tried to shout at me to stop—that this was so wrong on so many levels—but I pushed it away. I didn’t have the strength to withstand this, nor the will. I’d been so scared and so heartbroken for so long, and everything inside me ached for what the twins’ heated touches promised: sweetrelease.

When Liam pulled back, Louis turned my head with a finger and captured my lips with his. His kiss was as passionate as his brother’s, as filled with desperate yearning and proof of the truth in his declarations oflove.

It overwhelmed me, consumed me, and I kissed him back with every ounce of my being—every ounce of the confusing swirl of longing warring in my chest to break free. The only thing that was clear in my mind as they tore my defenses down with every kiss, every touch, and every gasp of breath was that I loved them. Both ofthem.

Their hands stroked my body, down my sides and up underneath my top. Rounded on my breasts, rolled my nipples and pulled my pants and underwear down myhips.

Liam pressed scorching kisses to my stomach, trailing down over my navel while Louis ravaged my mouth with so much passion it made me moan and clutch at the twin who knelt in front ofme.

The first kiss to land on my mound made me gasp and jerk, but Louis didn’t release my lips. He flicked his tongue against mine and cupped my breasts in his large hands, tweaking the stiff little peaks as his brother opened me up with his thumbs, exposing my pulsing sex to hishunger.

Liam’s first licks teased my inner lips and ghosted around my hooded clit, making me moan and squirm as he groaned withappreciation.

“I’ve missed tasting you, love,” he whispered before he closed his lips around myclit.

I groaned, almost losing my balance, but Louis’ grip kept me upright as Liam lifted one of my legs over his shoulder, anchoring me by clamping onto my backside with both hands. And then he suckedme.

I thrashed between them, lost in sensation as they plundered my mouth, my nipples, and my pussy in one. They didn’t relent, their grips on my body only tightening the more I writhed, until suddenly and with the force of a flood, I came betweenthem.

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