Page 24 of Snowed in with the Villains

“What do you want?”

“You, princess. We want you,” Alex says.

I shake my head, ready to close the door on them again.

“May we come in?” Eason asks, but all three bypass me and step into my apartment anyway.

“Excuse me.” Indignation spikes in my voice. They shouldn’t be here. They can’t. Not when I want to throw myself at them and beg them to keep me as their own; I can’t because I’ll mess it up. I know I will.

“We want to marry you, Princess,” Kai says.

“So we can date you,” Alex continues.

“And get to know you better,” Eason adds.

My trembling is going to give away what’s really in my heart.

“Normal people do it the other way around.”

“It’s already been established we’re not normal. Also, we like to secure our investments upfront,” Eason says, giving me his bone-melting smile.

“What if you get to know me better and realize you don’t like me?”

“We like you plenty already. In fact, we love you.”

“But you don’t know me.”

“We know enough. We know you’re strong, resilient, smart, kind, caring, and loyal,” Alex says.

“We know what the inside of your body feels like around our cocks when you take all three of us. We know your taste, the sounds you make when you come. We know what it feels like when we’re fucking you so hard, but you cling to us, trusting us, without even knowing it,” Kai says.

“We know all the important parts already. We just need to learn the other stuff. Your favorite color, your favorite TV show, food. That kind of thing, hence marriage, dating, getting to know you,” Eason says.

“Marry us, Skye. Be our princess for the rest of our lives and beyond into eternity.”

“What if I mess it up?”

“You won’t. You’re allowed to change your favorite color at any point,” Alex says.

A smile breaks on my lips.

“What if I’m cursed like my mother says I am?” My mother’s words come back to me in full force. I look like her, so she always said, I’m going to be exactly like her. It’s in my blood to self-sabotage anything that’s going well for me. I won’t even know why I’m doing it; I’ll just do it. That’s what my mother says to me every opportunity she gets. My dad loved her more than anything in the world, so she cheated on him and wanted him to find out. It broke his heart, and he wasn’t the same afterward.

You and I, Skye, were not meant to be in love and cherished. We’ll find a way to fuck it up. It’s who we are.

I don’t realize tears are rolling down my face until they come to me. These three men whom I barely know. That’s not true. My heart knows them. My heart loves them already. It’s too late to stop myself.

I’m nothing like my mother. I may look like her, but I’m not her. She only cares about her own shortcomings. But me, I care about not hurting the people I love by my actions. I know this.

I would never hurt the people I love. Never.

“Yes. Yes. Yes. I’ll marry you so I can get to know what your favorite color is. I… love you, Alex. I love you, Eason. I love you, Kai.”

Before my next breath, my body is crushed to them. I’m kissed until I’m breathless.

My clothes, an old sweater, and track bottoms are peeled from my body. My cotton panties go next. They lay down on my bed and do nothing but kiss every inch of my body, leaving behind pockets of fire and need wherever their lips touched.

They tell me how incredible I am, how beautiful, that I’m theirs forever and always, and their deep voices vibrate against my skin and echo in my heart.

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