Page 116 of Brooke's Bliss
He moved in, looming over her and reaching for the bottom ofthe tank top she wore over her tiny pajama shorts that made her legs look amile long.She wasn’t wearing a bra, and she’d taken off all her makeup andwashed away the blood from earlier in the day.“You were magnificent today.Youwere everything they needed you to be.”
Tears welled, but her shoulders came down.She clutched hisforearms.“I was scared, Bay.I should have gone after Shane.”
Shane moved in behind her, his hands on her hips.“No, youshouldn’t have.Henry was coming.You did what we needed you to do.Brooke,there’s a baby with your name now.You were a hero.You were…are my hero.”
Her head fell back against Shane’s shoulder.“I love you.Ittook everything I had not to run to you.”
“I’m glad you followed that ex-secret agent’s orders,” Shanewhispered back.“He took care of me and you took care of Nell and Lucy Brooke.I think that’s what it means to be family.I might not know much, but I knowthat.”
“You are my family.You are part of this town.”She turnedand kissed Shane.
Bay leaned over and kissed the back of her neck.This feltright and real.Sharing her with his best friend, his brother.They’d survivedso much together, and now they were here.Now she was here and they were afamily.One day, if she wanted, they would have kids and he would learn notfrom his own parents, but the family he’d found here in Bliss.He would learnhow to be a father from Max and Rye and Henry.He would find his way because hewas going to love the hell out of all of them.
He pulled her top over her head and got his hands on herbreasts, her nipples hard against his palms.She needed tonight.She neededthem and what they could give her.She hadn’t gotten all the stress of the dayout and turned the anxiety into joy.
That was his goal for the night.
He got her out of her panties.“Get on the bench.It’s timeto begin.”
* * * *
Brooke was completely overwhelmed with emotion.Itwas almost too much.Almost.
They were here and alive, and Shane didn’t hate her forstaying in the barn.They didn’t blame her for needing more time or for notbeing a hundred percent sure of anything but them.They weren’t leaving her.
She needed this far more than she’d imagined.
The afternoon had been calm, with them taking care of herand making sure she had everything she needed.The interviews with Nate and theother officials had been nothing more than an intellectual recitation of theevents she’d endured.They’d even taken her to the clinic to visit Nell andHenry and their new baby.Lucy Brooke was doing well.The baby seemed perfect,showing no signs that her traumatic birth touched her in any way.
She’d talked to her brothers, and Rachel and Paige and theboys had hugged her and told her how brave she’d been.She’d sat in theirkitchen and drank iced tea and had dinner while Bay and Shane talked to herbrothers.
Like being faced with a ton of dead bodies was normal.
But now Brooke realized she’d pushed it down and she neededto set that fear free or she could drown in it.
The good news was she was finally in her completely safeplace.She was finally with her men.
Right time.Right men.Right place.Bliss.She needed someof that, and now she realized she didn’t have to live here full time for thisplace to be home.It would always be her home, and one day when they were tiredof roaming and ready to build a family, they would do it here.
She lay her cheek on the padded bench, her arms and legsstretched out and her ass in the air, waiting for the first smack of amasculine hand against her skin.The air felt charged, but this time with allthe sweet things of the earth.Pain that morphed into pleasure.The goodrelease of all the fear and rage she’d felt earlier to make room for peace andlove and joy.For all the things they brought her.
“Do you know how much I love you?”Bay caressed her backsidewith his big hand.
“We love you,” Shane corrected.He stood beside his brother.
Her head was tilted so she could see them in the mirror thatran along one side of the playroom.Her men were big and muscular, and boththeir cocks were hard, pressed against the pants they wore.She wanted to touchthem, but she also knew she needed what they were about to give her.
“You love me so much you’ll leave with me if I need to go.”She knew that now.The tears she was certain would only come from spanking wereshowing up as simple emotion.
“We go where you go, baby.”Shane’s fingers trailed down herspine.“Even if that means walking into New York City.Though I suspect you’regoing to have to upgrade our wardrobes.I’ve thought about this.We can gothrifting and…”
She reached up and took his hand even as she heard Baygetting into place.“No New York.We’re going to LA for a while, but I think weshould make Bliss our base.We’ll find a cabin we can afford and set up studiospace for Bay and a design room for me.Beth and Hale can help us if we needrenovations.I suspect we’re about to have a moneybags in our midst.”
Bay snorted.“Or it can all crash and burn.We’ll make itwork, baby.I think Shane’s going to be comfortable on film sets.I don’t knowhow much we need to upgrade our wardrobe, but you should understand that ifthis thing goes well and I start making real money, you and Shane are going tohave to decide what to do with it.I don’t know how to invest for shit.”
He would hand it over to them, trust her and Shane to watchout for him.For their family.
“I think we can handle it.”She knew a couple of guys whowere experts at handling money.They could have their dream cabin and get tosee a whole lot of the world if she had her way.She stroked Shane’s cockthrough the pajama bottoms he still wore.“Are you going to handle me tonight?”
