Page 19 of Broken (Powertools: The Shields 4)

“Let it take you,” Liam commanded. “He’ll make you feel so good.”

She wanted to tell him that it was him too. That they both did. But speaking was beyond her then. Ace didn’t help when he added a swirl of his tongue around her clit to whatever he was doing between her legs. She had a wide variety of vibrators, but none of them had ever given her a sensation like he did then.

“That’s right.” Liam growled near her ear. “Show him how much you like it when he goes down on that pretty pussy.”

Ruby wouldn’t have said she was into dirty talk until the words came from him.

Ace groaned, pulsating her sensitive areas, only adding to her pleasure. She screamed, wondering if she would have been able to hear the sound if she’d been in her own bed. Grateful that she wasn’t, that she was finally here, in their arms, sandwiched between the two men she’d adored for a while even if she hadn’t allowed herself to admit it…she came apart.

Ruby undulated in Liam’s hold but he never wavered, holding her where Ace could feast.

She came on his face, riding his tongue and lips as she shattered so completely she wasn’t sure she’d ever recover. Liam shifted her so her weight was predominately on one of his hips. He clutched her with one hand as his other flew over his cock.

“I have more for you, Ace,” Liam rasped, his voice deeper than she’d ever heard it.

Ace gave her one last lingering kiss before turning toward Liam. He opened his mouth as if to suck the other man’s cock but never got that far.

Liam roared, then emptied himself in white slashes across Ace’s face, lips, and into his mouth. His fist flew over his cock, pumping every bit of seed from his balls, onto Ace.

And before the last drops of come had flown from his tip, Ace was joining them.

His cock—longer and thinner than Liam’s and every bit as impressive—jerked before he shot his load all over his abs with a streak or two reaching up onto his chest.

Ruby shuddered in Liam’s hold, trying to find her footing even as powerful aftershocks wrung her from the inside out as she watched their display.

“Son of a bitch!” Ace cursed as his release ebbed and he began to sag.

“You got her?” Liam asked as he handed Ruby to Ace. She could mostly stand on her own, but she leaned on his shoulder even as he clutched her as if he needed her support too.

Ace nodded. Liam went back to the shower and retrieved his warm, wet washcloth. He crouched so that he could clean Ace off, starting with his face, which glistened with their combined fluids, and then his body.

Ruby wondered if he was as sad as she was to see the proof of what they’d done wiped away from his skin. She tried desperately to catch her breath and keep the room from spinning, but it was no use. Ace was there to hold her when she sank into his arms. If it hurt him, he didn’t complain one bit.

Liam swiped his thumb over Ace’s lips, removing the last speck of their arousal, then stuck it in his own mouth, sucking it clean with a pop. “You should take Ruby back to bed. There are only a few more hours until dawn and her next shift.”

“You’re not coming with us?” Ace asked, his confidence slipping a hair even as he rose, refusing Liam’s assistance.

“Not if anyone here is going to get some sleep.” Liam shook his head, then strode toward his room, shutting them outside.

“Ace…” Ruby reached up to cup his cheek. She squirmed, but he held her tight to his chest.

“It’s fine,” he snapped, though it obviously wasn’t. It couldn’t be when Liam wouldn’t admit what they shared. Instead of focusing on the pain, he seemed to use her nearness as a balm. He carried her back to his room.

This time when he laid her on his bed, it wasn’t on the edge. It was in the center.

Ruby had zero complaints when he snuggled up next to her and wrapped her in his heat and hardness. “I have nothing to say for him. I don’t get how he can walk away like that. I’m sorry I let him do it to you too.”

“You’re not responsible for his decisions, Ace.” Ruby kissed him, thrilled to have the right and even happier when he kissed her back. “There’s time to figure this out. And for tonight, I’m perfectly content to be here with you.”

“I don’t think anyone’s ever said that to me before.” Ace relaxed, maybe fully for the first time she could remember. “You’re good for us, Ruby. We just have to make his stubborn ass admit it.”

“A problem for tomorrow, Ace.”

He squeezed her tight. “No matter what happens, I swear I won’t ever treat you like he treats me. I care for you, Ruby. I wouldn’t have fucked around with you even a little if I didn’t. I don’t know what that means for us or the rest of the tomorrows we have here at Shields, but that’s the truth and I’m not afraid to say it.”

Ruby might have cried if she hadn’t already done enough of that in the past two days to last a lifetime. So instead she held him as tight as he was holding her. “You’ll never have to wonder where you stand with me, Ace. I care about you too. Thanks for…”

“The orgasms? Anytime.” He grinned.

“Seeing the real me.” That was sappier than she cared to admit, but she wanted him to know—unequivocally—that she wasn’t only using him for his cock, or his mouth, or his talented fingers. Especially if Liam had never given him similar reassurance.

“Same, Ruby. Same.”

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