Page 84 of More Than I Can Bear

“No.” That came out much more definite.

“So imagine how all three of us can make you feel.” Kaine met my eyes over Freya’s shoulder, a smirk forming. “Time to share, little brother.”

He knew I’d always struggled with that, getting so caught up in playing with toys when I was a kid, that it was a fight to get me to let go of them. That selfish impulse, it’d been riding me the night of the medal count, part of me loving having Freya all to myself. But the same shit played out on the footy field. Some dickhead would get full of himself, focussing on his own performance not the game, and that’s where it all fell apart. We had to work as a team on the field and it was now I realised I needed to do the same here. I picked Freya up and turned her around, putting that sweet arse right back on my lap before kissing my way down her spine.

“You want Kaine?” I asked her in a husky voice. “You want him to kiss you?” My hands slid around her sides and her spine arched, rubbing her butt against the hardest part of me. “Maybe more?”

I felt the pleats in the fabric of her bodice, the heat of her body only just radiating past it, then the swollen swell of her breasts. I traced the sweetheart neckline of her dress, the suggestion clear.

“You looked so fucking beautiful tonight, Freya, and this dress is amazing, but Jack is a fucking bitch, because it puts your tits up on display, like fruit on a platter. I tried really hard not to stare—”

“Not very hard.” River cocked an eyebrow at me.

“You didn’t try all that hard either,” I shot back with a grin, but then we both focussed on her. “None of us can.” I shifted my hips on instinct, rubbing the cock trapped in my pants back and forth against her seam. “When you’re near us, all we can do is look at you, watch you. Jack bought you a beautiful dress, but all I’ve been thinking about is taking it off you since the moment I saw it.

“Right there with you,” Kaine growled.

“You look like some kind of fairy princess, but…” I slid my finger down the zip of her dress, not undoing it yet, but making clear I wanted to. “I don’t need a princess and I don’t think the others do either.”

“Just you.” Kaine tipped her chin up so Freya was forced to meet his eyes and I saw the look of rapt fascination and the pain it caused him there. Did she catch it? The slight purse of his lips, the tiny frown forming. “We need you, Freya. Not before you’re ready and if you’re not—”

“God, Kaine, kiss me already,” my girl rasped out.

I smiled then, right before her hands grabbed mine and placed them on her breasts, and I took just a moment to treasure that, before I mapped the swell of each one with my hands. Her nipples felt like they were burrowing their way through the soft fabric and I couldn’t let their struggle go unaided. I pulled one hand away as the fingers of the other clamped down and that’s when she started to writhe. I tugged a nipple with one hand and her zip down with the other and that’s when everyone groaned.

“Fuck…”

Kaine pulled back and River crowded in, their eyes not seeming to know where to settle as they struggled to take all of her in. That was my girl, stopping three bear shifters in their tracks, like she would every damn time. But feeling her bare, hot flesh, it had me moving, circling one nipple and feeling the skin begin to respond, the point forming a hard bead I couldn’t help but pinch. Because each time I did, she moved, as if there was a line between her breasts and her clit and I was pulling on both of them.

“Stop fucking staring and get to pleasing our mate,” I barked. “She’ll think we’re a bunch of dickheads who have no idea how to show a woman a good time.”

And in some ways that was true. We’d all thought about, wondered, prepared and even talked about this, but now was the first time we’d ever been together the way we were supposed to be and nothing felt more right.

“Kaine, I need—”

She didn’t get to finish that sentence and she wouldn’t again. We’d be there, every step of the way, anticipating what she wanted and making sure she’d get it, I’d bet my life on it. Because suddenly the whole world narrowed down to just this car, the sway of it around corners, as the forward momentum feeling like it powered ours.

My brothers kissed her and River’s head dropped lower, brushing kisses along her shoulders and then going down. Freya wrapped a hand around his head, tangling her fingers in his hair, right before he sucked her nipple in. I raked up her skirts, my fingers finding her core dripping with honey for me, for us. Her hips lifted, just enough to let me pull her underwear to one side and then plunge my fingers in.

There, that’s where heaven on earth was. I felt her clamp down on my fingers, as if to stop me from pulling away, but that was never going to be the problem. I rushed towards her, towards this, like I had before, but now I needed to do that the right way.

Together.

No matter what happened, no matter what challenges we’d face, we’d do so as a sleuth.

A lovely sentiment, obviously, but as my nanas always said. If you make promises to the bear gods, they’ll make sure you live up to them every time. Right now all I could think about was how perfect this night was.

But at what cost?

I couldn’t calculate that, not as I felt Freya’s pussy twitch around my fingers, forcing them to curl up and rake against the spot I’d awakened the night we first met. I did it over and over, listening to her muffled cries grow louder, come faster, right up until…

“I’m coming!” she gasped out.

Fuck, yeah, she was. I thrust my fingers in and out, pushing past the waves that wracked her body, spurring on more, until she forced my fingers away with a shudder. I licked them clean, loving that tangy sweet taste, right before Kaine moved forward.

“Tonight has been far more amazing than anything I expected,” he told her. “And we can end things here.”

It was only now we realised that the car was idling, and as I looked out the dark tinted windows, I saw the car park that belonged to Kaine’s apartment.

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