Hot In Here (Ashton Heights Fire # 3) (15 page)

Neither of them seemed too
happy with that arrangement, but at length they both nodded, albeit
reluctantly. “If that’s what you want,” Leo said.

“
It is.” Ally gave him an
impish smile. “I also want you to kiss me again, and take terrible
advantage of my naked state.”

“
All you had to do was
ask,” Blair said and bent his head to her breast again.

A moment later, Leo took her other nipple
into his mouth and swirled his tongue around it, his actions
complementing Blair’s. It was so delicious, having both her breasts
orally pleasured at the same time. When Blair headed farther south,
seeking out her newly dampened pussy, Ally bit her lip and gripped
the pillows on either side of her head.

Oh yeah. Whatever she had
to go through family-wise, it was so worth this.

One week later

“
I can’t believe you
haven’t told him.”

Ally looked at Leo with big, blue, imploring
eyes. “I’ve only seen Corey once this week and it was at a family
dinner. It wasn’t the right time.”

It’d been a week, when was
the right time going to happen along? Leo wondered. He’d been on
shift with Corey twice in the last seven days. The man had even
commented on the fact they hadn’t picked up any chicks lately,
asked if he and Blair were having a dry spell. Leo hadn’t known
what to say. “And you can’t call your brother for a chat?” The
frustration sounded in his voice.

“
It’s not the kind of thing
I want to say over the phone.” Ally laid a hand on Leo’s chest and
leaned in close, so close her body heat penetrated him through both
their T-Shirts. “I asked for some time, baby. Please be
patient.”

Ally ran her hand over his pec. Leo’s heart
thudded against her palm. She flicked a fingernail over his nipple
until it stood out in relief against his T-shirt. He felt himself
harden.

“
Please.”

He let out a low growl.
“Ally, your big blue eyes are only going to get you so far.” Leo
wasn’t sure how true that was. When she was looking at him with her
eyes all round like that, and pressing her body against his, he
figured she could get away with anything. “You have to tell him
this week. He deserves to know. I deserve better than to be hidden
like some shameful secret.”

Remorse flashed across her face. “You’re
right. I really am sorry. It’s just hard…”

“
Hey, hey. I understand.”
Leo wrapped both arms around her and pulled her in tight, his heart
contracting at the sheen of tears in her eyes. “I’m just crazy
about you, that’s all. I want your brother’s approval and I’m being
impatient. You’ll handle things in your own time.”

She’d promised to tell Corey, and Leo
believed her. He had to. The alternative was to think she was
avoiding the task, and that led to all sorts of possibilities he
didn’t want to contemplate. Like she wasn’t really into this like
he and Blair wanted her to be. Like she was embarrassed by
them.

“
I don’t want to talk about
it anymore, Leo. Not tonight.” Ally slipped a hand beneath his
T-shirt to feel his abs. They contracted beneath her touch.
“Tonight I want to concentrate on you.”

Blair was working night
shifts while Leo had a couple of days off. Ally also had a rare
night off from waitressing at the Sovereign, where she’d been
working almost every day since she’d started. Leo had invited her
around for spaghetti carbonara, which he’d cooked to perfection, if
he said so himself. He hoped he’d impressed her with his domestic
skills, which were well honed from eight years of living in share
houses and small apartments on his own.

They’d done the dishes
together. He’d washed, Ally had dried, and over the task, they’d
talked about their hopes and dreams. Ally had told him she liked
the idea of having her own business, like a café. Leo loved his job
as a firefighter and never wanted to leave.

Now the dishes were done and they were alone
at last.

Ally slipped a hand into
the waistband of Leo’s jeans and discovered him erect. She teased
his hard-on with the slow scrape of one fingernail.

Leo’s breath caught. “Ally…”

Apparently encouraged by
his helpless groan, Ally slipped the button on his fly free and
lowered the zip. Soon she had him hot and heavy in her hand and he
was watching the place where she stroked him intently. “Do you like
that?”

“
You know I do.”

Ally held Leo’s gaze. He saw the intent in
her eyes before she lowered to her knees and took him in her
mouth.

He watched her the whole time, his gaze both
thrilled and tortured as she worked him with her tongue. He watched
as she removed her halter top to reveal her braless breasts, and
swore beneath his breath as she pinched her nipples with one hand
and stroked him with the other.

“
Damn, baby. You’re so
sexy.”

Ally treated his throbbing staff to a long,
slow lick. “I want you to come all over me,” she said huskily.

It was an invitation
designed to incite a man’s lust, and Leo’s swiftly grew out of
control. He enjoyed sharing Ally with Blair, especially loved how
having them both pay her attention made her crazy with desire. Yet
there was something thrilling about being alone with her too. For
the first time, it was just the two of them.

Leo wanted to mark her,
make her his as well as
theirs.
He acquiesced as she took him deep again. She
worked him hard until his moans grew louder and more frantic. He
felt it sweeping him up in its orbit, his approaching orgasm. He
pictured losing his load, spurting it all over her face and neck.
Fuck. From the excited gleam in her eye, he knew she’d let him do
it.

He held off with a mammoth show of
willpower, pulling out of her mouth before he lost it. “You first,
baby. You’re gonna come in my mouth.”

He got down on the floor with her, eased her
back on the hard wood. Then he ripped off her shorts and panties
and buried his face in her sweet pussy. He licked, sucked and
plundered, taking her with same confidence she had displayed with
him. He knew what she liked already, knew when to add pressure, how
to use his fingers to complement the movements of his tongue.

It wasn’t long before she
was clutching his hair and crying his name. The taste of her drove
Leo wild. He waited until he knew her climax was easing off—somehow
he waited. When at last it was his turn, he got on his knees and
watched her blissed-out body writhe gently as it began to settle.
She was so sexy all naked and replete on his floor. Leo took his
cock in hand and pumped.

Ally’s eyes widened. “Yes.”

It was all she had to say.
Before long, his seed was shooting out of him, landing in long
pearly streaks on her stomach, her breasts. A mark, a brand, as
emphatic as any Blair had landed on her with the flat of his
hand.

She was perfect, and she was his. Leo knew
in that moment that he was falling in love with Ally Wachawski.

And he hoped to hell it was
mutual.

Two weeks later

“
I think you’re avoiding
telling Corey about us on purpose,” Blair mused as he ran the
leather strap teasingly over her breasts. “You like getting into
trouble.”

Ally bit her lip to keep
from whimpering at the way the soft brush of the leather flogger
made her nipples flourish. She was blindfolded, naked and secured
to all four posts of Blair’s wooden timber frame with fur-lined
cuffs. Leo was at work, and she was alone with Blair…at his mercy,
which was mildly frightening and intensely hot. She had to submit
to the binding because they’d agreed she would if she hadn’t
confessed the truth to her brother by the end of the week. It was
Friday and she’d chickened out. Again.

Or was Blair right and she’d hidden the
truth on purpose? There was no denying the delicious thrill she got
from being tied up and punished by Blair Bowman.

“
You know, I don’t mind the
secret too much,” Blair went on. “As long as I have you where I
want you, it doesn’t matter to me that I have to lie to your
brother for a little while. But Leo’s not like me. He’s too damned
decent to keep doing it.”

“
I know.”

She’d tried to tell Corey this week,
seriously tried. She’d even called him and asked to come around for
coffee. He’d been alone at the house he shared with Erica and
Griff, so it had been the perfect opportunity. She’d begun by
asking him if he was truly happy in his triad relationship.

He’d grinned and said,
“
Hell yeah.”

Ally had smiled too.
“Maybe I ought to grab a couple of guys and try
it myself.”
she’d suggested.

Corey’s grin had instantly
turned to a frown.
“Do it and I’ll have to
take ’em both down.”

“
So it’s
fine for you, but not for me?”
Ally had
asked, her heart pounding as she scowled at her
brother.

“
It’s
not easy, Al,”
Corey had explained, turning
somber suddenly. “
Griff, Erica and I are
happy, sure, but we still get funny looks from some people when
they work out what’s going on. We get a lot of personal questions
asked of us, or worse, people we think are going to be cool with it
suddenly can’t look us in the eye. It’s an unusual situation, and
it’s not widely accepted. I fell in love with two people and I
couldn’t live without either one of them, so for me all that
bullshit doesn’t matter. But I don’t want the same thing for you,
sis. It’s not worth it unless those two people are really important
to you.”

Ally had ended up leaving without telling
Corey the truth, and with much more weighing on her mind than she’d
had when she’d arrived. Were Blair and Leo important enough to her
to make the fallout worth it? She’d thought so, but her brother’s
sage words gave her pause.

“
You know what has to
happen now, don’t you, Ally Cat?”

Blair’s question brought her back to the
present, and she couldn’t prevent a quiver of anticipation from
wracking her frame. Her voice was raspy. “I have to be
punished.”

“
That’s right.”

Blair brought the leather
flogger down on her flesh, a light tap against each of her feet. It
was more like a tender kiss than a punishment. The blows came down
a little harder as they moved up her legs to her thighs. Her flesh
tingled with awareness, her inner muscles clenching as he neared
her pussy. When Blair dragged the soft tails of the flogger over
her mound, wetness seeped out of her onto the bed
sheets.

She arched away from the
mattress, pleading for a firmer touch. Blair denied her, of course,
moving the flogger upward to tease her stomach and bare breasts. He
flicked the leather over her sensitive flesh until her nipples were
tight and throbbing, until Ally was writhing in the bindings.
“Blair, please.”

“
I think you should call me
Master tonight.”

Ally gasped, more shocked by the demand than
anything Blair had ever done to her before.

When she didn’t say
anything, Blair eased the blindfold up so she could see. He was
looking down at her with a challenge written on his features.
“Unless you’re not fully committed to this process…or me and Leo.
Is that what’s really holding you back from telling your brother
the truth?”

Ally thought of Corey’s
warning words “
It’s not worth it unless
those two people are really important to you.”

“
I don’t know. But
maybe.”

There was no point in being
anything but honest when she was tied naked to a bed. She was
already as exposed as she could possibly be.

The disappointment in Blair’s blue eyes made
Ally’s heart ache. “You should know I’ve never asked anyone to be
my girl before. Ever. It wasn’t nothing that I asked you.”

Ally’s eyes stung. “Oh,
Blair—”

“
No.” He covered her mouth
with his hand. “You know what to call me.”

He slowly removed his hand,
allowing her to speak. He traced the outline of her lower lip with
his finger until it trembled, and Ally blurted out what he wanted
to hear. “I’m sorry, Master. But I’m afraid. I’ve never wanted
anyone in my life either, not permanently. I don’t know if I can do
it.”

Blair studied her face for a moment, his own
expression unreadable while Ally knew hers revealed everything. All
her fears and doubts.