Power Up 3: Whispered Words (10 page)

“So…”

“So.” Josh waited for Xavier to say what was on his mind. He found it interesting his brother had resorted to verbal communication, when for so long they’d passed mental messages back and forth. To make it easier for Chloe to join their thoughts, maybe?

Xavier swore. “Hell, Josh. Quit being so damn difficult. Have you looked lately?”

“No.”

“Well, do it. I want to see if Chloe’s in danger.”

“And I don’t?”

Xavier shook his head. “You’re in that self-denial thing you’re so good at. You want her, but you’re afraid. So you pretend you can ignore her, when we both know you can’t stop thinking about her. It’s a classic Josh move.”

“Yeah, and you don’t think before you do. A classic Xavier move,” he snapped back. “I’m not afraid of shit.”

Xavier laughed at him.

“What’s so funny?”

“Bro, you sound exactly like Chloe. It’s almost eerie how alike you two are.” And why that pleased him, Josh couldn’t say. “I’m not—”

“Yeah, you are. So alike, it’s scary. Now quit stalling and take a look.”
Josh gritted his teeth. But the thought of Chloe in danger worried him. He cleared his thoughts and relaxed, pleased when the cloudy residue of time settled over his concerns. The return of his gift was a welcome relief, like regaining his vision or hearing. Finally right with himself, he allowed the future to unfold.

And that was when he saw Xavier hidden under a bed. A knife sticking out from Chloe’s shoulder. Watched as an average-looking man with crazed brown eyes stabbed him in the neck, then went after Xavier. A glance around them showed an unfamiliar bedroom. What might have been gray or green walls around a large bed.

Scattered clothing. Chloe’s clothing. A few pictures on the dresser, but the room was otherwise draped in chaos.

And then he saw himself slouched against her bedroom door, keeping something out while Chloe shouted something. The vision went dark as the sound of bullets impacted, but he had the impression of Chloe smiling down at him. He blinked into the present once again.

“Tell me.” Xavier looked worried.

As well he should be. Josh shared the vision, and they both quieted, lost in thoughts of how to save the woman who meant more to them than she should.

“We tell her.” Xavier rose from his seat at the table.

“What? No. We need to protect her.”

“Oh? I was under the assumption you wanted her out of here and out of our lives as soon as possible.”

“No.”

“No?”

“Dammit.” Josh cut Xavier off before he could reach the bedroom door. “Don’t.

You’ll influence her future. She’ll leave us too early.”

“Move. She needs to know.” When Josh refused to budge, Xavier shook his head. “This is stupid. I could just tell her without speaking, Josh.”

“But you won’t. Because it still freaks her out, knowing you’re the voice she’s been hearing.”

“Well, yeah. But I’m surprised you knew that.” Xavier gave him an appraising look. “You’re paying more attention to her than I’d thought.” A wide smile spread over his face. “Good to know.”

Seconds passed. “Oh, fuck it. Fine. We’ll tell her.” Josh followed Xavier into the bedroom and stopped at the sight of Chloe wearing one of his flannel shirts and nothing else. She knelt in the middle of the bed, as if waiting for them. His shirt covered her from her shoulders to her knees, but she hadn’t buttoned it. And the hint of her flesh as she shifted turned him on
big time.

“Well?”

Josh took a step forward before he could stop himself. And then Chloe took charge.

Xavier hadn’t been sure she’d go along, but he couldn’t have been happier.

Chloe had doubts. He understood that. But knowing Josh needed her had triggered her compliance. A generous woman, his Chloe.
Their
Chloe.

Xavier watched his brother try to resist Chloe and fail. Good move on her part, to wear something of Josh’s. His brother was all about ownership, a possessive bastard who needed to better learn how to share.

Satisfied she’d give them a shot at the future they all needed, he waited for Josh to relent.

“Don’t you want me?” She eased the shirt open and cupped a breast. Her taut nipples were a pretty pale brown, her size full enough to fit in his hand yet not spill over. And he had large hands.

Josh swallowed hard. “Yeah.”

Xavier wanted to shove him forward. To ask why he hesitated when everything they’d ever wanted knelt on the bed, his for the asking.

But he knew. Karen’s rejection had killed something inside his brother. Xavier had never admitted it, but she’d damaged him as well. Like Josh, he secretly hoped for a sense of normalcy. He knew they’d never be the average family on the block, but the chance at a wife and children meant something. Karen had been the first woman Josh had actively pursued with permanence in mind. Not including Xavier had been his first mistake. Picking the wrong woman his second.

Josh knew better now, but he was gun-shy. The sex last night had been incredible, but would Josh have the courage to step forward and experience it again? Because Xavier had felt the deeper sense of connection among them. More than the physical, their joining had touched something stronger. A sense of self mirrored between all of them.

“Scared?” Chloe taunted and sucked a finger into her mouth.

Josh growled and knocked her to the bed. His mouth on hers, his hands ripped the shirt from her as he kissed his way down her body.

In seconds he’d found her clit, and he drew her into his mouth, licking and sucking while he moaned his surrender.

“God, she’s hot.”

“Yeah.”
Pleased Josh spoke to him, included him despite his obvious fixation on Chloe, Xavier leaned down to kiss her. The temptation of her breasts called, and he cupped the smooth mounds, loving her feminine differences. When she arched into him, he deepened the kiss and tugged at her nipples.

Her loud moan increased his urgency to take her.

“Together this time.”
The image Josh sent him turned Xavier’s lust into a raging inferno.

Xavier released Chloe to strip naked. Then he took over for Josh. They switched places, with Josh now savoring her breasts.

Christ, Chloe was sweet. Her wet pussy needed to be filled. As he licked her clit, Xavier shoved first one finger, then two inside her heat. Like coming home, but it didn’t ease his desire. His cock throbbed, and he licked her harder.

“That’s it. Take me inside,” Josh murmured as he straddled her neck on the bed. “I love watching you suck me off.”

Xavier closed his eyes and focused on her scent, her taste. He didn’t need to see her pleasuring Josh to know how it felt. Josh’s hunger fed his own, and his brother’s earlier fantasy consumed him.

He sent Josh a picture of them taking Chloe, and Josh nodded. Xavier could feel him thrusting faster, his enthusiasm edging into orgasmic.

Josh pulled away from her lips and moved to her side. He panted in time with Chloe’s heavy breaths. “Chloe, we want to fuck you together.”

“God, I thought you were.”

Xavier released her clit and gave it another small kiss. Then he slid his fingers out of her and moved them lower, skimming but not touching her hole. “He means together, coming inside you down here.” Xavier curved his fingers around her ass.

“You ever had a man in here, honey?”

She bit her lip. “Once, a long time ago. I didn’t like it.”

“You’ll like it with us. With both of us loving you at the same time,” Josh promised.

Loving. Exactly
. “Easy now, Chloe. We’ll make it good for you.” Xavier teased her, sliding his wet fingers around her rim. He skimmed her and inserted the tip of his finger inside her, stopping at the first sign of resistance. “Josh, find something we can use as lube.”

Josh disappeared.

“That feels good.” She sounded surprised.

“That’s nothing. Wait until we’re inside you. Taking you with us.”

“Taking me where?”

“To heaven, baby. Because when you come with us both, you’re gonna see stars.” He paused a moment and grinned. “It’s a bad, bad line, isn’t it?” She laughed.
“Only you, Xavier.”

The mental connection bridged that last bit of distance between them. Xavier removed his fingers and eased over her. He had to kiss her again, to feel her mouth under his. He couldn’t get enough of the closeness. Her curves fit his hard muscles.

The softness inherent in her power, not a weakness, but a giving energy that completed the void only she could fill, drew him like a magnet. He could no more stay away from her than he could stop breathing. Like Josh, she made him whole.

He just had to convince her and his stubborn brother of the truth.

“You’re ours, Chloe. All ours.”

She shifted and caught his cock between her legs. Then, in a tricky move, she maneuvered so the tip of him rested inside her.

“Fuck.” He tried to stop moving, to wait for Josh, but she wouldn’t let him.

“Come on, Xavier. Fuck me. Make me so wet. Get me all ready for Josh.”

“Hurry up. She’s seducing the hell out of me,”
he mentally yelled to Josh.

His brother snorted with laughter.
“So pathetically weak. But I’m feeling your
pain.”
Josh returned moments later.
“We’re in luck. I found a tube at the bottom of
my bag. My just-in-case stash.”

Xavier sensed his brother’s large grin.

“Thank God.” He rolled over and let Chloe ride him. “That’s it, baby. Keep moving. Let Josh work you good while you come all over me.” To Josh he sent,
“I’ll
try to hold out, but you can feel what she’s doing to me.”
Josh groaned. “Oh yeah. Go ahead and come inside her. This is going to take a while. I want her nice and stretched for me.”

“You two are really turning me on.” Chloe moaned as she rode Xavier like a stallion. He reached up and held her tits while she ground over him.

She vibrated with passion. And need. “Fill me, Xavier. All inside me.” Then she gasped when Josh placed his cold, wet finger at her hole and pushed. “Oh.
Josh
.” He teased. He prodded, he thrust a little more, bit by bit, until she all but writhed on top of Xavier.

“Fuck. I can’t hold on.”

Josh nodded, his breath overloud in the room. “I know. I’m gonna come hard in about three seconds.”

Xavier used all his discipline to stop moving as Chloe came hard around him.

It about killed him, but he held on to his climax while she clamped tight. Josh used the moment to slide another finger inside her. He stretched her slowly, getting her used to him while she continued to come.

“You feel so good,” he and Josh said together, in total unison. An odd happenstance, and one that occurred when they grew in tune with one another to such a degree they felt like one person.

“Yeah. More, Josh. More of you in me,” she said on a breath and whimpered when he removed his fingers. Then Josh pulled her off Xavier, who hissed when his dick slapped against his belly.

“Easy.” He stared at Chloe, so beautiful in the rosy afterglow of her orgasm as she settled on her hands and knees over him. He played with her breasts and waited for Josh to finish lubing himself. “He’s nice and slick for you, honey. And he’s ready.”

“Yes. I want you inside me, Josh.” She waited, unmoving.

And when Josh knelt behind her, his knees touching the outside of Xavier’s legs, Xavier felt so close to the pair, his eyes welled.
“Yeah, take her, bro. That ass is
all yours.”

“Push out. That’s it. A little stretching. Holy fuck, that’s tight.” Josh gritted his teeth as Chloe slowly backed onto him.

She paused and tried to move away. “You’re too big.” Then Xavier had an idea. “On the floor, bro. Take her a little at a time. But let me sit in the chair first. Let our girl make me happy while she takes you. This first time.” He sent Josh an image, and his brother tensed, hard and aching. Like Xavier.

“Okay, Chloe. Follow me.” Josh withdrew and pulled her to her feet while they waited for Xavier to seat himself in the big chair in the corner. Xavier spread his thighs and gripped himself, so hard and full. He needed to release, but he wouldn’t until Chloe could take him. First in her mouth, then in that hot pussy once more.

She was such a dream come true. She eyed him like a candied treat, and when she knelt in front of him and licked him from the root of his cock to the head, he nearly lost it. He literally trembled, caught in the palm of her hand.

Cupping and stroking him, she drew his sac up tight, his cum building, needing an outlet.

And then Josh was there, easing his way into her once more. The sensation of his brother’s cockhead breaching her hole had Xavier pushing into her mouth.

“Come on, Josh. I can’t last much longer.”

“Neither can I,” Josh said, his agony mixing with pleasure.

Chloe clutched Xavier’s thighs and sucked harder.

Unable to bear any more, Xavier cried out and came, jetting into her mouth as the ecstasy overwhelmed him.

He urged Josh forward, and his brother came inside Chloe’s ass, easing his way deeper into her passage through the slick glide of his own release. Josh pumped and pushed, until he rested the whole of himself within her, his dick still weeping with relief as he spent inside her.

Chloe swallowed every drop of Xavier’s cum before pulling away to plant kisses along his shaft and thighs. But she didn’t move her hips, caught in Josh’s firm grip.

“Oh yeah. Oh fuck, yeah.” Josh sighed and shifted, startling another moan out of their girl. “You still good, sexy?”

“I feel so full.” She tilted her head back, exposing the graceful span of her throat. Like a swan caught between two rivals, she poised herself, awaiting their next move.

The energy racing through the three of them was enough to keep Xavier semihard. Josh had yet to pull out of her, and he knew what his brother wanted.

This time they needed to both come inside her at the same time.

“I need a minute.” Hell, they all did.

But then Chloe did something unexpected. She opened the mental doorway holding herself apart from him, and Xavier stepped inside. Fully.