Kane, Samantha - Brothers in arms 7 (29 page)

“Oh, good,” Sarah commented drily from below Gideon. “I was quite worried.”

Gideon laughed and Charles chose that moment to press inside. Gideon gasped.

“No, Gideon,” Charles said. It sounded as if he were speaking through clenched teeth. “Don’t tense up. Relax. Take a deep breath. Now.”

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The burn was sharp where Charles kept up a relentless pressure. Gideon forced himself to relax, focusing on Sarah’s hand smoothing gently up and down his arm. He took a deep breath and pressed back and suddenly Charles slipped inside and then glided home. Gideon was stretched and felt an aching fullness, but whatever pain he’d felt was gone. He started to move but Charles stopped him with a firm grip on his hip.

“Don’t,” Charles ground out. “Don’t move yet. You’re not ready.”

“I’m fine,” Gideon told him. “It doesn’t hurt.”

“I just want to sit here for a minute.” Charles sounded raspy. He leaned over Gideon’s back and kissed his neck tenderly and then laid his forehead on Gideon’s shoulder. Gideon felt something wet drop on his shoulder.

“Oh, Charles,” Sarah whispered. She wrapped her arms around both of them and kissed the top of Charles’ head.

“Are you crying?” Gideon asked in wonder.

“Be quiet,” Charles told him with a sniff. “You are going to ruin this moment for me.” He rested his lips against Gideon’s shoulder, not kissing him, just resting them there. “I’ve waited so long, Gideon,” he whispered in a broken voice. “This is…” he shook his head and sat up. The move caused his cock to slip around inside Gideon a little and he groaned at the feeling.

“I can’t believe you’re inside me,” Gideon told him with disbelief. “It’s…” He laughed. “I don’t have words for it. It just is. God, Charles, if I had known…”

Charles re-situated himself on the bed and Gideon groaned and pressed back, seeking more. His cock began to revive in Sarah’s wet heat. “I think he liked that,” she murmured, sliding her hand down his back. “He’s getting harder.”

“I have no secrets from either of you,” he said roughly, forcing his hips to stay still.

Charles slid out just a little and then pressed back in, as if testing the waters.

“More,” Gideon ground out and Sarah grinned as Charles laughed behind him.

“I have more to give you,” Charles answered with the familiar words and Gideon’s cheeks heated because he hadn’t realized he’d sounded like Sarah.

Charles pulled out and thrust back in harder than before and Gideon cursed. “That feels so damn good,” he told Charles.

“Tell me,” Charles demanded. “Tell us how it feels. Describe it for Sarah.”

Charles began to fuck him in a slow, steady rhythm that had Gideon fearing for his sanity. “I’m full of him, Sarah,” he whispered. She moaned beneath him and bent her legs, tipping up her hips to take him deeper. He was hard now and ready to fuck and be fucked. “He’s so hot inside me, slick and hard. I never knew he would feel so good.”

“Fuck her, Gideon,” Charles ordered him. “With me. Like this.” Charles pulled out of Gideon and pressed Gideon into Sarah with his hands on Gideon’s hips. Then he thrust inside pulling Gideon’s hips back. It was lesson enough. Gideon picked up the cadence immediately and Sarah clutched his shoulders, her head thrown back on the pillow.

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“Listen, Sarah,” he whispered. He could see how his words were affecting her, feel it in the vise of her sex around his shaft. “You can hear his prick tunneling into me through all that oil. So slick and hard.”

Sarah groaned. “You said that already,” she told him in a shaky voice.

“Do you like it?” Charles asked roughly. “Tell me you like it. You like to be fucked, don’t you, Gideon?”

Gideon liked it more than he’d thought possible. Having Charles’ cock parting him, fucking him, possessing him—he knew he’d crave it from this day on. But all he said was a low-voiced “Yes.”

Then the rhythm and the fuck took over and there was no more talk. Just the sights and sounds and feeling of being owned and taken by the two most important people in the world to him. His arms grew weak and began to tremble and Gideon had to lower his weight onto Sarah, who took it gladly and fucked him rough and as hard as Charles.

He let Charles take over completely, fucking Gideon into Sarah with each stroke. She was a match for them. Her nails dug into his back and he grunted at the bite of them, but the pain grounded him so he could savor Charles’ possession and Sarah’s enjoyment of them. His new position drove Charles into a point that sent shards of white-hot pleasure shooting from his arse to his prick. And Sarah swallowed that heat and gave it back to him as her walls trembled around him.

He felt his orgasm coming. His back tensed and so did his balls. He felt the tightening of his passage around Charles’ prick and Charles groaned as he fucked Gideon a little harder. He needed something to hold on to. He felt as if he were going to fly apart. He wrapped his arms around Sarah and she held him to her. “Yes, Gideon,”

she whispered in his ear. “Give it to me. Give me your pleasure. Show me how good Charles makes you feel.”

“Sarah,” he whispered brokenly. Charles didn’t stop. He kept fucking in and out in an oiled glide that caused Gideon to start shivering uncontrollably. Sarah moaned and tensed and he felt her begin to come, not a frantic climax but a deep, steady throb of pleasure, and Charles pushed deep and hit that spot and Gideon was gone. The heat of his release raced through him and out into Sarah as Gideon gave a strangled cry. He could feel his passage clenching tight around Charles. Charles groaned and Gideon felt a rush of heat fill him and he knew that he’d come inside him. Gideon jerked between him and Sarah, surrounded by a pleasure more intense than any he’d ever felt.

When it was over none of them moved for a minute or two. Their breaths were ragged in the still night air as a breeze cooled the sweat on their skin. After a short while Gideon felt Charles’ spent cock slip from him with a sense of loss. Finally Sarah spoke.

“Gideon, I love you. But I can’t breathe.”

He and Charles burst into weak laughter and Charles helped him roll off Sarah.

“I’m sorry, my sweet.” He cleared his throat because his voice was raspy. “I may never walk again.”

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Sarah looked at him with concern. “Are you all right?”

He smiled at her and then at Charles. “I’m perfectly exhausted. You have both fucked me into near unconsciousness.”

“Ah,” Charles said as he lay down next to Gideon and nuzzled his cheek. “Should I say I’m sorry?”

“No.” Gideon raised a brow as he turned to look at him. “You should get something to clean us all up, and then we can figure out how soon we can do that again.”

Sarah laughed. “I have so many different possible combinations for
that
going through my mind.”

Charles reached over Gideon’s chest and grabbed Sarah’s hand to kiss her palm while Gideon leaned over and kissed her cheek. “It isn’t complicated mathematics, Sarah,” Gideon teased. “All you have to do is fuck.”

Sarah groaned as he used almost the same words she had used weeks ago while Charles climbed from the bed laughing and headed into the small bathing chamber attached to the room. “Make her say it, Gideon,” he called out quietly over his shoulder.

“The more she says it the sooner I can do it again.”

Sarah and Gideon shared a look and Sarah began to chant under her breath, “Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck—”

Gideon laughed and put a hand over her mouth. “Give me some recovery time, my dear, please.” Sarah grinned behind his hand and Gideon’s heart swelled. This is what he wanted all the time. The three of them together like this with no horrific memories coming between them.

He could hear Charles whistling softly in the other room as water splashed into a basin. Sarah turned her smiling face toward the sound. Gideon felt the ache in his arse, bathed in the slippery feel of oil and Charles. He could make it happen. He could make their lives all about now and erase the past. It was best for all of them.

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“When Dr. Jones arrives we shall have to have Anne and her two to dinner again.

She will never forgive me if I leave her out of my personal affairs.” Gideon was being sarcastic, but the affection in his voice was unmistakable.

Sarah put her teacup down very slowly. They were sitting in the gazebo. It was a beautiful summer day, the sun shining as a slight breeze kept the air from becoming stifling. Charles had come up from the paddock to join them for tea.

She was watching Charles’ reaction to Gideon’s statement. For all that Charles had known Gideon longer than her, she often felt that she understood Gideon better. And she understood Charles better than Gideon did without a doubt. She inwardly sighed.

How could two men have lived together and loved each other for so long and still not know each other?

Charles was not as careful with his cup as Sarah. He slammed his down on the table rattling the teapot and other dishes, his tea spilling over. “What do mean when Dr.

Jones arrives? Surely you’ve changed your mind!” He sounded incredulous, which just made Sarah shake her head. In all the time she’d known Gideon she had yet to see him change his mind, except about Charles. And that had apparently taken over six years.

“Why would I change my mind?” Gideon asked, genuinely perplexed.

Charles looked as if Gideon had slapped him across the face. “After last night you can ask me that?”

Gideon blushed, which Sarah would have found endearing under different

circumstances. “Last night was…too long in coming,” Gideon said awkwardly. “It had nothing to do with present circumstances.” His look turned guarded. “Are you telling me it was all about making me change my mind?”

“No,” Charles ground out angrily. “You know it wasn’t. I wasn’t lying last night.

I’ve wanted to fuck you for six long years.”

Sarah looked around frantically and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that no one was near enough to hear them. Neither Gideon nor Charles was paying any attention to their surroundings.

“But as usual, you thought a good fuck would solve all my problems, is that right?”

Gideon grabbed his crutches and stood up and Charles rose from his chair to face him.

“Please,” Sarah implored, surprised by how quickly the fight had escalated. Their emotions had been running so high the last few days. Sarah was exhausted, both physically and emotionally. “Sit down, both of you, and let’s discuss this civilly.”

“I think I could fuck you morning, noon and night,” Charles answered Gideon, ignoring Sarah, “and it wouldn’t solve all your problems.”

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“Please,” Sarah said again more vehemently. She put a hand to her head. They were giving her a headache.

Charles gestured at her. “Do you see what you’re doing to Sarah?”

“What I’m doing to Sarah?” Gideon said incredulously. “You began this argument, Charles, not I.”

“No,” Charles disagreed, pointing a finger at Gideon accusingly, “you started it.

You started it with your asinine ideas about this London doctor.”

“You have decided they are asinine and that’s that?” Gideon barked. “Let me reiterate what I have said a thousand times, Charles. You are not in charge of me, my past, my decisions or my future.”

Charles paled. “And that’s that?” he asked sharply. “Whatever Gideon wants, damn the consequences to Charles or Sarah? Let them accept your decisions or not, you don’t care? It’s all about Gideon?”

“Of course not,” Gideon snapped back. “I told you yesterday that I made this decision for all of us. If you would stop your theatrics you would see that this could only be good for us. You are oversimplifying the situation.”

Charles crossed his arms mulishly. “Well, I’m just a simple farm boy, Gideon. It’s what I do, oversimplify. I see you trying to commit suicide for some reason I cannot comprehend, breaking Sarah’s heart and ignoring my pleas. What part am I missing?”

“Charles, please,” Sarah whispered. There wasn’t much conviction in it. Unlike Charles she had known that last night would not change Gideon’s plans. She’d hoped to try a more subtle approach over the next few days, but Charles’ frontal assault today had thrown up Gideon’s defenses and she despaired of breaching them now. He would dig in and hold his ground on the issue.

“I am doing this for you,” Gideon replied stoically. “You may not see it yet, but in the end you will understand.”

“Make me understand it now,” Charles demanded. “Don’t ask me to watch you kill yourself if you can’t explain why to me.”

“When the scars are gone, Charles, you’ll be able to look at me without remembering.”

Sarah froze and so did Charles. She hadn’t understood, then, either. This was for Charles.
Oh, Gideon,
she thought sadly. Did he really think Charles needed or wanted this from him? Did he really think this dangerous path would lead to a future with no past?

“If you are doing this for me, then I should have the right to put a stop to it.”

Charles spoke with barely controlled anger. “Are you the same man I fucked last night?

You can’t be. If you were, you would remember that I didn’t give a damn about the scars or the past. All I cared about was fucking you, Gideon. Being inside you, part of you, holding you. Sharing you with the woman we both love. Making a future together.

Is that all you were thinking about last night? Your bloody damn scars?”

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“You were behind me.” Gideon spoke bitterly.

It took Charles a moment to comprehend what he meant. “It was a hell of lot easier to fuck you that way when you were fucking Sarah!” Charles exclaimed in exasperation. “If you can think of a better way then please share it with me.”

“Could we please stop talking about fucking at the top of our voices?” Sarah asked shrilly.

“Sarah,” Charles said, clenching his teeth as he fought to keep his voice down, “you were facing Gideon. Were you thinking about his scars while we fucked?”