28. Maddox

Chapter 28

Maddox

His Ellie

I t had taken two weeks. Two weeks to finally convince Ellie to come home and sleep in her own bed. That she didn’t need to be at Yara’s side. That each of them would take a post in her stead.

The first up, much to his chagrin, was Oliver.

Oliver had drawn the literal short straw, had Maddox made them all short with the knowledge Oliver would demand to draw first?

It was a possibility.

But Maddox was aware he wasn’t going to be able to play fair in this world. Not with three men vying for Ellie’s attention. He had accepted the other two men into her life, hell he found it hot as fuck seeing them with her.

In fact, he had watched through Emilio’s camera feed as Oliver had his way with their sleeping girl. Maddox told himself it was to make sure Oliver didn’t go too far, and maybe that was partially the truth. But when she had woken up? When Oliver had slammed into her?

Maddox had tugged his own dick out at that point, thrusting into his hand, until he came.

Ellie tossed in her sleep bringing him back to the present. He wasn’t going to wake her up, this was the first time she had slept in weeks. She needed it .

They were back in Emilio’s house, in their home . While Maddox didn’t want to admit it, he knew that they would be relocating to Florida. It made the most sense. Ellie’s company was easily managed remotely, and they had a crew of employees in New York to do the grunt work necessary to welcome potential new clients.

But Emilio was needed here. He was still cleaning up the mess that Christian and Stephen had caused in their wake. Both men were dead, but they left behind legacies.

They had all but run the Landons from town. Unfortunately, the Yorks were a different matter. While they didn’t have any blood relatives left in town, it had only taken a few days for one to arrive.

Simon York. Maddox hadn’t met him, but from what he had heard, he seemed a much better man than his predecessor. Only time would tell.

A quick agreement and understanding was formed. Christian had acted on his own volition without his family’s backing, so it wasn’t hard to put a new treaty in place. Simon agreed and the town was back to its falsity of peace.

The three families, now down to two.

“Maddox,” Ellie murmured sleepily, taking his full attention.

For a moment he thought she might still be asleep, but then he felt her small soft hands creeping their way across his skin.

Her fingers traced upwards until they found his scar. Where he had been shot.

“This is where the bullet hit her too. It’s the same, so she’s going to be okay. She’s going to survive it, just like you did,” Ellie repeated the line he had heard her say a dozen times before.

That was true, except Yara’s situation was a bit different.

“Maddox,” Ellie shot up suddenly before rolling over to face him. Even in the dark he found her eyes. “She’s pregnant. What if she doesn’t make it? What if her baby doesn’t? What if the baby is my sibling? But if her dad is my step-dad and her baby’s dad is my dad–does that mean the baby would be both my sibling and my niece or nephew?”

Maddox hadn’t been ready for all of that and simply reached out, tugging Ellie onto him. He cupped her face in his bulky hand. “She’s going to be okay. The baby is going to be okay. And when all is said and done, you will get all the answers you need and find out if the baby is your sibling or not. But for now? You need to rest, sweetheart. You’re vanishing before our eyes. We’re worried about you, your bruises are fading, but you haven’t talked to us. Told us what happened in that room.”

Ellie fell forward onto his chest, he almost expected her to doze off again, but she was watching him instead; observing him. It put him on guard.

What is going through that brilliant brain of hers?

“I need to feel you,” she murmured.

That had not been what he expected, but his dick agreed with her sentiment.

She was no longer the woman he had watched for so many years, the one that had been beaten down by the world’s judgments. Here in this room, Ellie was the confident, beautiful, self-assured woman that he always knew her to be.

He hoped that she would continue to see how perfect she was, would continue to grow as the years progressed.

She bent down, gripping his hardened dick through his boxers. Tonight, she had fallen asleep in one of his shirts and nothing else. He was hoping he could slowly do away with all of her sleep dresses and replace them with his clothes. They were practically the same after all, but he wasn’t going to push the matter.

Yet .

Wet . Warm. Swelling pleasure .

He was so incredibly wrapped in his own mind that the sneaky woman was able to free his dick and swirl her hips onto him.

“Ellie,” he loudly growled into the room, the sound reverberating off the walls.

“You know,” she hummed, placing her hands on his shoulders and driving him firmly onto the bed.

She lifted before falling down on his length.

Electricity snapped at him all along his skin, to his dick, to his toes, and back up to his balls.

“I found out who else you used to call Ellie.”

He stiffened.

“Oliver was mad you played that trick on him to stay at the hospital,” Ellie grumbled. “My nickname came from your dog?” She jumped off of him, his dick pulling free.

She tried to roll off the bed, but he caught her.

“No, I don’t think so. Finish what you started.” He shifted to his knees, tugging her ass up. Her juicy fucking ass. “It was my favorite dog.” He swatted at her before he slammed back into her primed cunt.

“Fuck!” Her soft lyrical moan empowered Maddox.

He reached forward, rubbing at her clit furiously as he bent over her back. He found her neck.

Maddox had wanted to leave his mark there but wanted to wait for her to heal first.

He used his other hand to grab her gently by the neck to pull her upwards, he met her halfway his mouth latching onto the skin there. Sucking and biting as he went.

Her moan vibrated through his hand, through his mouth, through his dick. She was enveloping every piece of him. He pounded into her aggressively, losing control of his inhibitions, forgetting to dial it back .

He expected her to try to escape, to say her safeword, not to push back on him. Matching every beat he thrust into her.

A guttural noise that stemmed from his chest, left his lips as he unlatched from her neck. A moment later and her cunt clenched around him, the familiar feeling of her orgasming around him.

She screamed as he finished himself, imprinting his mark into her.

His sight blurred as he came deep inside of her, but he didn’t pull free. He wanted to fill her, to keep himself deep inside of her. Remind the other two men that they may be a part of her life, but he already owned a part of her too.

“If you two are done, there’s a certain woman that has woken up and is asking for you,” Emilio’s voice cut through the dark.

Maddox knew he had been there, but he realized Ellie might not have when she jumped underneath him.

“You asshole!” she squeaked out, but then his words seemed to land. “Yara?”

Much to Maddox’s chagrin, she wriggled off of his cock. He turned back to Emilio baring his teeth in irritation.

Ellie hopped off the bed and Maddox followed the movement. Even in the dim lighting he could make out the mess he had made of her. The marks, his cum glistening between her thighs, her unruly hair.

He was incredibly satisfied, and all of his previous frustration dissolved.

“Go get cleaned up Bella Isa, you’re leaking,” Emilio stated calmly, only the hint of annoyance saturating his tone.

Ellie lifted a pillow off the bed, launching it in Emilio’s direction. Maddox had to contain his laughter as it landed against the man’s face.

“Overbearing men!” She stomped off towards the bathroom. “Five minutes and then we’re leaving! ”

“I love you, Ellie!” Maddox called out to her as she slammed the door shut on them.

He was immensely happy when he heard the soft “I love you too” through it.

“Put some fucking clothes on, I’m tired of staring at your ass.” Emilio’s tone was rough now, devoid of its previous softness.

Maddox ignored him. He would deal with all the assholes in the world if it meant at the end of it, he would end up with his Ellie.