Chapter 7

CHAPTER 7

CORD

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“Susie, come here.” I could see and hear the others leaving their homes to head over to mine, so I had to make this quick. She didn’t know it, but I’ve been watching her every move from beneath hooded lids since I walked in the door. She’s been avoiding me ever since I came out of the shower, thinks I didn’t notice, but I’m so tuned into her I don’t miss a damn thing where she’s concerned.

It’s funny really, and I hate to admit it, but Ty might be right. I am definitely bitch made. I haven’t even fucked yet and I’m all the way gone. I wake up hard and go to bed harder. When we’re apart for more than five minutes I go into fucking withdrawal and start snapping at everyone in a five-mile radius, before I have to go find her. Something I’ve been guilty of more and more lately since she has me on a damn leash.

I don’t know what, but I know she and her girls were up to some shit. I’d felt her little pique ever since we climbed out of bed this afternoon and understood how she felt. For fuck sake my balls were about to change color and I’m more experienced than she is. So I can only imagine what a little innocent like her must be feeling. She has no idea how close she came to being fucked this afternoon. How hard it was for me to pull out before I fully breeched her. But the time hadn’t been right no matter how much we both wanted it.

Now I’d been in the house a full hour and she’s been avoiding me. There was no telling what was going through her mind. I just hope my nosy ass sisters hadn’t put her up to anything that was gonna get her ass in trouble.

“I know you heard me little girl; move.” She’d come out of the bedroom and slipped into the bathroom before I got a good look at her, that’s why I was calling her front and center. Her behavior was sending off alarm bells loud and clear. I saw the reason as soon as she came into the room and nearly blew my top. What the fuck?

“Yes?” I knew from the tone that she knew exactly what I was gonna say. Always with the attitude, something I loved and despaired of at the same time. It was like walking a tightrope, straddling the line between reeling her ass in and not killing that spirit that made her so attractive.

“Love the hair but everything else is a miss. You’re not wearing this in front of my brothers.” I started to pull at the flimsy top she wore as she looked down at herself. “Why what’s wrong with it?” She wrapped her arms around her middle and tried backing away from me.

I didn’t even so much as blink as I looked at her, even though I knew she was trying to push my buttons. This is part of her new game these days, trying to see how far she can push me before she gets a reaction. Last time she ended up getting her ass beat. Let’s see how far she was willing to push it this time. I knew she would reach a point where she would start to chafe at the invisible restraints I’d placed on her, but she wasn’t going to have much luck with that shit.

“You knew when you put it on that I wouldn’t like it, so why did you?” I waited for her answer, but she wasn’t feeling very brave anymore since she buttoned up.

I have no doubt that her sisters had a hand in this, that she’d probably ran to them complaining about today. Little does she know that it would take a hell of lot more to get her what she wants.

She didn’t seem to understand that I wanted her as much as she wanted me, even more. That it was killing me to walk away after each little session. But my restraint was for her, she’s gonna need it.

There was no sense in warning her off, because my soon to be wife have proven to be as stubborn as a fucking two headed mule. The more I show her my heart, the more she digs her heels in, almost as if she expected me to give up. Like she was testing me. Daddy issues.

“Change it.” She huffed and straightened herself up with that look in her eye that told me she wasn’t about to do what I said. She wouldn’t see it as outright disobedience, no, she would see it as being assertive and having a mind of her own as she’s so fond of reminding me of whenever her dander’s up.

Taking both ends of the neckline in my hands, I pulled in opposite directions until the scrap of see through cloth laid on the floor at her feet. Her sigh of outrage didn’t phase me one bit.

“They’re here, make yourself decent, and whatever that is that you’re about to say to me, don’t. I don’t have time to give you what you want.” Instead I pulled her into me, dipped my hand between her thighs and rubbed while teasing her tongue with mine.

I didn’t have time to really lay one on her, not the all-consuming tonsil cleaning way I wanted to. She melted into me as I rubbed her pussy through her panties, cupping her heat in the palm of my hand. I pulled my tongue and my fingers away as I heard the back door slam. “Heed me, wear something decent to dinner.” I knew she had things that were fit for mixed company because I had bought them myself.

She’d had a lot to say about that as well when the delivery guy had dropped off boxes of stuff and it was all for her. I didn’t argue with her then either while she told me that she was a grown woman who could choose her own clothes, and this while she was digging through the boxes like a kid on Xmas morning.

I should’ve known as I walked out of the room that it wouldn’t be that easy but I soon got caught up in the camaraderie as my brothers and their women trooped in looking to be fed.

“Well, I don’t see any whips and chains so we’re not interrupting anything.”

“Shut up Ty.”

“Hey don’t shoot the messenger, I’m just saying there was some speculation from certain quarters.” He looked at Lo who shook his head and nabbed a carrot stick from the tray I had laid out.

The women were giving me covert looks, which solidified my belief that they had a hand in her little fashion mishap, their smirks as they asked me how my day was-was a dead giveaway.

She came back into the room and I sighed. “We’ll be right back.” I took her arm and led her out of the room back to ours to the sound of snickers behind us.

“You’re being rude Cord, and dinner’s getting cold.” Nice try. She’d changed alright, only this outfit wasn’t much better than the last. The skirt was way above her knees and this top although not see through, was tight enough I could see her nipples.

I ran my hand under her skirt and rubbed her pussy while pulling her head back to feed her my tongue. When her pussy juiced on my fingers and her breath became choppy I let her go and walked to the door. “Change.” I was a hundred percent sure she wouldn’t dare disobey that tone as I left.

She came back into the room in her usual jeans and tee shirt and a major chip on her shoulder. No one said anything about the change in wardrobe, but the women obviously hadn’t missed it and its significance, if the looks passing between them, was anything to go by.

There was a lot of teasing and innuendos as everyone got settled at the table. This is the way it’s supposed to be I guess, the fuck do I know? My mother was a junkie who would’ve sold me to get her next fix and my father was an unknown. I’d grown up on the mean streets of Michigan and had learned how to fend for myself from the age of seven. Had it not been for the service and my brothers, I would’ve ended up on the wrong side of the law. Then again, the way this shit was shaping up, it looks like I’d got into bed with the biggest crime syndicate of them all. Fucking government.

All we wanted when we timed out was some peace and quiet. We had drawn up plans for a business years ago when we decided that the bond of brotherhood should not be broken once we made it back stateside. We’d done everything we could to watch each other’s backs in battle and meant to carry that on in life. It would’ve been damn near impossible for us to come back to anything else, after enduring what we had together.

The commander had known, he’d understood. That’s why he’d left us this place, so that we could stay close. He knew that the machine he’d built wouldn’t work well unless all the pieces stayed together.

We each had our own childhood demons to fight. Things that we’d long left behind that we’d shared only with each other. That’s one of the reasons I was so happy for them when they found their women. Our pact to never get married while inside was pretty much null and void now, but isn’t it fucked that even here, where it’s supposed to be safe, we’re facing the worse danger?

No matter how hard I try I can’t get away from it. We tell ourselves to put it away when we’re together like this. That’s because we don’t want this shit to touch the women in anyway if we can help it. But it’s not that easy to turn off the mind. I told myself to shake it off and let it go for the time being, bringing my thoughts back to the here and now.

This was something else we’d promised ourselves. Before Dani came along our meals were shared between us, each man had a turn at cooking but we all ate together out of habit I guess. Now that the women were here, the food was better, but we still made it a point to eat together. Luckily for us our women understood that unspoken rule, and so far we’d lucked out where the females were concerned. There was no infighting among them. Like they’d been tailor made for us. To fit into our lives!

You’d think we’d been like this forever instead of just a few short months, the ease with which we all came together. In fact, the women had bonded together so well as sisters, my brothers and I had to keep an eye on them to keep their asses out of constant trouble. And though we fussed at them for it, I’m sure they all felt like I did. We’d hit the fucking jackpot.

My family. That’s what I see as I look around the table. The laughter of the women helped to smooth some of the rough edges in my gut, especially one particular sound that went right to the heart of me. She’d put aside her little pique at me. I guess she would be saving that for later. I felt a slight smile tip the edges of my lips as I thought of her antics.

I do that a lot these days, smile. There’s a lot to smile about even with everything that’s going on. But way too often beneath my pleasure is the constant gnawing anger. They shouldn’t have to live like this, shut away from the rest of the world. How long before they grew tired of us keeping them here, holding them hostage? How long before they were no longer living under threat of a madman? Put it away Cord.

I listened now to my sisters making plans for their upcoming nuptials as if they didn’t have a care in the world, I wanted to make that a reality. This was the only time I ever see my brothers relaxed anymore, when they were with their women.

Each of them had an arm around their future bride and even Dev and Quinn were beaming at the girls’ antics as they ragged on their men about one thing or another. Davey was looking better these days as well. The interest my brothers and I showed him, and the way we’d drawn him into our circle had helped to give him more confidence. But he too had been shut away from his friends for the past couple weeks. Finding out that he was the old man’s son had upped our protectiveness of the young man who was now more brother than friend, and he blossomed under our care.

My Susie was right in the middle of it, putting in her two cents in between giving me coy looks. She’ll soon be planning her own wedding too, little did she know, just as soon as I finish designing her rings.

Ours was not going to be the most orthodox of unions by no stretch of the imagination, but the chain I’d hung around her last night was just the beginning, and to me, just as important as the ring I will some day put on her finger.

As the night wound down reality kicked in again. Tomorrow I was sending my woman out there alone without me. It would be the first time in a long while that I was letting her out of my sight. I thought I was prepared for it, but now I’m not so sure. There was no way for me to secure her mom’s place and short of me sleeping outside her bedroom window there was no way for me to keep eyes on her. Fuck I don’t know if I can do it.

“What are you thinking about so hard big guy?” Tyler asked the question under his breath so as not to alert the others. “Sometimes, I wonder.”

“Wonder what?”

“How we got so fucking lucky. I mean, doesn’t it hit you out of the blue sometimes? Don’t you wake up some nights and just stare at your woman? Just watch her breathe, touch her face and wonder how the fuck did this fall into your lap so easy?”

“Every fucking day bro, but you know what, we deserve it. Took me a while to accept that, to take that happiness and run with it. After the shit we came from, then the horror of war, I think Vicki is my reward. What’s really bothering you?”

That’s one of the dangers of living with men who knew me so well. I can’t hide from them. “I can’t do it.”

“Do what, marry her?”

“No you fuck, tomorrow. She’s supposed to go home tomorrow. Her mother’s making noises about not seeing her and Davey.”

“I got you, it would be hard for me to let Vicki out of my sight now too. What does she say, how does she feel about going? She’s not scared is she?”

“I don’t know, she wants to go but…I don’t think it’s such a good idea. I still don’t know why she was in that book or who the fuck put her there. I can’t keep an eye on her over there and we’re supposed to go to the job site tomorrow which means I won’t be around if something happens.”

“So don’t let her go.” That’s easy for him to say, he don’t have to put up with her shit. Not that I would let that deter me one way or the other, but it had been a while since she’d seen her mother, who has been very understanding so far.

Dani and Gaby were older and had been out on their own before meeting my brothers, so had Vicki, and Nessa lived out of town. My girl was still living at home with her mom who had no idea what was going on and wouldn’t understand why her kids couldn’t come home when she wanted them to.

For now, she was under the impression that Susie was here keeping an eye on her brother who was here because we were keeping our word to the CO. That’s the story we’d come up with to pacify her just in case she started asking questions, which she hadn’t as yet. But how long would that last if I kept her daughter away from her?

“Go with your gut brother, fuck everything else.” His words stayed with me even after everyone had left and Davey had gone to bed. Thank fuck his room was well away from ours, and the playroom and he had no idea of the things that went on between us at night.

“Still mad about my outfit?” She climbed into my lap, as I was deep in thought. I turned my eyes on her. “Nope, I would’ve been mad if anyone else had seen you in it though.” She pouted and rolled her eyes as her hand played with the collar of my shirt.

“How are you doing baby?”

“I’m fine, except for the fact that I have this annoying boyfriend…that is what you are right?” She had her tongue in her cheek ready to fuck with me.”

“I’m nobody’s boy, little girl. What I am is your Dom.” Her cheeks pinked up and her body shook just a little but I felt it.

“Carry on, you have this annoying Dom…” My hand reached under her shirt to the flat of her stomach and the chain that rested there. She gulped and looked at me.

“Uh nothing, I forgot what I was going to say.” I ran my fingers over the chain and her flesh with my eyes fixed on her mouth. It wasn’t long before her tongue came out to lick her lips, as her breath grew rapid.

I purposely did not touch her anywhere else, just kept her on the edge as I reminded her over and over again of how she was to comport herself while at her mother’s.

I gave her my mouth again once we got to bed, but didn’t let her feel me between her legs even though she begged and pleaded with me to. A hard slap on her ass was enough to calm her down and I let her cum as much as she desired until her poor body gave out. I didn’t relieve myself, but endured the sharp pain of a hard cock and a full nut sac. I guess I was punishing myself for going against my own wishes by letting her go away tomorrow.

That night I held her close to my heart, as I laid awake keeping watch over her. Every so often she’d sigh in her sleep and cuddle in closer, tearing a little more of my heart with her innocence.

When my dick finally eased up and the pain lessened I gave into sleep with the soft weight of her body pressing into me. This is the last time I agree to this shit. It was that thought that released me from my hell and allowed me some semblance of peace until morning.