Chapter 24

CHAPTER 24

GIANNI

"This is the life." I laced my fingers together and placed my hands behind my head. I leaned against the back of the outdoor lounge and gazed out at the view.

"It could be worse," Damon agreed. He sat down beside me and copied my pose.

"It has been worse." Mina sat on the other side of me, her legs crossed. She wore black leggings and a dark purple T-shirt with the logo of Bobby Starlight, her childhood favourite pop star, on the front. She wore her brown hair tied back in a ponytail.

For the first time since I saw her in that cage, she looked like a woman who was almost twenty-four, not so tired and world-weary. Not quite carefree, but we'd work on that.

Reuben sat on the edge of the lounge, lost in thought. His polo necked shirt looked new. It might have been hanging in his wardrobe for years, but he hadn't let himself relax enough to wear it. It wouldn't last long, but it was good to see him take a rare day off.

Mina uncurled and walked on her knees to place her hands on his shoulders. She started to massage them lightly, her upper body pressed against his back. "You should get a professional masseuse."

He dropped his chin down to his chest. "Why would I need one when I have you?"

She laughed, soft and husky. "Because I'm not a professional. Although, maybe now I could be. I could go back to school and get myself a day job. Something to keep me busy between contracts."

"If you need the money—" Reuben started.

"I don't," she said quickly. "I just want to do something interesting with my life. Maybe not masseuse. I wouldn't mind learning about technology and how to use it the way the twins do. Then you wouldn't have to call on them all the time for things like that."

Reuben grunted. "It keeps them busy, but if you want to study, you can. Any university would be lucky to have you. Brutham Academy has an excellent computer science department. The campus is a long way from here or Sydney. For a number of reasons, they don't do external study."

"You're on the board of Brutham," I pointed out. "They'd open a campus here in Dusk Bay if you insisted on it. And funded it. We could live here during term time and back in Sydney when Mina isn't studying."

"You could go back to school too," Damon said. "Learn how to do something useful."

I flipped him off. "Ha fucking ha. I'm very useful." I rolled onto my side to face him. "If I went back to school, it would be to teach. Psychological torture one-oh-one."

He turned his face until his nose was almost touching mine. "You're an expert at that. I feel psychologically tortured right now." His eyes shone with humour, his equivalent of laughing.

"The only thing you're suffering from right now is the suppressed desire to fuck me," I said. "An issue I'm happy to rectify any time."

His eyes were immediately darker.

Nail, meet head.

I lay perfectly still. He'd either make the first move, or he'd shift back away from me. Whatever he'd do was fine with me. I wouldn't put any pressure on him to…

The thoughts flew out of my head when he moved closer, brushing his lips over mine.

Then I was kissing him back, deepening the kiss before rolling onto my back and pulling him with me. His upper body lay across mine, growing erection pressing into me.

I slipped my hands up the back of his shirt and over his firm, scarred skin. Every centimetre of him was warm under my palms. With every caress, I wanted to feel more of him.

He groaned and pushed his tongue between my lips, like he was thrusting into me.

I was so hard by now, I'd be lucky if I didn't lose my load in my track pants. I managed to whisper his name right before I undid the front of his pants and pushed them down so I could palm his cock.

I raised my hips so he could pull down my track pants and do the same to me. His hand was hot and firm around my length. His fingers explored my piercings with fascination.

"Did they hurt?" He broke off our kiss to look down at my cock.

I glanced down too, marvelling at the way his hand fit around me. "A little, but it's completely worth it."

"It definitely is," Mina agreed. She and Reuben were watching us with heated expressions. He gripped her hips and pulled her over to straddle his lap. His hands slipped up the front of her T-shirt so he could palm her breasts. She pulled her T-shirt off over her head and threw it aside. She wasn't wearing a bra.

"So fucking gorgeous," Damon whispered.

"I know I am." I pulled him back in for another kiss. He grunt-laughed against my mouth, but kissed me back.

I grabbed the back of his T-shirt and pulled it up over his head. He did the same for me before we both shimmied the rest of the way out of our pants.

Mina discarded hers, before helping Reuben out of his. She placed her hands on his shoulders and lowered herself down onto his length.

"If you want to…" I raised my eyebrows at Damon.

He swallowed visibly and nodded before pushing himself up off the lounge and heading inside. He returned a minute or two later with a tube of lube in his hand. He gestured for me to lie on my side and opened the tube to squirt some lube onto his fingers.

Eagerly, I lay still while he applied the cool lube to my rear hole. Tentatively, he pressed a slippery finger inside and worked it around to spread the lube and relax my muscles. He added a second finger, which made me quiver with pleasure and anticipation.

"Have you ever been fucked here?" he asked.

"Not recently," I said. "But yes. Please… I need you inside me."

He lay down behind me and pressed the tip of his cock to my entrance. "I don't want to hurt you."

"Yes, you do," I said teasingly.

He hesitated for a moment before bringing his hand down hard against my ass cheek.

My eyes widened and I almost came on the spot. I groaned. "More of that. Please."

He slapped my ass a couple more times, harder each time. Stinging, but perfect. After the third slap, he pushed himself inside me. Slowly at first, stopping to let me stretch and get used to having him inside me.

"That feels so good," I said.

"You're so fucking tight," he groaned. He pushed himself all the way inside me and lay still for a while.

I savoured the way he felt inside me, while watching Mina bouncing on Reuben's lap, her breasts bouncing with her.

"Good girl," I told her. "You're making him feel so good, with your perfect pussy."

Reuben's hand was between her legs, massaging her clit while she rode him. "She's a very good girl," he agreed. "The best." His voice was strained, attention split between looking at her in front of him, and watching Damon fuck my ass. Not with any jealousy, just with fascination and approval that I was making Damon feel good.

Damon snaked a hand over my hip to grip my cock. He pumped it at the same time as he thrust into me.

I moaned. "Fucking hell, I'm going to come."

"Me too," he said. "Can I…"

"Come inside me," I said. "Please. Fill me with your cum." That threw us both over the edge, coming hard and fast with each other. My balls clenched tight before exploding in his hand, covering his fingers with pearly, warm cum. At the same time, he filled my ass with his.

Reuben and Mina came moments later, him grunting while she tipped her head back and screamed out his name. I'd never get enough of watching her come. Him either. They were both hotter than hell. Sexy, smart and incredible. And mine.

Damon slumped down behind me, puffing lightly. "That was amazing."

"I told you you liked me," I teased.

He actually laughed softly. "Maybe I do. Don't tell anyone, or I'll have to kill you."

"My lips are sealed," I said. "Until the next time they're on your cock."

He groaned. "You're going to make me hard again." He carefully slid out of me.

I rolled over to face him and grinned. "Sorry, not sorry. Making people hard is part of my job description. It's on Mina's as well." She'd been doing that since we met. "See, I do have useful skills."

"Possibly." He lightly kissed my mouth before rolling onto his back and exhaling.

I propped myself up on my elbow and looked out at the view. "I know we have to get back to Sydney tomorrow and back to work, but we can enjoy this for a while longer, can't we?"

"This is why I bought the place," Reuben said. "So my family could enjoy the peace of the ocean." His arms were around Mina, her face pressed against his chest. He was running his hand up and down her bare back, just lightly, lovingly. Like she was cherished. Like he could sit with her like that forever and never need another thing.

I couldn't remember having ever seen him look content before. He did now. Holding her like that, he looked as though he'd come home to someplace he'd wanted to be all his life.

I knew he'd loved her for a long, long time. Now he had her, he wasn't letting her go. Neither were Damon and I.

She was the piece of the puzzle that completed all of us. The sun the rest of us circled around. The centre of our universe. Our beautiful, badass assassin.

"And we do," I said. "I love my job, but it's nice to stop and smell the sea air once in a while."

Not for too long though. I'd get bored if I wasn't running around getting shot at, shooting people and slitting throats. Those were the things that made life worth living. Especially doing them with the people I loved.

"That reminds me." Mina raised her face reluctantly. "I've come to the conclusion that the Sparrow is too burnt. After the rumours we spread and whatever Kurt said about me, the Sparrow needs to die. Figuratively," she added quickly.

"What are you saying, sweetheart?" I asked gently. "You're going to give up being an assassin and become a hacker instead?" That would also be hot. Whatever she did, would be.

"No," she said. "I want to keep working as an assassin. But I want to build a new name. I want to use the one I would have chosen for myself if my father hadn't insisted. Fiori."

She looked shy, as though she thought we might laugh, but if we did she was ready to deal with us. She wasn't taking shit from anyone, not anymore. She was so fucking strong, so beautiful it almost hurt. So incredible.

I'd never laugh at anything she ever wanted to do. Whatever she did, we'd support her, every single moment. The same way she'd support all of us.

"Flower." I smiled. "That's absolutely perfect. Just like you."

She smiled back and my heart never felt so full. I couldn't have been more proud of her. This new name was going to be even more successful and feared than the Sparrow. I couldn't wait to be on the sidelines, cheering her on. Maybe she'd even teach me some of her assassin skills.

She was so fucking perfect.

So fucking ours.