Chapter 51

FIFTY-ONE

Two months later . . .

“Igot him.” I grin, my eye on the scope. “Let me know when you’re clear, baby.”

“Got it,” she says just before the door bursts open and my girl emerges, a backpack slung over her shoulder with the stolen gear. Nico isn’t far behind, and Louis is on their tail, slamming and blocking the door.

Dimitri sighs at my side. “Incoming,” he says, and I don’t glance away from the scope as I hit the detonator and the building explodes, throwing them to the floor before they roll to their feet and run.

“You were only supposed to distract them, not blow up the building,” Isaac deadpans from my left, his first-aid kit ready.

“Oops.” I grin just as they burst from the door, and we start picking them off as my girl and brothers race to our vehicle. Once they are clear, we pack up. Slinging the bag over my shoulder, I clap Dimitri on the back and head to meet them.

We don’t take missions often anymore, only enough to keep us from growing bored, but this was a fun one for sure. We stole some important documents for the US government, and although no country admits to using us, that’s fine. It works well for us.

At the car, Nova grins up at me. “Big fire, babe.”

“You know it.” I kiss her, moaning as her taste spreads through me. I never thought I could love someone as much as I do her, and my obsession only gets worse the longer we are together.

Sliding her down my body, I let her feet hit the floor as the others climb in and the car roars to life.

“Let’s go home.” She grins at me. “I’ve got some new toys to show you.” She wiggles her brows, making me groan.

Smacking her ass, I haul her into the car and hit the hood through the window. “Fast as you can, we’ve got things to do.”

“Hopefully not rescuing more animals,” Nico grumbles, even though the big bastard is up every morning, feeding every single animal Nova has rescued. She turned our home into a rescue centre. She said they are like us, and we couldn’t argue with that, especially when she named the pig Davis.

Otherwise, life is fucking good.

I’m not broken.

I’m not psychotic . . . Okay, I am a little, but only for her.

My girl.

My love.

My family.

Forever.

* * *

NOVA

“Don’t,” I warn, pointing my finger at a grinning Dimitri. I turn to keep Jonas in my sights as he tracks me. Shit. I turn to see Nico at the door, his muscles flexing. Louis is sipping his coffee as he watches with glowing eyes, and Isaac winks at me as he climbs to his feet. “I mean it,” I warn. “I just showered.”

“I’ll clean you . . . with my tongue,” Jonas says. “You just look so pretty today.”

“It is your own fault, coming down like that and expecting us to behave,” Dimitri remarks.

Bert just sings along to his music, carrying on cooking breakfast.

“Bert, I claim sanctuary!” I call.

“Nope, sorry, Miss Nova.” He waves a spatula at me. “I will put the food in the oven to stay warm though.”

“Fuck!” I snap, turning to the open windows and dashing to them.

I hear them give chase, their laughter urging me on. Gritting my teeth, I run as fast as I can. I slide across dirt as I wind around the house, searching for an advantage. My brain processes like a computer, discarding route options and highlighting better ones, but theirs are doing the same.

I skid to a stop when I see a grinning Nico standing near the pool, waiting for me. Turning, I find Jonas skipping after me, and when there’s a thud, I whirl to find Louis landing below the balcony he jumped from. Groaning, I scan for Dimitri and Isaac, and when I don’t see them, I start to back away slowly.

“You think I’ll make it that easy?” I chuckle. I feint left and then turn and race right, ducking under Louis’s reaching hands. They don’t want to catch me yet, though. That much is obvious. When I skirt the windows, I see Dimitri and Isaac chatting, holding coffee cups in their hands as they stroll from the kitchen. They blow me kisses as I race by.

Bastards.

Annoyance flares in me. I want to win, even though I know they are five of the best soldiers in the entire world and it’s me against them.

I have an advantage though. I know how they think. Louis will hang back, letting them track me while trying to create a net around me to corner me in, and then he will take the kill shot. If I can cause enough chaos and confusion, I might just manage to evade them.

If I want to.

I slow slightly when arms suddenly wrap around me, lifting me into the air. A warm breath wafts over my ear as I shudder with desire, and someone’s hard cock grinds into my ass tauntingly.

“Got you.”

Jonas.

“Do you?” I purr, leaning back as I relax, and when he lowers me slightly, I slide from his grip, turn, and knee him in the cock. With a howl, he drops to his knees.

“Sorry, babe.” I giggle as I back away.

“That was so fucking hot. Shit, baby, my balls,” he groans as he stumbles to his feet. “Better run,” he growls as he hounds my steps. “She’s over by the barn!” he calls to the others.

“Traitor,” I hiss.

“For your pussy, baby? Absolutely.”

Done with talking, I duck through the barn and burst out of the other end, racing towards the fields. Maybe I can lose them in the overgrown grass. Diving into the long foliage, I hold my arm out to block it as I race forward. I hear some shouts behind me and put on a burst of speed to outrun them, but the grass suddenly parts before me, revealing a grinning Dimitri. “Hey, beautiful.”

“Fuck.” I start to back away when hands grab me from behind once more.

“Got you,” Nico says.

“You put up a good fight, but we both know you wanted to be caught, love,” Louis murmurs as he wanders forward and stops before me, jerking his head at Nico. “Take her back.”

“Bastards,” I hiss as I flail and kick, but I moan when Nico grips my pussy.

“Behave, brat,” he warns before tossing me over his shoulder and racing for the house. Part of me wants to give in—after all, it’s exactly what I want—but then again, I never did know how to concede.

Once we are out in the open, heading towards Isaac and Jonas, I make my move. I unbalance Nico, which allows me to fall from his shoulder, but before I take two steps, I’m hauled back up.

A hand comes down on my ass in a hard slap. “If you carry on, I’ll let Jonas play.”

“You are threatening me with a good time,” I remind him, wiggling on his shoulder to get him to spank me again, and he does. The sting fades into a burn, making me moan.

I lift my head as we move into the house. Bert waves at me as he sits and reads his paper.

“I claim sanctuary.”

“Nope, have fun,” he replies without even lifting his head, and when we hit the stairs, I see him putting on some headphones.

We reach our room within seconds, and Nico tosses me on the bed. I bounce and dart to the door, but the others file in, blocking my way. Backing away, I make my way towards the balcony without looking, but Isaac moves behind me, stopping that route too.

“Fine, you caught me.” I huff. “Now what do you plan to do?”

The smile Louis aims at me is cruel and possessive. “Clothes,” he orders, and I tilt my head in confusion, but my clothes are ripped off from behind. I spin to find Isaac backing away with a grin.

I narrow my gaze on him when my bra and knickers are cut away. Growling, I kick them off, and they hit Jonas’s chest where he plucks them up with the knife he used to remove them and stuffs my underwear into his mouth.

The shudder that passes through me isn’t healthy, nor the clenching of my thighs as desire hammers through me.

“Bed,” Louis commands.

Shit. Before I can dart away, Nico strides over and hauls me to the bed, lying down with me pinned on top of him. His ankles catch my kicking legs and press them down to the bed. One hand grips my throat; the other grabs my hands.

I twist and buck, but he’s too fucking strong, and all it does is rub his hard cock against me, leaving me wet and panting. When I still, chest heaving, Louis looks at Dimitri. “You caught her. You get her first.”

Chuckling, D grins as he unzips his jeans and palms his hard cock. “The question is, is she wet enough to take us all?”

“Why don’t you find out?” I snarl.

His grin widens at my words as he strokes himself. The adrenaline from the chase changes to raw, primal need as I watch him touch himself, and when I can’t take it anymore, I widen my thighs to try and entice him. I see the victory in his eyes at my submission before he presses a knee to the bed and crawls between my pinned legs. His eyes are only for me as his hands slide up my thighs and grip them, yanking them farther open.

He lies down between my legs, nudging his wide shoulders there, and drags his tongue across my pussy. I jerk and cry out, twisting in Nico’s hold, who tightens his grip on my throat.

“Oh, she’s wet, but let me make sure,” he coos, and his dark eyes close as he attacks me. His tongue laps at my clit before thrusting inside me, fucking me like we both know he will soon. Groaning, I try to lift my hips and grind into him, but I’m caught between them with no other choice but to take it.

My breath catches as he wraps his lips around my clit and sucks. My back tries to bow, and my eyes close as I cry out. I feel all of their eyes on me, intent on my pleasure and making me theirs.

I fucking want it.

I want it all, dirty, hard, and raw.

Dimitri’s fingers slide into me, curling and stroking as he sucks and bites until it’s too much. With a scream, I explode, gushing over his fingers and tongue. When the pleasure ebbs, I slump and feel him pull away. I don’t even manage to open my eyes before he’s driving into me.

Nico’s hand keeps me anchored as my eyes snap open, clashing with Dimitri’s as he moves above me, and with a growl, he pulls out and slams back in, taking me hard and fast. My name is a hissed word on his lips as his body presses against mine, all hard edges and perfection.

His gaze holds mine, forcing me to see every inch of his love, devotion, and obsession as he fucks me. “Look at you,” he growls as I lift my hips to meet his thrusts, wordlessly begging for more.

I only feel alive when I am with them.

“Look at how perfect you are. We caught you, Nova, and we are never letting you go, not ever. You are ours for eternity.”

Whimpering his name, I turn my hands and slash my nails into Nico, hearing him grunt, but he still doesn’t release me, and I realise that was their plan all along—no escape, not even an inch of space.

“I love you, Nova, so much it hurts, and when I thought I lost you, I didn’t see the point of going on. I live only for you. Do you understand? Without you, I am just another computer,” he growls, his thrusts speeding up.

It’s bordering on painful but so fucking delicious I cry out, clenching around him. It’s too much. It’s not enough.

I’m lost to it, to him, to them.

“Nova,” he whispers as he drives into me. His long, hard thrusts hit that spot inside me, making me see stars.

My heart skips, and fire races through my veins until I can’t take any more.

“Come for me again,” he demands. “Come with me, together.”

As always, they ensure my pleasure first, and his words send me over the edge once more. Crying out my release, I clamp on his cock as he hammers into me twice more before stilling, his forehead hitting mine as he pants and jerks. His cum drips from me as we both breathe raggedly.

“I love you,” I tell him.

Grinning, he kisses me softly. “I love you too.” He pulls from my body, and with one last, lingering kiss, he moves away.

Isaac crawls up my body, trailing kisses along my skin as he goes. His soft smile is firmly in place when he reaches my lips.

“Hi.” He grins.

“Hi.” I giggle.

“Are you okay?” he asks with a naughty grin.

“No, but you can make it better by fucking me,” I taunt, rubbing against him.

“Gladly,” he purrs, sliding down my body. He stops to lick and suck my nipples until I moan loudly. His cock slides across my pussy and the mess there, and then his mouth meets mine once more and he swallows my gasp as he pushes into me.

He kisses me leisurely, softly, and builds the heat inside me with love.

His hips pull back and roll forward.

Unlike Dimitri, Isaac is soft and loving. He rains kisses across every inch of me he can reach. Pleasure arcs through me, leaving me gasping and writhing. His slow thrusts never change, and then I shatter, pulling him with me, his groan echoed in my chest as he fills me with his release.

When I open my eyes, he places a soft kiss over my heart before pulling from my body and sliding away. Their cum drips from me, my legs shake with aftershocks, and I’m covered in sweat, yet they look at me like I’m the most beautiful woman in the world.

Louis is next, which surprises me.

His dark eyes lock me in place like always. Louis has this strange power over me that constantly makes me either want to fight him or give into him. “Be a good girl and ride my cock, love,” he purrs, sliding farther up until he consumes my vision. His hands jerk my hips up so I’m rubbing my pussy along his length, and with each rub, his mushroom head smacks my clit, making me groan. I roll my hips, chasing my release, and just when I’m about to come, he pulls away.

“Asshole.” I pout.

“Brat,” he counters, but it’s said lovingly. He frees one leg from Nico, holding it hostage as he tosses it over his shoulder, bending me as his cock presses to my entrance. “Scream for me,” he orders.

“How about you make—” My retort ends in a high-pitched howl as he drives into me. The force shifts me back on Nico. Chuckling, Louis tightens his grip on my leg, turning his head to bite my thigh as he pulls out and hammers in.

“What was that?” he taunts, his voice silky against my skin. “Want me to do it again, love?”

“You couldn’t even if you tried—” He smacks my clit so hard, I see stars, a scream slipping free once more.

“That’s what I thought, brat. Now be a good girl and don’t come until I say so.” Before I can respond, he’s fucking me in earnest. The bed shakes from the force as he rubs my clit, driving me towards my release despite his words.

I hold it back, gritting my teeth as I fight the pleasure spiralling through me as he fucks me.

He grinds me back into Nico, who grunts in pain, his hard cock notched against my ass, and with each thrust, I slide across it.

“I can’t,” I whine. “Louis, please, I need to—” I can barely speak over the roaring blood in my veins, and with one last twist of his hips, Louis smacks my clit.

“Now,” he orders.

Like a perfect soldier, I howl as my release flows through me. My legs kick and shake as he fucks me through it, growling. With a groan, he stills, and his cum splashes inside me.

When he pulls back, he falls to the side. “Go easy on her. No fucked-up shit this time,” he warns Jonas, his voice rough, and pleasure fills me at how I affected him, but I don’t have long to think about it because Jonas consumes my vision.

He pouts. “He said we have to behave, Nova.”

“When do you ever?” I reply.

“True.” He tugs me down, freeing my legs until Nico is just holding my hands. He presses my legs to his chest, lifting me into the air, and with a wicked grin, his cock slides across my pussy. I tense, preparing myself for his invasion, but when he’s covered in cum, he slides lower.

My eyes close as he presses to my ass. “If I cannot have your madness, I want your screams,” he snarls, and with a brutal twist of his hips, he buries himself in my ass. He works himself as deep as he can, our mixed cum helping him slide inside before he pulls out and thrusts back in, forcing me up and onto his cock.

I cry out from the sharp pain, but then his fingers thrust into my pussy, curling to rub that spot that has my cries turning into screams as he begins to claim my ass. Pain and pleasure mixes like it always does with him.

I close my eyes, unable to handle it, my body his to master, and when I scream my release, he roars his, pumping it into my ass before pulling out and spraying the rest across my chest and pussy.

“Fucking perfect,” he praises.

“Isn’t she just?” Isaac says.

Their attacks disarm me. They love on every inch of me until all I can do is take their praise and love as it rebuilds every inch of me that has been torn down before them.

Arms drag me back up.

Nico.

Spent, I slump into Nico. “Shh, I’ve got you, baby,” he promises, lifting me slightly, and all I can manage is a whine as he slides me down onto his waiting cock. Arms wrap around me from behind as he fucks me from below.

My breasts bounce with the force, and my eyes close in bliss as I let him carry me away.

“Mine, my Nova.”

“Yours,” I agree, arching back and rolling into his touch.

His hand slides down my body and across my clit. “I’m close already. Watching you get fucked and feeling it on top of me almost had me spilling, baby,” he admits. “So come for me, let me feel it before I can’t hold back anymore.”

He pinches my clit, making me scream in pain and pleasure as a surprise orgasm slams through me. When I come back to, he’s groaning so sexily in my ear and filling me with his release.

I can barely breathe, and I definitely can’t move. Long after the sweat starts to cool on my body, Nico pulls free, leaving me sticky and satisfied.

“We’ve got you,” Louis murmurs, climbing onto the bed. Someone wipes my pussy and thighs, but I don’t look, just lax with pleasure and so happy I could cry.

Arms wrap around me once more, different ones sliding across my body until they are all touching me.

I want every day to be like this.

I cuddle closer to my men, a satisfied smile on my lips as I close my eyes. My body is sweaty, my pussy is sore in the best way, and my heart is full and overflowing. “I love you all,” I murmur.

Louis sighs happily. “I love you too.”

“I love you too. Now sleep, you’ve worn me out,” Jonas mumbles, making me giggle as I bury my head deeper into Nico’s chest. Isaac pulls me closer as Dimitri presses a kiss to my leg.

I fade into a dreamless sleep, just as I always do when they are here.

* * *

The crack of lightning wakes me just before thunder rattles the shutters of our house. My men wake instantly. I smile at them as I slip from the bed. Unlike before, I wait for them. Nico wraps a robe around me, and I put my slippers on as we head downstairs. Opening the veranda doors we installed, we gather on the sofas there. Dimitri wraps blankets around us as Bert makes trays of herbal tea and sets them out, joining us as we watch the storm.

A tradition to honour the woman who gave her life for us.

Somewhere, Ana is watching this storm with us, her grave decorated with flowers and drawings from the kids we saved. We also started a soldiers’ rehab program in her and Sam’s names, and I know every person there tonight will be looking at the sky, thinking of the woman they owe that to.

Hands hold me close, and although it hurts, a smile tilts my lips as I watch the rain hit the windows of my new home. Storms will always make me think of my sister, of the woman I loved so deeply, I gave up everything for her, but life has a funny way of ripping you apart and putting you back together.

It certainly did that to me. I often wondered when I would break and give into the darkness, and more than once, I debated doing just that. It would have been easier, but I never liked the easy option. It doesn’t mean I don’t carry my scars with me because I do. I still struggle sometimes, but on nights like this, I remember why I fight to get up every day.

For her.

For every child my father hurt.

For every child they killed.

For the soldiers who were just doing their duty.

I live for them, my family, and for myself.

“Do you remember the night before we met you?” Dimitri murmurs.

It brings me out of my thoughts, and he smiles brightly. “It was a stormy night just like this. I checked. I guess storms have always been our thing as well as hers.”

“I guess so,” I whisper. “Maybe that’s why I always loved them so much.”

I take his hand and turn back to the windows, a brighter smile on my face. Somewhere out there, destiny is laughing at me. Only a few years ago, on a night like this, I was trapped in a cheap hotel room, completely alone, guided by anger and revenge, and now here I am, in love and happier than I’ve ever been.

I have a new life and a new future I plan to fully embrace.

I guess I was just a pretty liar when I said revenge was all there was to live for.

The world still has its dark days, and there are still those who would come for the research, but that is our mission now. We will protect it and those children. My father’s experiments end with us. We will never let another suffer under the same experiments, and one day, it will be forgotten just like him. We will be forgotten as well, but that’s okay with me. We know what we did, we know what we are capable of, and we will stand here as a reminder and a promise until the very end because we are unbreakable.

We are unstoppable.