Chapter Twenty
Mason
Almost three weeks old
After I’d fucked Payton, bare, on the couch, I’d carried her to bed. My bed, the bed I was now currently in alone. But the house smelled like bacon, so I could forgive her for not jumping on my dick the second she woke up. Screw sleeping in separate rooms. That girl would be lucky if I ever let her leave this house again. Sex with Payton was on a whole new level, nothing else compared. I wanted to do it again and again and again.
“Good morning, my gorgeous girls.” I followed my nose into the kitchen where Payton was standing at the stove wearing the shirt I’d had on last night. And Katie was in her swing in the dining room.
I kissed my baby sister and then pressed my body against Payton’s. “Morning,” she purred.
“Why didn’t you get me up? I could have helped you with Katie.” I placed a kiss on her neck. “And I like waking up next to you.” It was true. I liked having her here. I liked seeing her first thing in the morning. I liked holding her naked body as we slept. I just…liked her. Plain and simple.
“You looked so peaceful.”
“It’s because I had amazing sex last night.” I ran my hands up her thighs and under the hem of my shirt. “You aren’t wearing panties.”
She shrugged a shoulder. “I couldn’t find them.”
“You’re just trying to torture me, aren’t you?” I put my head on her shoulder and slipped a hand between her legs. She was wet. Just from my lips on her neck and my body against hers. My dick was instantly hard.
She started to squirm, her voice shaky. “I’m cooking over a skillet of hot grease.”
I reach in front of her and turned off the burner. “And I want to fuck you on the kitchen counter.” Before she could protest I took the spatula out of her hand and tossed it into the sink. I had her sitting on the cool granite with the head of my dick at her entrance in the blink of an eye.
She put her hand on my chest, stopping me. “Condom.”
I pouted. “Why? I didn’t wear one last night. I swear I’m clean. I get checked all the time.”
She wrinkled her nose. “Is that supposed to make or break your case, rock star?”
“Good point.” I met her eyes. “I would never hurt you, Payton.” She bit her bottom lip. “Ever.” I hoped I wasn’t lying to her. I prayed that I never hurt this girl. I prayed that I would get my shit together and figure out how to live this new life. To be the man that she and Katie deserved. My dad and M Kat thought I could do it, maybe they knew something I didn’t.
She wrapped her legs tighter around my waist and guided me inside her. I tensed all my muscles and bit down on my cheek. She felt so good I felt like I could come in a matter of seconds.
“Mason…please…”
I smiled at the want in her voice and started to pump in and out of her tight pussy. I could live inside this girl. I could eat, sleep, and breathe nothing but Payton. “So fucking perfect, baby.”
She let her head fall back and I wrapped my hand around the base of her throat. My grip only tightening when she moaned and bit her plump pink lip. “Don’t stop.” I ran my nose against the shell of her ear. My quiet growl caused goose bumps to cover her skin. She was close to the edge. I could tell by the way she was clawing at my back, her legs tightening around my waist.
“Let go, baby.”
Her head hit the cabinet behind her as she screamed out my name. I followed right after her, the sound of her orgasm like fucking music to my ears.
***
After sex, and then breakfast, we decided to take Katie on a walk. Payton wore this sling thing and we took her around the property. I showed them the barns, the horses, the cows. We even had chickens. Thank goodness M Kat hadn’t made us get rid of the ranch workers.
I got an ache in my chest every time I thought about my dad and M Kat. I wasn’t sure that it would ever go away. But walking in the sunlight with my two favorite girls, things didn’t seem to hurt as fiercely.
“Will you stay the night again tonight? What time do you have to be back at the hospital tomorrow?” We were holding hands, headed back to the house for lunch. I didn’t want her to leave, ever. Things just seemed better when she was around.
“Uh, yeah. I can stay tonight, but then I probably won’t be back for a few days. I work three shifts in a row.” She ran her hand over Katie’s tiny little back, like she was sad at the thought of being away from her.
***
“Mace? Are you awake?”
I opened my eyes with a giant grin on my face. Payton was wearing my T-shirt, nothing else, and holding Katie on her shoulder. They were two of the prettiest girls I had ever seen. And they were both here with me.
“Yeah, baby.” We were taking turns with Katie and I knew it was Payton’s. But if she wanted me up with them, then I was more than happy to oblige.
“I think there is someone outside.” I noticed for the first time that her voice sounded a little shaky.
“What?” I sat up, rubbing my eyes. “Like one of the security guys?” We had security at the gates, and then some that did rounds on the ranch. Ever since my parents’ deaths, the reporters were ruthless. They all wanted a shot of the baby, of me. They wanted to get pictures of the ranch. They wanted it all.
“No, Mace, I swear I saw a man with a camera outside of Katie’s room.”
“Keep her in here, okay?” I threw the covers off, and ran out of the room, grabbing my cell phone on the way. I went straight into the nursery, but when I check the yard out the window, no one was there. I called the head of our security outside. “I need someone up at the house, right fucking now.”
I walked around the house, checking windows and doors. Making sure there was no one there, making sure that everything was locked and secure. Were we going to have to keep all the damn curtains closed now? Was Katie going to have to live in a cave?
I opened the door two seconds after the knock. Yelling instantly, “You want to tell me why there was a reporter outside the nursery? Why the hell do I pay you? There is supposed to be someone making rounds constantly.”
The built man in the suit nodded. “We have searched the whole yard, the front of the property. We sent up drones. We didn’t see anyone, sir.”
“If Payton says she saw someone, she saw someone.” I pointed in his face.
“Yes, sir. All I’m saying is I have no idea how he slipped on the premises, or how he got off without being seen.” He met my eyes. “You tell me what you want me to do, sir. What do you need me to do make you feel like your family is safe?”
I swallowed the lump in my throat. My family? Is that what they were? I mean, yeah, Katie was my sister. But Payton? Did they see her as an extension of me? Did they think she was mine? Was she? I pushed all that aside for now. “I want you to fire everyone who was on-site tonight. And then I want new men here by the morning.”
“Mason, I—”
“I don’t trust anyone that was here. You said no one saw him? Maybe it was an inside job? Maybe someone wanted to make a little money on the side? Get them off the property and replace them with better people.”
He clenched his jaw. “Yes, sir.” Before he walked out the front door he turned toward me. “I promise you, we won’t let anything happen to your girl or your baby.”
My girl. My baby.
Had this become my life?