Sage

Brook shakes in my arms as I clutch her to me, her sobs still racking her small frame. As I step into the clubhouse, all eyes shoot to me, then to the person in my arms. I shake my head when Vin tries to take her from me. I don’t want her anywhere else. Not right now—maybe not ever.

Pulling back the sheets on my bed, I lay her down, and against my better judgement, I kick my boots off and crawl into bed with her. Placing my arms around her shoulders, her back to me, I pull her in close and just hug her until I feel her shaking stop and her breathing even out. Then I fall asleep right along with her.

A knock on the door pulls me from sleep, and I bite back a curse at the asshole who’s on the other side. Very slowly and carefully, I detangle myself from Brook’s limbs and cover her back up before stomping over to find out what the hell they want. Swinging it open, I’m greeted with a pair of big green eyes. “Hi. I haven’t seen you in a while. I thought I would see if you needed any laundry done. Maybe even a little something else.” Bex smiles and reaches her hand out to drag her fingertips along my t-shirt covered chest, being sure to land on the waistband of my jeans to give them a small tug while biting her fat bottom lip. The action is so familiar between us, it comes as second nature. Only, this time, I already have someone in my bed—someone who damn well shouldn’t be.

“Maybe later, Bex.” I give her a smile and wink as I reach out to grip her chin between my thumb and forefinger. “I’ll find ya.” She gives a bright smile and saunters down the hall as I shut the door behind her. Turning around, I’m met with another pair of eyes, and there’s a whole different look in them: hurt.

“Thanks for bringing me back inside. I would have frozen my ass off out there,” Brook says, scrambling from the bed.

“I saw you collapse and ran out and got you.”

“Oh…well, thanks. I’ll get going, so Bex can come back.” She shoulders past me to the door, but I stop her advance with my palm pressed firmly to the wood, holding it shut so it won’t budge an inch for her.

“Brook,” I growl.

“Just let me out.”

“No,” I snap. “Bex is just one of the girls, she—”

“She’s one of the girls you fuck.”

“Watch your mouth,” I huff, getting a little closer to her.

“What? It’s true, isn’t it? That’s why she was here—to fuck you. Did she have anyone with her? That is sort of your thing, right?” A smug smirk forms on her lips.

“My thing?” I give her a dry laugh before circling around her, caging her to the door, now switching positions. “I like to share,” I admit, but I’m sure she already knows. Everyone does. I let my words caress along the shell of her ear as I get up close enough to feel her chest heave in deep breaths alongside mine. “I like to have a warm body sandwiched between me and another guy.” The gooseflesh that breaks out all over her bare arms is only the start of what my words are doing. “My cock buried inside a woman’s cunt while someone else is buried deep in her ass. Pounding her while she calls out both our names in ecstasy.” A shiver wracks her body. “I’ll even share a woman with another woman. One riding my cock while the other rides my face. Does that sound more appealing to you?” I’m still not touching her, my hands pressed on either side of her head, holding onto the door so I don’t let them roam her tight body. I’m only fucking with her. There’s no way I would let anyone else touch her.

“I can do that.” She finds her words, and they punch me in the gut, making me straighten.

“You don’t know what you’re saying,” I hiss, backing away from her.

“I do. I’ve done it before.”

My eyes widen, snapping to her as she faces me head on, unashamed at what she just told me. “The fuck you say?” My gaze narrows and I find myself stocking toward her once again, this time with a mist of anger forming over my vision. Whoever the fuck touched her, shared her, is fucking dead.

“You don’t know?” she asks, almost shocked I wouldn’t know such a thing.

“Know what?”

“The video. The reason I left.”

Her explanation baffles me. I remember the reason she left had to do with a fight she had with Gin, but I didn’t know the reason for the fight. “What fucking video, Brook? What the hell are you talking about?” She shakes her head and tries to get out of my arms, but I hold her steady. “You brought it up, now tell me what the hell you are talking about.”

“There was a video of me… and two other guys from my school—” I hold up my hand, stopping her.

“You fucked two guys and they filmed it?” She gives a slight nod. “And Gin found out and you fought.” This time, it isn’t a question, but she nods anyway. “Reek must have destroyed the video before anyone saw it,” I say, more to myself than her.

“Probably. Gin was so mad.” The reality of her confession sinks in, and I start putting things together. The night I woke to find her in my bed. The night I heard she ran off to live with her mom. How fucking old was she then?

“Why, Brook?”

“Because I was a dumb teenager with a silly crush,” she snaps, then uses my stunned state to her advantage and shuffles out of my grip. Brook runs to the bathroom to hide, but I follow, right on her ass. She slams the door in my face, and I let it go for a moment, standing on the other side of the door, waiting, listening to her slight sobs.

“Tell me why,” I demand again, only softer this time. She doesn’t answer. “Don’t make me open the door, kid.” The knob turns, and her face lifts to mine, splotchy from crying.

Her spine straightens as she faces me head on. “I heard about what you liked and I wanted to see if I could handle it. So I had sex with two guys I went to school with. It wasn’t until the next day I found out they had recorded it.”

It hits me hard. Her leaving was my fault. Maybe not directly, but she wouldn’t have done such a reckless thing if it weren’t for me.

Her face snaps to me, eyes boring into mine as she delivers a further blow. “Like I said. A stupid teenager.” She huffs, her voice growing with each word she spits at me, “Not much has changed since then either because I’m still pining away for a man who wants nothing to do with me!” she shouts before pushing me out of her way as she storms from the room.