Total pages in book: 151
Estimated words: 139803 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 699(@200wpm)___ 559(@250wpm)___ 466(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 139803 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 699(@200wpm)___ 559(@250wpm)___ 466(@300wpm)
I blushed. “They’re overprotective,” I told him.
He laughed softly. “As they should be. You are pregnant.” As if I could ever forget.
I rolled my eyes. “Goodnight, Dr. Gresham.”
He smiled warmly at me. “Goodnight, Meghan.”
* * *
✶ ✶ ✶
* * *
The front door was flung open as soon as I shut my car off in the driveway. Julian and Axel both came down the porch steps, meeting me as soon as I opened my car door. “Woman, you’re pregnant—six weeks from your due date. You need to rest, not overwork yourself,” Axel scolded.
“I was helping Alli,” I soothed, trying to calm him down. I knew they both worried about me overdoing myself, but Alli had needed me.
“Alli?” Axel demanded, his voice dropping an octave.
I ran my eyes over his shocked features. “Dr. Gresham didn’t call you.” It wasn’t a question.
“Let’s go inside so she can get off her feet,” Julian said, wrapping an arm around my waist. “Your ankles are swollen, baby girl.”
I sighed. I knew. They were beginning to throb. “It was a bit of a long day,” I told him.
“So I’m gathering. We’ll hear about it after your shoes are off, your feet are propped up, and you have dinner in your hands.”
Once I was sitting on the couch, Axel silently put the ottoman under my legs and feet. He pulled my shoes off and propped a pillow under my feet so the swelling could go down. Julian handed me a plate of food.
“Let’s hear about Alli,” Axel ordered as he sat on the coffee table and grabbed my foot to massage it.
I sighed. “Apparently, she showed up at the center a little over a month ago. She was bleeding, and she wanted help. Dr. Gresham had to put her in a padded room for the first week and a half until he could get moods stabilized.” Tears welled in my eyes. “She’s so broken, but she’s trying. She’s really trying this time,” I told them. I handed Julian my plate of food as I started crying harder. “Fuck,” I cursed, dropping my face into my hands.
“Baby girl.” Julian pulled me into his arms. I released a choked sob. I felt Axel get on the other side of me, and they held me between them. “Let it out, baby. We can wait.”
“I’m sorry,” I blubbered. “I’m so happy that she’s finally getting the help she’s always needed, and it’s a bit overwhelming.” I couldn’t stop my sob. “She’s even responding to me.” Axel blew out a soft breath in amazement. I looked up at him through my tears. “Axel, she doesn’t hate me—not anymore. She’s seeking my help and my guidance.”
“Fuck, sweet girl, that’s fucking amazing.” He sucked in a breath, but in that one, single breath, I could hear all of the emotions that he was feeling. “I’m so relieved to know she’s going to be okay. I wish Dr. Gresham had called me, but I understand why he didn’t. He wanted you to be the one to tell me.”
“She’s going to get stronger, Axel,” I told him. There were tears in his eyes for his little sister. Julian gently pushed me towards him. I wrapped my arms tightly around Axel’s neck. He pulled me onto his lap, holding me tight to him. “She’s going to be okay.”
Axel gripped my face in his hands. “You’re the most incredible fucking woman I know.”
He covered my lips with his and laid me back on the couch. I softly moaned as he moved his lips down my neck. Julian released a low groan of appreciation. “Looks like you’re about to get thanked properly, baby girl,” Julian huskily spoke.
I gripped the front of Julian’s shirt and pulled his lips to mine. Axel tugged my leggings down my legs, pulling my panties off right after. He pressed a light kiss to my burns before he yanked my legs apart and buried his face between my legs.
I cried out Axel’s name. Fuck, he had the tongue of a God.
“My fucking goddess.” Julian pulled my shirt over my head and unhooked my bra, tossing it to the floor. I released a low moan when his hand brushed over my nipples. “So fucking beautiful and perfect.”
Then, his lips were on my breasts, biting, licking, driving me fucking wild. I came hard on Axel’s tongue from the onslaught of intense sensations, but Axel never gave me a chance to come down from cloud nine before he moved his head from between my legs and drove up hard and fast inside of me. Julian locked my arms above my head to keep me from touching either of them, never removing his lips from my skin.
“Oh, fuck!” I cried out. Every nerve ending on my body was alive and hyperaware of both men and their touches.
It was almost too much to bear.