AN: This is book 2 in the Taboo Club Series. I will break it into parts this time because I realize many people here prefer shorter pieces.
Chapter 1 -- Ava
Three months earlier
"That will be all for today. Thank you, guys." I wrap the meeting. I rise almost immediately and I head to my office. I want to moan, I'm so glad that's the last meeting for the day.
I hate Wednesdays.
I have five meetings back-to-back and mostly it's me alone. I still should have never let Hunter convince me to switch so I can come to his COO position. That sexy, sneaky devil. But we are due to switch back in three months and I can't wait for my CEO chair back.
My PA hands me a note. A letter. I give her a small smile even though I want to hit his face. I appreciate the romantic gesture but he knows how snoopy PAs are and I don't want to deal with the world's opinions.
I walk in my office. I feel the fatigue as I slide in my chair. I place my tablet in front of me and I take a letter opener and I tear the envelop. The faint scent of his cologne melts my insides. Okay, he is adorable. The fucker.
Baby,
The time is 14:15. I came to check if you were finished with your meeting. I wanted to give you a kiss. And also remind you I love you. You will always be my number one girl.
Love,
Your Hunter
(PS: This is also a reminder that I'm better than Ax. 'winky face'
I chuckle. Hunter is an idiot. I press my lips on the letter and I pull my bag and I place it inside. My door opens and I expect it to be him but Axel comes in. I smile before he says anything and he quips a brow.
"What's got you so happy, pretty girl? I thought I was here to check on you after the meetings." He closes the door, his hands on his pockets and he stalks to me in that quiet, calm and sexy as fuck way he always does. My nethers get excited instantly. I know he knows because he has a small smirk in his face but instead of coming to me like I want, he just sits in the visitors chair. I give him a face and he pretends he is innocent.
"Hex sent me a letter." I grin widely at him.
He smiles fondly too. "Show off. I was going to get you flowers."
"And when was that?"
"On our way home."
"I'm afraid you can't top this, bro." I challenge.
He quips a perfect brow at me -- brows that he and Hunter have that I am severely jealous of. Genes suck sometimes. Giving perfect features to people who won't even appreciate them. My brothers are both Adonises with basically perfect everything and I have to put in effort to even be able to stand between them. It's unfair. "Is that a challenge, miss thing?"
"Yes, it is. Now please take me home." I insert a little whine in there and he just shakes his head with a small smile.
"Come on, you big baby." He rises from his chair.
My gaze is on the same level as his now tented pants and I can't help the immediate thirst, so I lick my lip before my eyes find him. He looks at me steadily like he always does. He's not trying to conceal his want of me and I feel a little dizzy at the intensity.
As if to flex the power he has on me, he saunters to my side of the desk, my heart hitching as I hold my breath a little. Axel is one person who is unpredictable of the three of us. He also enjoys toying with people and working his strengths. Right now, he knows what he is doing to me even with just a look.
I lift my eyes to meet his blazing green ones. The same ones as mine and Hunter's. It is like looking at my soul reflected back at me. Both my brothers are. We are truly a part of each other and where Hunter is the angel on my shoulder, Axel is the devil. He oozes severe dark energy. He leans into me and I feel wetness squeeze out of me at his closeness. The possibility of someone walking in making me even dizzier.
He grabs my chin and he tilts my face, revealing more of my neck to him. His warmth envelopes me as he comes close and then he bites me, soft at first and then hard. I cry out and he groans. When he stops, he gives the length of my neck a long lick and he makes a growling sound. Fucking animal.
"Let's go home, baby. So I can take care of that dripping pussy." He says to my ear and I shudder.
I don't know when he is back up but he offers me his hand and like a moth to a flame I take it. he takes my electronics and puts them in my bag and takes it.
I follow after him, not bothering to check the mark he's left in my neck. I don't need to. I know he will never do anything to put me in a difficult situation and we agreed on the terms and limitations of our relationship a long time ago.
Its hard to believe we have been doing this for so many years. What's even harder to believe is we've been doing this for so many years in secret. With a relationship like ours, people always judge and I am not ready for that. My brothers had been ready for whatever consequence in society but I wasn't.
And I know for a fact our company wouldn't have been where it is had we been out as lovers. Even though it hurt but we had our safe spaces. We had our home; we had the club and we had our vacation homes and the rest of the world that didn't know us. But when we were here, we had to be smart.
The world was not ready to accept relationships like ours. To them, there had to be something wrong with us. People jumped to all the bad things that maybe could happen, but no one ever talked about the kind of love that could be experienced. It's a fact I know that no one will ever love me like my brothers, and no one will ever love them like me.
When they say they'll do anything for me, they mean that shit. When they say they love me with all their heart, they mean that shit. I don't have to worry about half love and skewed intentions. I don't have to worry about there ever being anybody above me because there can never be any.
But my brothers feel differently about the secrecy. Evident with how Axel places his hand on my ass in the elevator as we ride down. There are many people in it but we are at the back. They both do this, little touches, looks. I have resigned to it being they can't stop themselves. They are in love and I get it.
So in times like these, I let them have it. I allow them to satisfy their primal need to claim me, even if its in little ways like touching my ass in an elevator full of distracted people or biting my neck because they want to do so much more.
As the elevator opens to let all the people out at the ground floor, I feel Axel's eyes on me. When it closes, he covers my body with his so the cameras don't see what he's doing. I stare up at him.