Their Siren

Chapter Seven

Hannah

The house was unusually quiet when I wandered downstairs, I was exhausted. Shame and embarrassment had kept me tossing and turning most of the night. I had let lust get the better of me, had let their flattery lower my inhibitions and the worst thing was I couldn’t even blame the champagne, I hadn’t even finished one glass. But I had been willing to have a three way with the men who for all intents and purposes were keeping me prisoner.

Surely it was too early to have Stockholm syndrome. It was far more probable that I had just wanted to get laid. Not Stockholm at all just “Going through a dry spell” syndrome. It had been a while after all. Dating wasn’t a huge part of my life back home.

The kitchen was deserted, the whole houses was silent, and I could finally breathe a sigh of relief as I poured myself a cup of coffee, maybe if I was quick enough, I could escape back to my room and never show my face to them again. Just hide away until the decided to kill me or whatever else they were going to do. Anything would be better than facing them, knowing that they had made me come with just a few small touches.

“Good morning beautiful” strong arms wrapped around my waist; I had made sure that every inch of my skin was covered but that didn’t stop my stupid treacherous body relaxing into his embrace. Stupid body I extracted myself from his arms, retreating to the other side of the kitchen before turning.

Julian.

He was looking at me with concern. “Are you ok?”

No, I wasn’t ok, only hours before this man along with his brother had made me orgasm, he had held me as my body shook and trembled. I was defiantly not ok. But I couldn’t exactly say any of that so I just nodded, sipping at my too hot coffee just so I could avoid looking at his face.

Then he was there, god I wish they would stop doing that. I hadn’t even seen him move. Taking the cup from my hand he set it firmly on the side and then turned to me. “You can look at me you know”

Not without turning scarlet I couldn’t but I kept my mouth tightly shut and my head down.

“Your embarrassed about what happened last night aren’t you? You realize there is absolutely no need to be right? We were all consenting adults”

“I am aware of that”

“Then why are you blushing now” he took another step closer, like some animal stalking, and I was the prey.

“I’m not feeling so great, if its ok I’m going to just spend the morning in my room” away from you and my bodies reaction to you I added wordlessly.

“And that’s a lie, what is really going on in that pretty head of yours Hannah and no more lies” I scooted back as his hand reached for mine. “So, it is about last night then, what has you all twisted up Hannah” but he stepped back, leaning heavily on the island as he surveyed my face.

“I just don’t think having a s****l relationship with my uhm“ I worried my lip between my teeth. “My employers is a good idea”

“Your employers? You see us as your bosses?”

Well no, I saw them as my prison guards, but I couldn’t really say that.

“And if we weren’t your employers” he used air quotes and I was pretty sure he was mocking me. “Would you feel better about what happened? Because I don’t think you would” he raised an eye brow at me, his hand outstretched offering me my coffee back. I didn’t take it.

“Fine, see I think you are embarrassed Hannah, embarrassed because you wanted to be with us as much as we wanted to be with you, because you let yourself go”

“That’s ridiculous”

“Is it? So your aren’t running from me because I held you when you came? Hannah at least be honest with yourself you know there’s something growing between us, I know it’s only been a few days and that’s really quick but.”

I held up a hand. “Stop Julian, just stop. I’m running because I’m a prisoner here”

“You think you are a prisoner?”

I shrugged, “Aren’t I? so I can just leave right now” I knew I was being argumentative., They hadn’t treated me badly, far from it. I had been treated like a princess the whole time.

“Do you want to leave Hannah?” There was more pain in his voice than I expected. It was raw on his face. “We want you to stay because YOU want to stay, because we like having you here, if you want to leave“ His voice broke, there was honest to god panic on his face. He cleared his throat. Regaining his composure. “If you want to leave then that can be arranged” He turned and walked out the back door.

Julian

She wanted to leave, the pain of her words caused something to break in me, for the first time in my adult life I panicked, almost running from the room. The thought of her leaving was just too much.

If I hadn’t been the only one to watch her, I would have had to head to the ocean, I would of swam until I couldn’t swim anymore but I had to stay with her. One twin having a breakdown over a girl we had just met was bad enough. It wouldn’t do for me to go down the same path,

Hannah had royally screwed us over and she wasn’t even aware she was doing it. I just wasn’t sure what was worse, the fact that she wanted us or the fact that she wanted to leave even though she wanted us. Were we really that bad?

And if she really wanted to leave what then? It wasn’t like we could just let her go, the thought of sending her to the dragons made scales erupt on the skin of my hand. I rubbed at it absent mindedly. What choice did we have? If she really wanted to leave?

Alexander was going to be pissed. Really really pissed. He had left me in charge, asked me try and diffuse the situation. A situation I was pretty sure Hannah wasn’t even aware of. And what had I done? I had made things a million times worse, why couldn’t I of just kept my mouth shut and let her escape t her room? Giving her a little space. Only because we were used to the idea that the woman, we spent the rest of our life with would be shared it didn’t mean Hannah automatically was. Being in a relationship with two men wasn’t something human women did.

“Jullian?”

I looked up from my seat and then looked down at my hands again. She sat down next to me, I could feel the heat coming from her, wrapped like she was in that ridiculous and slightly tatty grey robe. She must be sweating in this heat.

“Julian” she tried again; her voice small.

“Yes Hannah”

“I don’t want to leave”

I raised my head again, searching her face. My heart was beating so fast I couldn’t catch my breath, relief flooded through me in a wave. “You don’t?”

“No, at least not yet. I’d like to see what this is” she motioned between us with her hand, and I wanted nothing more than to grab that hand in mine, but I kept perfectly still. She was like a small animal I didn’t want to scare aware. “If it’s just three people who are attracted to each other or if it’s something else, I have the summer free without any other commitments”

I frowned, commitments? What commitments did she have when the summer was over that would take her away.,

“I’m just unsure how we go about it”

I wanted to to ask her what commitments? I wanted to shake it from her. My brain instantly went to the worst-case scenario. Was she married? No I told myself firmly, if she was married, she wouldn’t have let things go as far as that had already gone, a fiancé maybe? The thought made me clench my fist.

“How we will work it? I’m technically your house sitter….”

She didn’t need to say any more, she was more worried about sleeping with her boss than she was worried about all the strange things she had seen since we had come home, it would have made me laugh but I was just too happy that she wanted to stay,

“You stopped being our house sitter the moment we got home Hannah, you are our guest, we like having you about, in case you haven’t noticed“ I nudged her with my elbow playfully and was rewarded by a bright smile. “Will you stay then?”

She elbowed me back. “I would like that, at least for a little while. I can’t think of a more beautiful place to spend my summer”

And there she went again, speaking like she only had a summer to give us.

“And after the summer?”

“I have “She paused. Her little finger was inching closer to mine, I moved my hand, so we were touching even if it was just the slightest brush of finger tips. “I have commitments, this was one last summer of freedom”

I jerked my hand away, noting the shocked look in her eyes. “Commitments? There is someone waiting for you ? One last summer before what Hannah?” If there was another man, I wasn’t sure what I would do.

“A family thing, that’s all family commitments”

“No boyfriend waiting for you?”

She shook her head. “No, I barely dated, I’m not exactly the kind of girl men line up to date”

And I wanted to rip the head off of every single man she had ever been with. Every single person who made her doubt herself.

“And what if?“ I stopped myself, what if I wanted you to stay longer was what I wanted to say. What if I needed you to stay forever. Alex may be contemplating giving her up but not me. I would follow her even if it meant giving up my position and my brother. Even if she decided she wanted to leave and we had no choice but to wipe her memory, I would be there. She just wouldn’t know it. “Alex will be pleased” I finished weakly.

“I’m not sure that’s entirely true, he ran out last night…”

“You aren’t the only one who’s embarrassed about last night Hannah and no, don’t look like that” I grabbed at her hand again. “He isn’t embarrassed it happened, he’s embarrassed because he was about to take it further. I know he comes across as a p***y cat, but my brother can be a forceful son of a b***h when he wants to be. He’s beating himself up over not being more of a gentleman that’s all”

“So, neither of you regret? I mean I’m not exactly the kind of girl superstars are usually found with”

“Been with many superstars hey?” I loved how red her cheeks got when I teased her. “You are exactly the kind of girl we want to spend time with. You’re a very beautiful woman Hannah don’t ever doubt that” I lent close. “Especially when you’re in my arms I can watch your face as you c*m”

“Julian” she swiped at my shoulder.

“I kind of really want to see it again right now, but I think Alex may kill me. So how about we just spend the day together, get to know each other a little”

“Where is Alex? I haven’t seen him at all”

“He went out early this morning, Lyla has a boat, we spend a lot of our time out on the ocean and he needed to clear his head”

“And you didn’t want to spend the day with Lyla, to clear your head?”

My eyebrows rose. “No, I would rather spend the day with you, wait do you think something is going on between Alex and Lyla, is that why you have that look on your face?” I pulled her towards me, arm loosely around her shoulders. “Lyla is one of our oldest friends, I can guarantee you Alex looks at her like a sister”

“She is very beautiful”

Oh dear lord she was actually pouting.

“Yeah she is, but that doesn’t mean anything, Hannah anyone would think you are jealous” I squeezed her, maybe a little too hard if her gasp was anything to go by. “Don’t ever be jealous of Lyla, there’s nothing there”

“Has there ever been?”

Damn it, I wasn’t sure how to answer that without making her run again. Lyla was our friend but that hadn’t always been the case. I watched as Hannah raked her hands through her hair, she wasn’t half perceptive, she had read my silence correctly. Then she shrugged. “Ok I shouldn’t have answered that as I really don’t want to know the answer”

“Hannah”

“Honestly its ok, we all have pasts right” and then she winked, winked at me and my blood started boiling again. Little minx.