Caden
Raven knocked the air out of my lungs, but I didn’t give two shits about that as I made sure to wrap my arms around her, keeping her head from hitting the solid tile of the floor. “I’ve got you,” I murmured softly as a noise of distress escaped her lungs.
“Are you alright?” Kashton rushed over to kneel beside us, and his hazel eyes darkened as they darted between me and Raven. “Raven? Caden?”
“Fine,” I managed to bite out as Raven started to squirm against me.
“Caden!” She exclaimed. Her ass-her very bare ass-collided with my groin, and a deep groan rumbled to life in my chest. “I’m so sorry. Let me up. I’m crushing you.”
Her soft skin trembled beneath my touch as I splayed my hand out over her belly. “I’m groaning because you keep rubbing that luscious ass against my cock.”
“Oh.” She stilled, and I barked out a laugh. “Sorry.”
“No sorries, little one.” I moved into a sitting position, Raven still draped over my lap. “I’m not sorry in the slightest.” I trailed kisses up her neck before nibbling on her earlobe. She meltedback into my chest, and my traitorous cock was screaming at me to delve between her thighs and touch her pussy.
But I had more willpower than that. We’d been waiting for our Little for so long, I wouldn’t fuck it up by thinking with the wrong head.
Even if Raven was on top of me naked.
“Let’s turn the water off before we flood the bathroom.” Kashton reached behind me to shut the taps off as he laughed.
“Good idea. Don’t need to get Caden all wet.” Raven was starting to ramble now. “I’m the only one who should get wet tonight. Not that I’m not already, just not in that way. Water wet. Oh, fuck I need to stop talking now.”
I bit down on my bottom lip as I resisted the urge to burst into uncontrollable laughter.
Raven slapped a hand over my chest. “Don’t you dare laugh at me.”
She was so unbelievably adorable when she was flustered.
I kissed the tip of her nose and wrapped my arms around her. “I wouldn’t ever dream of laughing at you, little one. These two, on the other hand.” I gestured over my shoulder to Kashton and Chris. “Totally would.”
Chris’s brows rose as he crossed his arms over his chest. “Mykroshkaknows the truth of that.”
Seconds ticked by, and slowly, a smile formed on his face, and Raven giggled. “I laugh at myself when I’m not wanting to hit my head against the wall.”
That effectively silenced the laughter.
“Not hitting your head on anything.” I pinned her with my gaze. “We don’t care how off the wall or out of the blue a thought is. We don’t mind hearing it. Unless it involves you harming yourself or putting yourself down. Alright?”
“Okay.” She nodded, her head looking a bit like a bobblehead. “Sorry, Daddy C.”
I hugged her to me and kissed her forehead. “No sorries, little one. You’ve done nothing wrong. We’re all still learning about each other. Just because we know what’s in our hearts doesn’t mean we’ve found out everything in our brains.”
“Good way of putting it.” Kashton dropped a hand on my shoulder and squeezed it before turning his attention to our still very naked Little.
She was pressed against me, but it didn’t hide her ample curves.
“We have the rest of our lives to explore everything.” I kissed my way down her neck. “We’ll fight. There’s little doubt about that. People in relationships do that; if they don’t, they need to talk to someone.”
Another giggle. I loved it when I could make her laugh or smile. Everything about her brightened when she did. Our ray of sunshine.
“But we’ll also live and love. That’s the important part of life. Enjoying it by really living.”
“And this is why he’s the professor with the fancy words.” Chris nodded. His posture had relaxed, and there was a hint of a smile on his face. He was waiting to tell us more about his conversation with Harry with him present. I was looking forward to meeting the cousin that we heard fondly about.
It was about the only part of Chris’s past he actually spoke about-other than about hisbabushka.
“I love the fancy words.” She leaned back and framed my face in her hands. “But I love the growls and other gestures, too. I don’t always need the fancy words. They’re nice, but actions speak the loudest.”
How right she was.
I forced my gaze to focus on her face and not drift down to the ample swell of her breasts against my chest. I could feelher hard nipples on my flesh, and my cock was protesting being confined behind layers of fabric.
“We’ll always tell you and show you how much we love and care for you, little one.” I smoothed her hair away from her face and splayed my hand over her neck. My thumb skated over her pulse point, rapidly fluttering beneath my touch.
“Thank you,” she breathed out, her stormy blue eyes shimmering with unshed tears. “I don’t know how I got so lucky.”
I smiled, letting true happiness wash over me for the first time in so very long.
“It’s us who are the lucky ones.”
With that, I gathered her into my arms to lift her up. She squeaked from the sudden movement but wrapped her arms around my neck to cling to me. “Time for your bath, little one. Then bed.”
“Yes, Daddy C.”