She finishes the water and holds my gaze. “What are you staring at?” she asks, not seeming to realize she drank twenty-four ounces of water in a few seconds flat.
I look around and see we’re all watching her with amazement, wondering if she is human. I mean, she’s definitely hotter than any human I’ve ever seen.
I shake my head. “Are you real?”
“Real?” She tilts her head to the side, a smile playing on her lips. “Do you want to touch me and find out?”
I raise an eyebrow, not really believing our luck. Harlow is more than beautiful--she’s fucking gorgeous. I’m talking curves, and tits and an ass that gets me worked up.
Harlow smirks, and the way her mouth moves gives me all sorts of ideas. “I don’t want to go home. Not yet. I thought I was looking for answers but...” Her hair’s a tousled mess, and I see now that tiny seashells are caught in the strands, and as she shakes her hair out, flecks of sparkling sand and tiny pearls fall to the floor.
“What sort of answers did you want?” Kai asks, leaning down and picking up a white pearl, holding it between his thumb and forefinger.
Harlow sighs. “It’ll sound like a fairy tale. Like a movie. Not real life.”
“You wanna talk about it?” Eric asks.
Not knowing anything about fairy tales or happy endings myself, I feel like I’m headed for rocky terrain. I want to go to the gorgeous naked woman a few feet away. Not to the loaded questions.
But she lowers her chin again and lifts her eyes in a way that gets my cock hella hard.
I swear she’s otherworldly and right now, with her standing here so willing, I feel like I can take a chance on that fairy tale she’s talking about, the one that I don’t really understand.
I’ll go to whatever depths she wants to take me.
“I don’t want to talk tonight,” she says.
Realizing what it is she wants, I step toward her.
Cupping her cheek in my hand, I feel like the luckiest goddamn man on Earth. She smells like salt water and memories and magic I can’t quite see. But magic I want to get to know.
She takes a sharp breath, looking straight at me.
“Please,” she whispers. “Take me there.”
I know where she wants to go.
“Do you know what you are asking for, Mermaid?”
“Stop calling me that,” she says, a flicker of anger in her eye.
I want to soothe that pain that flares up inside her.
“You’re the one with green glitter down your leg. Pearls literally just fell from your hair.”
Kai hands her a tiny pearl he found on the floor of the boat, and she takes it, swallowing. She steps from me and brushes the green shimmer from her legs, but it doesn’t budge. She tries to rub it off ... but it’s not going anywhere.
Harlow blinks back the confusion welling up in her eyes, twisting a ring on her finger that is made from a seashell. “I don’t know what’s happening.” Her irises are deep pools of water we could drown in but below the surface, there is something warm. Something hot. Something she needs.
“You called to us, Mermaid,” West says, serious in a way I’ve never seen before. “And we answered. Now tell us, where do you want to go?”
“Take me somewhere I’ve never gone before.” She moves her hand to the buttons on her shirt, undoing them one by one. Then her hands cup her breasts, circling her nipples, and fuck, that’s an offer if I’ve ever seen one.
I move toward her again, and hell, maybe I’m the most aggressive in the group, but I also know what I want. She called and I will answer.
“Oh, Harlow,” I groan, pulling her toward me. “I’ll take you there.”
She whimpers as I tilt her chin up, press my lips against her neck. She may be lost--but tonight, it’s like I’ve been fucking found.
“Yes,” she murmurs as my mouth kisses her sweet skin. “Take me. All of you. You’re mine.”
At that my cock practically explodes. I look over at my friends who watch us with growing need, and they move toward her. The same way we were drawn to her siren call.
West and Kai step to either side of us, and Eric moves behind. All four of us run our hands over her silky skin, worshipping the creature before us.
“It’s not fair,” she whispers. “I’m the only one undressed.”
I clench my jaw. I may live with these guys but getting naked with them is a lot to accept all at once. Before tonight, we never entertained the idea.
But being here with Harlow isn’t something we considered either.
Tonight, it’s like whatever rules usually apply, are gone.
All that’s left is us.
“Uh, that’s gonna be a lot of dick,” West laughs under his breath.
“Hey,” Eric says. “We don’t want to scare her off.”