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Dear life,

When I said, It was a rhetorical question, not a challenge.

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♤♠︎Chapter 63♠︎♤

•Emma's point of view•

A hand grabbed my jaw. Instantly, pulling my attention right back to Leo's.

"Don't ignore me. Angel." Leo's voice deepened as this underlying desire of his was coming up to the surface. Making me squeeze my legs together when it began tingling when his eyes filled with sinful emotion that intensified when they dropped to my lips.

"Let me have another taste." He breathed out those words while brushing his thumb on my lips. His eyes were dazed, almost as if he could taste them.

Now our lips were barely touching, making me shiver at our close proximity. Again, trapping me in his hungry stare, which seemed desperate for my affection. I guess I'm not the only one who's desperate for attention and a bit of affection.

And oddly enough, I wanted to give it to him, knowing that it was wrong. Knowing that this would come back and bite me on the ass when I least expected it.

"It seems you guys have been having fun without me." For some reason, Kevin was more gone than Leo because his gray eyes seemed clouded and his body movement seemed much slower now. It's like he was holding on to a single thread of awareness.

He pulls me towards him, breaking me off from Leo's spell, as he connects his lips against mine without hesitation, again claiming my mouth as his, not caring that his twin brother was there watching us.

But Leo pushes him back as he grabs onto me, snapping at Kevin, "Don't touch her. Bastard."

"Why? When she's the one who created this problem in my pants," My eyes flickered down for a moment upon hearing his low, deep voice.

Instantly, my cheeks began to warm when I saw the problem he was blaming me for.

Damn, it seemed like his hardness wanted to be freed from his dark jeans. Then my full attention snapped back to his gray eyes, which were right now filled with determination to devour me alive.

"I thought we agreed that she's ours... that we will share... it seems you've caught feelings. Leon.

And your greediness is fucking showing." Kevin retorted in an unbelievable tone when Leo wouldn't let him touch me.

"Just look at her; don't you want to play with her too? Touch her. Kiss her. I know you do, so stop pretending to be some good guy. When you and I both know that's not who you truly are, brother,

"Leo's eyes fell down to mine. His dark eyes studied my face as if he was seeing me for the first time.

Kevin stepped closer again, saying, "Toys are meant to be shared. And frankly, I desire her right now. She has been on my mind all fucking night. Tormenting me with those dark eyes... He grabbed onto me, and, without hesitation, he took my jaw in his rough hand and tilted my head up, planting a kiss on my lips; only this time it was longer than before and much sweeter.

Surprisingly, it was my body that responded first on its own. My lips moved against his.

It's so soft, but it's also so addicting. Who could resist such soft, sweet lips? No one. I understand why his girlfriend would pretend not to see all his red flags.

A small smile took over his lips when he deepened the kiss, pulling my body more into his personal space, trapping me into his bubble, not letting any rational thoughts run through my brain.

And just like that, I snapped out of my daze while pushing him off of me, making him stumble a bit back in surprise... Of course, he lets me go, seeing and feeling my trembling hands and body.

Why did my body do that? Leo steps closer to me, making me grow still on my spot, too nervous to look up to see the disappointment in those dark eyes.

But what happened next caught me off guard. He tilted my head up and leaned down to plant his soft lips against mine, just like Kevin. His lips had a hint of alcohol mixed with something else. Yet, to me, they were sweet.

"My good little toy likes it.

It's my turn now. Now pass her back to me. I wasn't finished yet."

But Leo didn't care about his brother's words as he kept kissing me as if he were trying to erase Kevin's kiss from a few seconds ago completely from my memory.

"Come on, Leo. Let me play with her too. Don't keep her to yourself. "You greedy bastard."

My breath caught in my throat when Kevin's hands placed themselves on my hips and squeezed them as he pressed himself closer to me.

His arousal was now evident to me the more he pressed himself onto my body.

My heartbeat couldn't match my breathing pattern because of how hard it was to breathe around these two.

While Leo devours every inch of my mouth, Kevin begins leaving little open-mouth kisses on the back of my neck, eliciting a small moan to escape from me without permission.

His hands moved from my waist slowly up under my sweater to my bare stomach and up to my breast. Squeezing them gently, he began to suck on my sensitive skin while pressing his erection harder against my ass.

While Leo's hands dropped towards my thighs to lift me up, my legs automatically wrapped around his waist.

When my hands grabbed into his soft hair, pulling him closer, he groaned, liking my harsh treatment.

Then the bedroom door opened wider, making me snap my head towards the door to see who it was. When my eyes connect with familiar honey-brown ones, it makes my heart stop beating altogether.

How quickly our eyes connect! It disconnected as soon as she closed the door shut hurriedly with a harsh bang.

Anxiety filled my heart as many bad outcomes popped into my mind.

Both twins let me go when they felt me struggling against them to break free from their arms.

When I broke free, the bedroom door opened again, and this time it was William, standing there with a troubled complexion.

Without thinking twice, I fled toward him. William grabbed me by the waist and pulled me out the door, closing the door and locking them inside the bedroom.

The door banged a few times. It seemed like the door was about to break down if they kept trying to kick the door down.

"What happened?" That's the first thing he asked me when he locked the door from the outside with a spare key.

The door keeps rattling as someone on the other side tries to break down the door. William uses his whole body to keep the door from bursting open.

With just one look at me, the wheel in his head started turning. By his face alone, a weird uncomfortable feeling settled in my stomach, knowing he was getting all the wrong ideas. Anger accumulated in his dark brown eyes, and he turned around, ready to open the door.

When my shaky hand grasped his left arm, stopping him from going inside, "No, they really don't know what they are doing. Someone drugged them."

"Drugged them?"

"Yes, Kevin was with... one of your female friends, who was hired by his girlfriend to get information out of him. So she... She drugged him and Leo."

"What?... You're not playing with me right now?" William put his whole strength into keeping the door from bursting open from the amount of time the other person was kicking the door to open it.

"Nooo. It's true."

"Damn it, no wonder why she told me to come up here. Shit." William ran his hands through his hair in frustration, and when I spilled more out to him, like one of the twins had a weapon on him. That's when he started to look worried as one of his hands raked through his dark hair.

"Oh fuck, why did he bring that sh*t here?" He didn't even seem surprised at the fact that one of the twins had a gun. When I was about to question him, he cut me off so quickly that it gave me whiplash.

"Go get Hansol! I won't be able to keep this door from bursting open for much longer."

My head shook from side to side. "That's a bad idea. If Hansol comes here, Leo will lose his freaking mind."

"Why?" he asked, leaning a little closer to hear me over the blasting upbeat music. In a brief moment, the explanation was short on why Hansol was a bad idea, and the more he heard my words, the more his eyes went wide in disbelief.

"Yeah, you're right. Fuck. But who could I get to hold one of those idiots down while I hold the other one until they calm down?"

"What about Mike?" Mike was basically their size, and every time I see him in the field, he is always talking to them more than anyone else on the team.

"Mike... Like the team captain of the football team, Mike... Yeah, that's out of the question."

"Why?"

"He's drunk as hell." Shit. There goes my only hope.

"Then go get Lucas. He looks a little like Mike. He's wearing a dark red shirt and dark jeans. He's by the pool table in the basement with a blonde. "Hurry!" William leaned his whole weight on the door when the kick from the other side got more aggressive.

The door stopped banging, making us look at the door in question. What are they doing on the other side?

When I was about to walk away, a sudden "Wait" stopped me. He pulled me closer to him as he quietly zippered up my green sweater, fixed my hair a little, and put my hoodie on, making me realize why-I threw him a small, awkward "Thanks" as my cheeks warmed with embarrassment.

I quickly made my way through the crowd, bumping into some people. While asking around where the basement was, a girl directed me towards a white door down the hall when I opened it. I quickly went down the dark, dim stairs.

When I finally made it downstairs, I became nervous when there were more guys than girls inside this room. Why could it not be the opposite instead?

My eyes scanned the room filled with teens looking for Lucas. And bingo, William was right; he was by the pool table, talking to a girl.

I quickly headed towards them, not caring for the small glances people were throwing at me. Damn... I must look like a complete mess.

I pulled my hoodie closer to my face, trying to go unnoticed by the eyes that were following me. They were making me feel so self-conscious.

Without hesitation, I interrupted them almost rudely: "Excuse me."

The girl's flirtatious smile dropped, and an annoying expression took over her face when she faced me. "What?!?" She said it bluntly, with an irritated edge to her strong tone.

Before I could say anything, a heavy arm was draped over my shoulders, pulling me closer to him, making my eyes shoot up at him in question.

"Do you know each other?" The girl glanced between us with a hint of doubtfulness in her sharp, clipped tone.

"Of course. She's my girlfriend," Lucas smiled, making me do a double take.

"You're lying; why does she look like she was getting it on with someone else?" She retorted as she folded her arms in front of her chest as she pushed her tongue against her cheek in annoyance.

"I'm not. This is the girlfriend I was talking about. A while back, remember the one I'm in an open relationship with?"

"No, you did not," she retorted, but at the same time, she was beginning to doubt herself.

"Oh yes, I did; maybe you weren't focused enough." He retorted quickly. This guy was so good at lying that even I was starting to believe his words.

Tonight just keeps getting crazier and crazier.

He looks down at me while he says this: "Right, you're my girl, baby." His dark eyes bore into mine, making me quickly go along with him.

"Yes, I'm his." I swallowed hard as the word struggled to come out of my mouth, not feeling right for lying, "Girlfriend," making her face scrunch up into a scowl with that last word coming out of my mouth.

She scoffed as her eyes roamed over my body with a look of disbelief etched on her face. Like if she can't believe a guy like him would be with someone like me, that's the vibe she's giving off right now with that simple look.

Not wasting any more time. "Lucas interlaced his free hand with mine," making it very clear to her that he wasn't joking one bit about us being a couple in an open relationship.

She scoffed while walking away. Back to the group of girls that were observing us from afar. They started chatting amongst themselves when the girl joined the group, as they threw dirty looks my way.

He pulls my attention back to him without letting go of my hand. "What's wrong?" He started gently pulling me out of the basement and up the staircase.

"William sent me to call you." My legs tried to keep up with him. But every time he took one step, I had to take two.

I hate tall people. Why couldn't I be tall too? It sucks to be this height for real. People find it easy to mess with you.

"Is my brother doing something stupid again? please tell me he's not undressing himself on a table again." He breathed out a sigh of frustration.

Another disappointed sigh left his lips when I let go of his hand when I noticed how close we were.

"No, mine are." He looks back at me with amusement when I say that.

"No, it is not what you think. They're not stripping themselves on top of a random table; they're just really out of it."

We moved through the heaving crowd... At one point, we even separated, but he waited for me by the stairs.

He grabbed my forearm when I almost stumbled on the flight of stairs.

Why are there so many people on the stairs kissing against the railing? That is so dangerous. If they lean the wrong way, they'll fall and hit the ground, maybe breaking a few bones. That would be the stupidest way to end up in the Emergency Room.

We made it to where William was still pressed against the door, talking harshly with someone on the phone.

"Wait for me outside in the back." That is all I heard when William cut off the call when he saw us approaching.

"What happened?" Lucas looked at the door and then back at him.

"Shit just got out of hand. Her brothers are both high and drunk, and they have a tendency to get fucking violent whenever they are like this.

I usually get Mike to calm them down, but he's also drunk downstairs, and right now, you were the next best thing. Of course, after your brother."

"Wow. Thanks for hurting my fucking feelings." Lucas said in a sarcastic tone while rolling his eyes, making a slight giggle escape my lips- causing his lips to twitch up a bit upon hearing me.

Oddly, nobody in the hallway really cared what was happening; of course, some of them didn't know what planet they were on right now. And others were way too busy getting it on with each other in public to care what was happening around them.

"I have a plan.

But I don't know if it's going to work." William let out a long sigh as he shoved his phone back into his front pocket.

"Spill it. I'm all ears." Lucas said, already preparing himself for the worst scenario.

"We have to make them go by themselves outside. He looks at me," and knowing that they are protective of her, they will certainly go without a hustle. So, Emma, you would have to go downstairs and out the front door and wait for me right next to a black car that has a long red dragon design on its doors, okay?

"Why? When I can help."

"You can't even barely push someone out of your way. What makes you think you're of any help right now? With your size, you will probably be swung across the bedroom." Lucas let out as he raised an eyebrow, his eyes twinkled when he saw me slightly frown at his words.

When they were about to enter the bedroom, the bombastic reggaeton music cut off as a girl screamed through the speakers, in a high-pitched voice, "The cops are here; run putas ( bitches) before you get caught."

When those words resonated through the mansion, it became a chaotic mess. It felt like I was in the middle of a war zone when people started running and pushing each other with no mercy, while those slumped against the wall looked like fallen soldiers on the verge of death.

In the end, the guys pulled me in with them.

When we entered the bedroom, one of them was out cold while the other was pacing around the room angrily.

Leo stopped pacing and narrowed his eyes toward the two guys behind me instead of looking at me.

"We need to go home now. The cops are here, and we need to get out of here before they catch us. Dad would be really angry if we got in trouble, so please."

Seeing how he wasn't buying it, Lucas added, "Do you really want to see her in handcuffs? She probably gets a couple of bruises when they try to forcefully arrest her, and they probably put her in a cold cell for the night."

The closer I got to Leo, the more Lucas spoke. I'm hoping he'll listen to Lucas' words. "You wouldn't want your little sister to get her clean little record stained for something so stupid. "

As I give him those pleading eyes, he grabs my hand, making me release a breath of relief.

Damn, that dude looks gone, and that one over there looks goner. Shit. He is probably dead. " Lucas jokes but goes seriously silent when Leo glares at him-as if he were throwing invisible knives at him.

William quickly goes to Kevin, who is right now out cold on the mattress, checking his pulse to see if he's alive. "Thank God, he's alive. But he's out cold. "

"Dude, help me out here. This dude weighs too much. It feels like I'm carrying an enormous rock on my shoulder." Hearing that, Lucas goes to help him out, grabbing onto Kevin's other arm.

Before we left the bedroom, I made sure to take the gun away from Leo and safely put it in my dark green sweater pocket. When I get home, I'm going to hide this somewhere that he can't find it.

We quickly made it out the door and made it down another set of stairs that I hadn't noticed when I crossed them before.

I got startled when a guy who looked like he loved to eat too many donuts started yelling, at the top of his lungs, "The five of you stop right there." Hearing him so close made us basically run out the back door.

When we made it outside, towards the black car with the dragon on it, a black van pulled up beside it.

"Dude, over here." A guy with dark green hair slid the door open as he shouted for us to hurry the fuck up.

The first one to get in was Leo, then I got in, seeing that there was no space next to me. Leo pulled me onto his lap, making them dump Kevin's unconscious body next to us.

The girl who drugged Kevin was here, seated at the front, next to the driver, looking like a complete mess.

It wasn't the time to argue with her while the cops were hot on our tail.

"You punks, stop. Right there." The flashlight he had in his hand pointed at us, immediately making William and Lucas get in the van quickly and shut the door.

Without missing a beat, the driver twisted his keys, and the van hummed to life. He swerved around the police and out the open gate without hitting anyone who was still struggling to run out of there in one piece, saving us from trouble.

Everyone stayed quiet, not saying a word. Right now, Leo tightened his hold on me, hugging me while placing his head on top of mine, while Kevin's body slumped over a bit more, his head landing on Leo's shoulder.

William was the first one to break the deafening silence. ", drugging them?" His attention goes to the brunette, making her flinch in her seat.

"We only came for one thing only... Yet you fucked up on your first day.