Chapter 3 Make you Ours

"With me," he said, voice brushing my ear like a promise and a threat all at once.

My heart flipped. My stomach coiled and tightened.

I pulled back just enough to see his face those cold, steel-blue eyes glittering in the haze of the club lights. My throat went dry.

"I don't even know your name," I said, my voice barely audible over the music.

"Asher." He said

"Asher what?" I questioned

He smiled, slow and wicked. "You'll find out."

That should've sent alarms blaring in my head.

But instead, all I felt was heat.

Dangerous heat.

He turned to the bartender with a nod. "Another for her. And one for me."

"I didn't ask for another," I said, swallowing down nerves as the drink was slid toward me.

"But you need it." He raised a brow. "You're running from something, remember?"

I hesitated, then took the glass. The first sip burned down my throat, and I welcomed it like punishment.

He watched me closely. Too closely.

"Tell me what happened," he said.

I blinked. "You don't want to hear about my problems."

"Try me."

"My boyfriend cheated on me," I blurted before I could stop myself. "I lost my job. I went back to an apartment I haven't been to in a year just to cry in the dark with no food in the fridge."

His expression didn't change. "And now?"

"Now I'm here," I murmured, "trying not to fall apart."

My phone buzzed again. Loud. Insistent. The vibrations traveled through the counter and into my spine.

He glanced at my purse. "You're not going to get that?"

"No."

"Boyfriend?"

"Ex," I said quickly. Then I hesitated. "I think."

He tilted his head. "You're unsure?"

"I'm unsure of everything right now," I whispered.

Another buzz.

I let out a shaky breath and silenced it without looking.

"You know," he said, setting down his glass, "sometimes the people who break us don't deserve to put us back together."

That hit harder than I expected.

I stared at him. "Why are you being nice to me?"

He smirked. "Who said I'm nice?"

The lights shifted again. Blue now. Softer. Intimate.

And then he leaned in, brushing a knuckle along my jaw.

"I have two friends here tonight," he said. "I was thinking about inviting them over. If that's okay with you."

I hesitated.

"Friends?" I asked, already suspicious.

He smiled. "The kind of friends who like to share."

My breath caught.

I should've said no. I should've grabbed my bag and run. But instead, I asked, "Share what exactly?"

"You."

The word hit me like a slap and a caress at the same time.

He didn't give me a chance to respond. Just turned his head slightly and nodded toward the corner of the lounge.

Two men approached.

Both tall. Both devastating.

The first had dark brown skin, close-cropped hair, a jawline that looked carved from stone, and eyes like thunderclouds. His presence was pure danger casual, confident, and absolutely unapologetic.

The second was leaner but just as lethal. Blond curls, a silver ring on his lip, tattoos crawling up his neck. He had the look of someone who'd kiss you while making you cry.

They flanked him my mystery man like predators closing in on prey.

I was the prey.

"Ivy," he said smoothly, "this is Levi..." he nodded to the dark one, "...and Kai."

Kai gave a wicked grin. "She's even prettier up close."

Levi just looked me over once, slow and deliberate, before saying, "She looks like she needs to be ruined."

I couldn't breathe.

Couldn't think.

They were looking at me like they already owned me. Like they were sizing me up for destruction.

"What... do you want?" I asked, though I already knew.

"We want you," Kai said simply. "All of you."

"Right here?" I breathed.

"No, baby," Levi replied, stepping closer. "Someplace private."

"But only if you say yes," my mystery man added, his voice low and velvet-smooth. "This isn't a game. We won't chase. We don't beg. You say no, we walk away."

I looked at each of them-three men who looked like they stepped out of a forbidden fantasy and into my broken little life.

I should've walked.

I should've said no.

But I didn't.

Instead, I whispered, "What happens if I say yes?"

All three stepped in, boxing me between them like I was already theirs.

And then, in perfect sync, like wolves circling their prey, they leaned in.

"We'd love to make you ours," Kai murmured.

My heart stopped.

And then it started again faster than ever.