❝When I tell you
I love you,
I don't say it out of the habit.
I say it to remind you that you are the best thing
that has ever happened to me.❞

∼Rihan∼

I feel like a teenager all over again because of a special someone who's messing with my brain and my heart flutters everytime, I look her way. It's like you always feel hopeless that you can't have anyone good in your life but suddenly, someone much better than you have ever expacted, bump into you, making you feel the luckiest person on earth. It's been an hour, since we all had a moment with Aurora. A moment, I'm gonna treasure all my life and preserve it in my heart till my last breath.

I never had this much of satisfaction, while fucking some random sluts, senseless, than the few minute I spend with her, kissing her and bringing her the pleasure. I won't lie, saying that, I have never gone down on any women before her. I have. I bring pleasure to every woman, I have ever fucked but something about Aurora, wants me to worship her every possible way I can. I want to introduce her to the world. A world unknown to her yet.

I don't just want her body desperately but I want to invade her thoughts and mind too. So deep that, the only man she could imagine being intimate with, will be just me....and ofcource my brothers. I just couldn't take my eyes of her sleeping form, lying beside me. I could have gone out of the tent to relieve myself, just like my brothers but, I don't want to miss this beautiful and breath taking view, in front of my eyes, even for a sec. I want to drink in all of her features and curves in my memory, until it's time she let's me all the way in. Also, before she wakes up spitting fire at all of us.

I chuckled, thinking how her face becomes red when she tries to hide her embarrassment behind her fake anger. I always knew, we had this affect on women but, knowing that Aurora, the girl we want, feels the same, just made my day. "You are the best thing ever happened to me." I said, even if I know she can't hear me. "Where the fuck were you been, my whole life, babe?" She came closer to me, moving in her sleep. I couldn't stop myself, falling in love with her pouting lips. She makes me smile genuinely.

It's just me who knows, my smiles are not real always. I just fake it, so that the people around me, don't take me as a loser. I smirk because I never had a reason to smile before. Now that someone has seen the real me, I want to smile. After a long time, I have a reason to smile. Aurora, she makes me happy. I hope the happiness stays longer than I'm expecting. Call me selfish but, I don't want to go back to what I was, before she brightened my life. It was dark and hopeless in the past. Too hopeless.

"Oye? Are you coming out to eat or not?" asked Duke from the entrance of the tent. I was startled by his voice, which made him snicker at me. "G, thanks for the concern." I said, glaring at him but gave one last look at my angel besides me and stood up to go join my brothers. Before leaving, I bend down placing a light peck on her cheeks and smiled when she pouted again like a kid. "Sleep well babe" I said, walking away from her.

∼Titus∼

"You sure, that's her? Should we tell Duke?" asked Turner, trying to pry my attention from the Phone, I'm glaring at right now. "There is no reason to hide it. Better talk about it now, before Aurora becomes a part of this conversation." suggested Aryan, making me gulp audibly. Fuck! Why can't we have a single, peaceful day with her, without any drama? Why can't our life be less complicated? I never cared about this kind of Threatening messages but, now that Aurora is in our life, I have to.

"Why the long faces?" asked Duke, walking towards us, followed by Rihan, who had a big smile in his face, which is rare. Of course, we know the reason. But I doubt, it's gonna stay there forever, once he hears what I have to say. "Sit. We need to talk." I said, with a serious face. As assumed, Rihan's face fell. Sorry bro. I took a deep breath before showing them the message, I got few minutes ago.

Duke took it and started reading it. His expression was blank but Rihan's was showing exactly, what Duke might be feeling. Shock, Rage and Regret. "What the fuck!!? Tell me it's a prank, brother. Because, I don't believe a single thing, she's claiming." said Rihan, standing absurdly and pacing like a wounded animal. We were all looking at Duke expecting to deny the everything in the text. But what he said, left all of us speechless. "Im not sure...But what if she's not lying?" he said, looking straight into my eyes.

"Are you crazy Dude? That bitch slept with every men she came across. How could you take responsibility for that kid? Please don't let Aurora hear you saying that. Fuck!" said Rihan, taking the seat beside me. Duke was silent looking at the pic that bitch has send. "She looks a lot like me." he said, smiling softly at the pic. We all exchanged looks with each other. "How could you be so sure brother?" I asked him. "She never called you nor informed about her birth. Why now?"

"Titus has a point Duke. Why now? Why she was quite all these years? What changed?"asked Turner. Duke sighed. "I..She..actually called me 3 years back, saying she was pregnant and I didn't believe her because like we all know, she was a..." he paused. "Anyways..After few months, she messaged again, saying that...She has given birth but, I didn't respond." There was a pregnant silence for a while.

"So, you're now the father to her child, that you can't avoid taking responsibility for?" Fuck no! Fuck! fuck! fuck! Aurora. She heard our conversation. I know you won't believe me but, I'm literally shivering right now. God, can this day get any worse. "Aurora?" I can understand, what Duke is going through right now. Fear. Fear of losing her. Losing the love of your life. And what's worse is, we can't stop it from happening now that, she learned the truth. God please help us.

"Aurora, I didn't know, it was mine. I'm not sure yet but..I can't deny it either." he said, slowly approaching her, like she would run away if he walked faster. "Oh, I see." was all she said with a blank face. Her no reaction to this matter was the silence before the Strom. We all waited patiently for her next out burst, which never came. "I'll be leaving in 5. You guys can stay back, if you want." she said, meeting each of our eyes, except Duke and walked back inside.

It's over. It's all over, even before it all started. Duke stood there frozen to his place, not moving a muscle. For the first time in life, I feel so hopeless. Hopeless in love. Duke turned back to face all of us with a dejected look. "Talk to her... Please." Is all he said, before following others binding everything up. After exactly 5 minutes, Aurora came out with the same blank look on her face. "You can put off the fire and Tent." I'll check if I can find the rest of the hurbs" she said, in a unnaturally normal tone, like she was not at all effected by the news.

Nobody dared to approach her. We all just stood there like idiots, not knowing what to do or say. What can we say? This situation was out of our control. After winding everything up we waited for her to come back. "Should we go find her? She's gone for like almost 20 minutes." said Turner. "I'll go" said Rihan and Aryan together. I nodded my head at them. Just as they were about to start walking the way she went, we saw her figure walking our way with a bundle of some kind of roots.

"All done.. Let's go." is all she said, walking away with the bundle of herbs she just collected. "I'll carry that for you." Said Duke, walking her way. "No it's fine...It's not that heavy." she ignored his help and started walking towards the camp. Not having much of a choice, we followed her. Duke stayed in his position for a while, looking at her retreating figure and trying to digest the rejection, he faced. Then followed us slowly. We walked in complete silence for another 15 minutes, not knowing how to handle this situation.

"I don't think, we could make it to the camp before dark. We have to stay the night somewhere." said Aryan, breaking the acward silence and trying to make her talk or something, I guess. There was no response. He sighed and walked towards her with a purpose. He stood in front of her, making her to stumble back and stop walking. We all did the same. "Aurora, how long are you going to give us the silent treatment? Talk. Yell. Curse. Ask question. Blame us. But, just talk damnit!" he said, looking into her eyes.

She shrugged his words. "There is nothing left to talk. What do you expect me do ask? Who do you want me to blame? How do you want me to react, Aryan? It's none of your fault. I should have known. It was all too good to be true. It was all a mistake...A big mistake letting go of my self control. Letting all of you in. It's my fault, not yours. I have nothing else to say." she said, stepping away from Rihan and resumed walking.

"A mistake? It wasn't a mistake for us, Aurora. Are we not taking about the moment we had, just few hours back! Does it not mean anything to you!?" Yelled Duke, making her stop ebsurdly. Now we could clearly see her broken expression, when she turned back. She walked towards Duke slowly and stopped when she was toe to toe with him. "If I wasn't a mistake for you, then do you agree that, the child of yours is a mistake then?" Fuck me. It left Duke and undoubtedly, all of us stunned.

"That's what I thought." she said, giving him a tight smile, when he didn't have any answer to her question. She took a step back, then another and then turned her back to us and walk away, without waiting for any more smart talk from us. I can't explain the pain, we are all going through right now. We can't let her go nor ignore the fact that, Duke has a kid. What is more painful is that, we can't do anything to make her stop. We just let her go, even after promising that, we'll never.

We walked faster, but kept a safe distance from her. I'm sure she doesn't want anyone of us around her at this moment. "Somebody stop her. It's getting dark. We have to find a place for the night." said Turner. I sighed and walked faster to match her steps. "Aurora?" she didn't stop but turned my way in response. "Can we stop for the night? It's not safe to walk through the forest in the dark." she nodded her head in response and stopped.

I looked back at my brothers's tired and blank faces. Not physically tired but mentally stained. I was about to ask Aryan and Rihan to set the tent but Aurora asked me not to. "I don't need a tent. I'll just rest my back on the trunk." she said, getting rid of her bag and things she was carrying with, avoiding our protest and worried looks. She took out a small mat and spread under the tree. Then she took out her headphones and sat laying her back to the tree trunk, closing her eyes, making sure to avoid any kind of conversation with us.

We all exchanged looks and did the same. Nobody talked with no one. Everyone, in their own thoughts. What does all these mean for us now? She regrets every second she spend with us right now. No matter how hard I try, I couldn't find a way out of this. To bring her smile back. To make her ours. But suddenly, something clicked, like a switch bulb. Logan mentioned a name earlier. I'm sure he said, Anastasia. "Guys?" I motioned them to come closer. They did. It's time to dig deeper.

"Do you remember, what Logan said about a woman trying to kidnap someone from the camp. Anyone remember the name?" My brothers showed a bored and irritating expression. "Why the hell are you worried about that, right now?" asked Turner, glaring at me. I rolled my eyes but then I saw Duke, who was thinking deeply. "Anastasia?" he said, shocked and puzzled at the same time. That's when it finally clicked for all my brothers. "Shit! Does that kidnapping and sending Duke a message after all this time are interlinked?" asked Rihan.

"Why did I not think about it before?" Said Aryan. "There might be two different Anastasia, we are talking about guys, but she's done it before, remember?" he asked. We all nod our heads at that. Anastasia is the bitch of an ex girlfriend, Duke was dating few years back. She was beautiful but a very cunning gold digger and a slut. We struggled a lot to get rid of her but, in the past when she was still reluctant to let go of Duke, she warned us that, she would go any extend to get rid of the women we try to date in future.

Luckily, we never did but, somehow, she might have spied on us to see that, we are showing interest in Aurora and her psychopathic brain has started plotting against us to take revenge. "Now that you mentioned it, I remember seeing Anastasia with another man in Las Vegas, when I went to attend the Casino's opening ceremony, last year." said Aryan, making our eyes go wide.

"Of course she would. Rich man and big dick. That's what she was always attracted to. Did she see you?" I asked, with Venom in my voice. "Trust me brother, she is back and back with a purpose. Don't let her win. We are with you. Every step, every fight. You are not alone in this." said Rihan, encouraging Duke. For the first time after the long day, we felt a little relieved. But, still our eyes followed the sleeping beauty, sitting not too far away from us. "I wish, she was with me too. I can't fight without her." said Duke, looking at Aurora longingly.

"What can I say? We are all in the same boat, bro. There is nothing we can do right now to make her believe that, she's the only one for us but, our time will come. We just have to make sure that, Anastasia doesn't get her hands on her. Can we at least make sure of that?" I asked my brothers. I took a deep breath and released it. "My every breath belongs to her, bro. I'll do anything to keep her safe." said Turner, making all of us agree to his statement. "We all will".

Let's see, how long you gonna avoid us princess. No matter what, one day you'll realize, how madly, we're in love with you. One day, you'll see that, with your own eyes.

Sorry for the sudden twist but, it was pre planned. Hope you don't hate me.😁Please comment and give your suggestions. I love reading them.😘