ARCANGELO POV I attend all my classes the next day because I was gone all week. I'm actually notorious for skipping class, but I'm always on campus playing an instrument or joining practical classes that I'm not even supposed to be in. All of the professors, lecturers, and students know about my routine by now, and as long as I hand in all of my assignments and write all my tests and papers, nobody seems to mind. One professor told me one day it's because they all think I don't really belong there, I should have gone to an elite music school in the city. But they don't understand the relationship I have with my brothers. Nobody does apart from my family. And no elite music school could teach me what I already know. I've been training with the best teachers in the world ever since I picked up my first instrument. I have enough songs recorded that I know are good enough for at least five albums, but I'm just waiting until after graduation because that's the deal I made with
JULIET POV I'm buzzing in anticipation, and Mai is practically jumping through the roof. Alonso sent me a text to let me know that we're going to a frat party tonight and that I could bring her along. And I saw Arcangelo today. He's so beautiful, I can't help but feel attracted to him, even after I told myself I would never put myself in that situation where I would betray Alonso again. And Alessi. Fuck, how can I be attracted to all three of them? Maybe it's because they look exactly the same. That has to be it. And how the hell am I supposed to not be in their space when they all share the same house? And I know for a fact that Alonso is probably going to want me to sleep over tonight. He doesn't have practice on Sundays, so it makes sense. "Do I look okay?" Mai spins in our small space. She's wearing a little black dress with strappy black heels. I curled her long jet black hair, and she looks absolutely stunning. "Chef's kiss." I kiss my fingertips, and a pain go
ALESSI POV My brothers are at a party which is normal for them on a Saturday night. I, on the other hand, is at the popular pizza joint in town with my study group, and we're finishing up the night. "I heard Greek row is going to be crazy tonight." Blake, a guy in my class says. "You wanna check it out?" Typically, I don't bother with Greek parties. They're crowded and messy, but I think it would be good to see what Alonso and Juliet look like in a setting like that. Before her, that was him and Arc's hunting spot. Not that they had to do much hunting. I don't like all those people touching me. Imagine all the germs and sexual diseases floating around there. Yet, like in the last few weeks, I do things that are uncommon for me. "Why not?" I pack up my notes and laptop. "You might get laid." "Ha ha ha." He laughs mockingly. "I get laid plenty, thank you very much." That's probably true. Blake is a decent looking guy, and you can tell he takes care of his physiqu
ALONSO POV I'm a regular at parties like these, but I've never had more fun like I'm having right now with Juliet. She has killer dance moves, not surprising since she's a cheerleader, but I've only ever seen her doing stunts and never dance. I spot Alessi standing next to Arc, and I lift my eyebrows at him in surprise. He lifts his beer to me before taking a sip. This is not his scene. He would normally not be seen dead at one of these things. "Let's get a drink!" I shout in Juliet's ear over the music. She turns around smiling, sweat covering her brow, and throws her arms around my neck. "I wanna do shots!" I like this Juliet. She usually seems so focused on school and cheerleading, a fact that I really like about her. But I like this carefree version, too. I chuckle. Unless it's off-season, I don't do any hard liquor, I'll have a light beer, and only a few, and that's about it. My dick has been semi-hard ever since she shoved that girl off me when we just cam
JULIET POV I wake up with a pounding headache, reminding me of months before when I was still in the clutches of my father. After one of the choking episodes, I would wake up disoriented and with a headache that would take hours to dissipate. I slowly open my eyes, scared that I would be back in my own bedroom, and the last few months of freedom were just a dream. I release a shaky breath when I realize I'm in Alonso's bedroom, and just like the last time, he's not here. I can't remember shit. Last thing I remember, Mai and I were dancing at the party with the Moretti triplets looking at us. I remember feeling so carefree and asking myself why the hell I hadn't gotten drunk before. Or went to a party. Because I never trusted anyone at my old school apart from Alyssa. Last night, I knew I was safe. A foolish feeling in light of everything. The truth always comes out, and I have a feeling in the pit of my stomach that the Morettis will find out exactly who I am, and my cur
JULIET POV I hear Mai's laughter when I go down the stairs. All eyes turn to me when I get into the kitchen. Arcangelo's eyes drop to his plate in front of him, and Alessi's eyes go to my bare legs. "Good morning!" Yoon chirps cheerfully. "Smoothie?" "Sure, thanks." "Word on the street is you were drunk last night." Mai grins, and I chuckle. "But it was hella fun! Plus, I got to sleep over at the Tremendous Trio's house. Can we have an encore next week?" "No." There's no way in hell I'm ending up not remembering anything again. That could end up being extremely dangerous. Yoon places a tall glass on the table. "Super smoothie, good for hangovers." "Thanks." I walk over to take it. "Do you guys know where Alonso is?" Alessi's serious eyes meet mine. "Outside in the pool." It's amazing how they all look the same, but they exude different energies. I give one quick glance to Arcangelo, but he's shoveling scrambled eggs into his mouth like it's the most de
ARCANGELO POV Mai is a sweet girl, and I like talking and goofing around with her, but I've been feeling anxious ever since Juliet went outside to the pool. I excuse myself from the kitchen with the lie that I have to take a shower. I wasn't drunk last night, and I totally took a shower to jack off after Juliet's confession that she wanted to kiss both me and Alonso. Fuck, if he only knew I already kissed the girl. Luckily, she didn't say that part, or the house might have been a war zone. Maybe that's why I'm obsessed with Juliet. I know what she tastes like. I have felt those pillowy lips under mine, and I have licked her cum from my finger. She tastes sensational. Why didn't I see her first? Maybe if I saw her first, it would be me she slept in a bed with. I would be the one she would go after. The only reason I came to my bedroom is because it has an unobscured view of the backyard, and I can see directly over the pool area. I lock my door, just in
ALESSI POV My house has gone back to silent treatments, and I am trying to get things back the way they used to be. All because of one fucking girl, who seems to keep fucking things up between my brothers. Arcangelo is back to locking himself up in his studio, and Alonso is training so hard, that I'm scared he might end up hurting himself. The possibility of him throwing everything he worked so hard for most of his life does not sit well with me. Another weekend passed, and unlike him, he didn't go to a party or out with his football friends. Notably, he also didn't bring Juliet around. Which might be a good thing, because everyone heard them fucking out by the pool the last time she was here. Poor Yoon was so blood-red in his face. He took Mai to see the pantry to escape the sounds coming from outside. And I ran to my bedroom with a dick so hard I thought it might break in half. Yeah, it's better that Juliet Monroe stays away from here. I can feel a storm brewing, and
ALESSI POV In my life, I have never seen something more perfect than my twin daughters. Love like I've never experienced before took a hold of me when these two tiny little girls were born. I've always been my brothers' keeper, the one with the solid head on his shoulders. I think those titles were just preparing me for this role. A father. "Are they supposed to be that small?" Alonso peers through the glass of the incubator. "Are they sick? Why are they in the baby growing thing?" Arc joins Alonso to peer through the glass to the perfection that is my daughters. "It's just procedure." I enlighten them. "They were born on thirty-seven weeks, but they're healthy and perfect." Utterly perfect. They look like their mom, but babies' faces change every single day. "Dude, you have to tell me how do I get Summer to marry me."I tell Alonso. He managed to bag Amelia, even with all the shit that was going on at the time. "You just ask her." He tells me without
AMELIA POV What was supposed to be the happiest time in my life has become one of the worst. Alonso is lying with his head in my lap, my fingers running through his hair as we're waiting for news from the doctors who are operating on Arcangelo. Bailey striked again. This time, she got caught, and her fucking parents can't get her out of this one this time. The shooting is on every social media site, it's trending on the internet. Videos are circulating around from fans. I feel so sorry for Lola. She's still wearing the dress she performed in, clutching Cassie to her chest as if she might lose her, too. They gave her something to wipe the blood from her arms, but there's a faint streak of it left on her cheek. The world would be a worse place if Arcangelo died. I kiss Alonso's cheek, and his eyes flutter open, sorrow in the swirl of green and brown. Alonso would not be the same person if he had to lose one of his brothers. They're all an extension of each other, and I pra
ALONSO POV I'm in seventh heaven. I know the bomb will explode very soon, but right now, I'm blissfully holding my wife in my arms as she's coming down from another orgasm. My wife. I fucking love the sound of that. It's not the way I wanted to do it. She deserves a big wedding with a designer dress and a big, fat diamond ring, and I promised her that I would give her all of that, but she said our wedding was the best. I thread my fingers through hers and kiss the diamond wedding band on her finger. I've already arranged appointments with jewelry designers for her engagement ring, and then I will do it the right way. "I fly out tomorrow afternoon with the team." I reluctantly tell her. "I want you there, but I also don't want you in the open where Bailey can easily get to you." She sighs and nuzzles her face in my neck. "I know. Maybe I'll arrange to see my parents while you're not here." "No!" I say definitely. "We face them together, I'm not sending you into the lion
ARCANGELO POV I must have died and gone to heaven. I have the girl I've been pining over up against a wall with her full, succulent lips eagerly moving under mine. She was a vision tonight in the elegant black dress with her dark curls spilling everywhere. Her lips were painted a fiery red that enticed me the entire time, and I just couldn't stop myself anymore. I tried being respectful because she has a child. My plan was to make her fall so irrevocably in love with me that by the time I did kiss her, she wouldn't be able to resist me. I wanted her to trust me implicitly, to make her feel that I would never let her down, that I'm solid. I hope I did enough because just this one taste of her is making me addicted, and I don't think I would be able to stop touching her now. She groans underneath my mouth, opening those lips like a flower, and I take that opportunity to plunge my tongue inside. She tastes like mint and desire, and a groan rumbles from my chest. I think I might
LOLA POV I don't exactly know what is going on with my life right now. It's like I'm in a twilight zone, part of a family in an instant. Arcangelo refuses to let me and Cassie go back to the label's apartment, and at first, I felt slightly awkward being at his parents' house, but everyone else handled it like it was completely normal. I understand that Alessi's ex-girlfriend apparently almost killed Alonso's girlfriend a few years back, so everyone who might be in danger right now has to stay here. But I'm not even his girlfriend. I'm just one of the artists he signed. Right? Wrong. I've never experienced anything that I feel for Arcangelo. The sexual tension is brewing underneath the surface whenever we touch. It's in the songs that we write together, in the way we gaze into each other's eyes when we think nobody is watching. Every night, after a big dinner, and I've given Cassie her bath and taken a shower, we climb into his bed. About an hour after when Cassie is f
ALONSO POV I can't believe one girl has the power to have all of us on our toes. I, for sure, never thought the sweet girl that we grew up with would turn out to be some obsessed psychopath. Apparently, Evan and Sammy Micheals have Bailey's son. They took her son from her when she was starting to talk about us again over the phone. My parents are pissed because they weren't even warned. Let's just say that the friendship between the Morettis and the Micheals would never be salvaged again. "What's with the security?" One of my teammates asks as we finish up at the stadium. "You good man?" Fuck, I love this team. We're new, and certainly the underdogs, but we're becoming a family. They've been concerned about me ever since the allegations of sexual assault. It's dfficult being in the public eye, and they all know how it feels to be under such scrutiny. "I'm good, but there's someone who's a bit too obsessed, just being cautious." "Be careful out there." He claps me on the s
AMELIA POV "Bailey Micheals has been sighted by Alessi Moretti yesterday." I hear the words coming out of my father's mouth, but it's like it doesn't register at first. I blink rapidly, trying to make sense of what he just said. "You said she would never set foot in this country again!" My mother jumps from her chair in front of my father's desk. "You promised!" "She didn't come in with her real passport. We're scouring security footage to try and see which airport she came through." My heart starts beating rapidly after it missed a few beats. Fear rushes through me in an instant. Bailey is going to kill me. "You don't have to worry about anything." Dad looks at me. "There's no way she'll be able to get to you here." Just another reason to keep me locked up in my gilded cage. I can't do this anymore. It feels like I'm going fucking insane. Even when I'm strolling in the garden, I can feel eyes on me like a hawk. I know I said that this is what I have to
ARCANGELO POV I'm in bed, and Bach is playing softly through the surround sound, but I can't fall asleep, my mind on the dark-haired petite beauty that is in my building. Lola is on my mind twenty-four-seven. She's the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning and the last person in my thoughts before I close my eyes. Working with her has been nothing but astonishing. We've been writing music about love, loss, happiness, hurt, and so entwined in our own little bubble that the assistants have to remind us to eat. I have never met someone who understands how I make music like she does. It's like she was always tethered to my soul, and I just had to find her in the cosmos. Even Cassie crept under my skin. She calls me her prince charming, and I'm not mad about it. I wonder what they're doing right now. Cassie is probably asleep already, maybe Lola, too. What would it feel like if they were here? Would Lola listen to classical music with me while I run my finge
ALESSI POV I feel slightly guilty for being this happy, but fuck, I can't help it. My internship is coming to an end. I still have the two-day assessment coming up before I'm officially a resident, but I've been working for this all my life. I'm prepared and ready. Then I have this gorgeous woman roaming my apartment with my babies in her belly. Granted, she's currently shooting lasers at me while I'm calmly sipping my coffee before I have to leave for my shift. "You don't get to decide if I work or not, Alessi!" Summer shouts at me, pink blotches appearing on her cheeks. "You're completely taking over my life! First my apartment, and now this!" I might have told her supervising nurse that she will probably have to hire another nurse soon, seeing that Summer might quit her job. "I was just thinking about the future." I shrug. "You're mine, and I have to take care of you. Carrying twins is not going to be easy on your body, you think you can work the shifts you do being se