Fractured Hearts

by SJD Peterson

  Charlie stiffened as the back door slammed and Kegan strode into the kitchen. He walked straight for her, pulled her out of her chair and into a tight embrace.

  “Damn, Charlie, you’re even more beautiful in the morning.” He placed a soft kiss to her lips. “I hoped to find you still snuggled up in bed when I got back.”

  Charlie felt her cheeks flame with embarrassment as she heard Trevor chuckle. Oh God, this woman must think I’m a total floozy. She had just come downstairs with one half-naked man and now another had just admitted to having her in bed. Charlie wished she could climb into a hole.

  “Put her down,” Mrs. Miller chastised. “Go wash them hands, your breakfast is getting cold.”

  Kegan laughed, set her back in the chair and placed a kiss on her temple before strolling to the kitchen sink. Charlie grabbed her coffee cup, eyes down. Way to make a great first impression, Charlie.

  Mrs. Miller placed a basket of biscuits on the table in front of her. If she was appalled by Charlie’s behavior, she hid it well.

  “It was nice meetin’ you, Charlie. I’ll be in the other room if you need anything else.” She winked as Charlie peeked up at her over the coffee cup. “I know how to handle these boys. You need any advice, you come find me.”

  “Thank you, ma’am, I may just take you up on that.” Too bad she hadn’t met her the night before. She might have avoided all this embarrassment.

  Kegan joined them at the table, taking the seat on the other side of Charlie as Mrs. Miller left the room. He scooted his chair closer to hers and placed his hand on her thigh. “Aw, don’t be embarrassed. We’ve told Mrs. M all about you.”

  Charlie groaned into her coffee, refusing to look up. This day just got better and better. The tramp tattoo stamped on her forehead was becoming inevitable.

  A long, uncomfortable silence filled the room as they ate. Charlie wasn’t sure what to say. She was more embarrassed than she could ever remember being. It didn’t help that she was going to have to face this woman every day until her job was done. Shit, what if she said something to Dr. Stone? Charlie was going to kick Rae’s ass for talking her into this.

  Kegan looked back and forth from her to Trevor. “You two okay? Is something wrong?”

  “Why don’t you tell him what you told me?”

  Charlie glared at Trevor, who leaned back in his chair, a dazzling smile on his too-smug face.

  Bastard.

  Kegan squeezed her thigh, staring at her expectantly.

  Charlie refused to play Trevor’s little game of let’s embarrass Charlie further. She started to stand, eager to hide.

  Trevor placed his hand on her shoulder and pushed her back down into the chair. “Not so fast, missy. It’s just the three of us and we’re gonna hash this out right here and now.”

  “Okay, Trev, what the hell is going on? I leave for a bit and you piss her off? Way to go, dumbass.”

  “I didn’t do anything to her. If anyone should be pissed, it should be me. She insulted me.”

  Charlie stared at Trevor, mouth agape. “How the hell did I insult you?”

  Trevor popped a slice of bacon in his mouth, chewed furiously, and pointed at her, his eyes on Kegan. “Little Miss Charlie here is under the impression that we’re just a couple of dogs. That we brought her here just to fuck her and add a notch to our bedpost or something.”

  Kegan squeezed her thigh again and glared at Trevor. “How the hell did you give her that impression?”

  Charlie couldn’t help but giggle at the stunned look on Trevor’s face.

  “Me?” Trevor pointed a finger at Charlie. “She freaked when she woke and found you gone.”

  “And you’re the one who told me to leave her alone.” In a very impressive imitation of Trevor’s drawl, Kegan said, “‘Leave her alone, Kegan, and let her sleep. She’s gonna need her strength for what I have planned.’”

  Charlie laughed outright at the embarrassment on Trevor’s face as he grumbled something unrecognizable.

  Kegan reached up and ran the back of his knuckles gently along her cheek. His expression was serious as he spoke. “I know what you must think, but it’s not like that. We never get involved with a woman who doesn’t know the score up front, never lied to anyone. I know it’s gonna take time for you to trust that we want you for so much more than sex. I’ll do whatever I can to prove to you how much I want you, how much I’ve always wanted you. Just give me a chance.” He leaned in and brushed his lips against hers, making her melt a bit inside. “Please, Charlie. Give us a chance to show you.”

  Charlie stared into his gorgeous blue eyes, her heart soaring. Was it possible that he really wanted her in his life? That they both did? It just didn’t seem possible. How could she trust what they were saying when she really didn’t know Kegan anymore and barely knew anything about Trevor? Did she know or even understand what the score was? She had to still be dreaming. On the flipside, what if she did trust him? Could she survive another broken promise? Yes… No… Maybe.

  “I can’t promise you, either of you, anything long-term. But I won’t leave today. I will stay for the full thirty days, that’s all I can promise.”

  Kegan wrapped his arms around her. “Thank you. I promise…”

  “Shh, no promises, Kegan. Let’s just take it one day at a time.”

  Trevor snuggled in on her other side. “How about we start the day by finding a way for you to apologize to me for calling me a dog?”

  Charlie couldn’t stop the smile that curled her lips. “And just how would one go about making that up to someone?”

  He stood and extended his hand toward her. “You can trust me to think of something.”

  “Isn’t that what the spider said to the fly?”

  Trevor just laughed and led her up the stairs.

  Chapter Twelve

  The new foal rose up on shaky legs as it tried to stand for the first time before tumbling back into the soft bed of hay.

  Charlie watched, bursting with pride at the life she had helped bring into the world. She couldn’t ever remember being as happy as she was at this moment. She had spent most of the day and night before in the arms of the most loving, tender and mind-blowingly talented men. Her body bore the delicious aches in all the right places, as well as a few dark marks left behind when Kegan and Trevor had tried to prove who could mark her best. She still had many questions for them both, but none had to be asked right away. She just wanted to enjoy every precious moment she had with them and worry about tomorrow later.

  Warm hands wrapped around her waist and heat radiated at her back as the scent of dark musk and spice enveloped her. Trevor. It amazed her that after only a couple of days she could tell them apart just from their scent alone.

  “You about ready for lunch?”

  Charlie turned in his arms, pressed a kiss to his lips. “Depends on what we’re having.”

  He spun around, clasped her arms around his neck and pulled her into a piggyback hold. “You.” He chuckled and headed back to the house.

  She was still laughing when they walked into the kitchen and nearly ran into Kegan.

  Kegan had watched the two of them walk across the yard to the house tickling each other, both full with laughter. It amazed him how quickly Trevor had fallen completely head over heels for Charlie.

  It really shouldn’t be that big of a surprise, since Charlie had affected him like that since she’d first entered his life, but Trevor was more of the ladies’ man than he was. Though they had talked about settling down, he hadn’t really thought Trevor ever would. He’d loved their life as the most talked-about bachelors around, loved the chase and the conquest. Then again, he hadn’t come across anyone like Charlie until now.

  Neither noticed Kegan standing in the door until they nearly knocked him over. He leaned past Trevor and placed a kiss to Charlie’s lips.

  “I have to say, the sound of you two laughing has got to be the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard.” He licked at her lips, coaxing
her to open to him.

  As soon as her lips parted, he dove in and devoured her mouth. The taste of her on his tongue was a powerful punch to his growing arousal. The sensation of Trevor’s warm breath against his throat, hearing him inhale deeply, made his own breath catch and his heart race. He moaned into Charlie’s mouth, nearly staggering back from the intensity building in him. Trevor’s hand snaked out and caught him around the waist as he swayed slightly.

  “Shit, don’t fall over,” Trevor drawled, pulling Kegan closer to his body. Their erections touched and they both jerked at the contact.

  Just as Kegan tried to pull back from the contact, Charlie grabbed him around the neck, pulled him deeper into the kiss and his body tighter against Trevor’s. It was as if a freight train had slammed into him. The sensation of Charlie’s warm, sweet tongue battling his coupled with the rock-hard bulge pressed against his own sent waves of lust rolling off him with such a force it was difficult to breathe.

  “Bed. Now.” The low, guttural voice blowing heat against his neck pushed Kegan’s excitement even higher.

  He ripped his mouth from Charlie’s and stepped to one side as Trevor tightened his grip on Charlie’s thighs and headed for the stairs. Kegan stayed right on his heels and fought to get his body to slow the fuck down or he’d lose it in his jeans before he even made it to Charlie’s room.

  Trevor couldn’t believe the heat that surged through his body. He had never experienced anything so powerful in his life. His body’s reaction to Kegan being pressed up against him was shocking.

  Whenever they had shared a woman in the past, they’d avoided contact with each other. The few times that it had happened, they had both jerked away reflexively. Yet when they were with Charlie, the feel of her body combined with Kegan’s felt like the most natural thing in the world. It just felt right.

  He let Charlie ease down his back until she sat on the edge of the bed, then turned to her and placed a deep, possessive kiss to her parted lips. Her response was gentle, yet demanding.

  This was intimacy, the beginning of a possible lifetime of kisses. Warmth spread through his chest as he felt Kegan’s presence next to him. He broke the kiss, let his lips brush across her cheek and up to the soft spot below her ear, giving Kegan room to place his own kisses to her lips.

  Trevor spoke into the warmth of her neck, placing soft, open-mouthed kisses between words. “You smell like sunshine. Sweet grass. And unfortunately, horses.”

  Charlie giggled. “I thought you liked the smell of horses?”

  “I do, but I don’t want to lick one.” He nipped at her ear. “But I do plan on licking you. All of you.”

  She shuddered as he pulled back, grasped the hem of her shirt and pulled it up over her head in one swift movement. “Kegan, want to go get that shower started?”

  “One step ahead of ya, Trev.” Kegan was already strolling to the bathroom, his clothes leaving a trail behind him.

  Trevor reached for Charlie’s hands and encouraged her to stand. He watched her bright green eyes as he helped her out of the rest of her clothes.

  She was so amazing, so giving.

  He fought the urge to throw her back on the bed and bury himself deep in her sweet, sexy body. He pushed her toward the bathroom, nearly drooling as her tight, perfect ass swayed before his eyes and mesmerized him. He shucked his own shirt quickly and practically ripped his jeans off as he followed behind her.

  Kegan helped Charlie into the shower while Trevor slipped in behind her and joined them under the warm spray coming from the wall of showerheads. His eyes were riveted to the water droplets sliding down her creamy skin. He reached out to unravel her tightly bound braid as Kegan washed the front of her body.

  Trevor skimmed his hands down her skin, and her silky hair brushed his fingertips, the length of it reaching the top of her ass. As he washed her long locks, he encouraged her to lie her head back against his shoulder, her chest pushed out in open invitation to Kegan, who jumped at the opportunity.

  Kegan lowered his head, caressing the swollen nubs with the tip of his tongue. Charlie’s lips parted on a moan, and Trevor covered her mouth with his in a deep, devouring kiss. His urgency matched hers. A bite or suck counteracted each stroke of his tongue as the kiss deepened.

  On and on it went until the pulse pounded in his ears and the need for air forced Trevor to break the kiss. His lips swept over hers as they breathed each other in. He loved the sweet taste of her.

  Charlie’s eyes nearly rolled back in her head as she panted. Her body trembled and arched into the greedy friction of Kegan’s mouth against her sensitive breasts. Her slim fingers fisted in Kegan’s hair, held him close as if he were her lifeline.

  Trevor watched, enthralled by Charlie’s parted mouth, as her tongue darted out to lick at her bottom lip. The urge to have that kiss-swollen mouth wrapped around his shaft made him mindless with lust. Trevor moved his hand down her body until it brushed the thin curls of her sex.

  As he grazed the tip of her clit with one finger, Trevor felt Kegan’s hand move down to meet his. His big hand covered Trevor’s and together they let their fingers slide down to part her sweet, wet lips. Their groans mingled as they felt how wet and needy she was.

  Each plunged a finger in her tight sheath, and Charlie cried out at the penetration, her hips jerking to meet their touch. As he and Kegan increased their thrusts, Trevor drew the pad of his thumb in tight circles around her swollen clit. Tremors wracked through her body.

  “That’s it, baby. Let go. Come for us.”

  As if his command was what she was waiting for, she tightened around them and cried out as her orgasm ripped through her.

  Kegan raised his head from her neck. “Damn, girl, I’ll never get enough of you. I love it when you come for us. Knowing we make you fly makes me so damn hard.”

  Trevor’s cock twitched wildly. Charlie did things to his body that no one had ever done and he marveled at it. Her innocence mixed in with a healthy dose of eagerness had him in a perpetual state of need—the necessity to not only to claim her body but also her heart as thoroughly as she had claimed his. He brushed his mouth against the pulse throbbing at her neck and pushed his hardness against the water-slick skin of her backside.

  “Do you feel what you do to me, Charlie, how badly I want you?” He turned her head toward his and touched his lips to hers. “I want to feel this full, sweet mouth wrapped around me.”

  Charlie’s eyes lifted a little to look at him seductively under thick lashes in wanton invitation.

  They turned her in their arms. Kegan placed one hand between her shoulders and encouraged her downward while he grasped her hip with the other and forced her to bend at the waist.

  Trevor fisted his shaft, stroking it in long, easy pulls as he moved his engorged head toward her and allowed his arousal to paint across her bottom lip. As he teased her mouth, Kegan gripped his own shaft and rolled a condom down its length, then teased it along the crease of her ass in a slow, gentle caress before he entered her.

  As Charlie’s clever little tongue hit the bundle of sensitive nerves at the underside of the head, Trevor’s eyes locked onto Kegan’s and the bliss he saw on his best friend’s face surely mirrored his own. They stared at each other in awe as they both thrust into Charlie slowly, an unspoken acknowledgment of the perfection of this moment in their synchronized dance.

  As their pace increased, Charlie began to squirm and thrash between them. Constant moans vibrated against his thickness and caused his balls to tighten up against him.

  Never taking his eyes off Kegan, he grunted. “Ah Christ, I’m not gonna be able to hold back much longer.” He groaned as Charlie swallowed him deeper and hummed while electrical shocks raced through his body.

  Kegan pushed deeper into her, then froze as his mouth went slack and eyes dilated. Trevor was pushed to the edge of ecstasy by the unadulterated pleasure on his best friend’s face.

  White heat flashed through his body like molten lava as his orgas
m ripped through his body and shattered him into a million little pieces. He roared his release, felt and heard Charlie join him.

  As he floated back to his body, Trevor stared at Kegan and Charlie. He knew that at a deep emotional level, they’d affected him as nothing else in his life had ever accomplished.

  He belonged to them. Body, mind and soul.

  * * * *

  Charlie sat on the bed between Trevor’s spread thighs, Kegan’s head lying in her lap. She loved the feel of Trevor’s fingers running through her hair as he brushed her damp locks. She ran her fingers through the silky strands of Kegan’s pale hair. He looked so peaceful and sated as he stared at her. His sapphire-blue eyes made her melt with a look of reverence, made her feel cherished.

  She traced her fingers down his long elegant nose, across his full lips and down to his strong jaw, then ghosted across his cheekbones. Her emotions swirled and a feeling of giddiness came over her as she stared down at this delicious sun-darkened god of a man who looked back at her as if she were the most precious thing he’d ever seen. Not to mention the other godlike creature snuggled up against her.

  “Why do you do it?” Charlie asked as she continued to trace Kegan’s face with her fingers.

  “Hmm? Do what?”

  “Share.”

  Kegan closed his eyes. “It just sort of happened one night.”

  Charlie could see the pain on Kegan’s face, the lines around his eyes tight and drawing his brows into a frown. He stayed quiet, breathed deeply for a long moment. Charlie began to wonder if he was going to continue or if he was simply going to leave it at that. Just as she decided on the latter, Kegan opened his eyes to look at her with so much pain rolling off him, so palpable, that it was nauseating.

  “I’m sorry. It’s none of my business. I shouldn’t have asked.” She wished she hadn’t. The beauty of the moment they’d shared had been shattered by some ugly past memory.