“Do what you do best, Emoy. I know you will bring her to us, that you will be successful, and waiting will make having her even more enjoyable as a reward.”
* * * *
Shawna tried to be brave and remain in bed. But the sound of fierce thunder rocked the house, and lightning illuminated her bedroom. In her quest to feel in control and independent, she didn’t take the medicine the doctor gave her to sleep. She had asked him about it at the hospital after visiting Keith, and he had given her samples of stuff.
Instead she cuddled in the corner of the walk-in closet, door closed to block out the bolts of lightning and to feel the safety of the walls against her back and side. Every time she closed her eyes she thought about Mexico and pictured Cuadrone. Even though she knew he was dead, the way he taunted her and touched her flashed into her mind. She tried to think of better things, happy things that would destroy the images in her head and take away the chills running rampant through her body. She thought about the drive home from the hospital today and the way she fell asleep against Stitch. It was the best thirty minutes of rest she had since escaping Mexico. But she couldn’t go to Stitch now and ask him to hold her. That would be succumbing to their control and letting down her guard that was the only protection he had left to hold on to.
More thunder rocked the house and she squeezed her eyes tight. In her head she saw the explosions at the compound in Mexico, heard the mumbled Spanish voices and then the sound of Cuadrone’s voice.
He was touching her, caressing her breast and ripping the shirt from her body.
“No, no, please.” She whimpered aloud. She wanted to run from the closet but where would she go? Who could she feel safe with?
When her five American soldiers popped into her head, all together, all standing side by side waiting for her, she gasped, covering her mouth.
I can’t let my guard down. I can’t depend on anyone but me.
She urged the desire to call to them or go to one of them away and she gripped the comforter tighter, holding it snug against her chest. She cried, and then she screamed when the closet door burst open.
* * * *
Lee and Stitch were in a panic as they searched Shawna’s room and saw no sign of her. The national weather service issued a tornado warning for the nearby area. They needed to take precautions and head downstairs to the safety of the basement and an area they built as a tornado shelter. Tiek opened the door, and the sound of Shawna’s screams drowned out the sound of the fierce thunder.
A bundle of white comforter, small and compact in the corner shook as cries came from underneath it.
“Shawna?” Tiek whispered her name as Mercury, Tex, and Stitch came running into the room.
“What’s going on? Did you find her?” Mercury asked, gun in hand, just like Tex and Stitch. “We heard Shawna scream.”
“Shawna?” Tiek got down on his knees and slowly crawled closer. He gently pulled the comforter away, and there was Shawna, lying in the fetal position, tears streaming down her cheeks.
“Aw, baby, it’s okay. Don’t be scared. Come on now, I’ve got you.” Tiek reached for her. She was a sight, wearing only a flimsy white tank top that barely covered her large breasts. She wore a pair of tight, tiny pink shorts that more resembled underwear than clothing. Her long, toned, tanned legs remained glued together. He reached out and caressed her hair away from her damp cheeks. Her eyes blinked open.
“Go away. Just let me get through this,” she stated in a shaky voice. She was shivering and her expression looked so angry yet lost.
“Please let me help you. We need to go downstairs. Do you hear the sirens in the distance? There’s a tornado warning,” Tiek told her.
She eased her body up, the tank top stretched across her breasts, the mounds peeking out on either side. “Tornado warning?” she asked.
“Yes. Let Tiek carry you. We need to get downstairs,” Mercury ordered. His voice was firm, and by Shawna’s immediate reaction, she knew she had to go with them. She allowed him to lift her up into his arms, so Lee grabbed the comforter, carrying it along with them.
Tiek held her in his arms all the way through the house with the strikes of lightning and sounds of thunder getting closer and closer.
“Damn, can you hear that wind? It’s fierce,” Lee said as they entered the basement. The men began to light the lanterns. The electricity flashed on and off, and then there was a large noise and the place filled with darkness. They continued to light the lanterns that now cast a low glow of light throughout the room.
“Oh God.” Shawna cried out and pressed her face against Tiek’s neck, holding him tight. He caressed her and turned his face to lay kisses against her damp skin.
“It’s okay, darling. It’s just a little storm. You know out here we get them now and again. Nothing ever really bad, just a lot of wind and a lot of noise,” he said, trying to reassure her.
“It should be over soon,” Mercury stated, caressing the hair from her cheek as Tiek sat down on the edge of the bed.
He held her on his lap. She was such a petite thing compared to him. He ran the palm of his hand along her thigh to her waist. Back and forth he tried to infuse his own heat into her skin to help her stop shivering.
She tried covering her chest with her arm, as if she realized just now how exposed she was to all of them. No bra, her abundant breasts poured from the V-neck and along her underarms.
He reached up and placed his palm against her cheek.
“You’re safe here with us. You know that right?” he asked her and she nodded her head and held his gaze. Tiek stared at her lips, moist, slightly parted, and when she poked her tongue out to lick the bottom lip as she held his gaze, he couldn’t resist taking a taste. He pulled her closer and he kissed her.
* * * *
Shawna couldn’t believe how turned on she felt in Tiek’s arms as he held her on his lap. The feel of steel beneath her ass and thighs made her pussy clench and her nipples swell with desire for affection. One touch, one lick again from Tiek’s tongue and she would find relief for her aching cunt. The mumbled roars of thunder echoed above them, but it sounded so distant in the storm shelter. As Tiek kissed her deeply and pulled her closer, she wrapped her arms around his shoulders and kissed him back.
She could feel his palm move along her hip and up under her tank top. The feel of his large heated palm caressing her oversensitive flesh made her moan into his mouth and try to pull back a little. She felt so out of control, yet she yearned for more. He was so big, and she pressed herself snugger against his muscular body. The feel of his masculinity and power eased her fears and erased the visions of violence from her earlier thoughts. When a thick, rough thumb caressed across her sensitive nipple, she pulled back, gasping as she held on to his shoulders.
She moaned softly as he used one large hand to cup a breast. Her core ached, and her pussy throbbed as she tried to move.
“You’re so responsive to my touch, Shawna. Can you come again for me, baby? Like the other night after the shower?” he asked, his dark eyes appearing so sensual and aroused.
“What are you talking about? You touched her and made her come?” Lee asked Tiek. Shawna felt her cheeks warm, and she went to lower her head and eyes, but Tiek wouldn’t allow it.
“Don’t, Shawna. Don’t be shy or embarrassed. Every man in this room wants to make you come, watch you explode in pleasure. Pleasure that we bring you.”
She shook her head.
Tiek lifted her so that she straddled his waist. He pressed his hands up her tank top and cupped her breasts, massaged them with his extra-large hands, making her push against him so she could continue to feel the magnificent sensations.
“It’s too much,” she said aloud.
“Never too much,” Lee stated firmly. He approached them and reached out to caress her hair, letting it slide through his fingers. He reached for her hand and brought it up and against his jeans. She inhaled sharply at the feel of his hard, rigid cock against her palm
.
“Look at me,” he told her and she immediately did.
“You do this to me. You make me hard and aroused just from your natural beauty.”
She shook her head.
“You don’t believe me?” he asked and then ran her palm and fingers up and down against his shaft.
“Oh God, Lee,” she said. He released her hand, reached out to cup her cheeks between his hands, and he kissed her deeply. She was overcome with desire and lifted up only to feel Tiek maneuver his fingers under the waist of her shorts and straight to her very wet, oversensitive cunt.
“Tiek.” She moaned, pulling from Lee’s mouth, as she slid off Tiek’s lap, now standing between them as both men began to kiss, suck, and nibble her skin. She held on to Lee as he pulled her tank top up and over her head and tossed it to the side. “Fuck, she’s gorgeous,” Stitch said, joining them. Lee licked across her neck. Tiek caressed and licked her breasts. She held Stitch’s gaze as Tiek pressed his hands firmly against her body, over her belly, and pressed her shorts down to her ankles. She was standing in front of five men completely naked.
Mercury stepped closer. He reached for her, touching her cheek as the others began to explore her body.
“You’re gorgeous,” Mercury whispered then kissed her lips as Tiek fingered her cunt, slowly pushing his fingers in and out of her pussy. Lee suckled one breast while Stitch suckled the other.
She felt Mercury move to the side, and there was Tex to take his place.
“You are stunning, darling. I’ve been waiting to kiss you.” He leaned forward and kissed her lips as Tiek pumped his fingers up into her cunt a little faster. She felt Lee pull on one nipple and Stitch suck and pull on the other and she exploded, nearly collapsing toward Tex and Lee.
“Easy, darling,” Tex whispered. She felt her shorts being pulled back up as Tiek gently pulled his fingers from her pussy. Lee lifted her up and laid her on the bed. She went to cover her bare breasts with her hands but they stopped her.
She cringed when Stitch moved her arms above her head and they stopped completely. She wanted to tell them not to, and that what they were doing felt so good, but then they seemed different.
“Are you okay? How are your ribs?” Stitch asked her.
“I’m okay,” she said, sounding too firm for such a simple response. Lee raised one eyebrow at her tone. She felt her cheeks warm.
“I was cold before, but now I feel warm,” she told him. Tiek pulled her against his chest as they lay on the bed, her back to Tiek’s chest. Lee caressed his palm over her breasts and Tiek caressed his palm over her belly.
“We want to make love to you,” he whispered, applying pressure to her belly, maneuvering his hand under the waist of her shorts then back up again. He was teasing her. It was pure torture. So badly she wanted to say yes, and risk it all. But her fear was strong.
She looked around at the others as Tiek mumbled the word “yes” against her shoulder as he kissed her skin.
“We all do, Shawna. Will you let us love you?” Mercury asked.
She swallowed hard as tears filled her eyes. “I don’t know.”
Lee cupped her cheek. “What do you mean? Are you unsure about making love to five men or do you not feel what we’re feeling here?”
She felt the tears roll down her cheeks. Her heart ached with so many emotions. She wanted to believe that these men could love her. She wanted to feel the safety and security of their embrace and the touch of their hands on her, but she had closed off her heart for so long. She feared being abandoned, being abused, or simply having her heart broken five times over. She struggled to build a wall around her heart for so many years. Just thinking about letting down those walls and letting one person in, never mind five, was causing instant fear and anxiety.
She looked at them. She felt Tiek snug against her, yet he was frozen in place, waiting for her words of acceptance. But she couldn’t do it. She couldn’t let down the damn walls.
“I’m sorry. I can’t give you what you want. I can’t take a chance like this. It hurts too much to feel and I’m so tired of feeling hurt, abandoned, and unloved. I can’t do it.” She closed her eyes and moved her hands up to protect her breasts from their further view.
* * * *
Lee knew she was hurting. God, he hadn’t realized any of the pain and the disappointment she had gone through all her life. Like Stitch mentioned the abuse and neglect she grew up around, and then to be taken captive by that asshole terrorist. God knew what he did to her.
He ran the palm of his hand along her arm.
“I’m sure you’re scared to take a chance. I’m not going to sit here and tell you all the reasons why you should let that guard down you’ve trained yourself to keep up no matter what. I’m not. I’m just going to tell you that I’m willing to wait.”
“We’re all willing to wait, Shawna,” Tex added.
She opened her eyes and glanced at them. “I can’t promise you anything right now. I’ve never let anyone this close before.”
“You mean a boyfriend? This type of relationship isn’t like any other you’ve experienced before,” Tiek told her.
She swallowed hard. “I haven’t had any experience before.” She lowered her eyes.
Lee swallowed hard. Surely she couldn’t mean she was a virgin.
He cupped her chin, then looked at his brothers before looking back at Shawna. “You’ve never let a man touch you, make love to you?”
“Never.”
Tiek squeezed her tight and nuzzled against her neck. “You’re more than perfect.”
“We understand now. Just know that we’re taking a huge chance here, too. We’re soldiers. Trained not to feel, no matter what. You’ve changed that, Shawna. You make us want to feel and want so much more than the life we currently have,” Mercury said.
“What do you mean?” she asked.
Tiek rolled her to her back, maneuvered half over her, and stared down into her eyes.
“It means we want a future with you, here on the ranch with the five of us. We want to provide for you, grow old with you, hell, we want to start a family with you. All of it.”
“But you hardly know me. How can you be sure that this is real, and not just sexual chemistry between us?”
“We know. I can’t explain it, but we know.”
“You’re also fighting what you feel and what under normal circumstances you would see as potential, because of how you got here. You were abducted, abused, terrified, and thought you were going to die. It’s going to take time to heal. We’ll help you,” Lee said.
“Yeah, we’re not going anywhere, Shawna. We’re not leaving you,” Stitch told her.
“We’ve each been where you’re at. The fear of your experience, of not knowing if you were going to live or die, and then wondering how to trust again,” Tex added.
“But we’re a team. One that you’ve become part of, whether you want to acknowledge that right now or not. One team, one unit, one family, and we will be here with you always,” Mercury said.
Lee held her gaze as she looked at him and then the others then backed up toward Tiek. She looked so fragile and petite. Her breasts were wedged up against Tiek’s chest and she held his arms.
“I’m going to need some time. Time to get used to this, time to learn to trust each of you, and time to heal.”
Tiek smiled at her and Lee felt his heart rejoice that at least she wasn’t turning them down flat.
“Good, and while you’re thinking and processing, we’ll be exploring and convincing you that you’re our woman, and we adore you already.” He leaned down and kissed her, and when she reached up to wrap her arms around Tiek’s shoulders and straddle his waist, Lee knew that she was already theirs. They just needed to convince her to let them all inside completely.
Chapter 12
A few nights had passed and Shawna just couldn’t seem to stop the nightmares from happening. She lay in the closet, just like every night after one of the men came in to c
heck on her. She would sneak from the bed and cuddle up in the corner. But today had been an emotional day. Keith had a bad day, and the doctors talked about the possibility of him not making it. She cried, even now, thinking about how lost she would be without him. Instantly she thought about the men. Keith’s team, who were caring for her, telling her they wanted her as their woman. She wasn’t certain how that made her feel.
She never thought about having a relationship with one man, never mind multiple. She knew plenty of couples that did engage in ménage relationships, but she had always been so distrustful, she couldn’t imagine herself in their shoes. Like Tiek, Tex, and Mercury had said, the attraction between the five of them was there. Meeting the way they did was circumstantial, yet she still felt like an obligation. Perhaps over time, as she got to know them more, she would be able to let them make love to her, and she could slowly let them into her heart. But tonight that heart was heavy. She couldn’t stop shaking, and every time she closed her eyes, she saw Cuadrone.
She was exhausted but once again she would have a sleepless night because of her need for independence and to not rely on anyone.
“Shawna?”
She heard a male voice, but the closet door was closed. She knew she was busted, but tried not to panic. If she didn’t respond, whoever it was would tear the house down to find her.
She didn’t have to get up. The door opened and the large shadow appeared.
“Shawna, are you in here again?” Mercury, the man in charge, asked her.
She swallowed hard. “I’m fine. Please just go.”
“Have you been sleeping here every night? I thought you only slept in here the night of the big storm.” He knelt down on the floor. She could hardly make out his face it was so dark. Yet he spoke to her as if he had night vision. He was a Marine. Maybe he had special eyes. Marines were not like other soldiers.
She felt the shiver of awareness fill her gut. Mercury was a sexy, older man. Freud would have a field day with her.
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