by Marla Monroe
“Need help?” he asked.
“Nope. Think I can handle this just fine.” She grinned at him.
“I’m going to go on up to bed, then. You can join me later if you feel tired.” He waggled his brows.
Drew felt the telltale heat of her blush creep up her neck and cheeks. Marshall chuckled and walked out of the kitchen. A few seconds later, she heard him clomp up the stairs.
He had no idea how enticing that sounded to her. She wanted him, and she wanted Jeb, both separately and together. Yep, she was a slut. She sighed and concentrated on cooking for the next thirty minutes. About the time she’d finished and put the lid on the pot, Jeb stomped on the back porch then walked into the mudroom and peeled out of his hat, coat, scarf, gloves, and boots. He walked sock-footed into the kitchen.
“Damn, something smells good.” He walked over and sniffed over her shoulder as she set the spoon on the spoon rest.
“It’s stew, but it won’t be ready for about forty-five minutes. If you’re hungry, I can fix a sandwich now.” She moved toward the fridge to get out the fixings for a sandwich, but Jeb stopped her.
“No, thanks. I’m not hungry right now. I’ll wait for the stew.” He sighed and pulled her into his arms. “What are you doing out of bed?”
“Jeb, I can’t stay in that bed another minute. I’m fine. The bump is going down, and I want to help. I can make rounds with one of you, and that way everyone will get at least six hours of sleep.”
“Absolutely not!” He pulled back from her and held her by the upper arms. “You could get hurt again. I’m not taking a chance.”
“Might I remind you that I’m the owner, and you’re the foreman? We had this discussion. I’m boss down here, and you’re the boss up there. Remember?” She smiled a wide, fierce smile.
“Damn it, Drew.” He let go of her and made a little circle with his hands, brushing through his hair in obvious exasperation. “You just won’t see reason, will you?”
“I’ve been taking care of this ranch and myself for four long years without your help. I can handle myself. With one of you with me, I’ll be fine.” Drew crossed her arms over her breasts.
Jeb huffed and puffed and finally gave in. She saw it the second he did. His face changed from one of outrage to one of resignation. She smiled but kept it to a bare minimum, not wanting to gloat and piss him off again.
“Fine. You’ll be with me. Marshall and Kenny will work together. I don’t trust that you won’t get your way with Marshall, using your feminine wiles on him.”
“Great. Do we go out now or later?”
“In about an hour. I just checked everyone. Nothing going on out there. Snow’s stopped, and the temperatures have warmed up slightly.”
“Marshall and I watched the weather earlier.” She repeated the forecast and grabbed Jeb’s hand to pull him to the sofa where they could watch TV for a while.
Jeb immediately pulled her into his arms and kissed her. He took what he wanted. He wasn’t one to beat around the bush. She opened to him immediately, craving what he had. His tongue slid alongside hers, then brushed against the roof of her mouth and around her teeth before it coaxed hers into his mouth. She sparred with him for dominance, but in the end, he sucked her tongue into his mouth and bit it. Drew yelped but grinned when he let go of it.
“We have plenty of time for more. Let’s go upstairs and wake Marshall up.” Drew giggled, grabbing his arm.
“Whoa, he needs his sleep. Besides, you don’t know how cranky he gets when he doesn’t get enough.”
“I’ll kiss him and make it better,” she teased.
“What in the hell has gotten into you today?” he asked with the beginnings of a smile.
“You and Marshall.”
She all but pulled him up the stairs behind her and burst into her room only to find the bed empty. Marshall wasn’t in her bed. He’d gone back to his room. She deflated a little bit and frowned.
“What’s wrong, Drew?” Jeb walked in behind her and looked around the room.
“He’s not in here.”
“He’s probably in his bed so he wouldn’t be in your way if you wanted to lie back down.” Jeb pulled her around to face him. “You still have me. Am I enough for you for now?” he asked, a carefully blank look on his face.
Drew realized he thought she didn’t want him without Marshall, which wasn’t true at all. She had thought to wake him up with her mouth on his cock. She was just as happy with Jeb.
“You’re more than enough for me, cowboy.” Drew pulled him to her and grabbed a handful of hair to lower his lips to her mouth.
Jeb took over and walked her backward toward the bed. Once her knees hit the back of it, she sat down with a bounce and a giggle. He began unbuttoning her shirt and jerked it out of her pants before tossing it aside. Then he did the same with her bra. He immediately began playing with her nipples and knelt in between her legs to reach them with his mouth. Her nipples immediately ached for his touch as he pulled on one and sucked the other one.
There had to be a direct line between her nipples and her cunt. She burned for him there, already wet with her juices. It wouldn’t take much more of his breast play to send her over the edge. She’d never come just from having her breasts manipulated before. He pressed them together and sucked on both nipples together. It felt amazing. She moaned and pressed them closer to his mouth.
“God, you are so responsive. I love the way you give yourself to me.”
“Please, please don’t stop. I’m so close!”
“Fuck, I haven’t done anything to you yet, baby.”
“I can’t help it. You turn me on and make me so hot with how you play with my nipples.”
Jeb redoubled his efforts to make her come. He licked and nipped at them while twisting and pinching the opposite one before changing sides. A low keening noise filled the room as she felt the crash come up on her. Tiny electrical shocks pulsed through her pussy and deep within her cunt as she slowly began to buck. Only Jeb’s hands and mouth kept her upright. He licked and petted her until she calmed down.
“God, that was amazing,” she finally got out.
“I’ve got to have you. Right now,” Jeb said in a growl. “Get up and turn around for me.”
Drew stood up, a little unsteady on her feet. Jeb grabbed her with one hand and used the other one to pull at her belt and the fastenings on her jeans. In seconds, he had them down around her boots.
“Bend over the bed, Drew. Do it now.”
She heard him unbuckle his belt, and then the zipper being lowered. She relaxed when the crinkle of a condom wrapper reached her ears. She hadn’t wanted to stop anything and remind him. This was so fucking hot. She bent over the bed. He placed one hand on her back to keep her there as he stroked his hard cock up and down her slit, gathering her juices on his sheathed cockhead.
“I’m going to fuck this pussy until you scream, Drew. One day, soon I’m going to fuck your ass. It was made for fucking.” He pressed forward and just the head of him entered her body. He groaned.
He pushed harder, and his juice-slickened dick slipped slowly inside of her. He stopped, taking a deep breath, and then plunged the rest of the way in. She screamed at the sudden invasion. He pulled almost all the way out and drove in again. The force of his shoves sent her farther across the bed until just her ass stood up, and the rest of her body lay prone on the bed.
Jeb began tunneling in and out of her in earnest now. He rolled his hips until he found her G-spot and brushed over it each time he pulled out. She wiggled her hips when he was fully seated and squeezed her inner muscles to pleasure him that much more. He groaned and swatted her ass.
“Be still, you little minx. I’ll paddle your ass for real if you make me come before I’m ready.”
A challenge. She loved them. Now she pushed herself up on her hands and began to shove back as he pushed forward, until their flesh slapped against each other. He growled and slapped her ass again a little harder, and she moaned.
The sting only made it feel that much better as he bumped up against her cervix with each shove of his thick cock inside of her.
“More,” she breathed out. “I need more.”
“More what, Drew? More ass spankings?” He punctuated it with a series of slaps on her ass that brought tears to her eyes, but they were just what she needed to come. She writhed on the bed as Jeb fought to stay in her. Her spasming muscles soon brought him over as well. He slammed into her one more time then held there as he called out her name.
Drew heard him say her name, but it was the last thing she heard before she passed out.
She came to with him lying on top of her and a little to the side. He was rubbing her back as if to wake her up. They were both gasping for breath.
“Fuck, you’re hot,” Jeb said around gasps.
“That was so good.”
“I think you two better get up and make your rounds, or you’re going to be late.” Marshall stood at the door, leaning against the doorjamb and smiling. “That was quite a show.”
“Asshole.” Jeb laughed as he slowly pulled out of Drew.
Drew groaned. She felt lost without him filling her. She eyed Marshall with a come-hither smile and look in her eyes. He grinned and walked over toward her. Jeb lifted his brows at her but continued on to the bathroom to deal with the condom.
“You look like you could use some one-on-one time,” she told him, reaching out to rub his obviously hard cock through the denim of his jeans.
“I know just the thing for that. You’ve got time, too,” he said with a grin.
Marshall unfastened his jeans and shoved them down. He grabbed her by the hair and angled her head toward his straining cock. Drew licked her lips then licked a long line from his balls to the crown of his cock. He dug his nails into her scalp then released her head but not her hair.
“Fuck, baby. Do that again.”
A drop of pre-cum pearled at the top of the slit in his cock. She licked it up then repeated the long lick from top to bottom this time. She felt him jerk against her mouth. Instead of repeating it, she sucked in just the mushroom-shaped head of him in a long, hard suck that had him lifting to his tiptoes. She let go with an audible pop before swallowing him down all the way to the back of her throat.
“God, damn you’re good at that,” he managed to say in a raspy voice.
Drew got down to business. She swirled his cock like a lollypop or a favorite sucker. She teased him with her teeth and tongue then swallowed him down. She swallowed around him when she had him as deep as she could take him. He dug his nails into her scalp again, and held on as she tightened her throat muscles around him over and over. It wasn’t long before he was cursing and moaning with every lick and suck. She’d managed to pull him to the edge and was holding him there.
She sucked him up against the roof of her mouth and slowly rolled his balls in her hands. This time, he rewarded her with his cum. It poured into her mouth as he shot off down her throat. She held his tautly muscled ass in her hands as she swallowed his cum in gulps. When he was finished, she gave him one more long lick and then smacked her lips.
“I’d spank her for that if I were you,” Jeb said from the door where he now stood fully dressed.
“Hell, if I had the strength, but I can barely stand up.” Marshall didn’t bother to zip up. He just lay out on the bed, breathing hard.
“You still have a couple of hours of sleep left. Get undressed and get into bed, cowboy,” Drew ordered him.
“Yes, ma’am. Just as soon as I can catch my breath and move my muscles again.”
Drew stood up and stretched. She felt wonderful. Sex was truly a rejuvenator, she decided. She pulled up her jeans and then pulled on her bra and shirt. She buckled her belt but didn’t bother tucking in the shirt. Her coat would cover it, anyway. With one last look at the already snoring Marshall, she followed Jeb down the stairs to where he waited on her, already dressed for outside.
“I’m going on outside. Hurry up and get wrapped up.” He opened the door to let in some of the cold air and then closed it behind him.
Drew shivered and began layering on the clothes. She settled her hat on her head last and hurried outside to locate Jeb. She didn’t want him outside alone. They still had someone out there wanting to screw around with her and the ranch. She didn’t want anything to happen to any of her men. That included Kenny, because, though they weren’t lovers, he was still hers to care about and protect.
She caught up with Jeb in the barn checking on the horses. Everyone looked fine. They both inspected the feed then traipsed around behind the barn to look for footprints that weren’t theirs. After inspecting all the areas they were watching, they returned to the house and the stew she had simmering on the stove.
Kenny walked in with a frown on his face.
“What’s wrong?” Drew asked.
“Some people don’t have anyone to play with and have to listen to everyone else getting their damn rocks off.”
“Uh, sorry.” Drew felt her face flame with embarrassment.
“Man, that’s uncalled for. Don’t embarrass her.” Jeb took a step toward Kenny.
Drew stepped between them and put a hand on each man’s chest.
“That’s enough. I’m fine, Jeb. I just hadn’t thought about it, and it’s not fair to Kenny. His lover is all the way in town.”
“Well, the weather is cooperating right now, so I should be able to go visit him soon.” Kenny sighed.
“Do you think we could make it to town tomorrow?” Jeb asked.
Kenny looked over at Drew and shrugged. “I guess you could try.”
“If we can, Drew, you and I are going to town. I need to check in with the sheriff, and we need to get those supplies. Then, Kenny, you and Marshall can go the next day.”
“Sounds like a plan,” Kenny groused.
“What’s going on down here?” Marshall asked bounding down the stairs.
“We’re planning a trip into town,” Drew said.
“Count me in.”
“You and Kenny are going the day after we do,” Jeb told him.
“That sucks.”
“Poor choice of words, Marshall,” Kenny complained.
“Oh! Sorry.”
“Come on. I’m going outside so I can cool off.” Kenny grabbed his coat and shoved his arms into it.
“Kenny, you and Marshall go tomorrow. We can wait.” Drew eyed Jeb and dared him to say anything.
Jeb just shrugged and nodded his head.
Kenny smiled and opened the door wide enough to swamp them all in cold air.
“Bastard,” Jeb said as he wrapped his arms around Drew.
Chapter Ten
Marshall and Kenny pulled into town after a slippery slide from the house. They were both glad to have made it without ending up in a ditch. With the weather warming up, the roads were thawing but refreezing again at night. Getting started early meant they drove on a solid sheet of ice for the first few miles.
Kenny ambled off to visit Robert over at the livery where he did a lot of his work. He still made house calls, but many people just brought their horses to him to avoid the extra cost. Marshall watched him go then looked up and down the street until his eyes focused on the sheriff’s office attached to the courthouse. He walked down the sidewalk, ignoring the strange and outright hostile looks he got as he went by. He was used to them by now, for the most part.
The sheriff was in and motioned him into his office. He closed the door and pulled out a folder from his desk drawer.
“Where’s Jeb?”
“He’ll be here tomorrow. We aren’t leaving either Kenny or Drew alone at the ranch without one of us there. Someone hit Drew over the head the other day and gave her a hell of a knot. If it hadn’t been snowing so hard, we’d have brought her to the hospital.”
“You should have called me,” the sheriff fussed.
“No phone service. Believe me, we needed help. Didn’t have a clue who was out there, or if they wo
uld strike again.” Marshall stretched his legs out in front of him.
“Hell, I had hoped things would have stopped by now after there hadn’t been anything in so long.”
“I think Drew just hasn’t told you about the petty things. Someone keeps putting weevils in her feed, for one thing.”
“How do you plan on keeping her safe and helping her without using guns?” The sheriff stared straight into his eyes.
“We plan on being smarter than them. But I’ll be honest with you. I’ll go back to jail before I let anything happen to Drew.” Marshall stared right back at the other man.
“Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.”
They shook hands, and Marshall walked outside. He surveyed the town and located the feed store and the grocery store. He would start with the feed. Kenny was supposed to meet him there.
He gave his order to a man at the desk who just stood there and stared at him. When he didn’t make any move to start loading the truck, Marshall began to get angry.
“Are you going to fill Drew’s order or not?”
“Don’t know you from Adam’s housecat. I’m not filling anything without proof you work for her.” The insolent man just crossed his arms and leaned against the counter.
Marshall pointed at the truck. “I’m in a company truck. What more do you need?”
“You could have stolen that truck for all I know. She’s had a lot of trouble out there lately.”
“Then call her.”
He didn’t seem in all that much of a hurry to call when Kenny stepped into the building and stomped off his boots.
“Why isn’t the truck being loaded?” he asked.
“Because this asshole doesn’t think I work for Drew.” Marshall shoved his hands on his hips and glared at the man.
“Ricky, this is Marshall. You fill Drew’s order for us, or I’ll tell your momma on you for holding us up.”
“Hell, Kenny. How am I supposed to know he really works for her? He’s a damn convict and could have stolen the truck.”
“Everyone in this town knows they work for Drew. Anyone give her any trouble, and I might just talk Robert into moving to another town. I’m getting tired of all this shit.” Kenny appeared to be in a sour mood.