Maddy lost herself to the passion of his kiss. His tongue tasted her, drank her, and she responded with all she had. He’d wooed her completely when she hadn’t even realized she’d needed, so desperately, to be wooed.
“Mind your feet.” Reaching out he turned on the faucet, putting more hot water into the tub. “You soak for just a couple of minutes longer, and I’ll be right back.”
Maddy thought she might have dozed, because it seemed only seconds passed before Lucas returned, carrying a bundle of towels.
He helped her to stand then wrapped her in the towels he must have heated in the dryer. Though it was nearly summer, exhaustion had left her feeling a little chilled and shaky. Being wrapped in warmed towels was the most luxurious sensation she’d ever experienced. When he scooped her into his arms and carried her to her bed, she laid her head on his shoulder and enjoyed the sensation of being treasured.
She lifted her arms when he asked so he could dry her, and when he laid her on the bed and whispered for her to roll over onto her tummy, she complied.
She heard the sound of his clothes hitting the floor, and thought she knew what would come next, but she was mistaken.
He straddled her, the flesh of his lean strong thighs hot against her skin. She could feel his cock, already rigid and his scrotum, hot and tight with his seed as they rested against her buttocks and she wanted to maneuver so she could feel them against her feminine folds. She’d already become wet for him and wanted him.
He had other plans.
The sudden sensation of warm liquid dropping onto her back startled her. Then his hands began smoothing, caressing, massaging.
“Oh, yes. Mmm.” Speech eluded her as he worked magic on her flesh, his fingers digging in slightly to relax her muscles yet stir her juices. She’d never had a back rub, never understood the allure in it. Now she did.
“If you stop I’ll murder you.”
Lucas’s laugh, sounding so deep and smug, fluttered her belly and curled her toes. “I promise I won’t stop until you’re so satisfied, you drop into sleep.”
He worked at totally pampering her body until she believed she would sleep. And then, gently, subtly, he began to arouse her. Small touches along the sides of her breasts, down her legs then up on the inside of her thighs. Tiny nips of teeth on her ass, the play of his tongue on the small of her back or against the shell of her ear.
Soon she was whimpering, her hips rising as if to receive his penis deep into her body. She heard the sound of him protecting them both, and her heart beat faster. His hands urged her to raise her bottom. His latex covered cock, hot and hard, brushed against the excited flesh of her ass then slid down until it rubbed seductively between the lips of her pussy.
“Please.”
“Please what, Maddy?”
“Please…fuck me. Lucas!”
He’d thrust into her before she finished begging, burying himself deep in one bold stroke, holding himself deep as he leaned forward. His hot moist breath bathed her ear as he sucked her earlobe into his mouth. He wasn’t thrusting in and out, it felt more like he swiveled his hips in a slow, tight circle. He was going to drive her insane. She would die from sexual need right here in her own bed.
“Can you use your pussy muscles to squeeze my cock, baby? Squeeze and release…ah, yeah, just like that. Keep squeezing and releasing.”
He began to pump into her, long slow and deep thrusts so that her inner muscles grasped at a cock that kept surging and retreating, surging and retreating. One masculine hand pushed under her until it held a breast.
When Lucas began to pinch and pull her nipple in the same cadence as his cock moved in and out of her, Maddy cried out, her orgasm a tsunami that flooded her. On and on it came as Lucas thrust harder and deeper. The slap of his balls on her ass echoed with her whimpering cries as wave after wave of rapture continued to crash through her. Then Lucas’s grunts joined in as his cock began to pulse inside her, filling the condom with a hot ejaculation that she could feel against her cervix despite the latex covering it.
The end of his cock hit something just inside her tunnel on his next thrust and her orgasm erupted anew, this explosion so sharp and unexpected, she screamed.
Maddy sighed. Lucas covered her like a warm blanket, pressing her into the mattress, the music of their labored breathing the only sound in the room. She couldn’t move, she couldn’t speak, and didn’t want to. When he lifted off her, she mewed. When he pulled the blankets out from under her she thought she might have whimpered, but couldn’t be sure. Then the bed dipped, and he slid in beside her, his naked flesh hot against hers. Safe, protected, she slid into a deep and dreamless sleep.
* * * *
Lucas opened his eyes, instantly awake. He’d not meant to fall asleep so much as to simply hold his woman while she slept. She’d curled into him and the warmth of her naked breasts against his chest gave him a singular satisfaction.
He guessed he was an unusual man, because he was in love—totally, absolutely and completely in love—with two people at the same time. This had to be the most wonderful feeling in the world, and the most frightening. He’d never had anything to lose before, and now he did. Of course, he’d never really had a reason to live before, either, and now he did.
He’d let his worry escape when he and Chase had been alone in Gunnison. How amazing that Chase had understood his fears even before he’d fully understood them, himself.
Lucas didn’t want this—whatever it was the three of them had together—to be only a short term thing. He didn’t want it only to be for the moment. He wanted it to last.
He wanted forever.
Beside him, Maddy began to stir. He set his worries away and gathered her closer. He placed a kiss on her head, and waited to see if she would settle again.
“What time is it?” her sleep-husky voice stroked over his skin.
He had to stretch to see the clock. “Nearly three. You’ve only slept for about four hours.”
“Feels longer.”
Sound had them both looking toward the doorway. Chase stood, hands on his hips, smile on his face.
“Don’t you two look cozy?” he asked.
“We are. You should join us,” Maddy invited.
“Don’t mind if I do. And I wonder if this is the right time to ask you for a favor?”
Maddy chuckled, and Lucas couldn’t help thinking the laugh sounded lighter than he’d ever heard it.
“Well if you can’t ask a favor when you’re naked and in bed with your lovers, when can you?”
“There you go.”
Lucas thoroughly enjoyed watching Chase undress. He was one hell of a sexy package. The sight of his cock, fully erect, stirred Lucas’s libido. He shifted slightly. Maddy had turned over as Chase had approached the side of the bed, and now Lucas pulled her closer to make room for the other man. She obviously felt his erection and nestled her ass against him.
“Are you going to ask that favor?” Her voice betrayed her own renewed arousal, and Lucas knew the afternoon delights weren’t quite finished for the day.
“Yeah, now that I’m naked and in bed with you both, I am. I want to buy a king sized bed and have it set up in here. I want us to have more room to play in. What do you say? Will you let me do that for us?”
Lucas doubted the significance of the question escaped Maddy. Chase’s offer was a gift, and a promise at the same time. He hadn’t told her, he’d asked.
“Yes. I think we need a bigger bed. Then we can all spend the night together. So, yes, I’ll accept your offer. Thank you.”
“You’re welcome. Now I have one more favor to ask.”
Lucas recognized the look in Chase’s eyes. He felt his dick harden even more as the other man held up a condom package. Not saying a word, he tore it open with his teeth then sheathed his fully erect cock.
Lucas reached down and lifted Maddy’s right leg over his hip, opening her. Chase moved between her thighs and thrust into her.
“Chase.” Ma
ddy sighed his name and closed her eyes, obviously enjoying the other man’s attentions as he began to pump himself into her. There was nothing tentative about the way Chase took her.
When Lucas met his eyes, he saw a determination that told him he could expect the same kind of feral mating.
“All afternoon I’ve been imagining what the two of you were doing over here naked and all over each other. Picturing you both fucking got me hot and hard. I decided that the only one thing for me to do was to come over and fuck you both brainless.”
Lucas looked down over Maddy’s shoulder, watched as one lover’s latex-covered cock moved in and out of his other lover’s eager pussy. Her breasts had plumped, her nipples beaded, and Lucas helped himself, rolling the rock hard pebbles between thumb and forefinger. Then he looked up and encountered Chase’s heated gaze.
Leaning forward, Luc kissed him, his tongue going deep in Chase’s mouth, drinking him in with unrestrained passion. When Chase eased back, bent down to take Maddy’s nipple in his mouth, Maddy stretched her neck back, offering Lucas her own lips. Lucas kissed her with the same heat, the same love.
Chase’s hand reached around Maddy’s ass, his fingers closed around Luc’s cock, and then he felt Maddy’s hand there too. Lucas weaned his lips from Maddy’s, his gaze going from one to the other of his lovers.
Lucas’s emotions overflowed. “Yes, Chase. Fuck us both. Take us both. We belong to you.”
“Do you?” Chase asked, the rocking of his hips in perfect sync with the milking motion of his hand on Lucas’ cock. “Maddy, do you?” A ferocity had come into Chase’s eyes, and an intensity that Lucas hadn’t seen before. But he’d known it existed, had sensed its presence and had yearned to see it, feel it. In his heart, Lucas had known and loved the dominant in Chase and now that he saw it, felt eager to submit. He rocked his hips so that he could offer his lover more of his cock, spread his woman’s legs slightly wider so he could offer his lover more of her pussy, knowing, knowing in that moment that they were all one, and that he did belong to Chase, totally and completely.
He rested his head on top of Maddy’s, doing what he could to push her into Chase, silently urging her to submit, too.
“Yes…yes…I belong to you,” her cry erupted out of the heart of her, the most beautiful sound in the world. “Oh, God, Chase, harder.”
Lucas began to come, his hiss of completion just a heart beat ahead of both his lovers’. And the words Chase whispered then sounded like a vow and sent him higher.
“We belong to each other.”
Chapter Thirteen
“I have some contacts, so I made a few phone calls.” Chase waited until the coffee had been brewed and the three of them dressed and sitting at the kitchen table before broaching the subject on everyone’s mind.
“A good friend of mine, Philip Haggerty, is a lawyer with his own investigation agency and ties to the Justice Department.” He decided not to risk any needless pissy feelings by mentioning he’d already asked Phil to take a look at Marsh. He could see no need to let Maddy know he’d been planning to help her whether she had wanted him to or not. “Outside of Justice, he has contacts all over—including, as it turns out, a lawyer with the attorney general’s office in Denver. This man is a good friend of his. I gave Phil all the details I had and asked him to contact Sean Paris on our behalf.”
“Isn’t that…isn’t that just doing what Marsh threatened to do in the first place?”
Chase recognized the fear on Maddy’s face. He hated to be the one to have put it there, but there really was no easy or guaranteed way to get out of this mess.
“It’s a risk, yes. I know you’re scared. Trust me, so am I.”
“You’re scared?” Doubt laced her words. “You’re not the one whose ass is on the line.” Maddy’s grumbling nearly made him smile. He didn’t think she’d appreciate hearing how cute she seemed to him when she got that pouty, grumpy look on her face. He also wanted her to understand that she wasn’t as alone as she thought.
“Maddy.” Luc’s soft rebuke got her attention, and she flushed.
“If you think for one minute that Luc and I aren’t just as worried about what comes next as you are, then you don’t understand how much you mean to us. I’m going to do everything in my power to help you stomp on Marsh’s shit-eating face. And I know Luc feels the same way.”
“Damn straight. Did your friend—Philip—have any kind of an idea what might happen? What we can expect?” Lucas asked.
“Well for one, the photograph by itself won’t get Maddy into hot water. Yeah, it looks incriminating. But there aren’t any details as to location, or time of day or even date. Also, without any sort of legal documentation to support it, there’s no way anyone can even pin down how it was taken, or even what it’s a photograph of.”
“Oh. You mean…because it was taken by another drug dealer? That’s what Marsh claimed.” Hope had begun to blossom on Maddy’s face. Chase regretted that he couldn’t leave it at that. He wanted to leave it at that. But one of the things Maddy feared, deep in her heart, was that if she committed herself to a forever relationship, she’d lose control of her life. So as much as he longed to just tell her everything would be all right, he couldn’t. She deserved to know the truth, and he deserved for her to know that he respected her right to have it.
“The value of a surveillance photo lies not just in the visual it provides, but in the documentation of the officers of the law who took it. They can testify where and when. This photo, by itself, isn’t really evidence of anything. The danger to you lies in whether or not the other person pictured—your friendly neighborhood morphine supplier—can be coerced into testifying against you.”
“You sound as if you know quite a lot about this sort of thing,” Lucas said.
Trust Luc to zero in on that. “I do.”
“Because of your friend, the lawyer?”
Well, hell, now Maddy had picked up on the scent. He heard enough doubt in her tone to tell him that. He could actually feel himself begin to blush. “Not exactly,” he replied.
When the two of them just kept looking at him, he shrugged. No big deal. I can be honest. He wanted to be honest, come to that.
“I was fairly successful as a venture capitalist on Wall Street, and as a result, a few years ago, I was approached by an agent of the Treasury Department and asked to assist in an investigation. It involved a quick crash course in evidence gathering, police procedure, stuff like that.”
“An agent of the Treasury Department? Did I know the Treasury Department had agents?” Maddy asked out loud.
“Sure you did,” Lucas sent Chase a wink, “you know, ATF, DEA, Secret Service. Those are Treasury agents.”
Maddy had given her attention to Lucas while he explained, but now she pinned Chase with her gaze. “You worked for the Secret Service?”
“It’s not as glamorous as you might think. I assisted in a Secret Service investigation into a case of computer fraud based on the finessing of bank and stock securities. Treasury needed someone with a certain specialized knowledge and reputation for one particular type of case, that’s all. The assignment lasted a few months, and ended successfully. After, I helped out on a few more cases before I decided law enforcement wasn’t a career I wanted to pursue long term. While working with them, I met a lot of people. Philip, with whom I had a previous relationship, had been involved with Treasury at the time. In fact I’ve long suspected he was the reason I got tagged by the agency in the first place.”
Maddy remained quiet for a long moment. “Can I even really afford to pay you what you’re worth? Venture capitalist, knowledge and reputation…you’re not exactly in need of the pay check I’m providing, are you? In fact, it probably seems like petty cash to you.”
She was getting all righteous on him, allowing her ego be insulted because of some wild hare she’d just gotten that he might be slumming. Oh yes, if anybody wanted to give him a test on Maddy, he could pass it with flying colors, proving he
knew her pretty well. “Knock it off, Maddy,” he said lightly. Picking up her hand he squeezed it, meeting her gaze, and then Luc’s. “I’m not here for a pay check. I’m here because the two of you are here. This is home.”
It was the closest Chase had come to declaring his love and he waited to see what the two people who meant the most to him in the world would do with the armor-plated heart he’d just handed them.
Lucas swallowed hard, and his eyes glistened. Maddy’s breath hitched, and he could tell she was striving to hang on to her casual cool.
“Bet your ass you can buy that king sized bed. I have half a mind to make you spring for a hot tub, too. Always wanted a hot tub.”
Her face turned a bright pink. Chase couldn’t help it, he roared with laughter. “Yeah, a hot tub has amazing possibilities. We’ll negotiate.”
* * * *
“Wondered if you all were going to show up for dinner or not. What the hell am I over here cooking for if no one comes to eat?”
The uncharacteristic surly comment hit Maddy as soon as she entered the bunkhouse, Lucas and Chase in tow. Bill had his moments, but he wasn’t usually that brusque. There’d been several times over the last year when she skipped the evening meal with the crew, when Lucas had as well. Still, she didn’t want anyone on her staff being pissed with her if a few conciliatory words could avoid it.
“Sorry, Bill. There’ve been…issues the last few days that we’ve had to deal with.”
“Food’s ready.”
Both Charlie and Pat seemed a bit uncomfortable in the silence that followed. Ralph Meade, the visiting horse handler from the K-Temple ranch made it to the table just as Maddy sat.
“Sorry I’m late, folks. Shadow needed a little extra attention. He can be high strung at times.”
“You’re not late,” Maddy said. “We only just got here ourselves.”
Bill seemed to perk up with the appearance of the guest. As the platter of pork chops and the bowls of mashed potatoes, gravy and vegetables got passed around the table, conversation picked up. Rather than contribute right away, Maddy decided to sit back and just listen. Had Bill been in a rotten mood for some reason that she needed to know about? Or had it been just one of those things?
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