by Becca Van
“I don’t like snakes, Auntie Tori. I want my daddies.”
“I know, sweetie. I want your daddies too.”
“Are you scareded, Auntie Tori?”
“No, just a little nervous.”
“I scareded.”
Don’t worry, Carly Rose. I won’t let that snake get you.” Tori could feel Carly trembling and even though she wanted to move away, she was shaking too and didn’t think her legs would hold her if she tried to step away. Plus, if she did move, the snake would probably strike and then she would be in a world of trouble.
Carly Rose shifted in her arms and then she screamed so loud she hurt Tori’s ear. She couldn’t work out what the little girl said until she screamed again.
“Daddies, get de snake.” Carly Rose started wailing loudly and no matter what Tori said she couldn’t calm the little girl down.
Tori heard footsteps pounding fast and hard as more than one man ran toward them and sighed with relief as she rubbed Carly’s back.
“Cover your ears with your hands, Carly,” Luther ordered, but the little girl was so intent on her crying she either didn’t hear or didn’t understand what he wanted her to do.
Tori gently pushed Carly’s face against her chest and then used her hand to cover the ear not against her body.
“Don’t move, sweetheart,” Jeremiah ordered and then a loud gunshot sounded and Tori couldn’t help but flinch.
She watched the snake fly apart and writhe on the ground in the throes of death, and even though she knew it was safe to move she couldn’t seem to get her body to cooperate with her brain.
“Are you okay, sweetie?” Jeremiah came into view and Tori realized he was talking to her and not Carly like she first thought.
Tori nodded her head and gulped.
“Give Carly to me, darlin’.” Bryant reached out and took Carly out of her arms and then Tori was being swept off her feet.
Tori squeaked and then looked up into Luther’s green eyes.
“You’re okay, Tori. You’re safe now.”
Tori nodded and rested her cheek against his shoulder. Her heart was still pounding in her chest, and being this close to him didn’t help any to calm her down. She could smell the scent of his manly sweat and the woodsy cologne, body wash, or soap he’d used that morning, and no matter how hard she tried she couldn’t stop herself from breathing him in again, and again, and again.
“What’s going on?” Tom asked as he hurried over to Carly and took her from Bryant’s arms.
“There was a rattler near the swing set. We had to shoot it. It looked like it was getting ready to strike.”
“Shit.”
Carly stopped crying and immediately copied her father.
“Carly Rose, you know you’re not supposed to say bad words.” Tom was looking at his daughter and even though he didn’t smile, Tori could see the amusement in his eyes.
“Daddy said a bad word.”
“Yes, I did. I’m a very naughty daddy and I won’t be saying that again when little ears are around.”
“Der was a big snake, Daddy. Auntie Tori pickeded me up so it wouldn’t get me.”
“Auntie Tori was very brave.”
“We playeded a game, Daddy. She told if I winned I could get a choc’late ice screen.”
“What was the game?”
“I had to be real quiet and stay stilled. I did didn’t I, Auntie Tori.”
“Yes you did, precious girl.” Tori wasn’t about to remind the little girl she’d screamed her head off. She was just glad that they were both safe and the snake was dead. “I’ll have to go to the store so you can have your chocolate ice cream after you’ve eaten all your dinner like a good girl.”
“Daddy, I want Mommy.”
“Mommy will be down soon, Carly, but she’s having a nap right now.” Tom and Carly disappeared inside and it was only as their voices faded that Tori realized she was still in Luther’s arms.
“I’m fine. You can put me down now.” Tori looked up at Luther as he sat down on the porch steps and placed her in his lap. When she went to get off, he wrapped an arm around her waist and then nudged her chin up with a knuckle beneath her jaw.
“You scared the crap out of us, baby.”
“How do you think I felt?” Tori looked to either side of her when Jeremiah and Bryant sat on the step on either side of her and Luther. She turned her head and dislodged the hold he had on her chin and tried to get up again. And again Luther stopped her.
“Why are you fighting this attraction, Tori?” Jeremiah asked.
She’d had enough of being restrained and shoved at the thick forearm across her stomach. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Tori scrambled off Luther’s lap and took a couple of steps away from the three Katz brothers, and then she turned to face them.
“You keep telling yourself that, darlin’.” Bryant cocked an eyebrow up. “You may just start believing it if you tell yourself enough times.”
The move was so sexy and masculine, her body started to respond. Her breasts swelled, her areolas ruched, and her nipples hardened. But what was worse was the way her pussy clenched and dripped cream onto her panties. She turned her back to them and tried to get her wayward arousal under control.
Tori walked away from them and didn’t once look back. She heard them whispering behind her but didn’t try to work out what they were saying. She wasn’t interested in the least.
Maybe she would eventually believe it if she told herself often enough.
Tori rolled over in bed and tried to push the Katz brothers from her mind. Every time she closed her eyes they were all she could see and she was having trouble going to sleep. She blanked her mind and envisaged looking at a black screen, and sighed when she finally felt her muscles relaxing.
Tori moaned as Luther’s tongue slid against hers. The mewl that escaped her mouth as another mouth latched onto one of her hard, aching nipples was muffled by Luther’s kiss. Three pairs of hands swept and caressed over her naked body causing her to shiver and goose bumps to form on her skin.
She cried out when fingers caressed her wet pussy lips and then delved into her folds.
Luther broke the kiss and stared deeply into her eyes. “You like it when we kiss and touch you, don’t you, Tori?”
“Yes,” she moaned.
Bryant released one nipple before moving his head to the other and laving the tip with his tongue before drawing it into his mouth.
Jeremiah nudged her legs further apart and then began nibbling and licking his way up the inside of her thigh. The closer he got to her pussy the more her cream seeped out. The flames smoldering inside her began to flame hotter and brighter and no matter how hard she tried to calm her breathing, it didn’t help. She was panting and shaking with need and the more they touched and kissed her the more she shook with desire. When Jeremiah licked his tongue up from her dripping pussy hole to her clit she was lost.
The more they touched her, the more she needed their hands on her and the hungrier she grew.
Tori arched her hips up pushing her cunt into Jeremiah’s mouth and he chuckled against her pussy sending vibrations down deep inside.
Bryant lifted his mouth from her nipple, slanted it over her lips, and kissed her rapaciously, wildly, deeply.
Luther pinched and plucked at one nipple while taking the other one into his warm, wet mouth.
“You taste fucking delicious, honey. I could eat you out all day long,” Jeremiah said just before lowering his head back to her pussy.
“Oh.” Tori was overwhelmed with arousal and the sensations running through her body as they loved on her, but it still wasn’t enough to appease the famishment traveling through her veins.
Jeremiah rimmed her weeping vagina with his finger and then he slowly pushed it up and inside of her as far as it would go. He pumped it in and out a few times before adding a second finger. With each press forward he increased the pace of his thrusting digits and the tension inside her built al
ong with the pleasure beginning to consume her.
Bryant slowed the kiss and lifted his head at the same time Luther removed his mouth from her nipple.
“Turn her onto her side,” Luther commanded, and between him and Bryant they rolled her over.
Jeremiah’s mouth stayed latched onto her pussy but he removed his fingers from her cunt as he lifted one of her legs up high. He shifted on the bed and then his fingers were stroking in and out of her again.
Tori cried out when a cool lubed finger rubbed over her anus and she turned to look at Luther over her shoulder, but Bryant gently clasped her face in his hands and started kissing her again.
Bryant released her lips, lay down on the bed so that his body was sort of curving around the top of her head, and thrust his hips forward. Tori eyed the glistening drop of fluid in the slit of his hard cock and then she stuck her tongue out and licked it off.
“Yes, Tori. Suck my cock, darlin’.”
Just as she took his cock into her mouth Luther breached her ass with his finger. She moaned and sucked harder on Bryant’s cock.
“That is so fucking hot. You’re so fucking sexy, baby,” Luther rasped against her ear. “You like having my finger in your ass, Jeremiah’s in your pretty little cunt, and my brother’s cock in your mouth, don’t you?”
“Hmm,” Tori hummed.
Jeremiah began pumping his fingers in and out of her faster, harder and deeper as he licked and sucked on her clit. Luther added another finger to her ass counterthrusting to Jeremiah and she bobbed up and down over Bryant’s cock.
The fire inside her was now burning out of control and her internal muscles began rippling as the tension inside grew and her pussy walls got closer and tighter.
Tingles raced through her veins and her whole body began to tremble. And then she was right on the cusp of something so exquisite it almost frightened her.
Tori screamed as the coil that had been winding tighter inside her snapped and sent her hurtling up into the clouds. Her muscles contracted around the fingers still pressing in and out of her ass and pussy. Her cunt clenched and let go, clamped down and released causing her whole body to quake and quiver.
Tori came awake with a gasp. He pussy was still emitting aftershocks and her panties felt sticky.
“Oh. My. God.” Tori flung the covers aside and sat up on the side of her bed. She covered her hot face with her hands and moaned. “You are in so much trouble, girl. How the hell am I going to be able to look at them let alone be near them after fantasizing about them?”
She pushed to her feet and headed into the bathroom. “Damn it to hell.”
Chapter Three
Another week had gone by and Luther was getting more frustrated as each day passed. Tori disappeared every day and the only time he or his brothers saw her was at night. He wanted to ask her where she’d been, who she’d been with, and what she was up to. But he didn’t have the right. And that irked him more than anything.
He, Jeremiah, and Bryant had tried to get her to open up with them, but she remained closed up tighter than a chastity belt locked around the hips of a virgin. He’d tried talking to Tom, Billy, and Luke. They didn’t know much and suggested they talk to Tori, but they hadn’t had a chance to speak to her alone. They were all busy working the ranch, and Felicity had her hands full with her daughter, as well as dealing with another pregnancy.
He and his brothers wanted to be able to court Tori, but she was avoiding them and there was no way they would be talking to her when others were around. Luther couldn’t wait for tomorrow. It was Saturday and hopefully Tori wouldn’t be going anywhere. He was determined to get her alone, even if he had to hogtie her, sling her over his shoulder, and carry her off. But if he did that would she avoid them even more? Fuck, he was so messed up. The woman he and his brothers thought could be their one and only didn’t want a bar of them and he had no idea why or what to do about it. But at least there was one certainty in their lives.
He and his brothers knew for sure that they wanted their own ranch. They planned on looking for a place to buy and then purchase some cattle. He wanted to have the best damn beef in the country, or at least as good as what they had here on the Double E Ranch, but instead of having grain-fed beef, Luther wanted his cattle to be raised on totally organic and pesticide-free feed. It would take a lot of hard work, but then everything worth doing was worth doing properly.
Maybe he and his brothers should plan a picnic or something and ask her out, but he wasn’t sure she’d agree. He was so damn frustrated at the way she kept thwarting them.
She was a stubborn little thing. He knew that she knew they wanted to talk to her and be with her. Tori was a wonderful, capable, beautiful, sexy woman. She’d taken over most of the house chores from Felicity and, man, could she cook, but she always scurried away after a meal was finished. Even though he and his brothers had tried to collar her in the kitchen, the house was too busy to give them time to talk to her privately.
Two nights ago he’d walked into the kitchen as Tori was beginning to put the roast beef and vegetables onto serving plates. She’d been trying to reach a platter in one of the overhead cupboards and couldn’t quite reach it. Luther had come up behind her and as he got the plate down he’d placed his hand on her hip. She’d frozen at his touch but he’d felt the shiver wrack her body and knew she was just as aware of him in a sexual way as he was of her. When she’d turned around her face had been totally devoid of expression. She’d met his eyes briefly before looking away again and muttered thanks as she’d put more distance between them.
“You’re welcome, sexy.”
She’d glared at him as if she was annoyed but her eyes had told a completely different story. There had been desire in them when she met his before glancing about the room but then she’d opened her mouth. “You’re interrupting me. If you don’t need anything why don’t you go and wait in the dining room with the others?”
Although she’d posed it as a question it had come out as a demand.
Luther had moved in close until he could feel the heat from her body and smell her feminine scent, and then he’d cupped her face between his hands. “You can buck and kick all you like, Tori, but we aren’t going to give up.”
She huffed out an exasperated breath, stepped away, and turned her back to him. He’d stood there watching her for a while but when he noticed how tense her shoulders were, he’d given her some space and headed to the dining room.
He could see desire and the knowledge in her eyes every time she met one of their gazes, but she always looked away after a few seconds. But he had hope and he wasn’t giving up. Whenever the three of them were nearby her cheeks always seemed to be flushed and her eyes literally sparkled with arousal. She also fidgeted in her seat and looked as tense as all get out. No, Tori Springer wasn’t immune to him and his brothers, and if he—they—just bided their time, they would get their chance.
There was no way in hell he was allowing her to get away from him without seeing where the attraction between all four of them led. That just wasn’t an option.
* * * *
Tori hadn’t had any luck getting a job and decided she couldn’t wait any longer and made the decision to start up her own business. She had been working her ass off all week and even though she was tired, she was also wired with excitement. She had spent day after day going into the businesses in Slick Rock and asking the owners about their experiences when they first started up their shops and offices, and she felt like she was ready for the next step.
Last night she had stayed up until the wee hours of the morning formulating a business plan and setting it out on paper. She’d gone to the real estate office and talked with Steven and Giles Blaze and had asked about shop space for lease. Lucky for her, they had just the building, and Steven had taken her to the empty building at the end of the main street, which was also across from the gas station. It was a prime location and had a large window front. If she was able to talk the bank manager into
giving her a business loan she suspected that she would end up with a lot of customers because of the great position. The large building would need to be cleaned and fitted out, but Tori had never been afraid of hard work, much to her mother’s and Frank’s disgust.
Tori had been a little afraid when Frank had turned his temper on her after she’d refused his money, but she’d held her ground. When her mother had just stood nearby and looked at Tori as if she was disappointed with her, she hadn’t really cared. But what hurt the most was that her mother hadn’t told her how proud she was for being independent or encouraged her to go after her goals. Her mother had looked at her as if she were a stranger, the way she treated all the servants.
She didn’t remember everything that had gone by before Frank came on the scene except for some snippets and pieces. But what she did remember she liked. Her mom used to sit with her on her lap and read to her while they cuddled, but when Frank came along that had gone by the wayside. Besides giving Felicity a hug when they’d met again after a few years apart, Tori couldn’t remember the last time she had any physical human contact. No, that wasn’t true.
She could still remember how it felt to be in Luther’s arms when he carried her away from the dead snake more than a week ago, and she had been aware of every nuance of movement he made. The way his muscles rippled and moved as he carried her, and the heat that had emanated from his body had been astounding. It had been very hard to release her arms from around his neck and then to push off his lap. She’d felt safe and secure in his arms, and even though she was also turned on by him and his brothers, almost as if she belonged with them all, she couldn’t let her guard down.
“Get them out of your head, Tori. They only want you because they lust after you. No one really gives a damn about you,” she muttered as she stared at the bank building. She had made an appointment the day before and was due inside in ten minutes. After taking a deep breath she exhaled and then drew in another, trying to calm her raucous nerves. Her palms were sweaty and her heart rate was elevated with anxiety, but she needed to do this.