by Mia Ashlinn
Sweet Serenity 4
Three Rings and a Rose
Ella Dawson learned the hard way how much it hurt to be trapped in the middle of Micah Blaylock and Caedon Asher. The tension between the men drove her to the edge. Then a scandal destroyed her relationship with Caedon, shredding her heart and driving her back to Serenity, Kansas.
Two years later, Caedon still can’t forget Ella or Micah. When a worried friend’s meddling provides him with an opportunity to rekindle the relationships he lost, Caedon jumps in with both feet.
But he knows he’ll need Micah’s help.
Secret desires and fears push Micah to refuse Caedon. However, Caedon won’t relent. When he finally convinces Ella and Micah to give sharing a shot, what happens when the two men’s love for each other can no longer be denied? And how will their relationship survive when scandal threatens to tear them apart once again?
It’ll take three rings and a rose to unite these would-be lovers, this time forever.
Genre: Contemporary, Ménage a Trois/Quatre, Rubenesque Length: 77,337 words
THREE RINGS AND A ROSE
Sweet Serenity 4
Mia Ashlinn
MENAGE EVERLASTING
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DEDICATION
To my husband…You swept into my life twelve years ago and changed it forever. Back then, I didn’t believe that I would ever find the kind of love that lasts a lifetime. But by some miracle, I did. And now, I write books that your love inspires. Every word I write is because of you.
Thank you for inspiring me. Thank you for loving me. Thank you for being there for me. And thank you for never giving up on me. I couldn’t ask for a better husband and best friend. You’re truly one of a kind.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Find the good and praise it. – Alex Haley To Diana DeBalko, I feel blessed to have you as my publisher.
Thank you for all you do.
To Siren Publishing and staff, you are an amazing group of people, and I’m lucky to get to work with you to bring this story—and every story—to life. So thank you.
To my favorite pervs, I want to thank you for being you. It’s refreshing to be in a group with people who can be themselves and who you can be yourself with. I want to thank you for making my Hump Night the best hour each week and for loving me for me.
To my Facebook friends, thank you for brightening my day—
every day.
To the Sweet Serenity readers, thank you for going on this journey—and every journey—to Kansas with me. I’d be nowhere without you.
To Tina, your friendship is an absolute treasure, and your help as my beta is priceless. It means so much that you’re always there for me—in whatever way I need you to be. You talk me off the ledge when I need it, and you crack the whip when I need that, too.
Goodness knows you take care of all the little details when I get scatterbrained. And of course, you laugh with me when I’m dorky and tease me when I get too serious—both of those happen more often than not. Having you for a friend is amazing. You’re truly one of a kind, and I cannot imagine going through this past year with anyone other than you. I look forward to many more years of friendship, fun, and insanely long phone calls.
To Tara, you are a fabulous beta. But more than that, you are a dear friend. After getting to know you, I have to say that you are one of the most beautiful people inside and out that I have had the pleasure of meeting. Thank you so much for your advice and guidance. And thank you for your hilarious stories. You never fail to make me smile.
Last but never least, to Luna and Sheri, I hope you both know how much I truly love you. Your friendship has come to mean the world to me, and I don’t know what I would do without you both.
THREE RINGS AND A ROSE
Sweet Serenity 4
MIA ASHLINN
Copyright © 2012
Prologue
“Oh Gabriella,” Caedon Asher moaned as he rolled his lover, Gabriella Embry, on her back. The feel of her lush body underneath his nearly undid him.
She squirmed, and the sheets rustled underneath her. But he didn’t hear it. All he heard was her breathing, the ragged gasps she made as he slid his aching cock between the outer folds of her pussy. He rocked his hips back and forth, luxuriating in the feel of her moisture coating his shaft. “I love you,” he murmured.
Gabriella smiled up at him, her lovely face open and accepting. “I love you too, Caedon. So much, but I need more. I need you to fuck me.” She lifted her ass from the bed, increasing the friction of his cock against her pussy, an
d moaned before dropping back down. “I know how much you’ve been holding back from me. I don’t want that. I want you to fuck me the way you want. If you crave hard and fast, do it. If you desire slow and easy, go for it. I don’t care. Just fuck me. Take me. Possess me. Love me like there’s no future and no past—just the present.”
Caedon groaned. Those were the words he’d yearned to hear for so long. He could finally give her all of himself, not just the vanilla Three Rings and a Rose
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lover he’d shown her since they met. “God yes,” he groaned a second time. “I want that, too.”
He slipped his hand between their slick, sweaty bodies and guided his stiff cock to her entrance. Without another word, he thrust inside her, and she moaned as every inch of his shaft made its way into her sweltering core.
The velvety walls of her tight cunt resisted his invasion, rippling and pulsating around him. But he continued to tunnel into her. Before long she relaxed below him, and he took advantage of her softening body. He dragged his cock out of her pussy, retreating so slowly, so gently that she screamed when he plunged back into her without giving her a warning. He pounded into her roughly, hammering her slick cunt with his throbbing dick. Each time he impaled her, he pushed harder. He thrust deeper. He drove himself further and further into her until he lost who he was and who she was. They were one person, one body.
She arched up and into him, her turgid nipples scraping across his chest. Then she cupped his ass with her hands and palmed his gluteal muscles. She dug her sharp nails into the flesh of his ass cheeks. But the pain felt so good coming from her, so right.
He groaned, his body bucking above hers. Then he allowed his body to fall forward. He smashed the hard wall of his chest to the delicate curve of her satiny breasts and kissed her with all of the passion he’d held in for this moment. He ravaged her mouth with his, their tongues colliding and tangling together without an ounce of restraint in either of them.
She used her grip on his ass to forcefully pull their lower bodies closer together. Acting purely on instinct, he responded to her silent plea. He bore down on her pussy, moving so swiftly and relentlessly that he no longer recognized himself. He was an uncivilized beast, and she was the alluring siren he couldn’t get enough of.
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exactly as they had at his invasion. He lifted himself off her before flipping her onto her stomach and spreading her legs apart then attacking her again.
Without preliminaries, he forced his thick shaft into her tight hole, not giving her body a chance to hold him off. He pistoned into her as he lowered his body onto the backside of hers, trapping her between his body and the bed.
Sweeping her hair aside, he murmured, “I’m going to fuck your hot little cunt, Gabriella, like I want to. Then when I’m done, I’m going to fuck your tight ass, and you’re going to love it. You’re going to scream my name so loudly that you can’t talk for a month. You’re going to beg me for more, and I’m going to give it to you.” He licked her earlobe once then bit into her pliable skin, not offering her an ounce of gentleness. He gave her harsh and merciless. “Then Micah will join us. He’ll fuck you, and he’ll fuck me. When he’s done, you’ll know exactly who you belong to. You’re mine and Micah’s.” The door opened behind them, and Caedon sensed their third, Micah Gunner, entering the room. But he didn’t break stride. His fierce thrusts forged on and so did his dirty words. “Do you want that? Do you want us to show you who owns that curvy body of yours? We’ll fuck you apart. We’ll fuck you together—me in your pussy, and Micah in your ass. Our bodies will surround you and hold you tight.”
Caedon glided his hands up the voluptuous curve of her hips then slid into the dip in her perfectly shaped waist before snaking between her body and the bed. Seeking and finding her supple breasts, he kneaded them in his hands. The full globes overflowed, and he took great pleasure in their size. “I love your beautiful breasts. They’re just like you…” he trailed off as he took her nipples between his fingers and rolled the distended nubs. “Perfect,” he finished with a secret smile.
A dip in the mattress alerted Caedon to Micah’s presence on the bed, and he glanced over his shoulder. He shamelessly admired the Three Rings and a Rose
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man he loved while he fucked the woman they both shared and adored.
“She is perfect,” Micah agreed as he crawled across the big bed.
His hand grazed Caedon’s back, and he trembled at Micah’s touch.
“And so are you.”
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Chapter 1
With a regretful groan, Caedon Asher awakened from his erotic dream then rolled over and flopped onto his back. The soft mattress jostled beneath him before catching his falling body. He twisted and turned, trying to untangle himself from the mass of sheets and blankets snarled tightly around his hips.
Giving up, Caedon threw his big arm across his face, blocking out the bright sunlight beating against his eyelids as it flooded the room through the shades his closest friend, Adeline Raines, had just opened.
Caedon heard Addy humming as she moved around his master bedroom. Somebody’s in a damn good mood this morning. Instead of saying some asshole thing to the one person in his life who truly cared about him, he pretended that she wasn’t there, and he was alone. As usual. I’m always alone. Even when there are hundreds of people nearby, I’m fucking alone. No matter who Caedon was with, he might as well be by himself. Without the two that mattered most to him, he didn’t care about having friends anymore.
Well, other than Addy. He didn’t include her, but that was primarily because she had been there for him during the whole scandal and subsequent fiasco with his last lady love. Besides, Addy was a tenacious thing and would probably just ignore him if he attempted to kick her out of his life.
The sound of clinking glass bottles filtered through the room, reminding him of the night before, and he thirsted for more alcohol of some sort. I wonder if it’s too early for liquor. It took him all of a second to think about whether or not getting shit-faced for the third time in two days was a good idea, especially at this time of day. Of Three Rings and a Rose
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course it’s a bad idea, dumbass. The sun has only been up four hours, and it’s a Sunday, for Christ’s sake.
Lately, drinking was Caedon’s favorite pastime. It was the only way he could forget for mere minutes at a time. Or, if he was lucky and drunk enough, he found oblivion for a few hours. Of course, he was probably passed out, but it didn’t matter. He was able to escape the memories that haunted him. And that was the entire point.
He used alcohol to survive and cope with all the bullshit of his past and his present. Each day that passed, he got worse, and he relied more and more on alcohol. Thank God I’m between movies.
With his acting gigs growing by leaps and bounds, he had to find a way to get his head on straight. Most producers and directors didn’t appreciate an inebriated actor during filming. And neither did anyone else on the set. After all the blood, sweat, and tears he’d shed to get to the top of the acting world, he couldn’t afford to let anything or anyone topple him from his status as Hollywood’s Golden Boy.
“Wow, I didn’t know a person could drink this much in one sitting without a trip to the hospital,” Addy murmured softly, “or the morgue.” The gorgeous redheaded sprite was obviously talking to herself and not him. Otherwise, she would have made damn sure he heard every word—loud and clear—rather than making him strain to hear her.
Annoyed, Caedon grumbled something unintelligible despite his cottonmouth. He was surprised and rather proud that he could form any sound considering the way he presently felt. Between the pounding in his head and the nausea turning his stomach inside out, he could barely think past the dire need to crawl into a deep, dark hole and di
e. The foul taste plaguing his mouth, and the painful muscle aches were not helping him in the least.
“Get up,” Addy ordered, her deep, breathy voice sounding nothing like normal. She went from sultry and sexy to aggressive and angry.
The firmness in her tone wasn’t one he was familiar with, and he found it only served to piss him off. “I’ve found her!” 16
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Found who? Oh, monkey butt. Surely, she didn’t go looking for…God, it hurt to even think her name, especially today of all days.
June 3rd—the anniversary of the day he’d fucked everything up. After exactly two years without Gabriella Embry, he still couldn’t bear what he’d done to her, what he’d done to them. Hell, it hurt to remember what he’d done to their best friend, Micah Gunner, too. I was a real bastard, and I deserve to feel this shitty. No, I deserve to feel worse than this. I’m getting off pretty damn easy.
“Caedon Matthew Asher,” Addy snapped. “You get that delicious ass of yours out of this bed right this instant. Do not make me come in there after you.”
Piss. Caedon knew Addy, and he had better get his ass in gear.
That woman was quite inventive when it came to getting what she wanted. And right now, she wanted his undivided attention. From the sound of her voice, she didn’t just want it, she demanded and expected it. Great. Just fucking great.
Caedon growled. “I hate you.”
“No you don’t,” Addy replied. “You love me to death…even when you want to be the cause of it.”