by Chloe Lang
He glanced over at Trollinger’s door where Jo and Brock Grayson, one of the new agents, were standing. He’d not had any time to get to know Brock or the other two, since he, Corey, and Belle hadn’t left Juan’s side the entire time, but they seemed like really great guys.
“How is Belle holding up?” Jason asked.
“Good.” He smiled. “She’s asleep now, thank God.”
His mom looked at her watch. “Ten in the morning. I bet she’s having trouble sleeping at all.”
“That’s true.” Corey nodded. “Any movement or moan from Juan at whatever hour, she jumps to her feet to make sure he is okay. She’s so good with him.”
“She’s his mother. It doesn’t matter if she gave birth to him or not, he’s deep in her heart. Of course, she’s good with him.” Their mom grabbed both their hands. “That little hero is in your hearts, too, isn’t he?”
He and Corey nodded.
“That’s because you’re his dads, boys.” Dad Eddie grinned. “It was hard to find a damn paper that next morning. You two bought them all up.”
“So, Belle is his mom and you are his dads. You know what my next question is, don’t you?” Their mom never did beat around the bush. “When are you going to ask Belle to marry you?”
“It’s complicated, Mom.” Shane turned to Corey, who was clearly in agreement. They’d talked over the past few days about how to proceed with Belle.
“She’s a woman, son.” Dad Curtis put his hand on his shoulder. “That’s the definition of complicated.”
“Hush up, Curtis.” His mom smiled. “But your dad is right. My gender is difficult to understand sometimes. Tell us what’s going on with your sweet Belle.”
He and Corey shared with them how Belle had been holding back. They knew she cared for them but they also knew something was troubling her because she wouldn’t open up to them.
“She might even break up with us.” Shane’s gut tightened at the thought.
Phoebe shook her head. “I don’t believe that. Sometimes a woman says one thing but in her heart she feels another. I know.”
“It’s obvious she’s in love with you both.” Their mom smiled. “If she wasn’t, she would’ve asked you to leave Juan’s room. She hasn’t. In fact, she’s been clinging to you for dear life. Everyone in town sees it.”
Dad Eddie turned to him and Corey. “What is in your heart for her, boys?”
“She’s the one, Dad.” Corey put his arm around his shoulder. “Our true love.”
Shane nodded. “We couldn’t bear not having her in our lives.”
Dad Curtis jumped in. “Then don’t let that happen. You’ve got to get her to see that future you want to build with her and Juan. No matter what, you have to help her overcome her doubts and fears.”
Their mom grabbed their hands and squeezed. “She loves you. All you have to do is get her to open up. It’s not going to be easy, but it’s what you must do.”
“Communication is the key to a relationship, brothers.” Phoebe leaned into Jason. “Don’t hold back like I did. I lost so much time with this one and his brothers. I would hate that to happen to you.”
Shane turned to Corey. “I’m all in.”
“So am I.”
Their mom wiped her eyes. “If you’d like Grandma’s engagement ring to give Belle, it’s yours.”
“Mom, I think that would be perfect.” His mother’s two dads had it made with two gold bands intertwined together. That ring symbolized so many things. Love. Family. Future.
Corey nodded, squeezing their mom. “We will be needing that ring soon. You’ll see.”
“What do you think of our boys, honey?” Dad Curtis asked.
“I’m so proud of them. They will make Belle very happy.”
Shane and Corey walked back into Juan’s room, determined to possess the woman of their dreams.
* * * *
Drinking hot chocolate, Belle sat on the back steps of the courthouse with Amber. The ground was covered in a thin blanket of snow that had fallen last night.
“God, that woman must have quite the addiction to nicotine.” Amber pointed at the ashtray that Cindy had filled to overflowing with lipstick-covered butts. “How often does she come out here to smoke?”
“Not that I’ve been keeping tabs, but I think about twice an hour at least.” Belle bet the woman was just bored. “It’s hard on anyone to be cooped up for as long as she has. Thanks for coming. This is a nice break.”
“You need more than a quick break, Sis. That’s the real reason I wanted to talk to you alone.”
“Amber, your ulterior motives always get me into trouble.” Belle grinned, recalling one night when her sister had convinced her to sneak out of the house. Their parents had caught them and grounded them for a week. She missed those times very much.
“You’re exhausted. You’ve only left this place to take a bath, and then you’re always in a rush to get back.”
“He’s my son. My place is here.”
“I know that, Belle, but Juan is fine. Any day now, Doc will be releasing him. You need a break. A real break. I want you to go with Shane and Corey and have some lunch. Just get out of here. I will stay with Juan. I don’t want to see you back until tonight.”
“Hey. Have you forgotten that I’m the older sister, not you?”
“How can I forget, Belle? You’re always reminding me.” Amber smiled. “I love you, and you know I’m right about this.”
She shrugged, though the idea of getting away and clearing her head appealed to her.
“Stop being stubborn.”
“Me? I’m never stubborn.” She laughed, knowing that was hardly the case. “Okay. You win. I will have lunch with Shane and Corey.” Her heart skipped a couple of beats. She knew she still had to talk with them.
* * * *
Corey poured Belle another glass of wine. “You look gorgeous in my robe, baby.”
She sat on the sofa next to Shane. “With wet hair? I doubt that.” She smiled. “You and Shane look nice in your shorts and T-shirts.”
“I sure needed my shower.” Shane smiled.
“Would you like some dessert, sweetheart?” Corey was glad to see her so at ease, though he could still sense something brewing under the surface of calm. “I think we have some ice cream in the freezer.”
She shook her head. “I’m so full from the delicious lunch you guys made for me.”
Corey sat down next to her, opposite Shane. “We like spoiling you.”
“I really appreciate all you’ve done for me. It’s been a tough few days.” She smiled. “I feel so relaxed now, knowing that Juan is okay.” Her eyes lowered and she twisted her hands together.
He touched her on the cheek. “Baby, what’s troubling you?”
“You have nothing to fear here, sweetheart.” Shane grabbed her hand.
She nodded. “This is so hard to say. I know it’s past time, but I’m not sure how to tell you since you’ve been so wonderful to me.”
“We’ve come too far to be left in the dark.” Though it did seem she was opening up to him and Shane some, her tone told him she still was bent on ending the relationship. He looked over at Shane, who was clearly sensing the same thing. “We need to know now, Belle.”
“I can’t thank you enough for all you’ve done for Juan and me. I don’t know what I would’ve done without you since the rattlesnake bit him. You’re good for Juan. His face lights up whenever you are around.” Her lips began to tremble slightly. “What I’m about to say, please, don’t let that change how you feel about him.”
His gut tightened. “Nothing you can say will change that, Belle.”
“He is our son,” Shane stated firmly. “Stop beating around the bush, baby.”
“I’m sorry.” She closed her eyes. “This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.”
He kissed her cheek. “Spill it, baby. What do you have to say?”
She opened her eyes and took a deep breath. “I just want us to b
e friends.”
Shane’s face darkened. “Friends? Is that what you really want?”
“I’m sorry, but I think it would be best.”
Corey locked his eyes on her, demanding her full attention. “Are you breaking up with us, Belle? Is that what you came to say?”
“Yes.” Tears welled in her eyes. “I wish it could be different, but there are things about me you don’t know.”
Corey put his hand on her shoulder, knowing the time had finally arrived to unlock her secrets. “What things don’t we know?”
She shook her head. “It doesn’t matter.”
Shane’s hand landed on her leg. “But you are wrong, Belle. It matters to us.”
“You want to end the best thing that has ever been in our lives. We deserve to know the reason.” Using the deepest register of his voice, Corey asked, “Do you understand?”
She gulped. “Yes, but—”
“No ‘buts.’”
Shane cupped her chin. “You. Will. Tell. Us.”
Her eyes widened, and she blurted out. “I can’t have children.” She blinked, brought her hands up to her mouth and started sobbing. “I can’t…I can’t…I can’t give you babies.”
Oh my God, my poor angel. “You think that changes anything about how I feel about you? It doesn’t.” He pulled her in tight. “Not one fucking bit.”
Carrying that kind of burden, no wonder she’d been holding back for so long.
“You’ve already given us a child, baby.” Shane squeezed her from the other side. “Juan is our son. We are his dads. I’ve never felt so complete in my life. I’m in love with you, Belle. I can’t let you go.”
“You took the words right out of my mouth, bro.” He brushed the hair out of her eyes. “Sweetheart, you have given me more than I ever dreamed of. I can’t imagine a single day without you in it. I love you. I will always love you.”
Her tears subsided. “And I love you, but I’m not sure that’s enough. And what about your parents? Don’t they deserve grandchildren?”
“We already told you how we feel about Juan.” Corey held her even tighter, hoping to quell her trembles. “Mom and Dads love him, too.”
“Corey and I have already talked about the three of us adopting him. Time to let the state of Colorado know what is already in our hearts.”
“Listen to my brother, baby. We’re a family. There are plenty of kids who need good homes.”
Shane nodded. “Look at all those boys at your sister’s ranch. We can have a house full of children. As many as we like.”
The smile that spread across her face thrilled both him and Corey. “Are you sure?”
“Beyond a shadow of a doubt, baby.” He kissed her, claiming her as his own, sending his tongue past her lips. She wrapped her arms around his neck, an early act of submission that caused his cock to stir.
He released her.
Shane pressed his mouth to hers. She moaned sweetly as their kiss ended.
Back and forth, they passed the woman of their dreams, kissing all her tears away.
Her face became beautifully flushed, causing his hunger to grow and grow.
He ran his hand down her arm. “I want you, baby. I want you now.”
Shane nodded. “Now who is taking the words out of whose mouth?”
Corey lifted her off the sofa. “Let’s take this discussion to the bedroom.”
She wrapped her arms around his neck. “I love that idea, honey.”
With Shane following, Corey carried Belle into his bedroom. This was only the beginning of a long and happy life together.
Chapter Twelve
Belle looked into the eyes of Shane and Corey.
They love me. They really, really love me.
Corey lowered her to her feet. “Take off my robe.” It was clearly a command not a request.
Unable to resist, she let the robe slip off her shoulders to the floor, which left her without a stitch of clothing.
“Very nice.” Shane’s face was full of lust as he scanned her body freely.
Corey nodded, a wicked grin spreading across his handsome face. “You can say that again.”
Her two sexy men stood before her, their muscled chests rising and falling like two hungry predators who had just captured their prey. Being their morsel was something she wanted more than anything.
“On your knees, baby.” Shane’s voice rumbled deep from inside.
Corey’s eyes narrowed in hot lust.
Their dominance was washing over her like a powerful salve.
She lowered herself to the floor, placing her knees together. “Like this?”
“Exactly like that.” Corey shed his shorts.
He looked like a god staring down at her with his long, thick cock erect.
Shane undressed in a flash. Just like Corey, his muscled frame was divine, his massive dick upright.
She was flawed, a woman unable to bring life into the world. Her two wonderful, loving men didn’t see her as lesser. Not at all. To them she was perfection, and that made her feel feminine and alive more than any other time in her life.
With all her being, she wanted to please them. Gazing at their ten-inch shafts, she licked her lips seductively. “I’d like to taste you.”
“Is that right?” Corey stepped forward. “I would love to feel your pretty lips around my cock, so I guess we’re both in luck.”
Shane nodded, moving behind her. His hands landed on her shoulder, creating a kind of restraint, reminding her that they were in control. Exactly as she wanted them to be.
“You’ve been pushing us away for too long.” Corey moved right in front of her, positioning his cock a fraction of an inch from her lips. So thick and long, it nearly reached his navel. “Now that we have you, baby, we’re going to make sure that you never want to push us away again.”
A warm tingle spread from her belly through the rest of her body. She vibrated like a livewire as her desperation for them expanded inside her. She looked up at him. “May I taste you now?”
He smiled and touched her cheek. “Damn, you are more than I dreamed was possible. Yes, you may taste me now. You may wrap that gorgeous mouth around my cock. You may suck on me to your heart’s content. If I tell you to stop, you will. Understand?”
He clearly had something else in mind, and that realization only drove up the pressure already building inside her. “I understand.”
Feeling Shane’s hands glide up and down her back, urging her on, Belle wrapped her fingers around Corey’s cock. It was warm to the touch and so very hard. A tiny glistening pearl sat on the tip.
She licked it up, savoring Corey’s salty slickness on her lips. “I love the way you taste.”
Shane’s throaty chuckle gave her sweet shivers. “Saucy little thing, aren’t you?”
“I wouldn’t have her any other way, Shane.”
“Me either. She is perfect just in every way.”
Their awe-filled praise made her heart swell in her chest.
Corey’s hand moved to the back of her neck. “Show me what you can do with that mouth of yours, sweetheart. Don’t make me wait another second.”
His wicked impatience was something that excited her. Pumping his shaft, she grabbed his heavy balls with her other hand and slid her lips down his cock.
“That feels great, baby.”
His praise spurred her on. She bobbed up and down his dick, feeling it hit the back of her throat.
She glanced up at Corey, keeping his cock in her mouth. His eyes were open, but only barely.
“Fuck. So good. Damn.”
“Show him, Belle.” Shane kissed her between the shoulder blades. “Drive him crazy.”
Shane reached around her, his fingers dancing lightly over her breasts. Her nipples tingled and her pussy began to ache.
Continuing to suck on him, Belle could feel Corey’s heartbeat on her lips. Thump. Thump. Thump. She matched the rhythm of their pulses, sliding up and down his shaft, sucking until her cheeks h
ollowed out.
Shane tweaked her nipples, creating two tingling lines that shot down her body, merging into a swirling ball of need between her legs.
Shane’s lips feathered against her neck. “Spread your knees for me.”
She obeyed instantly, continuing to worship Corey with her mouth.
Shane moved his hand to her wet pussy, threading his fingers through her swollen folds. “I’m going to drink this sweet cream, baby. Every drop. Corey and I are going to fill you up and make you come again and again until you think you can’t take more. But you will. Much more.”
Oh God. Yes.
When his thumb pressed on her throbbing clit, she became delirious from the expanding pressure inside her. With her hair hanging over Corey’s cock, she sped up her oral devotion.
“You’re about there, baby.” Shane’s lusty tone hit something deep inside her, something that needed the dominance only he and Corey could give, something ready to surrender all to them. “Come for us, Belle. Come now.”
Like gasoline to a flame, his words and touch unleashed blinding sensations. The quake began in her pussy but spread out through her body, igniting every nerve ending. She continued sucking on Corey, since he hadn’t told her to stop. She wanted to bring him the same mind-blowing pleasure she was feeling.
“Ahhh.” Corey’s handsome face tightened and his eyes finally closed. He grabbed her by the hair and she swallowed his cock as he shot his seed down her throat.
Shane pressed her throbbing clit again, doubling her already intense orgasm. Dizzy from the overpowering release they’d given her, she drank down all of Corey’s hot liquid.
The closeness she felt to Shane and Corey was like nothing she’d ever experienced before. They had opened her up and she’d shared her darkest truth. There wasn’t anyone she felt more connected to, anyone she wanted to be with more, anyone she wanted to spend the rest of her life with.
Corey’s fingers caressed the side of her face. “You beautiful creature. I’m so glad you came into my life.”