by Lynn Stark
They followed Maggie outside. She paused on the sidewalk and turned back to them. “Just so you know. There’s no sex on the first date. Probably not on the second one, either. And if we make it through a third, I’ll consider it.”
Maggie walked away. They were speechless. Not necessarily because of what she had said, but because of the way her heart-shaped ass swayed, her jeans enhancing every lush curve.
“Fuck, if that isn’t the most perfect ass I’ve ever seen.”
“Beautiful.”
“I wonder if she has freckles on it.” Max realized he was becoming obsessed by Maggie’s freckles. They were cute. They were sexy. And he wanted to kiss each and every one of them. “I guess we won’t be finding out until the third date.”
“Guys, we can’t screw this up. We need to go over the dos and don’ts.”
“No farting or belching,” Ethan told them with his special kind of wisdom. “No scratching body parts, either.”
Sean laughed and slapped him on the back. “That’s a given. Women don’t necessarily appreciate the bodily arts. Now, let’s go see if there’s anything needed to be done before we leave. We’ll stock the shelves tomorrow.”
They had a truckload of supplies coming in. They had spent the day cleaning everything from the storage room out. There wasn’t a speck of dirt to be found anywhere. The kitchen was as clean as it could be. They would get the place stocked with the help of their new manager and employees. It was a good way for everyone to begin learning where things were before opening day. They would also go over what was planned for that day, which was essentially a block party with the town invited.
After locking up they headed for their truck. They had to get to the ranch to get the ponies ready for inspection. It took forty-five minutes to get to the ranch owned by Max’s parents. He, Sean, and Ethan lived in one of the houses built on the property to accommodate married children and their families. Some of his brothers and sisters worked on the ranch, others had jobs off of it.
It didn’t take long to get the ponies ready for inspection. They chose those that were the gentlest and the most cooperative. Those that failed to meet those standards were left in the pasture. He and his partners had a thing for ponies. They were so darned cute. Ornery, too, but they overlooked those lesser qualities to give the animals a good, permanent home. The ponies wouldn’t be sold to anyone who couldn’t give them a quality life.
By the time Maggie arrived with her children they were ready for them. The ponies were now groomed and waiting in a white-board pen under three huge trees. The animals weren’t even disturbed when there were shouts and squeals of excitement from the three kids tumbling out of the SUV and heading for them.
It was an exciting hour, watching ponies and kids interact. Maggie’s children were very confident, and did have some knowledge of how to behave around the animals. Once they had gotten to the fence they had quieted down and the ponies had come over to investigate. It wasn’t long before saddles and bridles were on the ponies and Emily, Samuel, and Brant were riding around the inside of the paddock.
Max was impressed with their skill. They were very good riders for their age.
“Mommy, look at me!”
Maggie praised each child as they rode past her. There were moments she would have to remind them to pay attention, but overall they had the makings of eventually being very good riders. It just came with the territory. They lived in an area covered by ranches and farms, cattle, horses, and sheep outnumbering people by a thousand to one.
“You did a good job choosing which ponies to show them,” Maggie told Max as she stood beside him. “These three seem agreeable to be ridden. You’ve got yourself a deal. I’ll start on the mural in the morning. They have preschool tomorrow, so it’ll work out great.”
As Maggie and Max spoke, Sean and Ethan helped the triplets off the ponies. They handed over reins and each child led their pony into the barn where they would be unsaddled and groomed. He thought they were damned cute in their jeans, small Western boots, and hats.
Max was glad his lovers had taken the children away. It gave him a chance to get to know Maggie a little on his own. He moved closer to where she was still leaning on the fence. Inhaling, he thought he could smell raspberries. It was probably her shampoo. He could imagine burying his face in her thick curls and taking in the scent, as well as the one that was uniquely hers.
“We have a lot of stock coming in tomorrow. We’ll be there early, around seven.”
Maggie smiled and nodded. “That’ll work out just right. I’ll see you then.”
Ignoring the urge to bend down and kiss her, Max walked with her to the barn where Sean and Ethan were just coming out with the kids. They were still excited, full of energy, and he wondered how Maggie dealt with them all by herself. It had to be a rough job at times. Her parents were still alive and she did have good friends in Bambi and Amanda. They had been tight since grade school and nothing about their relationship had changed much, other than Bambi had married Eli James and Slade Jessop.
“Mommy, we have ponies!” The three swarmed her, hugging her legs as she bent over to give them a group hug and to place kisses on the top of each head. He saw that Ethan and Sean had taken charge of small straw hats. “Can we take them home now?” Emily asked eagerly, looking up at Maggie with eyes the same shade of green.
“Not today. We have to go home and start cleaning out the stalls. We have to put fresh straw down and we have to go buy buckets, brushes, and other things they’ll need. We’ll go shopping right now, okay?”
As he watched the three run off toward the SUV, Max turned to Maggie. “We’ll bring enough hay, straw, and feed over to keep them for a while.” Feeling emboldened by her friendly smile, he said as silkily as he could, “I’m looking forward to our date, Maggie.”
The bright smile grew wider, though she did blush a bit. “I’m looking forward to it, too, whenever it may be.”
Max winked, hoping he was being charming. “We’ll get back to you about that,” he said with what he thought was incredible smoothness. It would be embarrassing if he appeared to be just another big doofus.
Maggie chuckled and headed for the SUV. “You do that.”
Sean and Ethan were waiting for their turn. “It was nice to see you, Maggie,” Ethan told her, leaning close and giving her a look that made Max wince. Had he appeared that idiotic?
“It was nice to see you, too, Ethan. Thank you for helping my kids choose their ponies.”
She leaned into the SUV and began fastening in her children. They were still excited and chattering happily. When she straightened and closed the sliding door, she looked up at Ethan, her full lips twitching.
“It was a lot of fun,” he told her, leaning a little closer. Max was afraid he would topple over on her, falling face first into the deep cleavage he was openly admiring. “I hope we can go out on that date soon.”
Sean nodded, crowding in on her from the other side. “Yeah, we’ll show you a good time.”
As Max winced, Maggie threw back her head and laughed. “A movie would be nice. We’ll talk about it tomorrow, okay?”
After dealing with three three-year-olds, she obviously knew how to handle three horny dumbasses.
It wasn’t their finest hour. What it was, however, was an embarrassing, inglorious moment. Would Maggie even bother to answer the phone when they called? Would she show up the next day?
Emily obviously had no patience for romance or bad comedy. “Mama, we have to go shopping now.”
Relieved, Max walked quickly to the driver’s door and opened it. “We’ll see you tomorrow morning. We’ll make arrangements then for the ponies to be delivered and when might be a good time for that date.”
After a nod and a smile, Maggie drove away. All three kids were waving to them. He smiled and waved. Then Max turned to scowl at his two partners. “Are you kidding me? Thank God there were children around. Otherwise I suspect you two would have been all over her.”
“Yeah, Max, we were just being friendly,” Sean protested, frowning as he stood there with his hands on his hips.
“With your face between her tits? That’s not being friendly, that’s being a horny jerk.”
Ethan made some wild gesture with his hands. “But she’s just so fucking gorgeous! And she smells good, too, like raspberries.”
“She’s a hundred times more beautiful than she was back in high school. Do you really think she’s going to go out with us?”
Max nodded. “She said she would. I don’t think she’s a tease. So, we all have to work on not screwing this up and turning her off. No more leering, drooling, or sniffing.”
Sean laughed and slapped him on the back. “That’s good coming from you. I saw you leaning over to sniff her hair.” He moved in front of Max, his arms sliding around his waist. The man’s closeness never failed to affect him. It had been like that since they were teenagers. It was the same with Ethan, the sexy twerp. They were hot, sexy, and he loved them both more than anything. “You know what you can do to get my mind off Maggie.”
Max tucked his thumbs into Sean’s leather belt. He gave a hard tug, bringing their groins in close contact. “And what would that be?”
“A blow job.”
“That would do it, huh?” Ethan pressed in close, sliding a hand down over Max’s ass. His cock, which was still half hard from Maggie’s closeness, finished filling until it was pressed against his zipper. “I say we take this indoors before Dad turns the hose on us.”
It had happened before and it would probably happen again.
They began to head for their house just as his father opened the back door of the family home to yell at them. Laughing, they took off at a run, leaping over the three steps to their porch, their boots pounding over the wooden floor. The screen door slammed behind them. They laughed again as they tossed their hats onto the couch and bent to begin yanking off their boots, dropping them so that they thudded on the wooden floor.
Reaching their bedroom they stripped off their clothes and headed for the shower. Ethan reached it first. Since they had the entire house wired for sound, he won choice of music. Max and Sean groaned, even as their lover laughed rather maniacally. Ethan loved techno and didn’t mind torturing them with the futuristic-sounding music.
Pushing him under the stream of water, Max grabbed the soap and began rubbing the bar over the muscular shoulders and back. White foam slid down Ethan’s body. Max grinned as the man started moaning. Ethan was very expressive. Luckily their house was a ways from the others, because the man could get very noisy. Sean stepped into the shower and behind Ethan. Max handed Sean the soap. They had him right where they wanted him and right where he wanted to be. The hands that gripped his waist and pulled him close told Max that Ethan believed he was clean enough. If that wasn’t enough of a hint, the cock pushing against his balls was a sure sign. Max’s own cock was riding up between their stomachs, pre-cum leaking and being washed away by the water beating down on their bodies.
Sliding a hand behind Ethan’s neck, Max held him still as he lowered his head slightly to capture the other man’s mouth. As his lips parted, Ethan moaned, his arms sliding around Max’s waist to pull him as close as was possible. Hard, throbbing flesh rubbed together. Max felt his balls pull tight to his body. They had barely begun and he was ready to shoot his load.
As Max kissed Ethan, basically fucking the man’s mouth with his tongue, he reached between them and wrapped his fingers around Ethan’s cock. Stroking it, moans began filling his mouth. It was difficult to kiss when all he wanted to do was grin. Their sweet E just couldn’t keep it quiet. When trembling accompanied the moans, along with a definite shifting of legs, Max knew Sean was probing between the man’s muscular ass cheeks.
Lifting his head, he stepped back. Ethan flattened his palms against the shower wall. Max watched as Sean finished stretching their lover and guided the head of his cock to the tight hole. He swallowed hard, wishing their positions were reversed, as Ethan began to beg. He would have his turn soon enough.
“Oh, fuck yeah! Shove it in there! I want your cock in my ass!” Ethan begged, his voice rough as his passion increased.
Sean and Max grinned at one another. “Shut him up, will you? I can’t do this if I’m laughing.”
“My pleasure.” Moving back in front of Ethan, Max put his hands on the man’s broad shoulders and pressed down. A moment later a hot mouth slid over the spongy head of his cock. The lips sealed around it, sucking and teasing, all the while the moans coming from the man were vibrating the length of Max’s cock. “Take more of it,” he instructed, closing his eyes as his head fell back. Ethan’s mouth was magic on his turgid flesh, Sean’s thrusts behind him adding to Max’s pleasure. His balls tightened, the base of his spine tingled. Tangling his fingers in wet curls, he began fucking Ethan’s mouth as the need to come rushed through him like a wildfire. “Take it all,” he shouted as he came and felt the head of his cock hit the back of Ethan’s throat. Max’s body jerked as cum pumped from his balls to fill the man’s mouth. Ethan moaned, swallowing eagerly. Ethan did everything with enthusiasm. When he pulled away from Max’s cock, a keening cry escaped him as Sean pounded his cock into his ass.
Max felt Ethan’s cum land on his feet. He reached out and caught his broad shoulders, bracing him, as he began to lose the strength in his legs. Sean shouted as he came, grinding hard against Ethan’s ass as his back arched and he filled their lover’s dark channel with hot cum.
They clung to one another as they recovered. Knowing the hot water would soon run out, they grabbed bars of soap and bottles of shampoo, halfheartedly washing before they were chased out by an icy spray of water.
Supper was put on hold as they went and dropped onto the large bed. It groaned in protest as they collectively rested.
“We need to get a new bed. This one’s done for,” Sean commented from his side of the bed. He was always on the left. If he didn’t get it, he whined.
Max chuckled and rolled onto his right side. Ethan, in the middle, was already asleep. He blew in his ear and grinned when a hand swatted at the annoyance without waking. “It couldn’t hurt to get a new one. We’ll go shopping for one next week.” Sean began teasing one of Ethan’s nipples, bringing it to a peak. The man moaned in his sleep and they grinned at one another. Max teased the other nipple for a moment, before he leaned over and took it into his mouth and sucked. Ethan moaned again, but still didn’t wake. They always had so much fun with the guy. He slept like a rock. “Did you get that thing?”
Sean laughed and rolled off the bed. “Yep.” He went to his dresser and opened a drawer. After rummaging around for a moment, he pulled out the item in question. Turning, he grinned and held it up on the tip of a finger. It was a sparkly pink and blue thong with a unicorn’s head covering the front. Ethan continued to sleep as they worked it up his long, muscular legs. It was hard to hold back the laughter as they got it in place and the unicorn’s horn pointed toward the ceiling.
They loved playing jokes on each other. Once Max had unknowingly woken up with two smiley faces inked on his butt in bright green marker. It wouldn’t have been so bad, but they had decided to go skinny dipping after a particularly long, hot day of work. Some of his brothers and the ranch hands had joined them, not particularly given to modesty as they jumped into the icy lake, as they had done many times as boys. It wasn’t until he had gotten out that he discovered the joke Sean and Ethan had played on him. Laughter had filled the air as he had tried to see what the hell was causing so much amusement. When he had finally managed to see part of one smiley face, he just shook his head and promised to kill his lovers when there were fewer witnesses.
Now they dressed in shorts and
left Ethan to sleep. Their stomachs were growling and they had steaks in the fridge with their names on them. They would start preparing supper and wait for the moment Ethan woke up, which wouldn’t be all that long.
Max and Sean were in the process of rubbing seasoning into the thick T-bones when they heard their lover’s shout. It was something about them being assholes. They all but fell over laughing when he came charging into the kitchen, the unicorn’s horn jabbing out in front of him.
“It’s a bit small, don’t you think?” Ethan asked, tugging at it as he began grinning.
Then he was strutting around the kitchen, modeling it for them, making the horn bounce around in front of him.
Max laughed and smacked him on the ass. Sean pulled him close with a hand around the back of his neck, pressing a hard kiss onto his mouth. They had a good relationship.
Adding Maggie to it would only make it better.
Chapter Three
Maggie pulled the band from her hair as she ran a critical gaze over the mural she had painted. It was perfect for the space and the room. Some would probably ask her why, when she was such a talented artist, she would stoop to painting in a barbeque joint. True, she was an artist. It was also true that her paintings were gaining some recognition in the art world. But as far as she was concerned, that didn’t make her talents unobtainable. She wasn’t a snob. And if Max, Sean, and Ethan wanted a painting for their restaurant, then they would have it.
The last few days working at the restaurant had been a blast. Maggie had to admit the men were more than just hot and sexy. They were intelligent, funny, and had a lot of potential as future husbands.
Yes, that’s where her thoughts were headed, though they hadn’t yet had their first date. She thought it was helping a lot just spending time with them, without the pressure of having to get to know one another during brief moments while eating supper. A movie didn’t allow much more than a shared moment of entertainment.
Getting to know the men when their defenses were down was exactly the right way to go about it, even if it had been unintentional. They were also getting to know her. This wasn’t high school. Fun and games were fine, but she had three children to think of. They came first, always and forever. The days of casual dating and sex were long over. She didn’t take lovers. She didn’t bring men into her life simply to assuage sexual needs.