Adams, Eve - Trio [Gideon's Ring 1] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) (26 page)

Soon all three moved together in rapid, hard thrusts. Barrett reached around and barely touched her clit, and she shattered.

Her bones exploded with her orgasm, leaving her limp and helpless but to have her men pull wave after wave
of her release
out of her. She couldn’t move and didn’t have to. Barrett and Chris knew exactly what to do to keep her orgasm at its peak, blinding her as the vibrations wracked her body.

“Sarah,” Barrett groaned as he stiffened and filled the condom with hot, sticky semen. Chris gave one final thrust and shuddered as his orgasm overtook him, his grunts echoing in the air between them.

After an eternity
,
she collapsed to Chris’s chest, panting, wondering if she’d ever recover. Barrett slowly withdrew before removing the cuffs from her wrists and lifting her off Chris. She crumpled to the bed, unable to do anything else.

“Sarah, baby, you’re trembling.” Barrett pulled her into his arms, holding her against him. She curled into him and let out a whimper.

She never knew it could feel like that. Aftershocks still rumbled through her, clenching her insides and flooding her cunt with the juices of her own release.

In-
fucking
-credible.

Burying her face against Barrett’s chest, she tried not to think about her life outside of the ranch, away from the men she’d fallen in love with in a matter of twenty-four hours. Soon enough this would all end, and the thought brought tears to her eyes.

Her throat tightened, and she swallowed several times as another violent shudder ripped through her.

“Stay with me,” she whispered. “Both of you.”
Love me. Don’t ever leave me.

“Always.” Chris kissed the top of her head and pulled the down comforter up to tuck around her right side.

Barrett tucked it in around her left. “We’ll always be with you, our sweet Sarah.”

Barrett whistled as he stirred the beans and franks. It may not be glamour food, but it would keep the masses fed and warm. His GG used to make it for them all the time, and the brothers loved it. Chris would be over for dinner more often than not as his dad worked and GG babysat.

God
,
how he missed that man. Barrett could talk to him about anything and know he’d never be judged. GG knew the trials and tribulations that went along with running the ranch.

He’d be able to counsel Barrett on the tightness in his chest whenever his thoughts drifted to Sarah. Ever since meeting her at the meet and greet, she’d found a way to consume his every thought.

What would GG say about that? He’d never had a negative thing to say about Gail, but deep down Barrett knew the man didn’t like her. Would he like Sarah?

How could he not?

It didn’t matter. GG was gone. Barrett let out a long sigh and continued to stir the food over the woodstove.

“That was a deep sigh.”

Barrett glanced over his shoulder at his cousin, who hadn’t moved from the table as he studied the brochures and plans Sarah had scattered over the surface. After a quick glance to insure their sweet lover was still napping peacefully, Barrett brought his attention back to Chris.

“So what are your thoughts on those plans?”

Chris dropped his gaze down to the papers. “Honestly? I think they look great. If you can get away with renovations for this cheap, you should jump on it.”

“But that’s just it. Nothing comes that cheap. Strickler is up to something. Sarah doesn’t buy into his bullshit, and neither do I.”

“Why? Just because she says so?”

“Exactly.”

“And you’re just going to take her word for it.”

Barrett didn’t answer and didn’t have to. Chris had already jumped to his own conclusion. He saw it in his cousin’s face.
And, damn it, Chris was usually dead-on with his instincts.

“How well do you know Sarah?”

Well enough to know if she left him after this weekend he’d spend the rest of his life looking for her. “She read the plans, Chris. She caught on to Strickler a hell of a lot faster than me or any of my brothers.”

“Or maybe she already knew about them. Maybe she’s here to get closer to one of the Gideon brothers so she can report back.” He eyed Barrett knowingly. “Maybe she’s gotten a lot closer than anyone expected, even her.”

He growled and clenched his teeth. “She’s not in with Strickler.”

“How do you know?”

He didn’t, not for sure, but he knew how to read people, and Sarah Emerson was someone he trusted. With everything.

Even his heart.

Barrett glanced back at Sarah when she whimpered and muttered something about hating to lose a bet. It made him smile, and he started to contemplate what she’d lose on their next bet. When he looked back at Chris, he lost his smile when he saw how keenly his cousin watched him.

“Oh, no.”

“Shut up, Chris.”

“Barrett, what are you doing? You’re taking this a little too seriously, cuz. You’re going to end up hurting her. And you.”

Barrett stopped stirring and looked at him. “What are you talking about?”

“I see the way she looks at us. She’s already fallen in love. We can’t let that happen and you know it. If we break her heart, we’ll not only have Norris up our ass, but Brett, too. And don’t even get me started on Amber. She’s the one who scares me more than her two men.”

“What happened to finding more than being a third party?”

“I didn’t think you’d actually do anything about it. Seriously, this time yesterday Gail cut out your heart and fed it to Tom with a triumphant smile on her conniving face. Today you’re all about Sarah. It isn’t her you want, Barrett.”

“That is where you are wrong. She is exactly who I want.”

“Bullshit. She is just the rebound girl to help you get over Gail, and I say good for you. But you have to make sure she understands this is all part of the act, and that it ends tomorrow when you send the guests back home.”

He didn’t want Sarah to leave. Not after the end of the weekend. Not ever. “I’m thinking of asking her to stay.”

“You’d better think again. Jesus and Christ, Barrett. You can’t do that and you know it. This needs to stop. Now. You aren’t ready to be back out there. Look at all the mistakes you’re making. You’re being careless. Hell, we both are.”

“I’m not being careless,” Barrett argued, even though he knew he was and didn’t give a fuck. For the first time in his life he’d put himself and his happiness first. It wouldn’t be the last time.

Chris looked over his shoulder and then back at Barrett. “We didn’t use a condom with her today in the snowcat. Barrett, we’ve never lost control like that. What the hell is going on?”

Barrett thought about the snowcat. He took her from behind and buried his dick deep into the depths of her pussy, stroking her until he spilled his life inside her, and then again not more than an hour later. He’d been so hungry for her that after he’d tasted a single drop of her intoxicating juices, he couldn’t think about anything but fucking her.

He hated the turn in this conversation. He stirred the beans faster in the hopes they’d heat up already.

“What makes her so different?
Seriously, cuz. This scares the shit out of me. I’m actually thinking about sticking around. What the hell?
”

Barrett wanted to attack his cousin and lash out at him until he understood the passion filling his heart. As soon as he saw the stilled expression on Chris’s face, the fear in his wide, hazel eyes, he didn
’
t have to.

“
You’re in love with her, too. Aren
’
t you?
”

Chris shook his head and closed his eyes as he pinched the skin above his nose.
“
Shit, cuz. What the hell are we going to do?
”

“Shit.”

“Yeah,” Chris agreed. “Now what? Are we fucking screwed or what? What if we catch something
?
”

He was clean. Chris was clean. He had a sneaking suspicion Sarah hadn’t had a whole lot of lovers in her past. The risk of them catching anything from each other was remote. But the threat of disease was only the half of it. What if their careless romp in the cab resulted in Sarah getting pregnant? That thought scared the shit out of him. He didn’t mind the thought of fathering a child. He welcomed the idea, actually. The image of Sarah’s body growing ripe with his child made him smile.

He quickly dropped his grin. Having a kid running around the ranch, stumbling across men and women sharing love in, at times extreme
,
circumstances, couldn’t happen. No child should witness what went on at the GR&L. It would shock the poor kid right into therapy.

“Barrett, this is Michael. Do you copy?”

Grateful for the distraction, Barrett grabbed the radio off the hook. “Go ahead.”

“I just got off the phone with the power company. You’re going to love this.”

He doubted it. “I’m waiting.”

“They say they didn’t have any record of the power being out at the ranch. Because we are on our own power grid
,
we aren’t considered a priority. It could be days before they get a technician out to see what the issue is.”

Son of a bitch. Did it say
Fuck Me
across his forehead?

“Anything else?”

“I just checked in on the Spanglers in Tent 1. They said they want to speak with the GM. They weren’t happy.”

“Oh, them.” Chris shook his head.

Barrett looked at Chris. “What’s their gripe?”

Shrugging easily, he leaned back in the chair and took his own damn sweet time answering. Barrett clenched his teeth and almost dumped dinner over his cousin’s head.

“I made them get their own bags. That
,
and they’re all bent out of shape that Carol returned their pin and left. I think she was pissed that we pinned Sarah and not her.”

“I didn’t want Carol.” He wanted Sarah, morning, noon, and night. He wanted to bury himself inside her, lose himself in her, and never come back. With Sarah he could be himself. No pretenses. No masquerade. He didn’t have to pretend to have a good time with her.

He didn’t have to pretend at all.

It had been so long for him that he’d forgotten how much fun it could be to just forget about the burdens of the world and be himself. Then again, Sarah made everything fun.

“
Cuz, we are in serious trouble. We can
’
t both be in love with her.
One
of us can
’
t even be in love with her. That’s not how this works.
”

“
You don’t think I know that?
”

“
What if she loves us back? Both of us. Not bullshit lust that quits after the honeymoon is over, but real. Undeniable. Unrelenting.
”