Men Times Three (21 page)

No problem there!
He wanted to howl, “Yes!” but her avid expression stopped him. She walked on her knees to straddle his face and settled her open slit on his mouth. She held on to the headboard and rocked against him. He flicked his tongue in a mad assault on her inner lips, her plump clit rubbing against his nose. When he pulled the engorged nub between his lips and sucked it, Holly arched and cried out. “Yes, that's right! Suck it, lick it. Rock it.”

Her turgid bud engorged further, long and thick. She had the largest clit he'd ever seen and he made the most of it. He spread her labia with two fingers and gently wedged her clit behind his front teeth. He massaged it with his tongue, sending her into a shattering orgasm that sent fluid gushing over his chin.

His cock burned for her touch so he slipped his other hand to his shaft for some relief. “No, don't touch yourself. That cock's mine.” She grunted and more juice slid onto his face as she pressed her open slit to his mouth.

She wanted rough and fast so he shoved three fingers into her at once. When he turned them and pulled out she jerked and came in another rain of wet cream.

She spasmed on his fingers as he ground his teeth to keep from shooting his load. Holly sighed above him as her shudders eased. “Deke, one more thing,” she said firmly. She leaned back and tweaked his left nipple.

He jerked, afraid to ask what she had in mind.

With a scramble, she turned and moved back down to straddle his cock backward. She raised herself so she was on her feet in a full squat.

Her ass cheeks parted, soft as a peach, to expose her wet swollen lips. Her scent was heady and fresh. Her juices had smeared across her backside and upper thighs.

His balls contracted in preparation for whatever came next.

“Now. You come,” she ordered. She rose above him and grasped his cock to hold it at her entrance. “Look, Deke. Watch your cock spear into me. I take you, Deke. I take your cock. It's mine because I take it.”

He bit the inside of his cheek to keep from blowing his load in a shower of spurts. Her lips were swollen and red while her slit opened so wide the head of his cock slipped inside in a tease so intense he nearly choked on his tongue.

He couldn't take any more torture. He cupped her ass, the tips of his fingers just grazing her outer lips. The juice scent made him wild as he helped her keep her balance as her lips slid in millimeters down his shaft.

He saw spots before his eyes as she rose to the tip and back down again. “Unh,” he groaned, trying to bite it back.

“You're so wet. I can see you taking me into your pussy. I see you take it, Holly. Is that what you want? To show me how you take it?”

“Yes, yes,” she hissed. “Watch me take it deep and deeper.” She dropped suddenly, sending a spark through his balls that ignited his need to pump. His hips moved up into her. “Yes,” she hissed again.

Her slick folds took him in deep and straight to the hilt. Wet suction and the pull of her inner walls was too much. On her next slide to take him all, he arched straight up into her and let orgasm thunder through his balls as they flexed and shot true. “Holly!” He lost it, lost himself, lost his mind as she pressed and took him deeper still.

A hip roll and shudder signaled another orgasm as she cried out with him. “Yessss!”

After the storm passed through them both, he sat up and cradled her limp body in his arms. “Babe?”

“Yes?” She hung her head, refusing to look at him while he held her.

“You can take me any time.”

“Oh, Deke.” She sniffled and rubbed a damp cheek on his forearm. “You've been so raw all week.” She turned in his arms, her eyes brimming. She slid her palm to his cheek and gave him a tentative smile.

“If I've been too rough with you, I apologize. I don't know why I've been behaving like some caveman.”

“It's okay, because I think I do know. You wondered if I had feelings for Jack.”

He frowned. “Maybe.” He thought about it. “Yes. I hated that you saw him alone, that you gave him a chance to try to talk you into going back to him.”

“Wrong. I needed to help him see the futility in pursuing me. No one can tell him what to feel, but he can be shown the path toward acceptance. Now that he has, he'll move on. It was a gradual process, but I've finally succeeded in getting through to him.”

Wrong! Jack was a controlling bastard with an agenda and Holly refused to see the truth. But as long as Jack stayed away there was nothing Deke could do about the guy. He took comfort where he could. “At least he's not calling anymore.”

“That's a big step for Jack, believe me.” She kissed the tip of his nose. “You overwhelm me, Deke, with your broad chest and brawny shoulders. The way you focus on me takes my breath sometimes. I wanted to show you today that my feelings for you are just as powerful and primal as yours are for me.”

“Primal?” That about covered it. “Not animal?”

She grinned. “Well, maybe a little. And as long as I can show you my animal side once in a while, we're good.”

T
onight.
She'd have to wait until tonight for Eli to finish what they'd started. He'd shaken her to the core. She'd been kissed plenty. Hundreds, thousands of times, but never like that. She leaned on the counter over the sink and watched Eli follow his brother back to work.

Eli was potent, strong and so sexual he burned. Burned
her
. She massaged her arms where he'd gripped her before he'd lifted her tank top. She smoothed her shorts, letting her fingers drift across her mons. Tonight.

The promise of tonight with Eli would sustain her for the rest of the afternoon.

Marnie gathered the empty iced tea jug and glasses and stepped into the kitchen. She flushed as they each took their own inventory. Marnie arched an eyebrow at the twin damp spots Eli had left on her tank top.

Confidences were not for strangers, and Kylie had moved so often as a kid that she'd never bonded deeply with any girlfriends. But still, this was Marnie. Family.

“
Now
do you have something going with Eli?” she asked with a smirk.

“I don't know. It depends. Does planning on having sex later count?”

Marnie dealt with the empty glasses and jug. “I'd say so. But what about afterward? You'll still be under the same roof, seeing each other every day until the cabins are done.”

She shifted, uneasy. “I'm not sure we even like each other.”

“Don't you think you should decide that before you sleep with him?”

“What is this, the third degree?” She wasn't used to sharing this much with anyone.

Marnie stepped close, put her hands on Kylie's forearms in a light mimic of Eli's grip. “Did I push a button?”

A worm of guilt cruised her chest looking for a place to settle. “Maybe,” she hedged.

“Good. That's family, Kylie. I've known Holly's buttons all my life, just the way TJ knows his brothers'. But you're new to the fold and I've had a such short time to study you. So, I'm glad I can read this much about you.”

“You wanted to make me feel guilty?”

“No, although guilt operates freely in the family zone. But I wanted to know what kind of stuff makes you feel guilt. I can't tell if it's the sex or sex with Eli that's got you in a knot.”

“It's Eli. He makes my head spin. One minute I want to hate his guts and the next I want to fuck him senseless.”

“Holly and Deke took off for the sack within minutes of meeting each other.”

“No!”

“They moved so fast they blurred. Instantaneous heat.”

“She told me Deke's been wild all week.”

“He has!” It was Holly, tousled and flushed, as she stepped into the kitchen from the living area. “We were upstairs,” she admitted with a shrug. “But it was my turn for wild.” She sighed, a fulfilled glow oozing from her pores.

“As I was about to say,” Marnie continued with an appreciative smile, “I think with Deke and Holly the sex has turned into much more. Right, cousin?”

“Yes. It has. I'm quite taken with Deke. He's even shown me his home's foundation. He's planning a future and I'm pretty sure I want to be part of it.”

Kylie wanted to cheer at the news. If Deke and Holly decided to live together or even marry, then she was that much closer to keeping the inn in the family. “So you'd stay permanently?”

Holly held up her hands. “Patience, cousin. We're a long way from permanent commitment. I've been married and it's nothing to rush into.” She looked from one to the other. “So what's this about?”

Marnie gave Holly a measured look. “Just be sure of Deke. And let the rest of the family meet him first. You married Jack way too fast.”

“I learn from my mistakes. No worries. Stop avoiding the issue. You two look like you were sharing a heart to heart and I want in. Now, what's going on here?”

“Eli and Kylie are planning on sex tonight.”

Kylie rolled her eyes and Holly patted her shoulder in commiseration. “Welcome to the family, girly. You can't hide a damn thing.”

Kylie surprised herself by realizing she wanted to share her thoughts on Eli. “I'm not hiding, I'm wondering aloud.” She shifted over to let Holly get at the faucet.

“Thanks, I'm parched.”

“This is difficult for me. I've spent most of my life only confiding in my mom. We were a team. Us against the world.” She felt rueful with her next admission. “Mostly it was us against men. She held some bitterness toward my father and her own.”

“Our fathers tried to reach out.”

Kylie shook her head. “Maybe if they'd waited for the bitterness to ease a little, but forcing my mom too early just made her more stubborn.”

They nodded in tandem. “Push and you get pushed back,” Holly said softly.

“I learned to keep my thoughts to myself and work out my problems on my own. Going to my mother just brought on bitter rants and I didn't want to live that way. I've tried to be open, but just look at what I said to Eli at first glance!” She'd been unforgivably rude to condemn him the way she had.

“He's not nearly as bullheaded as Deke,” Holly offered. “Eli's watched you all week. He sees every move you make, and every word you utter, he hears. He's as tuned to you as TJ is to Marnie.”

“And Deke is to you,” Kylie agreed, amazed that they'd seen the building tension between her and Eli when they were so involved in their own lives and decisions. No one knew which way Marnie's mind was going and no one dared ask.

She understood sexual attraction, she understood the idea of opposites attracting, but this thing with Eli was stronger than anything she'd ever felt. Why sleeping with him had become inevitable was beyond her ability to understand.

“Eli's so wrong for me.” He was a wanderer and would never settle. He would never pick family over wanderlust. “I want a man who wants a family and roots.”

“You think Eli doesn't want those things?” Holly leaned against the counter and watched her closely.

“He walked away from his roots.” And kept walking away. “If it weren't for the need to earn money, he wouldn't ever come back.”

“Nonsense,” Marnie blurted. “He could work anywhere in the world, but as soon as TJ calls him, he comes home.”

“All I want is to stay put with a man who's happy to stay put with me,” Kylie insisted.

“Here, at the inn,” Marnie clarified with a clouded expression.

“Yes, here. For the rest of my life.” Her eyes danced to Holly's for agreement, but Holly's gaze was locked on Marnie.

Marnie nodded. “I understand how important this is to you. To prove it, I'll create a Web site for the inn. Just a page or two, nothing fancy, but it's the least I can do.”

A small concession Kylie was thrilled to take. “Thank you! I've been hoping to get one done, but I'm lousy at knowing what to say and how to say it. I had no idea you had the skills.”

Marnie shrugged. “Don't get excited. This will be very basic. And it doesn't mean I'm staying.”

 

After Eli caught up to TJ at the cabin he asked, “Any word from Chuck on Holly's ex?”

“Chuck hasn't seen or heard about him hanging around. Yesterday, Marnie called his work and he picked up, so we figure it's over and done. And Holly doesn't know we even checked on him, so don't say anything.”

“Sure thing. I'm glad he's given up.”

TJ made a point of looking back to the building where the women stood together in the kitchen window. From here the conversation looked animated and happy. Kylie especially, and Eli warmed just seeing her smile. Tonight, that smile would be all for him. “Don't tell me you want to move into my guest room and leave the inn? Because that's not the way it looked to me when I saw you through the window with Kylie.”

“I don't know what's going on with her. Sometimes she really bites my ass and other times—”

“She's hot as blazes?”

“Yeah. Like that. You wouldn't think a woman who could tick me off as fast as Kylie can would also turn me on.” He looked to the sky. “Clouds are moving in.” He found his shirt and slipped it on.

“Just be careful,” his brother warned. “Kylie's putting her all into this place. It's like she wants it more than her next breath.”

Eli looked at her through the window, her smiling mouth, her happy expression as she chatted with her cousins. “Yeah, I know what you mean.” He'd give her this place on a platter if he could. “Let's get these cabins built.” For her.

Sam Whitaker stepped up and waited for his chance to ask TJ a question. “We don't have enough screw jacks for all the corners.”

Eli nodded to the boy and finished tucking in his shirt while TJ answered him. “We don't use them on the corners. It's only for vertical logs. They shrink with time.”

Sam's confusion brought out TJ's patient side. He loved to teach a willing student. “Logs don't shrink much in diameter so the walls themselves will stay level. It's the uprights that need to be jacked, and that's only once a year or so.”

“So, it's just the supports for the roof over the front stoop?”

“Right,” TJ agreed. “You got it.”

The boy nodded his understanding and went back to work. “I'm glad Holly found that kid at the gas station, he's got a good head on his shoulders.”

“Seems so,” Eli agreed. “He keeps his nose clean and his eyes open.”

“And he'd rather ask a question than make a mistake by thinking he knows it all.”

Eli rubbed the back of his neck. “Well, Teeje, you make it easy to ask. Some bosses aren't so willing to teach.”

TJ cut him a surprised glance. “Thanks. Sam's okay. He's still working the gas pumps in the evenings, trying to save for college. I'll give him as much work as I can through the summer.”

Deke suddenly rounded the corner of the inn, looking well ridden and worn out. He grinned as he walked up. “Back to work?” Eli handed him his shirt. “Thanks.”

“I was just telling Eli that Jack seems to have given up,” TJ said.

Deke nodded and looked over his shoulder at the women in the window. “There's nothing for him here. The pecker head lost and he knows it.” When he faced them again, his expression went cocky.

“If he does show up anywhere near here,” Eli said, “Chuck will hear about it. One look at him and Jack will run back to the city with his tail between his legs.” The cop was a bodybuilder and, since his nose had been broken in high school, had a face that could stop a truck. He'd perfected his scowl back when he and Eli played football together.

Deke grinned. “Good, I'm glad Chuck's on it. But for the first time in a week, I'm hopeful Holly really did get through to that loser. Maybe he won't be back.”

TJ nodded. “Now can we get to work? We're burning daylight. And I think Eli's got a big night planned.”

Eli landed a halfhearted punch to his asshole brother's shoulder.

 

Holly spent the late afternoon running errands, free of Deke's watchful eye. Free of worry that Jack might pounce. Relieved that she'd cleared the air with Deke, she found herself humming as she wandered the grocery store and picked up brochures at the tourist kiosk on the edge of town. Marnie would want to check out all the other recreational Web sites in the area.

She'd either want to have the same look and feel or go with something different.

She scrunched her nose and hoped her cousin didn't want to use photos from the hunter green room. There was a deer head on the wall of that room and Kylie had done nothing more than dust it and brush the fur. Poor thing. But since the inn was surrounded by forest and built of logs, it only seemed right to have one room with a hunting theme. Still, she didn't have to like it.

She'd been wild with Deke and she still glowed from the sex but already looked forward to more. Emotionally, she was way beyond just having a good time with him and now he knew it.

She grinned as she turned into the driveway that led to the inn. She stopped the truck and got out near the road to check on something she'd never noticed before.

In the ditch beside the road was a carved, badly weathered sign. “The Friendly Inn.” She trailed her finger over the lettering carved by her grandfather's hand. He'd made a mess of his relationship with his only daughter. But repairs had begun with Kylie and she couldn't help but think his crazy will had created the chance. He'd always been a wily old codger.

She tried lifting the sign but it was too heavy. She'd ask Deke to pick it up out of the ditch next time they drove by. Maybe it could be sanded and refinished. They could hang it up on a new post. The idea brought a fresh smile and she hopped back into Deke's truck and rumbled down the drive to park in front of the inn.

Inside she found a blueprint spread out on the kitchen table, with Kylie and the O'Banions standing over it. Kylie looked thoughtful, the men apprehensive.

“And the fireplaces need to be here,” Kylie said and pointed to a spot on the paper.

Eli bristled. “No way. These plans are perfect as they are. Your grandad agreed to them and that's all there is to it.”

Her cousin gave Eli a baleful glance. “Huh. I'm supposed to give a shit what that old bastard wanted?”

“Kylie wants to change the cabins,” Eli told Holly while glaring at Kylie across the table. “The operative word there being,
cabins
. Not luxury palaces.”

Kylie glared right back at him. “I'm asking for minor changes to individualize them.” She slammed her hands to her hips and turned to Holly for support. “The fireplaces are wedged into the corners. I thought that if we put them in the center of the cabins they could be open to more than one room.”

Eli cleared his throat. “Cabins this size only have two rooms. The living area and one small bedroom with bath.”