Serving the Wolf's Den (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) (13 page)

When he was satisfied with his work, he lifted her off the table and forced her to kneel on the floor in front of him. He spread her legs and instructed her to lock her hands behind her head. She trembled with anticipation.

“I want you to display yourself for me while I fuck your beautiful face with my cock, Maura. It gives me great pleasure to see my sweet slut offer herself to me like this.”

“I want to pleasure you, Max,” she gasped. The clothespins made her pussy drip and her nipples ultra-sensitive. She wondered what other treats he had in store for her. Max excited her beyond reason.

She wrapped her mouth around his cock that was slightly larger than Toby’s. Her tongue massaged every inch of it, loving how it jumped at her touch. She began to massage his balls, but he stopped her.

“I want your hands behind your head. Use only your mouth, Maura.”

Nodding, she locked her fingers back behind her head and continued to suck his cock deeper into her throat. She looked up to see he was watching her. He moved his hips back and forth, forcing more of his cock into her mouth. He fucked her face harder and harder while she worked to maintain her balance with her hands still behind her head. Her nipples and labia were on fire. She could feel her pussy juice dripping onto the hard tiled floor beneath her.

He pulled his cock out of her mouth and lifted her back up on the table. She watched as he released first one and then the other clothespin, which made her gasp from the blood rushing into her nipples. His mouth quickly went from one nipple to the other, caressing them with his tongue. She cried out from the pain and pleasure that were simultaneous. He pushed her back against the table before he released the clothespins from her labia. She groaned again as his tongue followed. Never had she experienced such a mixture of sensations that together made her body shake in involuntary spasms. Tears were running down her face.

“You liked that, didn’t you, Maura.”

“Yes, oh, yes.”

“I want to give you pleasure, Maura. Now I’m going to bury my cock deep inside you. I want you to feel my seed as it fills my beautiful cunt.”

He slipped his hands around her ass cheeks and impaled her pussy with his rock-hard cock. She wrapped her legs around him. She was completely off the table, held in his arms. He took her with fast, hard thrusts until with one final grunt he exploded inside her. She cried out with an exquisite pleasure that had her gasping for breath.

He leaned her back gently on the table as his body shook in one spasm of pleasure after another. She heard him cry her name before his body covered hers. She lay beneath him, her legs now dangling from the end of the table.

“Oh, my beautiful Maura,” he cried out again. His mouth took hers, kissing her over and over until he pulled away from her, his eyes staring into hers.

She reached up to stroke his hair. She loved him so much that she felt she would burst from it. “I love you, Max.”

His eyes that had been so warm turned cold. “You love to fuck, Maura,” he countered. “Don’t confuse love with sex.”

If he had slapped her, it could not have hurt as much. She closed her eyes. When she opened them, he was still staring at her.

“We’re good together, Maura. Please...don’t complicate it,” he said softly. “Enjoy what we have.”

“I’m tired,” she said, looking anywhere but into those eyes that made her face the truth. There was nothing to say. He had said it all.

“Me, too. Go jump in bed with Toby. I think I’ll take a shower and then sleep in the spare bedroom. It’s the only way I’m going to get any real sleep.” Although his words were not unkind, his dismissal was clear. She watched his finely muscled body leave hers. He was magnificent, but he wasn’t hers. How could he be such a passionate lover and then with the blink of an eye freeze her very soul with just a word?

Toby was still asleep when she crawled back into bed. She turned away from him and let the tears flow. She stifled her sobs in the pillow, not wanting to wake him or explain why she was crying. Her tears subsided, but the emptiness inside her was something she knew would never go away.

In the morning she was still smarting from Max’s words, even though she tried to convince herself they didn’t matter. What else could she do? Otherwise, she wouldn’t be able to function. She wasn’t about to beg either of them to love her. How could she have fallen for them so hard when they didn’t feel the same way? How could they love her body with such passion and not her? Was it her destiny to always love the wrong men?

* * * *

Maura hated working the floor, but she knew it was the right thing to do. Rhonda was still off the schedule more than she was on because Todd was undergoing a battery of tests. He had an infection and the doctors were still trying to find the cause. Maura was not only working her shifts at the Den, but she had taken on some at Lucy’s. Normally she would have hated being away from Toby and Max, but now that their relationship or lack thereof had been spelled out for her, it was a relief not to be subjected to the awkward moments that came far too often when they weren’t both buried deep inside her, something she knew was destined to be short-lived.

If she had any guts, she would tell them both to go take a flying leap, but the thought of not being held in their arms was something she wasn’t yet ready for. And if she was honest with herself, they hadn’t made promises or lied to her. So, how could she fault them when the fault was her own?

Maura was at Lucy’s waiting on her regular morning customers when she felt her cell phone vibrate. It was Rhonda.

“I hate to ask, but could you work my lunchtime shift and then pick up the girls after school? You’re not working the Den tonight, are you?”

“No,” Maura lied. “And of course I’ll work for you and pick up the girls. No problem. How’s Todd doing?”

“They want him hospitalized until they can figure out what’s causing the infection. They wanted to do it before, but he said no. They’re not giving him a choice now, and neither am I.”

“He needs to be where they can take care of him, not that you’re not doing a great job, but until they get this figured out, it really is for the best.”

“I know. He’s fighting it, but I told him he’s got to go. He’s lost weight and he looks like hell.”

“Don’t worry about a thing. I’m here for you. You know that.”

“You’ve been great about everything. You’re better to me than my own sisters who I thought I could count on, but they have their own families to worry about.”

“I’m sure they’re doing their best.”

“Right.”

She knew Rhonda and her sisters had never been close, but she, too, was surprised by their indifference. She also knew they had never wanted her to marry Todd in the first place. And now they blamed him for putting his family in the position they were in.

Rhonda had confided that not a day went by that Todd didn’t think about the accident that had been his own fault because of drinking too much at a Christmas party at work. He had lost control of his car that had hit the median strip before rolling over several times. Luckily, no one else had been hurt, but Todd had been paralyzed.

“I’ll call the school and let them know you’re coming,” Rhonda said. “Thank God I gave you a key. Thanks again, hon. I owe you big time.”

“You owe me nothing. Your friendship means more to me than anything.”

“And yours to me.”

When she left Lucy’s, she went to the grocery store and bought some snacks for the girls. She knew they loved cheese doodles and sour candies. However, she opted for dark chocolate and strawberries, something a little healthier.

Both Emma and Lea were excited to see her. With only a year between them, they looked almost like twins. Brown curly hair and big blue eyes that were replicas of their father’s stared up at her.

“Auntie Maura.” Lea hugged her. “My teacher said you were picking us up.”

Emma, the older of the two, took her hand. “Is Daddy okay?”

Maura wasn’t sure how much Rhonda had told them. “He’s fine. Your mother needed to take him to the doctor’s, and she knew they would be a while. I’m just glad I could come pick you up. You know how much I love spending time with my two favorite girls.”

The ride to the apartment was nonstop chatter with each girl vying for her attention. She loved them, but by the time they arrived home, she was ready for a little quiet. Once she had settled them down to do homework, she started cleaning up the kitchen and straightening out the living room. Rhonda wasn’t the greatest of housekeepers under normal circumstances, but with Todd being ill, cleaning the house had to be the last thing on her mind.

Once their homework was done, the girls couldn’t wait to start dipping the strawberries in chocolate that they promised to eat after dinner. She had found some leftover spaghetti in the refrigerator that she knew was one of their favorites. Both girls stuck to her like glue while she was preparing dinner. They ate everything on their plates. She was glad to see they hadn’t lost their appetites.

After dinner they had eaten the chocolate-covered strawberries. However, it wasn’t long before she had to break up an argument over which game they would play first. She flipped a coin. Candy Land won.

Maura had thought Rhonda would be home soon after dinner, but the evening stretched on without any sign of their mother. When it was time for bed, Emma looked worried. “I thought they would be home by now.”

“Your Mom and Dad knew they would be busy for a while, so don’t worry,” Maura said, kissing her good night.

“Couldn’t you read us one more story?” Lea asked.

“Okay, but just one more.” Before the end of the story, Emma and Lea had both fallen asleep. She was just shutting the door to their room when she heard the front door open. Rhonda walked in looking exhausted.

“How’s Todd?”

“He’s fine. Hooked up to an IV full of a combination of antibiotics and still looking pale, but I know he’s where he needs to be.”

“Absolutely, he is. The question now is…how are you?”

Rhonda broke down, tears running down her cheeks. “If anything happens to him, I swear. He’s got to be okay. He has to.”

Maura took Rhonda in her arms and hugged her.

“I love him so much, Maura.”

“I know you do. And he loves you. You’re both so lucky to have each other and the girls.” Maura knew that no matter what, Rhonda had found the love of her life with Todd. She was happy her friend had found what she didn’t think she ever would.

“How are they?” Rhonda asked, wiping away her tears. “I’m glad they’re in bed. I wouldn’t want them to see me like this.”

“They’re fast asleep. Emma’s a little worried. I didn’t say anything about the hospital. I figured you’d want to tell them.”

“I will tomorrow. Right now I just want to go to bed. It was a tiring day with the paperwork and Todd fighting me every step of the way.”

“How about I fix you something to eat first? I bet you haven’t even eaten.”

Rhonda nodded. “You know me too well. I guess I should eat something.”

By the time she left Rhonda’s, she barely had enough time to make it to the Den for her shift. She should have left earlier, but Rhonda had become talkative over scrambled eggs and toast. Maura didn’t want her to suspect she had a shift at the Den that night, so she didn’t want to rush out. The fact was, she was dead on her feet. She just hoped it would be an easy night and she wouldn’t do anything stupid.

Toby watched Maura from behind the bar. Seeing her in the skimpy uniform made his cock swell. He caught his breath. It was crazy how she could make him forget everything but his desire for their lovemaking. She was like no other woman he had ever been with. She could summon up emotions in him with just a look, emotions that he found harder and harder to control.

His eyes narrowed. Her eyes were a little puffy. Nothing about her escaped his notice. Had she been crying, or was she just tired? Did it have anything to do with where she had been all day and all night? She hadn’t left them a note or even called to say she wasn’t coming back to the house after her shift at Lucy’s.

Both he and Max had waited for her, but Max was right, she didn’t have to check in with them. It was the first time she had ever been inconsiderate, and he didn’t like it. He knew she was disappointed in them, and they had no one to blame but themselves. She wanted more and deserved more. And damn if he didn’t want to give it to her, and would if he could. But Max had made the rules that he knew made sense. Only his heart didn’t care about what made sense, it was breaking for what he knew he could never have.

Maura was much more than a good fuck even though that was what Max had tried to make her believe. He and Max never fought, but today they had been at one another’s throat all day. He wanted to tell her the truth, but Max said it wasn’t fair to Maura. They were both in love with her, and every fiber of his being was screaming to take her in his arms and dispel her doubts.

“We have to let her go, Toby. There’s no other way. We tell her the truth and she’ll think we’re crazy. We show her, and she’ll be traumatized, to say nothing of wishing she’d never met us.”

“You don’t know that,” Toby shouted back at his brother.

“We’re Shifters, Wolf Shifters, not something women who are not our kind can ever accept. It’s been tried before, and it’s always ended badly. Our own uncles tried it once and they both ended up bitter unhappy men until the day they died. And the woman they loved had some kind of nervous breakdown that they never forgave themselves for causing. Mother said it was ugly.”