Where There's a Will (26 page)
“Yeah, and me and Max can fuck like monkeys all over the bunkhouse.”
The pan Will had been holding clattered to the counter. Carlos only jumped a little before swivelling around and watching Will give Max and Bo a thorough checking out.
Carlos arched an eyebrow at Will when the younger man looked at him. Will’s smile was just the right side of a leer.
“What?” Will asked as he placed a hand on his hip. “I know they were checking out my ass, so when Bo says something about fucking, I had an instant mental image and I just had to confirm it.”
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Max let loose a strangled sound and turned impossibly redder while Bo whooped and slapped the table top. “Do share with us,” Carlos instructed, trying hard not to even so much as let his lips twitch. He crossed his arms over his chest, trying to appear stern when he really just wanted to laugh. A glance at Troy confirmed the man felt the same way. Amusement lit his eyes but his face remained blank.
Will huffed and flounced as he walked over and stood between Bo and Max’s chairs. He put a hand on each of their shoulders. “Look at them,” Will purred, and Carlos thought Max might have stopped breathing. “They’re all mature and sexy, still got hard bodies and sweet asses—of course I looked, who wouldn’t? So yeah, I could picture them naked and going at it, and jeez,
hot
.” Will fanned himself.
In that instant, Carlos realised lunch was going to be much later. Will moaned softly and palmed the bulge pressing against the placket of his jeans. “Then I thought of us all naked and tangled up together, the way it felt taking you and Troy—”
Carlos didn’t know how he managed it, but he did move faster than Troy, if just barely.
Carlos lunged out of his seat and had Will over his shoulder, the rest of whatever Will was going to say—and Carlos hoped to God it was something about the way it felt to have his and Troy’s dick up Will’s tight ass—cut off in a squeak as Will’s feet left the floor. Troy almost got kicked when Will flailed his legs, but a hard smack to the ass had Will whimpering. He stilled, small shudders racking his frame as Carlos kneaded his butt.
It was taking every bit of Carlos’ will power to keep from sprouting an erection right there in the kitchen. Troy was flushed, his dick semi-hard and pushing at the soft material of his sweats, and Will was damn near driving his rock-hard cock through Carlos’ shoulder.
As for Bo and Max, Carlos was fairly certain those two would be on each other like a dog on a bone. He gave himself a mental eye roll for the comparison then turned and started to head out of the kitchen, his mind already on all the delicious things he was going to do to his men, with his men. He didn’t pay attention to the sounds coming from behind him, Bo’s chuckles and Max’s sputters. Carlos cleared the doorway, adding another smack to Will’s ass when Will bit his back. The man was just asking for it, and Carlos was only too happy to oblige.
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room. Carlos turned his head just as Chance came into the hallway with Rory right behind him. Chance stopped and his eyes widened. Rory’s did too, but he went pink on top of it.
Carlos got the feeling he was going to end up with blue balls.
“Why’d you stop?” Will whined, pushing against Carlos’ back.
“‘Cause it looks like there’s gonna be a delay seeing as how my bosses are standing here smirking.” Carlos sighed and lowered Will, holding him steady until he got his feet under him.
Troy stepped up beside Carlos, turning sideways in the hall. Will grumbled and turned in front of Carlos before leaning against his chest. Will tipped his chin up and Carlos waited, because he knew Will was going to have something to say.
“Really? You two couldn’t have moved out of the doorway and lurked in the other room until we all got our freak on?” Will snarked.
Troy coughed and Carlos had to bite his tongue not to snicker. Will’s back was up, and he jutted his hips out as if to show Rory and Chance just how inconvenienced he was. He also made sure to rub his butt against Carlos and that nearly had him tossing Will back over his shoulder and letting Chance and Rory just deal with it.
Chance jumped when Rory elbowed him, then Chance cleared his throat and scrubbed a hand down his thigh. “So, I know this probably isn’t the best time, but…”
Will pointed a finger at Chance. “Unless you’ve got some life-altering news to share, you two can go round up some cattle or whatever. We’ve got very important sex to have!”
“Sex is always important,” Rory muttered.
“Yeah,” Chance agreed, “it is. But so is what we need to talk to you about, since it could mean moving back to Montana, if you’re interested.”
Carlos sucked in a sharp breath. Could Chance mean what Carlos halfway hoped he did? But Carlos was also afraid, because there were two men he loved dearly to consider first and foremost. Will stepped back, practically climbing him and Troy locked an arm around Carlos’ shoulders.
“Carlos doesn’t want to go back to Montana,” Will said. He craned his neck around and looked at Carlos. “Do you?”
Troy hugged him a little closer. “Will, Carlos wouldn’t leave us.”
Will snorted and turned back to face Chance and Rory. “Well,
duh.
He ain’t stupid!”
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Carlos couldn’t help but smile. He wasn’t stupid at all, but he did want to hear what Chance had to say. “I won’t be leaving you two behind, but it does look like there’s gonna be a delay in our romp.”
“Romp,” Will snickered. “Right. Well, can we all go sit down so Chance and Rory can say what they have to say so you and Troy can fuck me stupid as soon as possible?”
Carlos thought he heard Max gasping or something in the kitchen, and Rory’s eyes were about to bug out of his head, but Chance laughed and nudged Rory to move back.
“God forbid we hold up the fucking. I’ll make it short.”
Carlos figured he could help them out. “You found a way to save the Mossy Glenn.”
“Yeah,” Chance said over his shoulder.
“The Mossy Glenn is the place you were working at before you came down?” Troy asked. “With the crazy woman who clawed you up?” And he sounded more than a little irritated when he added the last sentence.
Will hooked his arm through Carlos’. “If I ever meet her, I don’t know what I’ll do since I’m not capable of hitting a female, I don’t think. Maybe I’ll put on the flames and watch her screech herself to death.”
Rory stopped and looked at Will. Confusion shone on the blond’s face as clearly as the mischievousness did on Will’s. “What do you mean, put on the flames? I know you can’t be talking about torching her.”
“Naïvety is so cute,” Will purred, and Rory glared. “What? It is! I just meant I’d lay on the whole gay bit, seeing as how she’s a homophobe. Carlos told us about how she went all batshit on Nick and him. So she’d probably have a coronary. Which would solve that problem, and no one would have to lay a hand on her.”
“He does have a point,” Nick called out from the other side of the screen door. “I know she’s my mom and all, and I don’t hate her, but I’ve learned I don’t have to like her, either.”
“No shit,” Josh muttered, reaching around Nick to open the door. “I think Will has more restraint than I would if I saw her lay a hand on you. I don’t know if I could watch someone hurt you.”
Carlos watched Nick’s features tighten as he reached for Josh. “Yeah well, I couldn’t let her touch a hair on your sexy body, so I understand.”
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but she’s not out from her check-up yet.” He sighed and lifted his hat up long enough to scratch at his head. “She could have those babies any day now. Sure wish she would. It’s driving me and Evan nuts, wondering if there’s boys or girls or one of both in there.”
Rory groaned and looked up at the ceiling. “I told you both, if you’d been real nice she would have let the doctor tell y’all…”
“We’re always real nice to Annabelle,” Justin muttered. “She just insists on it being a surprise for all of us.”
“As long as the babies are healthy,” Max said, and everyone nodded or murmured in agreement.
Carlos resisted the urge to prod Chance and everyone else to get on with it. His erection had pretty much gone soft, and he was pretty sure Troy’s had, too. Which was a shame, he decided. He placed his hand high enough on Troy’s thigh to cause the bartender to twitch beside him. Carlos didn’t look at him, though. Instead he checked out Will’s package while the other men talked about the impending births.
Yep, Will was still sporting wood. Carlos trailed his other hand up to Will’s hip. He rubbed his thumb along the side of Will’s butt cheek, grinning when Will cursed. Chance either heard Will or finished up with the conversation he was having because he finally turned his attention back to Carlos.
“We couldn’t figure out how to get our hands on the ranch, but it was relatively easy.”
Chance nodded at Justin. “Antonia doesn’t know him, and even though the bank wanted to break up the ranch, Nick’s friend James pulled some strings. The end result is, we formed a little corporation of our own, with Justin as CEO, and we—Rory, me, Justin, Evan, Annabelle, Nick and Josh—are now all owners of the Mossy Glenn. I’ll be giving Rory my share—”
“Now wait a minute,” Rory interrupted, half-rising out of his seat. Chance hooked a finger through his belt loop and pulled him back down.
“Calm down, angel, we’ll discuss it in private.” Chance tipped his chin at Carlos.
“Remember, he’s got plans and Will would kick our asses over if we hold them up much longer.”
“Fine,” Rory grumbled, “but there’s no discussin’ needed. You’re keeping your shares.”
Chance got a stubborn tilt to his jaw but didn’t argue. “Anyway, the point is, we need a dependable man to run the Mossy Glenn. We’d like to keep it in the family for the next generation at least, but everyone is pretty set in their lives here. Of course,” Chance sighed www.total-e-bound.com
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and leant back in his seat. “I guess we didn’t realise you’d be putting roots down here so quick.”
But he had. “I’m not interested in leaving Troy and Will.” Carlos looked at Nick. “I hate to leave you hanging, but I just can’t up and leave them.”
Nick didn’t look happy but he nodded. Josh, who’d been scowling, perked up
suddenly, sending off trills of alarm through Carlos. He didn’t know what the other man was up to, but he tried to brace himself for the doozy he knew was coming.
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“Why don’t they go with you?” Josh asked. “I mean, if y’all are serious, like,
committed
to each other
serious, you know? People do it all the time for the person they love. Hell, Nick is here instead of in Montana, but the fact is, if he’d wanted to stay up there and he’d have had me, I would be living there instead of here.” He shrugged but the look he turned on Nick, and the soft emotion reflected back at Josh by his lover, made Troy’s stomach tingle and clench and his heart skitter in his chest.
Could he do that? Would Will? Troy looked over at his men. Carlos was staring at the floor, and Will was… God, Troy just managed not to laugh, because Will was grinning like a lunatic and giving him a thumbs up.
Guess that’s a yes on Will’s part.
But Troy wasn’t sure how he felt, and he didn’t have an answer, and anyway, Carlos hadn’t asked.
And why was everyone except Carlos suddenly looking at him? Troy wasn’t concerned with what they—with the exception of Will—thought of him. He looked at Carlos and ran a knuckle over the man’s jaw. “Hey.”
Carlos cleared his throat and glanced at him. Troy saw it then and wondered why neither he nor Will had picked up on it before. Their man wasn’t happy here. Oh, he was in love with them, yeah, and they made him happy, but he wasn’t happy with his job.
Troy could have kicked himself for being such a blind fuckwit. Although to be fair, he, Will and Carlos were all still in the newly-blissed out togetherness phase and none of them probably looked past how they felt and how they made each other feel.
Then Troy thought about how much Carlos stressed over him and Will not having to drive at night. Troy felt like shit, and he knew Will would, too, and probably before Troy ever even mentioned the issue. Will was a smart guy, too smart sometimes, if such a thing was possible. He’d no doubt reach the same conclusion Troy had. They were bad, selfish boyfriends.
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“We’ll talk about our options,” Troy said, still looking into Carlos’ eyes. Carlos, always so strong, so sure, seemed hesitant, afraid to hope, even, and it about killed Troy. He knew then just how deeply he’d fallen for his men. “I believe we had other plans first, though.”
Fuck everyone else besides his lovers. Troy stood up and held out a hand to Carlos.
“Unless there was anything else you wanted to add?”
Carlos arched his eyebrows but the smile he gave Troy made Troy’s cock harden.
“Er, yeah, I think we’re done here for now.” Chance stood up and it seemed to Troy everyone cleared out pretty quick. Maybe he wasn’t the only one ready to jump his lovers’
bones.
Will didn’t even wait until the screen door slammed shut on the last man out before tugging off what clothes he had on. “Come on,” he said, going straight for Carlos’ cock, grabbing it through the sweats. “I need this big dick of yours in my ass. Or mouth. Or in Troy’s ass, oooohhhh, yeah!” Will bounced on his toes, reminding Troy so much of Billy that he missed the bubbly blond fiercely just then.