Monroe, Marla - The Edge of Night [The Protectors 3](Siren Publishing Classic) (28 page)

“Better wait a little while for the water to warm back up, Morgan.”

“I’ll wait till after we eat.”

Amanda’s stomach growled, and they all laughed.

“Jethro and Justin better hurry up, or she might start looking for something else to gnaw on,” Tyler teased.

“I’m going to call and let Dodge know what’s going on,” Morgan said. He stepped into the other room and dialed the number.

Dodge answered on the third ring. “Where in the hell are you?”

“About two and half hours from Stillwater. We’ve had some setbacks.”

“What happened?” Dodge asked.

Morgan filled him in on the ambush and Amanda’s trip to the hospital.

“Shit, you’ve had a rough day. Sounds like she has, too. Look, when you get here, I need to talk to you alone. The others are fine, but Amanda doesn’t need to hear all the details,” Dodge told him.

“So what you dug up is bad?” Morgan asked, a sick feeling in his stomach now.

“Yeah. The man is sick. She’s damn lucky she got away from him when she did.”

“What about his fiancée now? Does she need to be warned?”

“He won’t screw up his public image. He’s too intent on getting to be mayor. I think he has an eye on an eventual seat in the Senate,” Dodge said.

“Okay, I’ll get her settled somewhere to take a nap, and we can talk. She’s going to want to know right away what you have. Tell her you’ll tell her once you get one more confirmation. Then we can talk and decide what she needs to know,” Morgan told him.

“Sounds good to me. Be careful. Just park anywhere when you get out here. I’ll put up Juniper so he won’t scare Amanda.”

Juniper was Dodge’s guard dog. He could be vicious, but knew Morgan and Tyler. He wouldn’t know the twins, though, or Amanda.

“Good thinking. I’ll see you tomorrow.” Morgan hung up.

There was a knock at the door in the other room. He walked in as Tyler looked outside the door.

“Pizza is here.” He unlocked the door and opened it wide for the twins to walk in with their load.

“Hold the door,” Justin said. “I’ve got one more load.”

Morgan held the door while Justin brought in a small paper bag and handed it to Amanda. “Fruit and some milk,” he said.

She looked up at him and smiled slightly. “Thanks, I appreciate it.”

Justin just shrugged and headed toward the pizza.

“Amanda, what do you want before they scarf it all down?” Tyler asked her.

“Everything but olives,” she called out. Tyler brought her two big slices and a napkin.

Morgan watched and smiled. She had warmed up to everyone fairly well over the last few days. She was still wary around the twins, but he figured that was for the best. He didn’t need anyone else competing for her. He stopped and cursed himself. He was not sticking around. He looked over at her eating the pizza. She licked some sauce from her upper lip, and he groaned. He was such a fool.

Chapter Twenty-One

Later that night, after everything had been cleaned up, Amanda borrowed the bathroom before Morgan took his shower. When she returned she looked like she’d washed her face, due to the healthy glow. He climbed into the shower next and hurried through it, anxious to return to the room. He wanted to hold Amanda before she drifted off to sleep. It was one of the times in the evening he loved best.

He found her and Tyler laughing and talking about some of the things they’d gotten into during their days in the army. Morgan winced when he heard what they were talking about at the time. Evidently nothing was sacred with Tyler.

“You’re kidding!” Amanda said with an astonished look on her face. “He really did that?” She turned to Morgan. “You actually screwed some woman in a tree?”

“Um, that’s really not a good thing to be talking about right after dinner,
Tyler
,” he said.

“I’m learning all sorts of things about you, Morgan,” Amanda said with a smirk.

“Perhaps I should tell you about Tyler and how he likes to—”

“That’s enough, Morgan. I didn’t share anything like that.” Tyler frowned.

Morgan chuckled and ruffled Amanda’s hair. He sat next to her on the bed and wrapped her in his arms. She snuggled into him and leaned her head back against his shoulder. All he could think about looking down at her was licking her breasts, sucking on those elongated nipples.

He ran a hand over her breasts through the material of her T-shirt. Her nipples poked up. He nosed aside her hair and licked at her neck. She tasted like sunshine to him. When he ran his hands beneath her T-shirt and latched on to her nipples, she moaned and thrust them further into his hands. He took his time and plucked at them before rolling them between his thumb and forefinger. His mouth watered for a taste of them.

“I’ve got to have you, Amanda. I almost lost you today.”

Morgan pulled her shirt over her head and tossed it to the floor. He leaned her back to the bed, then kissed his way from her neck to her nipples. The sight of her breasts, large and firm, plump and entirely edible, hardened his cock to the point of pain. He bent over her and drew one long nipple into his mouth to suck. He mounded the other breast with his hand, then switched nipples to give the other one the same sucking treatment.

“Fuck, you’re so hot. I could love on your breasts all night.”

Morgan moved down her body to her rounded tummy and paused there. Morgan hesitated to touch her there. Finally he laid his lips across her stomach and moved further down to where her panties covered the bare mound he wanted to taste. He slid his fingers inside the waistband and drew them down her legs, leaving them dangling at her ankles. He didn’t want to leave her mound long enough to pull them off. He didn’t have to worry about it. Tyler was there and slipped them free of her feet.

Amanda looked down to the end of the bed, where Tyler knelt shirtless, watching as Morgan sipped at her mound. She looked back at Morgan, holding his gaze with hers.

“He doesn’t touch, Amanda. You know that,” Morgan said. “He only wants to watch.”

“I know.”

Morgan nodded at Tyler. The other man stood up and slipped out of his boxers and climbed up on the other side of the bed.

“You’re so fucking beautiful, Amanda,” Tyler said.

Morgan eased to the foot of the bed and spread her legs with his wide shoulders. One of her legs touched Tyler’s. He felt her freeze for a few seconds before she relaxed again. He eased between her legs and latched on to her pussy with the enthusiasm of a starved man. The taste of her exploded on his tongue as he licked her pussy lips, then sucked them into his mouth. There wasn’t another taste like her in the world, all spice and honey dripping from her hot cunt just for him.

He looked up the long line of her body to see her moving her head back and forth, moaning and mewing as he teased her pussy with his tongue. She grasped the sheets with her hands, pulling on them as he latched on to her clit and sucked on it.

Tyler was tugging on his dick, watching him pleasure her with his mouth. He could tell it spurred Amanda on because when she looked in his direction, she’d gasp and roll her eyes back, moaning with each thrust of his tongue. Once again he sucked on her clit, until this time she shoved her hand in her mouth and cried out around it. He quickly climbed up her body and positioned his cock at her opening

He started to enter her, then looked over at Tyler and saw him watching intently as he slowly pumped his cock with one hand. His other hand rolled his balls. Morgan lifted her right leg over his arm and plunged forward into her hot cunt.

“Fuck yeah,” Tyler groaned.

Morgan had given him a better view of him taking Amanda’s sweet pussy. He slowly pushed in and pulled out, over and over, until she was bucking, trying to speed him up. He smiled and deliberately stopped moving.

Amanda growled and, reaching up, grabbed his nipples and tugged.

“Fuck!” He chuckled around the pain. “Okay. All you had to do was ask.”

“No playing around, fuck me already,” she gasped.

Morgan grinned and scooted up closer on the bed and began tunneling into her slowly, then gained speed until he was pumping in her like a piston in a machine. He knew he didn’t have long before he came. He reached between them and found her clit and gently pressed against it with each stroke of his cock. He gradually increased the pressure until she was jerking around him in her climax. He shouted and shot cum deep within her. A few seconds later, he heard Tyler curse and Morgan felt the bed shake.

Morgan scooted up on the bed and kissed Amanda, murmuring how pretty she was when she came. She snuggled against him.

“I’ll be right back, baby.” He rolled out of the bed and met Tyler returning with a warm bath cloth.

“Thanks,” he said, taking the cloth back to clean up Amanda before they went to sleep. Tyler grinned and shook his head.

“You’ve got a hell of a woman. I hope you aren’t thinking about leaving her when this is all over,” he whispered.

“Mind your own business, Tyler.”

“Maybe I am. Maybe if you don’t take care of her, I will.”

Morgan ignored him and, after bathing her, threw the cloth into the bathroom and slid back into bed with her. He curled around her and, after a long while, fell asleep with the thought of Tyler and Amanda burning in his brain.

* * * *

They were back on the road by nine thirty the next morning. It wouldn’t be long before they made it to Stillwater, then on to Dodge’s home just outside of the city proper. Amanda was looking forward to meeting the man who would free her from Guy once and for all.

“Remember, as soon as we get there, you’re taking a nap. You didn’t sleep much last night. You were up several times,” Morgan called back to her as they cruised down the interstate.

“I know, but I want to know what Dodge has found out.”

“I know you do. I do, too. He’ll tell us when he has it all in place.” Morgan patted her hand where it rested around his waist.

Less than an hour later, they pulled into the quaint little university town of Stillwater. They rode around the area before taking a long road that led outside of town. About five miles down that road, and they turned down another road that changed to gravel and ended at the end of a beautiful yard surrounding a magnificent house with a wraparound porch. A wheelchair ramp went up one side of a set of wooden steps.

Tyler helped her climb off the bike. Morgan took her hand as soon as he was off. The twins climbed out of the cab of their truck and waited on Tyler and Morgan to lead the way. Morgan kept Amanda by his side almost as if he didn’t want her near the other man. She couldn’t imagine that being the reason with how intimate they were together at night. It confused her. She quickly forgot that confusion when the door opened and the most handsome man she’d ever seen walked out onto the porch with a slight limp.

“Close your mouth, Amanda. You’re going to catch flies,” Morgan laughed.

Amanda’s mouth snapped closed. She couldn’t believe she’d been staring like a lovesick fool. So what if he was easy to look at? He wasn’t Morgan. No one would replace her feelings for him. Not even this heavenly hunk of a man. Pretty almost described him, but he was handsome, too.

“You going to introduce us or just stand there like the asshole you are?” Dodge asked, looking down at them.

“Dodge, this is Amanda. Amanda, Dodge.” Morgan turned to where the twins stood. “These are Jethro and his brother Justin.”