Authors: Elle Saint James
Tags: #Romance
Unbridled and Unjustified [The Double Rider Men's Club 11] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting)
The Double Rider Men’s Club 11
Unbridled and Unjustified
After her home explodes, Ava Campbell goes on the run across several states with private investigators Declan Westfall and Troy Markham. Ava uses impulsive desire and sex with two amazing strangers to keep her mind off of her ample troubles. Meanwhile, they do their best to protect her from an assassin tying up loose ends.
Betrayed by her ex-fiancé, Ava doesn’t trust her feelings as more than lust for attractive men, but the closer the time comes to part with Declan and Troy, the more she doesn’t want to say good-bye or put an end to the unique ménage lifestyle they’ve introduced.
Declan hadn’t ever planned to look for a permanent woman or marry again after a disastrous first marriage and subsequent divorce. Troy went along with a lack of permanent companionship because he’d never met anyone he wanted to settle down with before. Until Ava literally exploded into their lives. Will they survive to make a life together?
Genre:
Contemporary, Ménage a Trois/Quatre, Western/Cowboys
Length:
66,001 words
The Double Rider Men’s Club 11
Elle Saint James
MENAGE EVERLASTING
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UNBRIDLED AND UNJUSTIFIED
The Double Rider Men’s Club 11
ELLE SAINT JAMES
Copyright © 2012
Petite Jean Mountain area, Arkansas
Ava Campbell lifted the heavy shotgun to chest level, pumped a shell into the chamber readying it to fire, but purposely pointed it away from the annoying man on her doorstep. She didn’t want to shoot him accidentally. She just wanted him to go away.
“Ms. Campbell,” Mr. White said, raising his arms halfway up his sides. “You have to be reasonable. I’m trying to help you.”
“I never asked for your help, Mr. White. Instead, you’re on my property without my express permission. I want you off of it. Now. I’ve told you again and again that I do not have any illegal aliens working for me. I never have, nor will I ever. If you don’t leave, I’m going to call and register a harassment claim on your behalf.”
He frowned. “You don’t have to do that, Ms. Campbell. I’ll leave. However, you can expect ICE to come and verify your story. They
will
bring a search warrant for the premises and the outlying buildings on your property, too. If she’s here, they’ll find her.” She loathed when he called her
Ms. Campbell
with his fake Southern drawl. Her name rolled off his tongue as if he disliked saying it as much as she hated hearing it from his meddling lips.
Ava’s motivation for not wanting ICE searching her property had absolutely nothing to do with Marisol’s citizenship status. For as much as she wasn’t usually a violent person, Ava really wanted to plug Mr. White in the ass with buckshot for all the trouble he’d caused.
“I’ll look forward to that, Mr. White. Meanwhile, you can get off my front porch. And then you can leave my property.” She motioned him with a threatening upward thrust of her shotgun. “Right now.” He stepped down off the bottom step of the porch and backed his way slowly to his sedan even though she never actually pointed the gun at him.
“This isn’t over, Ms. Campbell.” Hearing her name from his lips again made her teeth grind together almost to the point of pain. He smiled a smarmy little smile like he couldn’t wait to slap handcuffs on her and haul her into prison. His sleazy attitude and overall unprofessional demeanor made her consider running to take a shower,
if
he ever left.
She took a firmer hold of the gun. “It is for today.”
“You’re making a mistake.”
“Won’t be the first time or the last, I’d expect.”
“There’s one other thing you should also know.”
“Oh, yeah? And what’s that?” She didn’t care what he was about to say, but if he said it and left quickly, she’d do a victory dance.
He paused for such a long time before speaking, she almost fired the gun to get his attention. He stared at her with a gaze more interested in her cleavage and the curves of her body than anything else. “If she’s found anywhere near your property without a valid green card, you’ll be arrested for harboring an illegal immigrant.”
“Good to know.” She moved the gun in his direction again to get him going.
I’m not harboring an illegal immigrant, you ass. Just go away, for pity’s sake.
Mr. White shrugged and backed away with cautious steps all the way to his car. “Last chance,” he said, hanging one arm casually over the top of his open driver’s door. “Is she really worth going to jail for?”
In response to his question, Ava took two long steps forward, enough to clear the porch overhang, raised the shotgun, and fired a round of buckshot into the air. She had to hold in her amusement when Mr. White fell backward on his ass before scrambling into his car headfirst. Seconds later, he fired the engine up, revved the motor hard and fast just once, and threw it into gear. She heard the transmission grind at being mistreated all the way from her position on the porch.
The nondescript sedan spun around the circle drive in front of her bed-and-breakfast. He then shot out of her short driveway onto the country dirt road, fishtailing and spewing dust in the afternoon air for a mile until he was finally all the way out of sight.
Probably not a smart move to antagonize the president of the citizen’s patrol, whose rabid desire to push his limited weight around caused her trouble. He was bent on wreaking havoc upon her world because of his prejudice. It felt good to have this bit of her own temporary power to chase him away. Mr. White was a tedious nuisance, and she wished he would find someone else to harass.
A wannabe law enforcement agent on the fringe of the legal and true police department, Mr. White put his nose in everyone’s business. This week
she
was his target. And he likely wouldn’t stop shouting to the world until Marisol was put under a microscope. She’d be vindicated as to her American citizenship, but by then the damage would be done.
“You shouldn’t have angered him, Miss Ava. Not for me.” The tiny, frightened voice from the screen door startled her.
Ava lowered the smoking barrel of the gun to one side, pointing it to the floorboards at her feet, and turned around. Framed in the door was the young woman Mr. White had been after. The person he’d now send further men to collect with their idiotic warrant. “Maybe, but I truly enjoyed it. And I did it more for me than for you anyway.”
She grinned at Marisol. “Did you see the way he skedaddled into his car? Now
that
was the most entertaining thing he did during the whole unwanted visit. Don’t you think so?” Her newest employee nodded hesitantly and then smiled in return.
“How long before he sends more people or agents out with a warrant to check out my resident status, and what about Javier?”
Ava shrugged. “I don’t want you to worry about it. They don’t have a case. I can’t imagine anyone will issue a warrant based only on
his
say-so.”
Marisol’s lower lip quivered. “But when they come there might be a public record even if they discover we’re citizens. And if Roberto sees it and finds Javier and me—”
“He won’t. I won’t let him. You’re safe here. Mr. White’s claim is bogus anyway. You are not an illegal immigrant. You are a US citizen on the run from an ugly marriage. Now let’s go see about getting supper ready a little early tonight, okay? A tasty, hot meal will do us both a world of good.”
