Unbridled: Lone Star Lovers, Book 1 (2 page)
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Authors: Delilah Devlin
Tags: #contemporary romance, #Red Hots!
“The fact I knew you were comin’,” he said, his voice dropping to a sexy purr. “This is your homecomin’ present, baby.”
“Justin, you bastard!” Rowe said heatedly.
The larger, more rugged man shrugged. “She needed to know. She has choices to make here.”
“I would have broken the news more gently.”
“Doesn’t look like she needs you to sugarcoat it.” Justin’s gaze pinned her. “She’s not exactly looking ready to bolt or puke. Fact is, the thought of it, of watching us, turns her on.”
“Does not,” Dani denied hotly, heat filling her face.
“Your nipples always poke holes in your shirt?”
“You’re a jerk.” And yet, she barely resisted the urge to cross her arms over her breasts. She tilted her chin in defiance while heat crept deeper into her cheeks. She met his narrowed gaze, while images flashed
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through her mind. Since she knew what both men looked like naked, she couldn’t help the raw, nasty pictures that flashed one after the other.
And yes, they aroused her.
“Prove me wrong,” Justin murmured. “Leave now.”
Dani shot Rowe a hot glare. “You gonna let him talk to me like that?”
Rowe’s jaw flexed, but he didn’t offer any response.
“He doesn’t let me do anything,” Justin said slowly. “He obeys me. In all things—here, at least.
Rowan, your cock’s flagging.” Justin’s gaze dropped, drawing all their glances to Rowe’s sex, which pulsed and lifted again.
Rowe groaned.
“Get it ready for me,” Justin growled.
Rowe’s eyes closed briefly, then a look Dani had never seen slid across Rowe’s face—something vulnerable and needy. “Justin, not now.”
“Not now, what?” Justin said, his voice dead even.
“Please,” Rowan whispered, his strong jaw flexing.
“Uh-unh.” Justin shook his head. “You’ve carried around this picture of your innocent little sweetheart for years. But I don’t think you really know her at all.”
“And you think you do?” Dani bit out, hoping like hell the bastard wasn’t getting ready to drop the other shoe that she’d succumbed to his bad boy charm herself. Rowe didn’t deserve finding out that the two people he’d taken as lovers had a history of their own.
“The things you asked him to do, Dani,” Justin said, his tone dropping to a raspy rumble. “The sexy little spankings, the special bonds you left underneath the bed… It’s not in him to do that to you, but he did because he cares.”
Dani’s jaw dropped and her embarrassment caused her to tremble. “Rowe, you told him about that?”
Again, a muscle flexed along Rowe’s square jaw. “I wasn’t gossiping. It just slipped out. He found your things and asked. He’s a friend.”
“Friend?” Justin straightened away from the doorframe. “I’m a little more than that, aren’t I? You don’t keep any secrets from me.”
But Rowe had kept one big goddamn secret from her. Dani’s shoulders slumped.
“Don’t take it so hard, Dani,” Justin said, all traces of mockery gone now. “He loves you…almost as much as he loves me. But every time he was with you, every time he spanked that pretty little ass of yours, he was denying his own nature. Rowe’s submissive. Just like you. He’s just finally figured out he’s not finicky about which gender offers him the kind of sex he craves.”
“How the hell did you figure that out?” she bit out. “I’ve known him all my life.”
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“Because I watched him…with you. When you dared him into spanking you, he didn’t get off on the act. He only got hard when you told him what it did to you, what it made you feel.”
Her mouth suddenly went dry. The thought of Justin’s dark, hungry glance raking her body as he watched her with Rowe caused another distressing wash of arousal to dampen her panties. She licked her lips. “You watched us?”
“Sometimes,” he said softly. “You weren’t as careful as you thought. Had to run interference a time or two with your big brother.”
“Cutter knows?” she asked, her voice rising. “About Rowe and me?”
“He suspects. But he never got close enough to the cabin to ever know for sure. You have me to thank. And if I happened to catch a glimpse or two of your…sessions…well, I think I earned the right.”
“Pervert!”
“Who’s the pervert? Me for watching, or you for wanting his hands to leave your ass pink?” He lifted his chin toward Rowe. “Or him for needing the same damn thing from another man?”
“I don’t believe you. Not about Rowe. This…” she said, gazing at the mattress in the middle of the floor, “…is just him experimenting a little. But I’m back now.” Her gaze locked with Rowe’s, pleading with him. “It doesn’t mean anything. Not to us.”
Rowe’s glance fell away from hers, and her stomach dropped. What he had with Justin was important.
Special enough that he hadn’t bothered dressing because Justin didn’t want him to.
“Dani, I never wanted to hurt you.” Rowe’s tone was low, aching.
Like the lump filling the back of her throat.
“Tell yourself whatever lies you need to stay in happy land, Dani. But we’re about to get busy.” Justin opened his belt and stripped back one side then locked gazes with her. “Now’s your chance. You can run out the door. You don’t have to see anything that might
traumatize
you.”
Why was Justin being so cruel? He’d won. He didn’t have to rub her nose in this mess. “I’m not a scared little virgin,” she said, her voice shaking.
“But you’re also not faithful to your boyfriend here either, are you?”
Dani stared at Justin’s hard face through shimmering tears. “Justin…don’t.”
“He can’t fulfill you,” he said softly. “Not those dirty needs that keep you restless even after he’s fucked you.”
“Shut up,” she said, tears filling her eyes.
Justin pulled apart the snaps of his shirt, letting it fall open to expose the dark fur of his broad, muscular chest. Then he unsnapped the top button of his pants. “Last warning…”
She stood rooted, unable to move as he scraped his zipper down.
“Rowe, take out my dick,” he said, never looking away from her. “Now.”
“
Fuck.
” Rowe’s tone was agonized, but his cock bobbed eagerly between his legs. “Dani, get out.”
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But she couldn’t. Part of her died a little in that moment. But another part, one only Justin had ever touched, caught fire.
“Rowe, don’t disappoint me,” Justin said, his gaze never leaving Dani’s.
Rowe’s naked feet dragged across the floor. His expression was taut, his cheeks a brighter red than they’d been moments ago.
Justin firmed his jaw. “Can’t turn back now. She knows. Let her see what it’s like. If she hates you afterward, she isn’t worth cryin’ over.”
Dani narrowed her eyes, knowing he expected her to bolt. She braced apart her feet and lifted her chin higher, even while she questioned whether she really could do this—watch the only two men she’d ever known intimately have sex.
Rowe didn’t glance her way, but his chest rose sharply. Then he slipped his hand inside Justin’s pants and slowly drew out his cock. His fingers clasped the shaft gingerly, but his thumb rubbed slowly over the smooth cap. Justin’s cock thickened.
“Push down my pants,” Justin said, his voice tighter than it had been before.
Both of Rowe’s hands slid over Justin’s narrow hips and shoved down the faded jeans.
Dani hated to admit it, even to herself, but watching Rowe do such an intimate thing to another man, knowing how the scrape of his rough palms felt on her own bottom, caused her sex to melt.
“Get on your knees and take me in your mouth,” Justin rasped.
Rowe groaned, and Dani understood the feeling. Shame and arousal roiled together. Her own body was hot, moisture seeping into the crotch of the lacy undies she’d worn just for Rowe.
Rowe knelt, his hand shaking as he gripped Justin’s cock and brought it to his mouth.
Justin cupped the back of Rowe’s head with one hand, his fingers threading through Rowe’s honey brown hair with surprising tenderness. For long moments, he stared as the other man’s lips closed around the tip of his cock and sucked.
Rowe’s cheeks hollowed, his eyes closed tightly, but his hesitation ended there. Surrendering, he groaned and opened wide his jaws, gliding along the thick, veined shaft.
“That’s it,” Justin said softly. “Take me deeper,” he said, stroking his hips forward, his cock disappearing into Rowe’s eager mouth. Then his gaze rose. For a moment, something almost haunted entered his expression. That wicked brow rose again. “He does it because he knows the rewards. But so do you, don’t you, sweetheart?”
Dani didn’t answer. She couldn’t have pushed a word through her tightening throat if a rattler had slithered over her boot. Watching both men, engaged in such a carnal act, caused unexpected emotions to rise inside her.
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Sadness, because she’d never guessed Rowe wasn’t fully satisfied with her. Jealousy, because Rowe never made those hungry sounds when he went down on her. And shame, because she wished she were brave enough to approach them and sink to her knees beside Rowe.
How she wished Justin would command her to, take the choice away from her. The hard edge of his voice when he’d cut through Rowe’s objections had caused her own body to react with an instant, juicy response.
Justin braced his legs apart, and his face darkened as Rowe’s strokes, forward and back along his shaft, picked up the pace. The slippery suctioning sounds and choked excitement gurgling in Rowe’s throat caused Dani’s whole body to vibrate.
Forgotten for the moment by both men, she wet her lips with her tongue as she imagined how Justin might taste. Moisture flooded her channel as her inner muscles clenched hard.
When Justin flung back his long, black-brown hair, her breath hitched. Starkly masculine elation softened his expression for just a second before his head lowered and his hard gaze met hers, issuing a wordless challenge.
Only Dani wasn’t ready to accept. She lost her nerve, turned and fled through the door of the cabin, stumbling down the steps in her haste, before catching herself on the rail and bolting toward her horse.
Booted heels bit into the wood porch, but she didn’t look back. With the sun sliding below the horizon, she nudged her heels into her mare’s sides, kicking up dust behind her and leaving both men in her wake.
A zipper scraped behind Justin.
“I should follow her,” Rowe said, coming up behind him.
Justin leaned against the doorframe, holding his cock in his hand and stroking it absently. “She’s not heading toward her ranch.”
“She’s going to the creek. She goes there to think when she’s upset.”
“And she knows you know that. She expects you to follow her.”
Rowe nodded. “I always do. When she gets into a snit about something, she just needs a little time to vent.”
“This isn’t something little. I was rough on her.”
Rowe’s hand swept up Justin’s back and curled around his shoulder. “I wish she hadn’t found out this way. But I can’t say I’m not relieved.”
Wet lips brushed his skin, whiskers scraped deliciously, and Justin shivered. If he actually had planned it, things couldn’t have worked out any better. Rowe was upset, but not wallowing in shame. The clothed cock snuggling close to his backside told him that while Rowe’s feelings might be conflicted, he wasn’t about to end their relationship. Which only left Dani’s response as the missing side of the equation.
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Justin turned and hooked a hand behind Rowe’s neck, pulling him forward.
Rowe’s mouth opened eagerly beneath his. Firm lips met firm lips, tongues tangled. Breath intermixed, and both men swayed closer, their cocks grinding.
Something this wickedly good couldn’t be wrong. And Justin never questioned where his instincts took him—not when it came to sex. “Give me some time alone with Dani. I’ll bring her around.”
“Should I be jealous?” Rowe said between suctioning sips against his mouth.
Justin snorted. “Sure you want me and not her?”
Rowe’s steady gaze locked with his. “Can’t I have both?”
Since Justin seconded that sentiment, he simply smiled. He stepped back and unspooled his belt from the waist of his sagging jeans.
Rowe’s expression grew rigid with excitement, but he drew an inward breath between his teeth. “I should follow her. Make sure she’s okay.”
“I said I’d handle her.” Justin wound the belt around his fist, leaving a foot-long strip of leather dangling. “You know what I want.”
Rowe hung his head, pretending shame and resignation, but the eagerness of his steps as he reentered the cabin betrayed his true feelings.
Justin glanced once over his shoulder, listening to the hoofbeats that faded in the distance. “Yeah, I’ll handle her,” he promised himself. He’d have everything he’d ever dreamed of if he didn’t let a little thing like the fact he was in love with Dani Standifer get in the way.
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Chapter Two
Justin stared at the silent house, taking in the understated wealth it represented. The Standifers were old money in these parts. Old money—and spoiled and unappreciative of their advantages.
Eyeing the pristine white Victorian, he thought about the crummy apartment in town that he’d kept after his mother had died—the only thing he could afford with the odd jobs he’d worked until he’d landed the job as a wrangler at the Ayers ranch.
He’d have liked to go to school, just like Dani and Rowe. He’d had the grades. Could have ridden a football scholarship, but his sister had needed him to provide a roof over her head until she’d finished school. Now that she was attending a community college in San Angelo, he was free at last to pursue his own path.
Funny how he’d always thought he’d leave Two Mule in the rearview mirror of his pickup truck first chance he got, but things hadn’t worked out that way. When he’d hired on as a wrangler on Rowe’s family ranch after high school, he’d been happy for the employment. He’d discovered an affinity for working with horses and cattle, skills that had quickly gotten him noticed by Rowe’s father, who took him under his wing and groomed him to assume more responsibility. Over the years, he’d thrived on the attention, enjoying the respect he earned that didn’t have a thing to do with how well he tossed a football or how popular he was with women.
