Monroe, Marla - The Ranchers' Bride [The Men of Space Station One #2] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting)

by Marla Monroe

  Andrew planned to talk to Danny about it tomorrow. They would work on setting up a ceremony when they took her to get her stitches out. That would be when they told her.

  With that, he made his way upstairs to look at Rachel’s wounds. He hated looking at them because it reminded him that they had almost lost her. It wouldn’t matter how bad the scarring got, they would always love and want her, but it hurt to know they’d nearly let her get killed.

  “That feels good, Danny. Do it again.”

  “You’re a tease, Rachel.”

  Andrew shook his head and wondered what Rachel had talked Danny into this time. He walked in the bathroom.

  “What in the hell?”

  Chapter Twelve

  Rachel looked up and grinned. She glanced down at Danny, who had a sheepish look on his face. Maybe she should feel guilty, because she knew he was in trouble. Andrew would chew him a new asshole for letting her talk him into it.

  “But, Andrew, it’s been so long since I’ve had any.” She rolled her lips inward and bit them to try to keep from smiling.

  “Danny, she doesn’t need to get her stitches wet. You could have at least waited until she was out of the tub.” Andrew shook his head and picked her up off of Danny’s cock.

  Danny climbed out of the tub to dry off. His rock-hard cock jutted out in front of him. Rachel wanted a lick and started to bend over, but her stitches pulled. She groaned and stood back up.

  “See, you don’t need to be having sex right now. Wait until the stitches come out on Friday,” Andrew said.

  “Please, Andrew. I don’t want to wait. I miss you two. We can all three have sex and not bother my stitches. Please!”

  “She’s begging, Andrew.” Danny managed to point this out as he walked backward into the bedroom.

  “Aw, hell. Fine.” Andrew began undressing.

  Danny picked Rachel up and sat her on the bed. Then he climbed up and lay down, so she could climb on top of him again.

  “Wait and let me help you,” Andrew said.

  Rachel had already impaled herself on Danny’s cock. Her cunt felt full and would feel even fuller once Andrew filled her ass with his dick. Between the two of them, she would be crammed full of cock, just like she wanted to be. It wasn’t a declaration of love, but it made her feel loved to be between them like that.

  Andrew applied lube to her back hole with his fingers. The cool substance caused her to shiver. She had to bite her lip to keep from moaning at the discomfort shivering caused her stitches. Danny must have noticed because he ran his hands up and down her arms in a soothing gesture.

  Then Andrew was preparing her with his fingers. The quick pinch and slow burn left her breathless for a few seconds. She pushed back against his fingers. Once he added the third one, she was panting.

  “I’m ready for you, Andrew. Fuck my ass. Fill me full.” She couldn’t wait to feel both of them moving inside of her.

  Andrew rubbed her lower back as he positioned his cock at her tender back hole. He pushed forward while she pressed back, and his cockhead popped through her inner ring. She moaned and pushed back again. He held her hips still. She knew she needed to let her body adjust to his girth, but she wanted to move. She needed to move to spread the burn the stretching caused.

  “Please, move. I need you to move.” She sank back down on Danny’s cock, then pulled off and tried to push back on Andrew’s dick. He held her hips still.

  “Let us do the work so you don’t strain those stitches, or I’m calling a halt to this right now,” he said.

  Rachel immediately stilled and prayed they would hurry up and move. As if hearing her silent plea, they began pulling out and pushing forward over and over until she began to feel the pleasure creeping up on her. They tunneled in and out of her slowly at first, then slowly picked up speed. Fire burned deep in her womb as her climax grew within her.

  She felt them each individually inside her, and then as one, pushing against each other through her body. She felt a part of them when they were all three joined like this. She hoped it meant something to them as well. She prayed that they would fall in love with her as deeply as she had with them.

  “Fuck, you’re so damn tight, Rachel,” Andrew ground out between clinched teeth.

  “I’m not going to last, Andrew.” Danny grunted.

  They continued to move her between them, but one of them slipped a hand between them and fingered her clit. She cried out as her climax washed over her in wave after wave of heat and fire. She clamped down on both of them and heard them shout out her name in the process of climaxing along with her.

  Rachel came until she thought she wouldn’t be able to breathe any longer. She thought for sure she would pass out, but she managed to hang on and heard what she thought was Danny saying he loved her. But it was so low, and he didn’t repeat it so she told herself she had just imagined it.

  She became aware of Andrew gently pulling free of her body. She couldn’t help but groan when his softening cock popped out of her. She felt nearly empty again with him gone.

  “Easy, Rachel. Let me get you off of Danny. Then we’ll clean you up and you can sleep.” Andrew helped Danny ease her up from his cock, then lay her face-first on the bed.

  A few seconds later, both men returned and cleaned her up before crawling into bed on either side of her. They didn’t pull her in close because of her wounds, but they each touched her. She mourned the loss of the warmth of their bodies, especially with the nights beginning to cool off some.

  “What’s wrong, Rachel?” Andrew finally asked when she was still awake long minutes later.

  “I miss you holding me. It’s hard to go to sleep like this.”

  “I’d have thought after that climax you’d fall asleep before we even got back in bed.”

  “I can’t help it.” She felt tears begin to form in her eyes.

  “Shh, honey. It’s all right.” He eased up closer to her and wrapped an arm around her waist. “Try and get some sleep. Friday will be here before you know it.”

  * * * *

  Thursday afternoon, Danny spent the day moving the cattle around the house. They were keeping them close at hand since one of them was staying with Rachel all the time while she was incapacitated. Andrew wasn’t sure what to do once she had her stitches out. Right now, they had a way to keep her quiet and inside all the time. Once she was free to do whatever she wanted to do, they would catch hell trying to curb her activities.

  Danny didn’t want anything happening to her, but he also knew that keeping her cooped up inside with nothing to do was going to drive her crazy and turn her against them at the same time.

  So far, they hadn’t seen the creature again. There hadn’t been any fresh tracks around the house, either. The weather was growing cooler every day. Maybe the creature hibernated like bears. He and Andrew kept a close watch of the house and the area surrounding it.

  Danny checked the fringes of the herd again before galloping closer to the house to see if Andrew was outside, checking the house area. He was using the time sticking close to Rachel to till up the garden.

  “There you are,” Andrew said when Danny grew closer.

  “What’s wrong?” Danny jumped down off the horse.

  “Nothing. I wanted to talk to you without Rachel around.” He brushed off his hands against his jeans. “I talked to her doctor, and he’s ready for us when we bring her in tomorrow to remove her stitches. He says they have things ready for our ceremony, too.”

  “Great! I sure hope that will settle everything in Rachel’s mind,” Danny said.

  “Me, too. She’s been better since we’ve spent so much time with her. We just can’t spend that much time during the spring and summer. This winter, we’ll be pretty busy but close at hand.” Andrew looked back toward the house.

  “We’ll spend more time with her somehow, though,” Danny vowed.

  “I think she’s worried about not getting pregnant, as well.”

  “I kind of got that i
mpression, too. If she can’t have a baby, she’s going to be pretty depressed.” Danny didn’t want her to feel guilty if she couldn’t have children.

  “Do you think we should ask the doctor to check her over while we’re there? I mean, to see if there’s a reason she might not get pregnant?”

  “That might give her the wrong idea. She might think we don’t want her if she can’t give us children. That isn’t true for me.” Danny made sure Andrew knew that.

  “Doesn’t matter to me, either. I’d love to have children, but if we can’t, then we can’t.”

  “Let’s hold off on having her checked out by the doc for that just yet. She’s got enough going on with this wound on her shoulder. It’s itching and aching. I remember mine itching as it got well, but it didn’t ache,” Danny said.

  “Yours wasn’t that big of an area, though.”

  “True.”

  “What are you two hatching up out here?” Rachel walked up wearing a coat and scarf.

  “What are you doing out here?” Andrew asked.

  “I saw you two talking and worried something was wrong. I wanted to know what it was.” She put her hand on her hip. “So, what’s going on?”

  “Nothing, honey. We’re just talking about the cattle and how the colder air is making them hungrier,” Danny lied.

  “You’re not telling me the truth, Danny. I can see it in your eyes.” Rachel cocked her head and looked at him.

  “We’re talking about a lot of things, Rachel. One of them is that we haven’t seen any evidence of the creature lately. I was just wondering if maybe it hibernated. That would be good for us.”

  “What time are we going to leave in the morning to go to town?” she asked, turning to Andrew.

  “I take it you’re in a hurry.” He grinned at her.

  “Well, it will be nice to get these itchy things out of my body. I also wanted to go by the town library and see if they have any more books on gardening. I need more information and can read through them this winter. I have to have something to do.”

  “You did really well this year considering you’ve never done any of this stuff before,” Andrew told her, giving her a careful hug.

  She smiled at him. Then she turned and started to head back for the house.

  “Hey! What about my hug?” Danny asked.

  She turned around and grinned at him. “I wasn’t sure you wanted one. You didn’t hug me when I walked up.”

  “I’m trying to keep from hurting your shoulder. Andrew has a cow when you moan or even frown.”

  “I do not,” Andrew said, his brows furrowing.

  “I’ll see you later, Danny.”

  Danny watched her walk away until she’d disappeared back inside the house.

  “Do you think putting up fences would keep the creature out?” Danny asked.

  “I guess it would be worth a try. We could try it around a small area and see.”

  “Let’s build a large fence around the garden and house first,” Danny suggested.

  “Good idea. I’ll talk to them in town tomorrow about supplies and find out if they don’t have what we need and how soon they can get what we need to us.”

  Danny stretched then settled his hat more firmly on his head before gathering the reins and climbing back up on his horse.

  “I better get back out there and keep them all together. I’ll see you inside for supper in a couple of hours,” Danny said.

  “We’ll have it ready for you. Be glad that Rachel is doing the cooking tonight. I was going to leave it at soup and cornbread. She decided on stew instead and has it simmering on the stove.”

  Danny grinned. He loved her stew. It had lots of meat and some of the native potatoes, along with thick broth. He headed back out to the outer edges of the herd and began to round up the stragglers. There were several young cows that kept pushing things by trying to head out on their own. They were going to cause trouble sooner or later. They were going to be the first ones to slaughter, he decided.

  Fence material would come in handy for the winter if they had any there in town. They could work on it some this fall before the ground froze up then finish it as soon as it thawed come spring. He shook his head. They had too much to do during the spring for just the two of them. They needed the hands that were supposed to come. He hoped they were on board that next shuttle.

  He mentally sketched out in his head where to build it. They’d start the fence on the edges of the house and include the garden and part of the back yard area as well, so it would be a neat square. If it kept the creature out, it would be well worth the time and effort that it would involve. And it would give them greater peace of mind where Rachel was concerned.

  Danny sighed and turned around to make another pass out to the west to assure that he hadn’t missed any wayward cows while he was daydreaming. They couldn’t afford to lose any more with the ones the creature had killed. Better cows than them, though.

  * * * *

  Rachel pulled off her coat and hung it by the back door in the mudroom. She was sure they had been talking about her getting pregnant when she walked up. Were they upset because she hadn’t gotten pregnant yet? It had been a good six or seven months now. Why hadn’t she? True, there were several times they hadn’t had sex in long weeks due to one thing or another. Lately, it had been because of her shoulder.

  She was afraid they would want to find another woman to be their wife. Especially since they hadn’t bothered to have the ceremony performed to begin with. She loved them so much it would kill her to lose them.

  You need to instigate sex every chance you get, Rachel. When you go back to the doctor, maybe talk to him without the men around. That might not be very easy to do, though. They tended to keep her close by since the incident with the creature.

  Didn’t the fact that they were so protective of her mean they cared deeply about her? Surely they wouldn’t get rid of her now even if she couldn’t have children.

  Rachel ran her hands over her face and pulled at her hair in frustration. She needed to stop worrying over it so much. She had heard somewhere that worry only made it difficult to conceive. Stress also made conceiving harder. She needed to remember that they were under a great deal of stress out here on a strange planet, with strange things all around them.

  She’d managed to have sex with Andrew twice in the last two days when Danny had been out with the cows, and once with Danny when Andrew had been out. She doubted either one would own up to it with the other for fear of getting in trouble about putting stress on her wounds. She knew Andrew, especially, felt guilty over having fucked her. Rachel could be very persuasive, though. She grinned.

  “What are you grinning about?” Andrew asked when he walked into the kitchen.

  “Thinking about tomorrow. I can’t wait to get these things out of me. They’re driving me crazy,” she confessed.

  “Here, let me see them.” Andrew walked over and carefully lifted her T-shirt over her head to see her back and shoulder area.

  He didn’t say anything, just gently rubbed around the wounds in a soothing motion. Then he covered her back up.

  “Did that help any?” he asked.

  “Yes, thanks. What does it look like?” she asked, knowing he wouldn’t say anything.

  “Looks fine. I can tell the stitches are pulling, so I’m sure they are uncomfortable for you.”

  “Are they all puckered up?” she asked, knowing they were.

  “Just a little bit. Not too bad.”

  With a resigned sigh, she turned to check the stew. It was gently bubbling on the stove. She had already made up a batch of batter for the cornbread and had it in the fridge until it was time to cook it. She hoped it would be enough to fill their bellies. She wasn’t much hungry but knew she had to eat.

  “We’re thinking about putting a fence up around the house to see if it will keep the creature out,” Andrew said out of nowhere.

  Rachel started and turned around. “That sounds like a good idea. The
fences they have back on Earth keep everything out. Unless it can climb over, it should work great.”

  “Have to see if we have materials here for that or if we have to wait for the next shuttle in another year. It’s too late, I’m sure, to get anything on this shuttle. I would think they had already taken off.” Andrew lifted the lid off the stew and sniffed.

  “Why don’t you call them now and ask them if they have it? Then you know whether to take the trailer or not.”

  “Good idea. Come on with me. I can’t trust you to stay inside without me there to guard the doors.”

  “Funny, Andrew.”

  “Hell, I’m serious. You were outside this morning without Danny knowing where you were.”

  “I was just on the front porch. I hadn’t gone anywhere.”

  “Yeah, but he didn’t know where you were. I thought he was going to have a heart attack before we found you.” Andrew put the earphones on and raised the town.

  A few minutes later he pulled off the earphones with a grin on his face.

  “They’ve got fence supplies. Should be enough for us to do the entire back area, including the garden.”

  “Then you can work the cattle without worrying about me so much. I didn’t know what you were going to do come spring.”

  “We didn’t know what we were going to do, either. If the hands get here to help work the ranch, one of us or a hand will be around all the time.”

  That was the first time they had said anything about leaving one of the hands around. They really were worried about her. It made her feel better to know they cared so much about her. But it also aggravated her that they felt like she had to have a babysitter.

  She sighed. She couldn’t have it both ways.

  Chapter Thirteen

  Friday morning, the three of them dressed and ate a quick breakfast. Danny had already hitched the trailer to the transport, leaving it running to warm up for them. Rachel couldn’t wait to go. Soon the stitches would be out, and she could talk to the doctor about getting pregnant. Maybe all she would need were some extra vitamins.