their-virgin-neighbor

by Saba Sparks

  “Me too,” she said.

  More kisses, more hugs, both men smiling widely and suggesting

  what they might do to get everything sorted. Anna let them, drinking in the sounds around her. After a few moments though, she knew that she needed to bring up the one stumbling block to their plan. It was not something that could be ignored no matter how much Anna would have liked to.

  “What will people think?” she asked. “When they realize, I

  mean?”

  Lee narrowed his eyes. “Who gives a shit what they think?”

  Jack laid a hand on his friend’s arm. A look passed between the

  two men that Anna couldn’t quite decipher. She wondered if the day would ever come when she would understand their silent

  communication.

  “Do you?” he asked.

  “No,” Anna said slowly. “Not really. I just…as much as I love

  this, as much as I want it, I am not so stupid as to think that others won’t judge us. This is crazy. The three of us living here together? In a relationship? It’s the sort of thing you see on those afternoon shows.”

  Lee groaned. “You need to stop watching those.”

  “It is though,” Anna insisted. “There was this one on the other

  day where the man lived with like three—”

  “Doesn’t matter,” he interrupted. “We want you here, Annie.”

  “We do,” Jack agreed. A pause and then, “You make us happy.”

  The tone of Jack’s voice, the emphasis on that word…it was

  enough to silence Anna’s objections. Maybe not forever, but for now at least. “You make me happy.”

  “Good,” he said. “We want to, and people? Yeah, they might

  judge. Some might even think we’re crazy. So what? Out here? It’s just us.”

  Lee nodded. “And we’ve all seen enough tragedy in our lives to

  know that you have to grab at happiness when it comes your way.”

  His words were so close to what Anna had been thinking that she

  couldn’t help but nod back. They wanted this. She wanted this. Why let society and its rules get in the way? They were all consenting adults. They weren’t hurting anyone. They weren’t doing anything wrong. They looked after one another, pleasured one another, and here, in this farmhouse, nothing that happened between them could be in any way wrong.

  “I want to stay,” Anna said. “To move in properly.” She paused.

  “It’ll mean heading back to the city and getting the rest of my things.

  I’ll need to take care of Grand’s things too. I’ve been putting it off.”

  “We’ll be there to help with that,” Jack said. “I’ll being one of my vans for whatever you want to bring back with you.”

  Anna smiled. “Then we’re really going to do this?”

  “We are,” Jack said and he took her hand in his. “You belong

  here now, Annie. With us.”

  Lee took her other hand, gently stroking along her palm as he did so. Years from now Anna would remember this moment with perfect

  clarity. She would remember the way Lee’s lips curved into a smile, the way the corners of Jack’s eyes crinkled as he looked at her, and she would remember the thought that rang through her mind, loud and clear.

  This is your home now.

  Lee’s next words confirmed that thought, and Anna knew the

  decision was made.

  “Welcome home, princess,” he said. “Welcome home.”

  Epilogue

  “How long until they get here?”

  Jack shot Anna a grin, both amused and touched by her frantic

  activity. It had been this way all morning. She’d woken at six,

  disentangled herself from his and Lee’s arms and set to work. In the last four hours she’d cleaned the cottage, the farmhouse, had helped him with the cooking, and had even cajoled Lee into driving to the general store to pick up some extra supplies. They didn’t need them, but she’d started panicking over something or another, and had

  insisted.

  “They’ll be here any moment now,” Jack said.

  Anna pulled a face. “Is everything ready? Did you finish the

  salad? What about the ribs? Are they marinating?”

  He sighed. “Will you stop fretting.”

  “But—”

  The back door opened. Anna swiveled round, a look of pure

  panic chasing across her pretty features. A moment later Lee walked in. She let out a heavy exhale. “Lee!”

  Lee paused at the door. “What?”

  “I thought you were them,” she said. “I haven’t even started the coffee yet!”

  “Coffee?”

  She nodded and made her way over to the coffee machine. It was

  the special one she’d brought with her from the city. Jack was used to the smell of it now when she set it gurgling first thing in the morning.

  It was simply one of the many of her possessions that were now

  dotted around the farmhouse, all of them signs that Anna had firmly taken up residence. A huge crotched, multi-colored blanket now

  covered one of the couches in the den, her plates and spotty mugs were in the dresser next to the dining room table, and she’d practically commandeered the closet in the master bedroom. Of course, before Anna there hadn’t been a master bedroom. Lee had his half of the house and Jack had his. But Anna liked to sleep with both of them around her and so the bedroom where they had spent their very first night together soon became the master. Oh, Lee still had his room and Jack still had his, but they rarely used them. Both males preferred to be with Anna, and they weren’t the only ones. Two felines now

  occupied the farmhouse. A tabby female with a tendency to hiss at anything that wasn’t Anna, and a grumpy ginger male who spent his time hunting whatever was nearest and bringing those gifts home.

  More than once Anna had found a half mouse, an eviscerated bird, even a live snake on her pillow. She’d smiled each time. She loved those damn cats.

  “The parcel that came last week,” Anna said. “I ordered some

  new beans. They’re Kenyan. Apparently they’re amazing. I also

  ordered some syrup. We have a bunch of different flavors, strawberry, vanilla and mint.”

  “You’re babbling,” Lee said, but there was amusement in his

  voice as he spoke.

  Anna turned the machine on. “I can’t help it.”

  Jack couldn’t help his next move either. He came up behind her

  and wrapped his arms around her slender body. She wore a blouse

  covered in a print of little foxes, and it was tucked in to a pair of tight fitting jeans. He loved her in jeans. They made every part of her look delicious. “They’re all gonna love you,” he said. “Every one of them.”

  She paused, her hands still against the packet of special coffee beans, her voice suddenly little more than a whisper. “They’re going to think we’re weird.”

  “Our families already think we’re weird,” Lee said as he joined

  them. “They pretty much said so when we bought this place.”

  “But what are you going to tell them?” she asked.

  “We’re not going not tell them anything,” Jack said. “It’s none of their business.”

  She shook her head. “They’ll realize we all sleep in the same

  room. It’s not going to take much to figure out exactly what that means.” She paused. “They’ll think I’m a…”

  “A what, Annie?” Jack demanded. “A what?”

  She turned so that she was stood facing them both. Automatically both Jack and Lee adjusted their positions so that they were close enough to her to let her know they were here to protect and comfort her, but far enough away that she didn’t feel like they were

  smothering her. It was a balance that they had found together over the past several months. Living together, the three of them, hadn’t been all plain sai
ling. There were times when Anna wanted her own space, but moving in meant that the cottage was no longer there for her to use, she’d moved all of her stuff out after all. But now and then she wanted to be alone, to watch movie marathons, to think about her Grand, even to head to the city for a few days and meet back up with the friends she had started get to know again. Lee had also taken some time for himself. Jack knew that his friend could only last out about six months before he took his bike on the road. What he did on those journeys Jack had never been privy to, but Anna had asked and Lee had told her. He rode and he slept, and he used that time to think about the friends that they had lost. It was almost like a remembrance.

  Accommodating those things, those desires, not to mention the

  every day rituals of life, between the three of them had taken some juggling, but they’d managed it, and they all came back together at some point, finding one another again.

  It worked.

  Jack was sure it was going to continue to work for quite some

  time. But he wasn’t willing to hide. He didn’t want what they had to be some sort of dirty secret. Both their families had been asking for a visit for months and with fall just around the corner it was the perfect time to let that happen.

  “What are they going to think?” Lee asked softly.

  “That I’m…weird…” Anna whispered. “Or easy, or—”

  Jack cupped her face in his hands and lifted her head until their eyes met. “The moment they meet you they’ll know that’s not the

  case. You’re perfect, Anna.”

  “I’m crazy,” she said.

  “We all are.”

  She let out a small laugh and rolled her eyes. “Crazy for you

  two.”

  Lee took her hand and lifted it to his lips. “Goes both ways,

  sweetie.”

  She sighed, the coffee started to gurgle, surrounding them with a smell that Jack had come to associate with home. He looked at Anna then across to his friend. Never in a million years could Jack have imagined they’d end up like this, but never had he been happier.

  “We love you, Annie,” he said.

  Anna smiled. “Love you too.”

  The End

  Also Available by Saba Sparks:

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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Saba Sparks lives in a cold northern climate. This suits her very well because she adores snow, loves flaming fires and is at her happiest when wrapped in lots of clothes.

  Saba writes erotic romance exclusively for TEP.

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  Document Outline

  When Anna Reynolds moves into the small cottage on their land, best friends Lee Cole and Jack Sheldon are instantly smitten. Not only is Anna both beautiful and painfully cute, but there is something about her that both men are drawn to. They invite her over to dinner in the hopes of getting to know her better, and what they learn that night is enough to make both men ache.

  Anna has spent most of her life in the hustle and bustle of the city looking after her late grandmother. She has moved to the country for the winter not only to heal her bruised heart, but to decide what to do with the rest of her life.

  Lee and Jack are willing to not only heal Anna, but to help her move on. But is she too innocent for what they have in mind, or will their virgin neighbor surprise them both?

  Table of Contents

  When Anna Reynolds moves into the small cottage on their land, best friends Lee Cole and Jack Sheldo