by Marla Monroe
“Nothing. What are we having to eat? I made brownies for dessert,” she said.
“I can smell them bad boys already,” Caleb said.
She laughed, then slapped his hand when he attempted to sneak it under the aluminum foil covering the dish. He grinned without a bit of remorse for trying to steal a brownie.
“Not until after lunch,” she admonished.
“We’re having cold fried chicken, corn on the cob, and potato salad,” Austin told her.
“Wow. Did you guys fix it or did you buy it already cooked?” she asked.
“Would you be terribly disappointed if we said we bought it?” Austin asked.
“No. But I would have been impressed if you’d actually cooked it all,” she said.
Caleb laughed. “We can cook some things, but fried chicken isn’t one of them.”
“How about you? Do you cook?” Austin asked.
“I can cook, but I don’t do a lot of it because it’s just me. I’m actually making homemade chili tomorrow since it’s supposed to be colder next week.”
“That sounds delicious,” Caleb said.
“If you’re in the area, you should stop by on Monday or Tuesday at lunch and have a bowl,” she suggested.
“You do realize that you just made a date. We’ll be there Monday at lunchtime for sure. You’re going to wish you’d made a lot more after we demolish a couple of bowls full,” Caleb said.
“I can always make more. It’s not hard. Once you have everything in the pot, it just simmers for a couple of hours, then it’s done.” Selena smiled at Caleb.
“It’s the getting-it-all-in-the-pot part that we have a problem with,” Austin said in a dry voice.
“It’s chopping up the onions that we have trouble doing,” Caleb added. “That and browning the meat without burning it.”
Selena chuckled. “You can actually buy pre-chopped onions in the freezer section of the grocery store. You don’t have to chop them yourselves if you don’t want to, guys.”
“You’re kidding.” Austin’s look of astonishment was funny.
“No. I’m not. They even have a mix of chopped-up onions and bell peppers.” Selena smiled at the comical looks on their faces.
“This just might change our meals then,” Caleb said. “No more cold sandwiches every night.”
Selena laughed and shook her head. They were so funny. If chopping up onions and peppers had really been a deterrent to a hot meal, she felt sorry for them. They obviously didn’t spend much time at the grocery store if they didn’t know about the onions and peppers. Of course, some stores even had freshly cut up onions and peppers available, but not at this one. The town was too small to support that kind of specialty service.
“Here we are.” Austin parked the truck and Caleb helped her down, taking the brownies from her as she slid out of the truck.
When she tried to take them back, he held them over her head with a wicked grin.
“If you eat one before lunch, you won’t get one afterward,” she warned.
His cute pout made her laugh. “Be good, Caleb.”
“What will you give me if I’m good?” he asked, waggling his brows.
“How about a kiss?” she asked.
“I’m already getting one or two of those,” he said with a wide grin.
“How about the fact that I’ve already invited you over for chili?” she asked.
He sighed. “I suppose that will have to do.”
She grabbed the container of brownies from him and followed Austin inside the house. She still couldn’t get over how nice it was inside. She’d have loved to live there.
“We’ll go out the back,” Austin said.
Caleb and Austin each grabbed a large basket and led the way out the laundry room door to follow a path that wound around in the woods for a good hundred or so yards before they emerged in a small meadow with a gurgling stream near the tree line.
“Wow! It’s beautiful,” she said, looking around at the towering trees that surrounded them.
“It is. We’ve seen a lot of deer grazing out here since we’ve moved in,” Austin said.
“I can imagine. With the water and the grass, they’ve got it made here,” Selena said.
“Help me spread out the blanket,” Caleb said.
Selena helped him with the blanket, which they anchored with the two baskets and a couple of rocks Caleb brought up from the stream. She sat cross-legged on the blanket and let the two men fill her plate with chicken and fixings. She laughed when Caleb made it a point to eat a brownie first, then tackle his chicken.
“I’ve never been on a picnic before. This is fun,” she admitted as she ate.
“Have to make it a habit. It’s fun to do something different once in a while,” Austin said.
“I agree,” she said.
“So, what are you working on now?” Caleb asked her.
Selena enjoyed telling them about her writing and how it was going. Each time they asked her about it and sounded interested in it made her like them even more. She found that she was falling for them, and that scared her. How had it happened? When had it happened? She was sure she hadn’t felt this serious about the two men a week ago. What had changed?
They were so attentive and genuine in how they treated her. She didn’t sense the least little thing that made her think they were stringing her along. She felt that how they were now would be the same two weeks from now or even two months from now.
I can’t fall for them. I’m going to be leaving in a few months. I never stay too long in one place. This can’t be happening.
But it was. She could feel her heart swelling with the emotion she felt when she thought about them. What was she going to do? How could she feel the same way about both men? Because she did. She was falling for both of them. Not just one of them.
As they lay back on the blanket with her in the middle and watched the clouds form random shapes in the sky, she felt her chest tighten at the way her heart bumped along in her chest.
“See that one over there? It’s an elephant with a monkey on its back,” Caleb said, pointing at the sky.
“You’re crazy. It’s a hippo with its mouth wide open,” Austin said.
Selena giggled at their fussing. The cloud didn’t look anything like what either of them thought. It was a coiled cobra ready to strike.
“What do you think?” Austin asked her.
“I think it’s already changed shape and doesn’t look like anything right now. Look at that one over there.” She pointed across to another cloud. “That one looks like a school bus.”
“Well, kind of,” Austin said.
“It did when I first looked at it,” she insisted.
This time Caleb chuckled. “The wind is blowing them too fast to do any real cloud-looking today.”
“I think you’re right,” Selena said. “I’m thinking more along the lines of a nap right about now.”
“I’m on board with that idea,” Austin said and took her hand in his.
“I can do that,” Caleb said holding her other hand.
Selena smiled and closed her eyes. Yeah, a nap with them sounded nice.
* * * *
Something tickled Selena’s nose. She brushed at it, then realized that something was tickling her chin, as well. She yawned, then opened her eyes to find the guys tickling her face with blades of grass.
“I was sleeping so good, guys,” she complained.
“Clouds are building up. It’s going to rain soon. Didn’t think you’d like getting wet,” Austin said.
She looked overhead and noticed that dark rain clouds had replaced the fluffy clouds of earlier. She sat up and stretched.
“We’d better get things packed away or we’re going to get wet regardless,” Caleb said.
Selena helped them repack the two baskets, then followed them at a fast clip toward the house. Rain began falling before they reached the house, and by the time they’d piled into the laundry room, they were all soa
ked to the skin and laughing like lunatics.
“You need to get out of those wet clothes, babe. We can put them in the dryer and they’ll be ready in no time,” Caleb said.
Both men were removing their T-shirts and toeing off their boots. Selena didn’t think anything of it as she peeled off her T-shirt and pulled off her shoes, as well. It wasn’t until they’d shoved everything into the dryer that she realized she was standing in her underwear between them wearing nothing but boxers.
“Let’s get you something to put on so you don’t catch a cold,” Austin said, tugging on her hand.
She let him drag her through the house and upstairs to one of the rooms. Once inside, he opened a drawer and pulled out a T-shirt that proved to swallow her whole once she’d pulled it on.
“Well, you’re definitely covered up,” Caleb said with a chuckle.
“At least you won’t trip like you would if you wore a pair of our sweats,” Austin said.
They donned sweatpants and led her back downstairs to the kitchen, where Austin made coffee for them. While they sipped it, they talked about the house and how they’d designed it, then helped build it. She asked who had decorated it, and they’d laughed at that.
“Actually, it was my sister who helped us buy the furniture and stuff. Neither one of us had a clue about the furnishings other than what we liked in the wood, like the tables and chairs in the kitchen area,” Caleb said.
“Oh, but we made the bedroom furniture in the master suite. We’ll have to show it to you later,” Austin said.
“You made the entire bedroom suite?” she asked.
“Yeah. We knew what we wanted it to look like and couldn’t find it anywhere, so we built it ourselves,” Caleb told her.
“How about watching something on TV?” Austin asked.
“Give me another cup of coffee and I’ll watch anything, including sports,” she told them.
“Do you like football?” Caleb asked.
“I like watching it on TV but don’t like to go to the games,” she admitted.
“Great. There’s a good game on tomorrow. You’ll have to watch it with us,” Caleb said.
“Sounds like fun. You have to have Rotel and chips with football.”
“I think we can handle that,” Austin said.
She sat on the couch between the two men as Caleb flipped through the channels until he found a movie none of them had seen before. They settled down and laughed through the funny parts and cringed through the scary parts. Selena was having the best time with them just watching TV.
When the movie was over with, she started to get up, but Caleb pulled her over onto his lap and covered her mouth with his. One hand held her face still as he devoured her while Austin slid the T-shirt up until he could reach her breasts with his mouth. She hadn’t expected this and was totally blindsided by all the sensations they were giving her.
“Fuck, your breasts are amazing, hon. I love how big your nipples are. They taste better than ripe berries,” Austin said.
“Oh, God.” Selena gasped as Caleb released her mouth to nibble his way down her jawline to her neck.
“Lay her out so we can both taste her,” Austin told the other man.
Caleb released her so that she was stretched out from one end of the couch to the other, giving both men access to her breasts at the same time. She couldn’t help but smile at the heavy-lidded eyes staring down at her. They were just as affected by their actions as she was.
“Taste her, Caleb. Nothing is sweeter,” Austin said.
Caleb sucked in one taut nipple, then took in more of her breast as Austin pulled on the opposite one. The feel of both of her breasts being toyed with at the same time was a bit overwhelming. When Austin bent over to draw the nipple he’d been pulling on into his mouth, she groaned aloud.
“Feel good, honey? Like having both of your tits loved on at the same time?” Austin asked.
“Yes. God, it feels good,” she confessed.
“Just think of what two men can give you that one can’t, baby girl.” Caleb nipped at her nipple before sucking on it once again.
“It’s too much,” she said, writhing beneath them.
“No. It’s not enough. Need more of you, honey. I need to taste all of you,” Austin said, slipping from beneath her and kneeling at the foot of the couch.
“What?” she began, then moaned as he slid between her legs to bury his face there.
“You smell amazing, Selena. I want to lick you until you come all over my face,” Austin said as he pressed his nose against her panties.
“Please.”
“Please what, baby girl? Want Austin to eat that pretty pussy of yours?” Caleb asked.
“Yes. I want him to make me come with his mouth,” she confessed.
“Then I don’t think you need these anymore,” Austin said as he tore her panties off in one hard tug.
Chapter Fourteen
Selena nearly screamed when Austin tore off her panties. No one had ever torn her clothing like that before. It was exhilarating and a little scary all at the same time. That thought flew out of her head though when he finally put his lips over her pussy lips. She was already wet, but the feel of his lips brushing over her core sent wet heat creaming between her legs.
“You smell like sugary berries, Selena. You taste even better. Like honeyed cream.” Austin ran his tongue up and down her slit in such a slow, leisurely caress that she wanted to scream at him move faster.
She wanted more.
Needed more.
“Please, Austin,” she begged.
“What do you want Austin to do, Selena? Do you want him to fuck that cunt with his tongue?” Caleb asked.
“Yes. Please, fuck me with your tongue, Austin,” she said.
Caleb wasn’t going to be left out. Before Austin speared her with his tongue, he sucked on her nipples by pushing her breasts together so that he could get to both of them at one time. It felt too good. She had Austin between her legs, licking and thrusting his tongue deep inside of her as Caleb sucked and tugged on her nipples. Heaven couldn’t get much better than this.
“Yes, God, Caleb, Austin. It’s too much, but it feels so good.” Selena was in over her head with this.
Nothing had ever felt so good to her. How could she ever go back to one man after having experienced what two men could do? She would be ruined for life after this. She had no illusions of where this was going. They were going to have her tonight. Both of them. Her between them, and them inside of her.
Austin circled her clit with his tongue, then laved over it with the flat of his tongue so that she squirmed beneath him. He lapped at her juices, then returned to her little bundle of nerves to tease it once more. When he thrust a finger deep inside of her cunt, she nearly came right then. He fucked her with his finger while circling her clit with the tip of his tongue. Selena moaned in pleasure.
He added a second finger to the first and began to thrust harder and deeper with the two digits. She needed to come. The pressure was building higher and harder as he sipped at her pussy while fucking her with his fingers.
Caleb continued to lick and suck and pinch at her nipples, adding to the building pressure that was her impending release. She wanted to beg them to hurry, while at the same time she wanted it to go on forever.
“Now, Caleb,” Austin lifted away from her for a brief second to tell his friend.
In the next instant, Austin sucked hard on her clit while fucking her with his fingers and Caleb pinched one nipple and bit the other one. Selena screamed as the climax broke over her, sending her crashing like waves against a cliff. Nothing had prepared her for such a wild release. She panted, fighting to catch her breath as the two men eased her down from the wild high she’d been riding.
“Oh, God, that was amazing,” she finally heaved out.
“You’re beautiful when you come, baby girl,” Caleb said.
“You taste even better,” Austin said.
“I think you broke me,
” Selena said.
The two men chuckled.
“Just rest, babe. You deserve it.” Austin ran a hand down her shoulder.
“What about you guys?” she asked.
“We didn’t say we were through. Just that you deserve to rest before we move on to round two,” Caleb said with a wide grin splitting his face.
“I’ll never survive a second round,” Selena told them even as her eyes began to droop.
“You will. Don’t worry, babe. We’ll take good care of you,” Caleb said.
Selena drifted for what seemed like hours but could only have been about fifteen or so minutes before she felt herself lifted off the couch.
“Whoa. What are you doing?” she asked as Austin picked her up.
“Taking you somewhere more comfortable,” he said.
“I can walk. Let me down, Austin.” She weighed too much for him to cart her around.
“Nope. I like carrying you, hon.” To her horror, Austin started climbing the stairs.
Selena looked over his shoulder to see Caleb right behind them. He smiled up at her as if he wasn’t the least bit worried that Austin might drop her.
“I’m too big for him to carry me upstairs like this,” Selena said.
“Nonsense. You don’t weigh more than anything we carry around every day at work,” Caleb told her.
Selena sighed as they reached the landing and Austin continued down the hall to the last door on the right. Caleb reached around them to open the door so that they could walk inside. The room was enormous, easily the size of the living room downstairs. The bed was in the center of the room and was huge. It had to be larger than a king size. Where had they gotten a mattress and sheets to fit it? And they’d built it themselves. It was amazing with pillars at least thirty inches around at all four corners.
The dresser and chest were works of art, as well, and perfectly matched the bed. She couldn’t help but admire the workmanship and wanted Austin to put her down so she could explore.
“Wow. Just wow, guys. It’s gorgeous.”
“Thanks. We wanted something unique that fit us, and this is it,” Austin said as he slowly lowered her to the bed.
“How long did it take you to build it all?” she asked.
