Accidentally Theirs (Siren Publishing LoveXtreme Forever)
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“Okay, spill it.”
“What?” Harper pulled a soft blanket around her.
“You said you were banging the hot cute one. But I saw you kissing the other cute one at the barn.” Ellie pointed toward her. “Are you with them both?”
“It’s complicated.”
Ellie’s jaw dropped. “Oh, my goodness. Give me the details.”
Harper gave her the gist of the story and Ellie sat there enthralled with it. Harper wondered if the men felt any differently toward her. Cooper gave her an emotional thank you for not selling the place. Logan stayed with her in the hospital bed all night long with Gabe at her side. Nick was so caring and so easy to love. And Aaron was sweet and quiet. She enjoyed being with him. He made her feel special.
They all served their place here and they all served a different role in her life. It made sense that she would fall for them, but did they feel the same way?
“You’re falling for them aren’t you? Oh, my goodness. One woman and five men. Honey, I’m lucky if I get one guy to throw me up against a wall and kiss my tongue out of my mouth. I don’t know what I’d do with five.”
Harper smiled. She didn’t either. Not in the beginning. Harper thought about it for the rest of the day. She needed to figure out where she was going and what she was doing. She wasn’t sure how a woman could have a relationship with five men living in another city. And she wasn’t sure they even wanted that. It was all about pleasure and pleasure was what they gave her.
Ellie had business call after business call for most of the afternoon and Harper glanced over at her. “They need you, don’t they?”
“Ugh. They need someone to tie their shoes strings, but that’s not the point.” She glanced over at Hugh who’d just returned from Amanda’s. “When were you going back to Atlanta?”
“Tomorrow.”
“I’ll wait until then. I didn’t get a return flight on my ticket because I didn’t know how long I’d be staying.”
“You’re both leaving me?” Harper pouted.
“Do you want me to stay longer?” Hugh’s face filled with concern. “I can clear my schedule for the next week if you need me to.”
“No. I’m okay. I just hate that you’re leaving already. I miss seeing you every day even though it’s only been a few weeks.”
“You could come back with us,” Hugh offered. “Recover in Atlanta. Then you can come back here to start the renovations. You can’t renovate while you’re recovering. Don’t even try it Harper.”
She smiled. “I won’t. Doctor said a week. I’m taking a week.”
“That’s going to last a day,” Ellie commented. “You’re head is hard, but don’t push it.”
Harper rolled her eyes. “I can be good if I put my mind to it.”
“If you can sit still.”
Her sister had some truth to her statement but she didn’t let her know that. For the rest of the day, the three of them spent time together as a family. Hugh shared some photos he got from Amanda and opened up more about his time growing up. He focused on the happy years instead of talking about the huge elephant in the room.
Harper’s phone rang and she frowned. Her assistant was supposed to take most of her business calls while she was away. She didn’t know who was calling her.
“Hello?”
“Hey, babe.” Gabe’s voice came through loud and clear. “We caught Derek trying to sell the riding gear at the rodeo. He nearly got arrested for it, then when he saw us wished the police did take him into custody. We’re bringing it back to the ranch. He’s not going to be stealing from the ranch anymore.”
Harper glanced over at Ellie. “You didn’t hit him did you?”
“Me? Nah.” Gabe chuckled. “Are you still feeling okay? I think all of us have asked the question at least once since we’ve been gone.”
That made her smile. They thought about her while they were supposed to be having fun. It was a sweet sentiment. It made her heart flutter.
“I’m feeling fine. My sister is giving me a headache, but that’s normal.”
Ellie threw a throw pillow at her. Harper chuckled. Having Ellie around felt normal and she loved it.
“Well, if you need anything you can call us. I’ll let you get back to your family. We’ll see you when we get home.”
She smiled and disconnected from them. Yeah, she was swooning over the phone call. Her sister smiled at her obviously seeing what she wasn’t saying. She rolled her eyes and went back to going through the photos with her father. It wasn’t the big things in life that people needed, but the little things.
* * * *
Aaron had determined that none of the men had ever wanted to get home so badly in all their life than after the rodeo was over. They had their fun, enjoying the bull riding and rooting for their favorites, but he couldn’t wait to get home to Harper. Aaron wanted nothing more than to wrap his arms around her and hold her tight. The feeling struck him oddly, since he’d never felt that way about anyone in his life.
“Are you falling in love with her?” Aaron blurted while the men were driving.
Silence fell in the vehicle. He wasn’t sure if he could answer the question himself. Life never afforded him many opportunities for love. He wasn’t sure that it did for the other men as well.
“Love is a strong word.” Logan stared out the front window, focused on driving. “I mean, we’ve only known her for a little while. Not long enough to declare love.”
Aaron supposed he was right, but never having felt love he didn’t know for certain. His experience with relationships was limited. He grew up in a crack house with a mom that was on dope and a father that peddled the stuff around the neighborhood. Both were raided one night by the police and hauled off to jail while he and his sibling were carted off to the foster care system. Like so many kids, he never fully trusted anyone. People said what he wanted to hear and it became a struggle to learn fact from fiction. None of his relationships amounted to anything. He usually blocked of his emotions from the women. But Harper was different. He didn’t know if it was her kindness or the fact that she promised him that he could stay in his home, but he did trust her.
“Do you love her?” Cooper asked him.
“I don’t know. I’ve never really felt love before, but Harper makes it seem like it’s possible. Like there is something deeper than just a fun time.”
Maybe he just wanted there to be. Maybe he wanted to have that connection with someone. His entire life he’d been on his own. He and the other men were friends but there was a sense of loneliness that came without an intimate relationship with another human being. Ever since Harper moved in, he hadn’t felt that. He looked forward to seeing her smiling face each day. He looked forward to talking to her and hearing her laugh. He looked forward to holding her in the throws of passion and watching her face contort from the pleasure he gave her.
“I think it’s deeper than a fun time,” Gabe commented. “She’s not some cheap piece of ass that we picked up for the night.”
“Do you trust her?” Aaron asked the men. “I mean, really trust her.”
The car fell silent again. All of them had trust issues. When they had first moved in together, it took a long time before they really understood that nobody was going to steal their stuff from their room. They created boundaries and didn’t cross them so the trust between them built.
“I trust her,” Cooper finally said. “She’s proven herself, I think.”
“I trust her too,” Nick added. “I think she does her best to do the right thing. She’s proven that with keeping the ranch. She could have had the same attitude as her father. We meant nothing to her so why keep the place just for us? She kept it because she knew what it meant to us. What it means to her. It’s home.”
“Her home is in Atlanta.” Logan commented. “She’ll be gone once she renovates the place. And where will that leave us?”
“She won’t do that to us. If anything, she’ll go back to Atlanta and let us run the ranch.” Aaron
was fairly sure about that. He knew she had no interest in the ranching business. She had no need to keep the ranch in her daily life when she was successful at her other job in the city.
“She won’t leave us. Not like that,” Gabe commented. “If anything, she’ll make this place great and spend her time between Atlanta and Crawford.”
How would they survive if she went back to the city? Aaron was having a hard enough time just going to Cheyenne for the weekend. He didn’t know what a few months of Harper being away would feel like. Or worse, if she did leave the ranch for them to run, she might only come back once a year to see how things were going. How would they live like that?
“Do you think she wants to be with us permanently?” Aaron asked.
“What’s with all the questions?” Logan glanced in the rearview mirror at him. “You act like you want to propose to her or something. If you’re that fucking in love then maybe you should.”
Logan was a hard person to understand. He had a gruff exterior that worked well for him in foster care and on the streets, but being around civilized people, he came off as a complete asshole. The men usually made room for his behavior since they knew his history. He was abused pretty badly growing up. It made him defensive of everything. He didn’t do well with emotions either. Everyone was always out to get him, and perhaps, in his former life they were. He didn’t make living with him easy, but deep down, underneath all those protective barriers, was a good guy that had a big heart. The men constantly had to remind themselves of that when he had a mood change.
“I don’t want to fucking marry her. I just want to know where you guys stand. Is this real? Or is it just a short lived fantasy that will end in a week or two?”
That was the million dollar question that nobody seemed to be able to answer.
* * * *
Gabe smiled at Harper when he walked into the house. He didn’t need words to describe how he felt. He went to her and lifted her into his arms, kissing her like a soldier coming home from war. The questions Aaron brought up churned in his mind. He didn’t know what to think about the situation. It was all fun and games until someone changed the rules. Aaron sounded head over heels for her. And so did Cooper and Nick. Logan was gruff and annoying most days but the constant frown on his face the entire time they were supposed to be enjoying the rodeo said something else was biting as his ass. Gabe felt it, too. He didn’t want to call it love. Love was messy and complicated. He cared for her though. He caught himself thinking about her randomly throughout the day. She made him happy just by being there. She made him smile when she smiled. God, he felt like a pussy for getting so fucking emotional about it, but that’s what he was. Caught somewhere in the middle of emotions he didn’t understand.
“I’ve missed you.”
She cupped the back of his head. “I’ve missed you, too.”
He smiled at her and she hugged him. Her soft body felt so good pressed up against his. He didn’t know what to call it, but he didn’t want to let it go.
He sat her on her feet as the other guys piled in the house. She greeted each one of them and Gabe watched as they took their time hugging and kissing her. He could tell by the way they treated her that the other’s loved her. They all loved her, and Gabe couldn’t deny that his feelings were along the same lines. He was fairly certain their true test of how they felt came when they saw her pretty damn lifeless lying in the middle of the field. Gabe had never seen Logan run so fast to the house. He didn’t want to wait for a truck to pick them up. He carried her all the way.
“Well, how was the rodeo?” Harper asked as they moved into the living room. “Tell me all about it.”
“It’s just a bunch of cowboys riding bulls.” Logan pulled her to him and kissed her. “Where’s your family?”
“They’ve gone back to Atlanta. My dad took my renovation budget with him and he’s going to fund me enough to get this place going. Eight weeks of renovations and then I’ve got to go back to Atlanta to work.” She blew out a breath. “It’s going to be a crazy two months. We’ve got a lot of work ahead of us.”
Gabe didn’t know what that meant but he didn’t question it either. He assumed she had big plans considering what she put into the office. And that was a simple project.
“So we’re all alone?” Logan asked.
“Yes.”
“Good.” Logan lifted her from the chair and carried her out of the living room. A few of the men chuckled and stood, following him. Gabe couldn’t quite shake the thoughts that Aaron had brought up about Harper. Did they love her? Gabe wanted to say yes. He wanted to say that they’d developed a connection that ran deeper than simple pleasure between two people. It may have started out that way, but he wanted it to be something more.
Logan and Cooper were busy peeling her clothes off when Gabe finally arrived. The downstairs bedroom was the only one that had a king sized bed in it and it was used for guests that needed a place to stay. The old bed squeaked with everyone’s movements and Gabe stood there watching them.
He did love her. There wasn’t really any question about it. Just simply being home and being with her made him feel so good. The way she smiled at him made his heart soar.
“Please tell me that your head is better.” Gabe moved to the bed where she lay.
“My head is fine. Sore, but fine.” Cooper spread her thighs wide and her pussy was slick with her cream. God, it was temptation at its finest and none of the men were able to resist.
“So sex is allowed?” Gabe asked staring down at her. “I mean, we’ve been without you for several days. I’m talking hardcore fucking from all of us.”
She looked fine. He had no doubt that she’d tell them to fuck off if she wasn’t well enough. The doctor had told her to take it easy but he had no doubt Harper pushed those boundaries. They really didn’t help her in that matter either when they ate her out on the barn table. Gabe’s mouth watered just thinking about it.
“Get over here and find out.” Her sassy mouth made him smile. He loved the way she made him feel. Happy and horny at the same time. All the worry that had been going through his mind with the questions Aaron brought up ceased to exist when he looked at her. He wanted her and that was all that really mattered.
Gabe pulled off his shirt. Cooper had made quick work of taking her clothes off while Logan grabbed a condom from the box. “Ride me, cowgirl.”
Harper smiled at him and waited while he got on the bed. Gabe grabbed a condom from the box and rolled it on. “You need another stud, don’t you, baby?”
Harper laughed. “God, I’d take you all at the same time but that’s impossible.”
“Where there’s a will there’s a way.”
“No there isn’t.” Harper sank down on Logan’s cock and Gabe watched as her eyes drifted half closed. Logan bared his teeth, clutching her thighs as she settled on top of him. Yeah, he knew that look. That feeling. Her tight warmth wrapping around his cock was just about enough to make a grown man howl with pleasure. Forget actual moving. Penetration was enough to fuck up their control.
“Hurry,” Harper cried, waiting for him to lube up.
Cooper laughed and pinched her nipples. “Someone sounds as desperate as we all are.”
She gripped Logan’s chest, digging her fingernails into the meaty flesh. “You have no idea.”
Gabe smeared the lube on his cock and then slipped his fingers between her cheeks. She was tight and he was big. He needed to take it slow, but the sexy little minx wanted him now. She lifted her ass and pushed back against his fingers. How they went this long without having her, he didn’t know.
He chuckled at her incessant need and angled his cock toward her tiny little hole. “I should make you beg for it.”
He pushed in, barely breaching the tight ring of muscle. Harper sucked in a quick breath. “That is cruel and unusual punishment.”
“Punishment can be sweet in the right doses.” He pulled out and grabbed the lube. After adding more to his cock he tried
again.
Harper’s body was made to give and receive pleasure. Gabe’s heart hammered in his chest as her body gradually accepted more of him. The tight muscles relaxed as he pushed into the snug depths of her ass.
“I’m dying here,” Logan remarked. “I need to fucking move.”
Gabe watched his cock slide from her ass as he and Logan guided her along their stiff dicks. The tightness was agonizing as they worked in a slow rhythm. Gabe clenched his teeth together as his balls slapped against Logan’s. God, he loved being inside her. Love everything about her.
Cooper reached between her and Logan and rubbed her clit. He kissed the outer shell of her ear. “Come for us, baby.”
“She’s clutching my dick so hard. I can’t stand it much longer.” Beads of sweat dotted Logan’s forehead and Gabe watched him bite his lower lip. Comfortable with the position Harper moved on them faster, undoubtedly in rhythm with Cooper’s fingers. Gabe felt Logan’s distress. Her hot heat scorched him as he slipped inside her. He didn’t want it to end.
Harper cried out, scratching her nails into Logan’s chest as her pussy and ass gripped both men tightly. Sweet Jesus, Gabe’s head spun. He closed his eyes and let her milk him, scared that if he moved he’d shoot his load and it would all be over.
“I need to thrust.” Logan shifted. “Lie back, man. Let her sit on your dick while I fuck her.”
With some shifting Gabe pulled Harper on top of him, with his dick filling her snug ass while Logan thrust into her. He squeezed her breasts, pinching her nipples as Cooper continued to rub her clit. Logan’s thrusts were harsh and short, driving his dick into her with fervor. She came again, dropping her head back against Gabe’s chest while her body sucked at the two cocks inside her.
“Fuck!” Logan’s harsh grunt came long and loud as he rocked his cock inside her. When he was through, he bent down and kissed her, smoothing his hands along her body. “You are so fucking amazing. I lose my head when I’m inside you.”
Harper smiled. “The feeling is mutual.”
“Damn right it is.” Logan withdrew and Gabe gripped her hips. “Ride me. Fuck me with your hot ass and make me come.”