by Zara Chase
Ellie shook her head. “I had a late lunch.”
“Bad as that, was it?” Rex asked sympathetically.
“It’s hard to think of my father having sex at all, much less with my best friend.”
“Do you think he called her, warning her that you know and are upset about it?” Josh asked. “That could be why she cancelled.”
“I don’t think so.” Ellie wrinkled her brow. “I didn’t ask him not to mention it, but Dad tends to leave people to make their own decisions. I guess he knew I hadn’t confronted her. If I had, I wouldn’t have needed to cross-question him.”
“Go slip into something more comfortable,” Rex said, sharing a concerned glance with Josh. “We’ll be right there, and you can tell us all about it.”
“There’s not much to tell,” Ellie said a short time later. She’d taken Rex’s advice and wore a comfortable-looking long-sleeved top and casual pants. With her feet tucked beneath her on the lounge couch, she made healthy inroads into the large glass of white wine that Josh handed to her. “I asked him about his relationship with Annabel. He says he never slept with her until after Mom died, and I think that’s the truth.” She paused. “I also think Annabel’s been playing him since the word go and that she turned to him again even before you broke up with her, Josh.”
He shrugged. “Doesn’t surprise me.”
“Why, though?” Rex mused. “That’s the question.”
“I think it’s because she wasn’t getting anywhere with her ambitions to be on the box,” Ellie said. “The competition in New York is fierce and not always civilized.”
Josh sniffed. “Then she should have felt right at home.”
“She was hedging her bets. She wasn’t getting any younger, and, reading between the lines, the guy you caught her trying to seduce was her last ticket to stardom. Annabel doesn’t do failure, so she had my dad waiting in the wings as a stopgap.”
“To use his contacts in the industry, if need be?” Rex asked.
“That’s what I figure,” Ellie said. “Nothing else makes much sense. I hate to think of him being used like that, but I guess he’s old enough to know what he’s doing.”
“Are you all right?” Rex asked, taking her free hand and squeezing it.
“Yes. No.” Ellie shook her head. “It shouldn’t matter. I want Dad to be happy. He deserves to be, but I can’t help feeling that Annabel won’t give him anything but grief. Am I being too hard on her?”
“From experience, I’d say not hard enough,” Josh said.
Rex nodded. “I agree.”
“Annabel will only ever think of number one,” Josh added. “If your dad just wants to have a bit of fun, no strings attached, then he’ll be fine. But—”
“But if he expects to get more than that out of it, he could get hurt,” Ellie said glumly. “Yes, I already figured that much out all by myself.”
“If she’s got your dad in her sights, why continue this vendetta against Josh?” Rex asked.
Neither of them answered him, which wasn’t exactly surprising since the answer was obvious. She was using him. It was as simple as that.
“I thought of asking Dad to call her back from Spirit,” Ellie admitted. “In the end I decided not to. It would make us look as though we had something to worry about.”
“You did the right thing,” Josh told her.
“There’s nothing from your past that could come back to haunt you, is there, Josh?” He shook his head. “Anything at all? If there is, say so now and I’ll try to neutralize it.”
“No, there’s nothing.”
“You sure? Because you can bet your life, if it exists, Annabel will find it. You can rely on a woman scorned to do a thorough hatchet job. Annabel, for all her faults, is a good journalist even when she doesn’t have an axe to grind.”
“Nothing but a few youthful indiscretions,” Josh said. “I’m clean.”
“And I’m randy as get-go,” Rex said. “But if you don’t feel like it, babe—”
She fixed him with a sultry smile. “You trying to wrangle out of your obligations, Mr. Moore?”
Lust reverberated like thunder through Rex. He took the empty glass from between Ellie’s fingers, leaned down, and swept her clean from the settee, straight into his arms. Her feet literally didn’t touch the floor.
“Let’s take this next door,” he said, heading in that direction without waiting for her to agree. “You coming, buddy?” he asked over his shoulder.
Chapter Nine
“Hey, I’m not exactly a lightweight.” Ellie buried her face in Rex’s broad shoulder and laughed. “You might want to put me down before you do yourself some kind of injury.”
“And give you the chance to change your mind?” He kissed the top of her head, not breaking stride as he did so. “No chance.”
“I’m not going anywhere.”
“Glad we’re on the same page here.” He grinned at her with what appeared to be relief. Strange, Ellie didn’t have him pegged as the insecure type. “I just needed to hear you say it.”
He kicked the door to his bedroom open and set her back on her feet. He and Josh then sat side by side on a sofa beneath the window, looking perfectly relaxed. Ellie stood where she was, unsure what to do next. It was her turn to feel insecure. Josh glanced up, presumably sensing her uncertainty, and quirked a brow in an almost arrogant display of expectation. It was enough to remind her that she was supposed to behave subserviently. Ellie dutifully dropped her gaze to the floor and waited, anticipation sweeping through her in heated waves. Her limbs trembled with suppressed excitement as heightened awareness and an overwhelming desire to please these two hunks fuelled her determination.
“What would you like me to do to you, Ellie?” Rex asked in a conversational tone. She took a swift peek at him and noticed that his eyes were focused like lasers on her face.
“Do I get to choose?”
“Actually no, but I was curious to know what was going through your mind right then. You looked kinda focused.”
“I was thinking that I need to broaden my horizons.” Ellie shrugged. “Josh made me realize that my sex life has been woefully unadventurous up until now.”
Rex and Josh shared a broad grin, but once again it was Rex who spoke. “Then you’ve come to the right place,” he said. “Take all your clothes off for us, Ellie.”
Ellie didn’t hesitate to comply. She unbuttoned her top slowly, watching them from beneath lowered lashes again to gauge their reaction. Both men had their gazes firmly focused on her hands as they moved down the row of buttons at what she hoped was a tantalizingly slow speed. Judging by the bulges in the fronts of their pants when her shirt fell open and revealed her tits encased in their pretty lacy prison, they liked what they saw.
She swallowed, still finding it hard to accept that these two alpha males were so intently focused on her. There was absolutely nothing out of the ordinary about her. She reminded herself that they could have just about any woman they wanted and so she wouldn’t allow their interest to go to her head. They were only playing with her because she happened to be available and was willing to go along with their rules.
Even so, their attention worked wonders for her self-esteem. She had always felt second best when compared to Annabel, who collected men as casually as other people snatched up bargains at the store. Whenever they met guys during their college days, it was like Ellie didn’t exist until Annabel made her choice, leaving Ellie with guys who didn’t interest Annabel. For once Ellie had the upper hand, because Annabel still appeared to hanker after Josh.
But Josh wanted Ellie.
Ellie ought to revel in this reversal of roles. Instead, every time she thought about it, unease trickled through her body. Annabel didn’t give up easily when there was something she wanted, which explained why she’d come to Spirit herself several days ahead of a press conference to cover a local story that wouldn’t normally register on her radar. Still, Josh assured her there was nothing she could di
g up on him, so Ellie refused to allow the specter of Annabel to spoil the searingly intense mood that prevailed right then in Rex’s bedroom.
She dismissed thoughts of her erstwhile friend and casually threw her top aside. This was her moment, Josh and Rex were watching her with expressions of open admiration, and she intended to take full advantage of their temporary fascination with her. She unfastened her trousers, pushed them slowly down her legs, and stepped out of them. She now wore nothing except her matching cream underwear. Uncertain whether she was expected to remove it herself, she glanced up at them, looking for guidance.
“Take it all off,” Rex said softly. “I want to see every inch of you.”
Ellie removed her bra first. She thought about covering her tits with her hands as it fell away, just to keep them waiting a bit longer, but decided that would be way too passé. Instead, her bra joined the rest of her clothes on the floor and she stood before them, naked apart from her skimpy panties, watching for their reaction. Both men moistened their lips and smiled first at one another, like they had something to celebrate, then at her. Ellie felt empowered by the deep passion she could detect in their expressions and shed her remaining inhibitions along with her panties.
Rex stood up and made much faster work of removing his own clothes. He was naked in seconds and certainly didn’t disappoint. His cock was as thick and rigid as a tent pole. She could see the raised veins running down its length and moistened her lips in anticipation. He moved to the edge of the bed, sat on it, and beckoned her over. She moved as though in a trance, perfectly willing to follow wherever the guys led. As soon as she was within range of Rex’s arms, he snaked one round her waist and tumbled her onto his lap. Her ass landed against his erection a little too firmly, and he expelled a strangled groan.
“Not yet,” he muttered against the top of her head when she wriggled into a more comfortable position and her ass again tried to introduce itself to his cock.
He tilted her chin with his forefinger and bent his head to capture her upturned lips in a slow, incendiary kiss. Turbulent heat cascaded through Ellie as his tongue invaded her mouth and his large hands set to work, exploring her body. She was so aroused already that her nipples were almost painfully solid. She’d never been naked with an audience before. Josh, still fully clothed, was watching their every move with an expression of deep appreciation. It was a real turn-on and made her feel invincible, capable of achieving anything she set her mind to.
Rex, as though sensing that her mind had drifted, deepened the kiss and also gave her thigh a sharp tap to recall her attention. Her reaction was instantaneous and mind-blowingly hot. Her pussy leaked all over his thighs, her already-volcanic body temperature hitched up another notch or two, and desire spread through her like a tidal wave. It felt as though her entire body had been ignited.
“Did you like it when Josh spanked you?” Rex asked when he broke the kiss.
“Yes. I never thought I’d enjoy pain.” She shrugged. “Seems I’ve been missing out big time.”
“That’s good.” Rex smoothed the hair away from her face. “So you’re ready to be a little more adventurous?”
“I’ll do whatever pleases you.”
Rex chuckled. “Right answer.”
One hand softly caressed the side of her ass before slipping beneath it and tracing the crack between her buttocks. The other was occupied with one of her breasts. He tweaked the rock-hard nipple, causing renewed sensation to ricochet through her in dizzying waves. It overcame her dwindling reservations, helping to quell her instinctive flinch from the invasion of his hand on her backside. She relaxed against him, desire and an overwhelming urge to experiment expunging everything else from her brain. Rex seemed attuned to her reactions and nudged her to the limits of her subconscious curiosity. Would he spank her now?
It seemed not. Ellie tried to quell her disappointment when he tipped her off his lap and ambled across the room to rummage in a cupboard. Josh winked at her but said nothing. Rex returned almost immediately, clutching a weird-looking implement—chains and what looked like bulldog clips.
“Nipple clamps,” he explained in response to her quizzical look.
“What do they do?”
“Blow your mind.”
“How?” she asked doubtfully.
“They restrict the flow of blood to your nipples and make them even more sensitive.”
Ellie shook her head, un-self-consciously raising one hand to a breast and touching it. “I don’t think that would be possible.”
“You’d be surprised.”
She moistened her lips and offered him a sultry smile. “Then surprise me.”
* * * *
Rex and Josh shared a glance as Ellie continued to touch herself, looking as though she was enjoying their admiration. Did she have any idea how goddamned sexy she was or how profoundly she’d affected them? Somehow Rex doubted it. An attractive woman completely unaware that she exuded sex appeal by the bucket load was a rarity in these enlightened times and did wonders for Rex’s jaded palate.
If he had to guess, Rex would say she’d been so busy trying to carve out a career for herself without relying on Daddy’s help that she’d completely forgotten how to have fun. Mind you, if she spent her younger years in Annabel’s shadow, it would explain why she had no real idea how desirable she actually was. Annabel didn’t forge friendships unless there was something in them for her. Nor, he suspected, did she take well to competition.
“Ready for this, babe?” he asked.
“Yes, more than ready.” She did that thing with her tongue and lower lip that so got to him. It was a subconscious gesture that went straight to his groin each time she fell back on it. “What are we waiting for?”
Josh made a sound—something between a choke and a groan. Rex flashed him a sympathetic smile. They couldn’t take her together, not yet, and this was Rex’s show—at least initially. Josh would join the party later, but they must both curb their natural instincts and guide Ellie gradually into the life. It would be their pleasure to initiate her into the delights she’d been missing all these years. Allowing their instincts to take precedence over the need to take things slowly could have the opposite result to the one they were hoping for.
Rex approached Ellie and paid further homage to her breasts. He dropped his head and feasted on a plump nipple until she threw her head back and moaned softly. Laughing at her inability to hide her reactions, Rex reached for the tube of lube he’d just unearthed and gently smoothed some over her areolas. He then attached one of the clover clamps.
“Ouch!”
“I hurt you.” Rex made to remove the clamp. “This was a bad idea.”
“No, actually it doesn’t hurt. It was just a shock, that’s all.”
“How does it feel now?” Rex asked.
“It tingles and feels tight. I feel the reaction more between my legs and in my gut than I do in my tits.”
“That’s kinda the idea,” Rex said, chuckling. “Ready for the other one?”
She nodded. “Absolutely.”
Rex connected that as well.
“Why are they attached with a chain?”
“You’ll find out soon enough. Right now you need to stand on the other side of the room so we can look at you.”
“Christ! Will you get a load of that?” Josh expelled a low, appreciative whistle and unzipped, giving his erection a little room to breathe. “This thing is getting out of control. You’d better cut to the chase, buddy.”
“I was thinking the same thing.”
Rex beckoned her back to him, wondering how much further he ought to take her this first time. Josh had shackled her hands, blindfolded her, and spanked her, so Rex wouldn’t do any of those things. She needed to get used to the clamps, and there was something else they’d discussed that Josh could take care of while Rex fucked her. He nodded to his buddy and then lay flat out on the bed.
“Straddle me, babe,” he said, holding his erection at its base and fis
ting it.
“Condom,” Josh said, throwing a foil packet at Rex.
Rex caught it one-handed, tore it open with his teeth, and rolled the rubber down the length of his shaft. Ellie had already straddled his body, and he guided the tip of his prick toward her sopping cunt. With a soft sigh she sank down on him and took it all inside in one greedy swoop.
“Christ, you’re so goddamned tight,” he said, clenching his teeth against the intensity of the sensation when she closed the walls of her vagina around his cock.
“We aim to oblige,” she said sweetly, releasing him a little and then sinking down to reclaim his throbbing prick.
“Come here.”
Rex tugged gently on the chain attached to her nipples. She cried out and leaned toward him, sticking her butt in the air, just as she was supposed to. Josh now had his shirt off. His erection still sprang from his open pants as he sat behind Ellie and caressed her ass with the palms of his hands.
“Oh!”
“Ignore Josh and concentrate on me fucking you,” Rex said sharply.
“Sorry, sir.”
“That’s it, babe, keep leaning those gorgeous tits in my face and riding my cock like you need to be fucked.”
“I do need to be.” Ellie closed her eyes. “I really need you to fill me, Rex.”
Rex made eye contact with Josh and nodded. Ellie was as ready as she’d ever be. Josh returned Rex’s nod and would now be squirting lube down the crack in her ass. She squealed.
“That tickles.”
Josh tapped her butt. “Be quiet and keep riding Rex. Take that huge cock of his deep inside you, babe. I’ll bet you’re just loving it.”
“He fills me so much it feels like he’s splitting me in two.”
“You like that, do you?” Rex asked. “You like having a big cock fucking you like crazy?”
“It makes me feel invincible.” She sank down on him a little harder, threw her head back without changing her forward momentum, and cried out. “Give me it harder, Rex. Having you both touching me is just about the sexiest thing I’ve ever known. I feel like I’m flying.”
