Meanwhile, he was counting on the fact that Ian was one of the most hardheaded individuals he had ever known, and that he would be fine. If snowboarders and skateboarders were constantly crashing without helmets, then Ian should come out okay after just one run-in with a cement piling.
Although Leif was unable to give them an update on Ian’s condition, he assured Caleb that there would be weapons ready and waiting for him and Joshua when they arrived. Joshua didn’t know how he had managed to arrange that at five o’clock on a Sunday morning, but he had. It just goes to show the priorities of a former military man, and Joshua had a newfound appreciation for Leif’s priorities. As soon as he dropped Olivia off at the hospital with Leif and Caleb, he intended to visit with the BPD detectives he had established a rapport with the last time he had been in Boston. He hoped they had made some progress on the license plate that Leif had provided!
Right before takeoff, Olivia took one more pill, which allowed her to sleep. Joshua was grateful. He realized the level of pain she had been in. He and Caleb discussed Joshua’s plan for when they touched down, and Caleb approved. Caleb further suggested that Joshua also contact the brother of Leif’s Army buddy, who worked on the Boston Police Department, as well. After that, both men settled in for some much-needed shut-eye, knowing that they probably wouldn’t get any once they landed.
As soon as they landed, Caleb called Leif and found that Ian had been released, and that they were waiting for them at Olivia’s condominium. Olivia was feeling much better after the flight, and Joshua’s plus column was beginning to fill up.
Caleb accompanied Olivia to baggage claim, and Joshua headed straight for the police department. He planned to meet them at the condo, as soon as he was finished.
“You go make sure that Ian rests, okay?” Joshua told Olivia.
“You can count on it,” Olivia assured him. “Are you sure you don’t want to come to my place first and then have either Leif or Caleb go with you?” Olivia asked, a little worriedly.
“Nobody knows we’re here, Kitten, I’ll be fine. We really need to work fast. Go take care of Ian, and I’ll be with you in no time.” He gave her a quick kiss, and headed to the rental car counter. As he was waiting in line, he called Ian.
“Joshua, where the hell are you?” Ian asked.
“We just got in. I’m going to BPD, and Caleb and Olivia are heading to the condo. Are you really okay?” Joshua asked.
“It was a mild concussion and some stitches,” Ian assured him.
“Why were you unconscious for so long?” Joshua asked.
“Too long without sleep, per the doctors,” Ian admitted.
“Okay, well, Olivia’s a mess, she’s been having migraines. Get her to sleep. Pretend you need to nap, that’ll force her to nap, too,” Joshua ordered.
“I see through your thinly veiled attempt to get me to rest, as well.” Ian chuckled.
“Two birds with one stone.” Joshua chuckled with his friend, relieved that he sounded so good. “Hey, Ian, I got a call from Chance, he said that the hard drive you gave him from Linus was incomplete. There is obviously another computer somewhere that contains the information Chance was concerned about, because it wasn’t on Linus’s work computer. We’re going to have to drop by Linus’s house and get his home computer, unless you had that one hacked.”
“I didn’t have access to that one. I’ll talk to Leif and Caleb, and see if they are up for a little bit of breaking and entering.”
“Before we go there, why don’t you have Olivia call Adam, and see if we can try a legitimate way to access his personal laptop for AHC records,” Joshua suggested.
“Killjoy,” Ian grumbled.
“Take care of our girl! She’s been worried about you, and she really needs to rest.”
“You can count on it,” Ian said right before he hung up.
* * * *
Leif answered the door when Joshua arrived at the condominium and gave a quiet greeting.
“So, I take it that Ian and Olivia are napping?” Joshua asked in a quiet voice.
“Yeah, it took them a while. Both of them were trying to convince the other that they were fine. I thought they were going to fall down here in the living room. You have your work cut out for yourself with those two. Talk about stubborn!”
Joshua gave a low bark of laughter. “Ya think?”
“Did they figure out a way to access Linus’s home computer?” Joshua asked.
“They think so, Adam is working on it,” Leif answered as Caleb walked into the room, handing Joshua a mug of coffee.
“What did you find out from the police?” Caleb asked.
“They found the owner of the car, and it wasn’t stolen. Phil James is the name of the owner, with a file an inch thick, armed robbery, assault, he’s for hire. They’re going to pick him up today. They’ll inform us when they take him into custody.”
“Beautiful. It sounds like things are finally starting to break open,” Leif said with satisfaction.
“Sounds like,” Joshua said with a grin. “So, where is my hardware?” he asked. Leif went into his bedroom and brought out a new model Glock for him.
“Caleb said this is the standard issue for cops, so I figured it would be what you’re comfortable with handling.”
“Yeah, it is, thanks.” Joshua already had his shoulder holster on, so he put the gun under his jacket.
“We’re following up on Ian’s hack on Frank Brotze’s phone. He and Richard Phillips were talking, and it sounds like Phillip’s expecting to get paid off tonight. Brotze does not sound happy. We want details. This is going to go down in Stamford, Connecticut. We want to see if we can listen in on this meeting, since they represent two of our three remaining suspects. We figured you three are safe here. What do you think, Joshua?” Leif asked.
“When will you be back?” Joshua asked.
“The meeting is taking place in Stamford, Connecticut, so probably not until late tonight. We’ll call you when we’re on our way back with what we’ve found out.”
“Okay,” Joshua said. “I’ll keep you updated on what Adam and Chance find on Linus’s personal computer and anything the BPD comes up with on Phil James and his car.”
“I think we’ve almost got this wrapped up!” Leif assured Joshua.
“Olivia still needs time to recover from the original beating, let alone getting shot. This has been a lot for her, and she’s still pushing herself hard.”
“She’s an amazing woman, Joshua. You’re very lucky,” Leif said.
“Yeah, but she’s not the type of woman who would ever work out for you,” Joshua said perceptively. Caleb didn’t meet his eye, but Leif looked at him and nodded. Joshua grinned, “I know you’re both eager to get back home to work on more school repairs.” This time both men met his eyes and chuckled.
“You know, I have a truckload of supplies,” Caleb said with a big smile, as the men left the room to grab what they needed for their road trip to Stamford. Joshua went into the kitchen to get a bite to eat and was noshing a banana and toast when they said good-bye.
Joshua went in to check on Ian and Olivia, not wanting to disturb them, figuring he could catch the basketball game. When he opened the bedroom door, Olivia rolled over and stretched, opening her eyes just a bit in the darkened room. She motioned him forward. He went over to her to see if she needed anything. She looked over to Ian, who was still soundly sleeping.
“I missed you,” she softly whispered. “Come sleep beside me.” Joshua didn’t need to be asked twice. He quickly stripped down to his boxers and crawled in beside her. Soon everyone was asleep.
Chapter 19
Olivia awoke slowly, like the tendrils of smoke that waft their way upward long before a campfire finally lights. She had felt the sheet being pulled down her body, exposing her to the warmth of the heated room and the heated glances of her lovers. She peered at them through barely opened eyes, wanting to see them when they thought she was still asleep.
J
oshua’s gaze was admiring and lustful and full of mischief, as if he were eyeing a dessert, trying to determine where to start. Ian’s inspection of her body was reverential, like he was amazed he had been gifted with the dessert. She understood Ian’s feelings, because as she surreptitiously gazed at the wedge of his chest with its auburn curls, and his finely sculpted face, she felt just as blessed that he was alive and whole and here with her.
Both men reached out simultaneously, lightly touching her, trying not to awaken her, rather to enjoy the texture of her skin. Again, she understood because she had often done the same thing when they were sleeping. There had been occasions when she had taken the time to softly rouse one or the other from slumber to consciousness with her mouth on their sex, taking them each to bliss. Knowing that one another’s bodies were available, belonging to each other was a heady and sacred trust, and one that Olivia was only just beginning to appreciate.
She watched, through the veil of lashes, as Ian delicately trailed his hand down her waist, past her hip, and then moved inward to the mound of her sex. Meanwhile, Joshua rubbed the back of his knuckles over the slope of her breast, closer, toward her puckering nipple. Ian eased closer to the foot of the bed and gradually parted her relaxed legs, as Joshua began to lazily circle her nipple with one finger while he blew softly into her ear. She felt another finger, Ian’s, begin to trace up and down against the plump seam of her sex. Olivia’s breathing began to change, to quicken.
“How long are you going to play possum?” Joshua whispered into her ear, as he continued to trace those maddening circles around the crest of her breast.
“As long as it gets me this kind of touching, I’m not stupid,” she whispered back, loud enough for Ian to hear. That was when she felt two fingers spear deeply into her slit, causing her to arch up in response. She didn’t make a sound, wanting to prolong the fantasy that they were seducing her in her sleep. She liked the idea that they were working to arouse her into wakefulness, and they caught on. Continuing to play, to stir her senses with strokes and caresses meant to force a verbal response, and soon it became a battle of wills.
Joshua wet both of his fingers in his mouth, then circled both of her nipples in fast concentric spirals, making her pant. Ian crooked the two fingers already inside her heated pussy, finding that spot that always made her tremble in response, and rubbed. Then his mouth took her clitoris and started to suck, lick, and lave. Olivia gritted her teeth and clamped her lips shut, while Joshua looked deep into her slitted eyes, grinning.
“Ian, she’s not going to last long. It’ll take less than a minute, and Olivia Ann will shoot to the stars.”
Olivia thrashed her head “no” on the pillow, but acknowledged that Joshua was right. This was such a good game to play, as losing only allowed her to win. Ian redoubled his efforts, and then Joshua took each peak and pinched and twisted as she shouted out her release, calling out the names of each man that she loved.
She was covered in perspiration and gasping for breath, but she wanted, no, needed, more. She looked down at Ian, with the bandage on his head.
“Ian, are you all right?” she asked in a worried tone.
“I could be better,” he acknowledged wryly.
“Oh, do you need to nap? Do you need food? Do you need aspirin? What do you need? I’ll get it for you.” Olivia struggled to sit up. Both men pushed her back down onto the bed.
“I could be coming in your tight pussy, and then I would be feeling much better,” he said seriously. She looked at him and spread her arms.
“I think that could be arranged,” she said with a breathless sigh.
“Well, I’d feel better if I could be coming in your tight ass! Could that be arranged as well, Olivia Ann?” Joshua asked from behind her. Oh, God, the idea of being between these two men again sounded like heaven. She blinked rapidly, trying to clear the tears.
“Hey, no crying, there’s no crying in sex,” Ian teased, as he gently kissed the tip of her nose.
“I want you both so much. I missed you, Ian,” Olivia admitted.
“That’s just because Joshua is so vanilla, you’ve been missing spice in the bedroom.”
“Fuck you, Ransom,” Joshua said easily, looking over at his friend.
“I think I would prefer to fuck Olivia, thank you, very much.”
“As it so happens, so would I,” Joshua said, grinning down at Olivia. Then both men turned and leaned over her, and Olivia looked up at the two big, masculine bodies focused on her and felt a rush of liquid burst from her sex.
“Oh, baby, I felt that. That’s so sexy,” he said as he rubbed his upper leg between her legs, abrading the sensitive tissues, making her even hungrier to be filled with her men’s cocks. Seeing her eyes dilate, Ian continued rubbing his leg up and down between her thighs, enjoying her moans of pleasure, and the feel of her juices coating his hair-roughened skin. “That’s right, get me all wet, prove how much you want us,” he crooned.
Olivia’s gaze flicked desperately between Ian and Joshua. “Please make love to me. I need you to be inside me. I ache,” she pleaded.
“Give me just a minute, Kitten, I’ll be right back.” He got up and left the bedroom. Ian gently lay on top of her, continuing to rub up and down, but now rubbing his chest hair against her breasts and seducing her with lazy kisses. Olivia heard the mewling sounds she was making, but she couldn’t help it, she needed more. This was so good, having Ian on top of her, surrounding her, when she had been so worried about him. It was close to heaven. But she needed more.
Then she felt the mattress shift beside her and knew that Joshua was back, and Ian rolled over, taking Olivia with him. In an instant she was straddling his big body, and in one more instant she felt the head of his penis pressing into her core, and she gave a long sob of satisfaction as he pressed up and up and up, until he was touching the mouth of her womb.
“Oh, Ian, I’ve needed you, I love you.” She could barely gasp out the words, but she managed it.
His huge hands moved just a bit, so that his long fingers were now parting the cheeks of her ass, and then she felt Joshua coating the rosette of her anus with warmed lubricant. He stroked and circled, and then he pushed inward, coating her inner muscles with oils to ease his entry. She wiggled back against his fingers, causing Ian to groan.
“Livvy, please don’t move, I won’t last,” he begged. She shimmied again, and Ian lifted a hand and smacked her ass. “I said, don’t move!” he ordered. She giggled, so happy they were all together again. Then she moaned as she felt the head of Joshua’s cock pressing into the slippery star of her back entrance.
“Relax, Olivia,” Joshua said in a pained whisper. Olivia tried but found herself clenching, which just made both men groan in reaction. “Ian, help her,” Joshua commanded.
Ian’s hands left her hips, stroking down her breasts, down her abdomen, until they moved to the tightly stretched skin that was surrounding his cock. He pulled up the hood of her clitoris and her swollen bud popped out, and he gently squeezed the distended nub of flesh between his thumbs in a gentle rhythm that soon had her out of her mind.
The head of Joshua’s cock was finally able to breach the tight muscles of Olivia’s ass, causing both of them to sigh in relief and satisfaction. “God, Joshua, that feels so good. More, I need more,” Olivia cried. She looked down and saw Ian’s anguished expression, knowing it had nothing to do with his injury and everything to do with the compression of his cock inside her ever-narrowing passage. Finally, she was full, she could barely breathe, and there was no room for air. But it didn’t matter, because she had all the sustenance she needed, now that she had both of her men inside her where they belonged.
“Kitten—”
“Livvy, are you okay?” Ian asked through gritted teeth. She nodded, unable to speak a word. “Are you sure?” “Can we move now?”
Ultimately, she gasped out, “Move. Now!” As one, they slowly pulled out and then pushed back in, over and over again. She felt them meet
, just a thin membrane within her body separating them, and where they met, it was as if sparks shot out, electricity was created, lightning struck. Each time she yelled out. This was no ladylike yell. This was a yell of, “Yes.”
A scream of “Please!”
A scream of “More!”
A scream of “Again!”
Then, finally, each time they met inside her body, she came. They met again, and she came again, screaming in ecstasy. Then, as she felt the pulse of their release flooding her body, warming her from either side, she slid into another state of consciousness, lost in the paradise of belonging.
Even after they left the bed, donned sweats, and started eating the Chinese food that Joshua had ordered directly out of cartons, they still snuggled together like sleepy puppies on the couch. Ian and Joshua took turns feeding Olivia with the chopsticks, laughing when a piece of shrimp or broccoli would fall onto her lap.
“So you ended up saving the big Special Forces dude, huh?” Olivia smiled as she took a bite of eggroll from Ian’s fingers.
“I don’t remember a lot,” Ian admitted. “I just knew that there was a gun coming up from the backseat, and then I remember slamming into a big pole of blond muscle. I know Leif tells everyone I cracked my head on one of the pillars in the garage, but I think he’s lying. I think I cracked my head on his granite chest,” Ian said with a sardonic grin.
“Yeah, hitting any of those Johansen boys is like hitting rock,” Joshua agreed. “Eric has got to be the worst though. Do you remember training with him?”
Ian laughed. “Yeah, no wonder he and Dane are smoke jumpers. They could survive even if their parachutes don’t open, with those hard heads.” Olivia laughed at their silliness. Joshua had informed her and Ian on the developments of the case, and it sounded like they were in the home stretch of identifying the culprit behind the attempts on their lives and killing Linus. She just wanted this to be over, so she could go home.
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