Elizabeth couldn’t find any flaws in his logic. It would be nice to be able to make a living and still keep Angie with her. Glancing at Angie, she cursed the fact that her face burned. “No strings?”
Hayden’s face hardened. “The job is yours regardless, but don’t think for a minute that we’re not going to pursue the rest.”
Seeing no other option, she nodded. “Okay. Thank you. When do you—shoot. My cell phone. I’m sorry, but it might be Mom or Dad.”
Hayden leaned back as she rummaged through her purse. “Take it, Lizzy. We’re not going anywhere.”
Elizabeth finally found her phone and quickly answered, not even bothering to look at the display. “Hello.”
* * * *
Chandler couldn’t wipe the smile from his face as he watched Angie play with her doll. The fact that she talked to it, pretending to be its mother totally captivated him. When the doll’s shoe came off, she struggled to put it back on until Hayden reached out a hand for it.
“Richard?”
Chandler’s head shot up to see that Elizabeth’s face had drained of all color. With a glance at Angie, who’d also looked up, he jumped to his feet, sharing a look with Hayden before grabbing Elizabeth and leading her out of the room.
Elizabeth looked up at him, her eyes panic stricken. “It’s none of your business, Richard. You have no right to dictate how I live.”
Cursing, Chandler grabbed the phone from her. “This is Chandler Scott. What the fuck do you want?” He wanted so badly to reach through the phone and grab the other guy by the throat, he shook with it.
“Well, well, well, if it isn’t one of the men fucking my wife.”
Chandler had to force himself to loosen his grip on the phone before he smashed it. “What I do with Elizabeth is none of your business. And in case you’ve forgotten, she’s your ex-wife. You couldn’t keep your dick in your pants, remember?” He had to hold out a hand to keep Lizzy from grabbing the phone from him. Putting a hand over her mouth so he could hear what the other man said, he winced, glaring at her when she bit him.
“It looks like one man’s not enough for her. That’s not a good atmosphere for my daughter to be raised in.”
A cold knot of fear formed in his stomach, cooling the white-hot fury that raced through him. “Is that a threat?”
Elizabeth stilled beside him, her face pasty white.
Richard laughed coldly. “Not from me. I don’t want the brat. But my mother’s pissed off that I lost her only grandchild. She’s causing a lot of trouble for my father and me. We don’t need this. She’s going to end up wrecking my father’s career and she’s threatening to cut me out of her will if I don’t try to get Angie back for her.”
Elizabeth must have heard him because her knees gave out.
Catching her around the waist, he led her to the kitchen and set her on the counter, standing between her legs. He held her gaze as he spoke to her ex-husband. “You think you’re going to get Angie back?”
“No. I’ve done my research. I thought you and your brother were just poor ranchers, but I’ve checked you out. You’re a lot more influential than I thought you’d be, which works out for me. I don’t want Angie. I never wanted either one of them, but when Elizabeth got pregnant, I had to marry her or ruin my father’s career. I couldn’t even let her divorce me.”
For the first time Chandler realized that the other man slurred his words. “But she did anyway.”
Richard laughed, the sound grating on Chandler’s nerves. “Only because I gave her the evidence she needed to get a divorce. She thought she was being so sneaky, using the money my father thought would appease her to hire a private investigator. But Elizabeth caught my father, too. He’s worried. Now my mother’s worried about what’ll happen if word gets out that her grandchild’s being raised in a house where her ex-daughter-in-law is fucking two men. But it’s more than that. Both of them are scared of the information Elizabeth has. They’re scared she’ll use it.”
Chandler stood close to Elizabeth, practically leaning over her, and Richard didn’t even try to keep his voice low.
The frightened look in her eyes told Chandler she’d heard everything. Grabbing the phone from Chandler, Elizabeth sat up and snapped. “Richard, tell them I’ll go to the newspapers with everything I have if they try to take Angie.”
Chandler yanked the phone from her before she said anything else. “Richard, thanks for the warning. But someone already broke into her parents’ house and tried to steal the proof. Tell them she no longer has it. We do. If there are any further attempts to take Angie, or do anything to either one of them, we’ll go to the press in a heartbeat with everything. Believe me, we have quite a few reporters in our pockets.”
Laughter rang loud through the receiver. “Damn if you don’t deserve each other.”
“Thanks for giving her the evidence she needed.”
“It took her long enough. I knew what she’d done and let her catch me. But she caught my father, too. Elizabeth used that information to blackmail us into letting her have her divorce. Now, my father’s scared she’ll use it, and my mother does whatever she can to please my father. She wants Angie, but having a kid cramps my style. Why don’t one of you marry her? That way the senator and my mother wouldn’t be able to touch Angie.”
Chandler’s eyes never left Elizabeth. “We’re planning to, just as soon as we can arrange it.” Knowing he should have left it at that, he nevertheless kept going. “She’s not being very cooperative. She’s worried about Angie.”
Richard’s voice went low. “If she wants to keep her, she’ll do it. Put her back on the phone.”
Reluctantly, Chandler handed Lizzy the phone just as Hayden walked into the kitchen.
“Angie’s asleep. Martha’s watching over her. What the hell’s going on?”
Chandler watched Elizabeth as he gave his brother a brief rundown.
When she finally disconnected, she looked up at both of them and jumped down from the counter. “I guess I’ll be accepting your proposal after all. That is, if it’s still open.”
Hayden nodded once. “It is.”
“I still want the job. I want to earn my own money.”
Hayden inclined his head. “You can still have the job. I want my nights free.”
Elizabeth colored. “I’ll start tomorrow.”
Chandler grinned. “I’ll teach you the program as soon as we pick out the furniture for Angie’s room.”
Opening her mouth to say something, she apparently thought better of it and nodded. “I’d better check on Angie.”
Chandler watched her go. “You’d better arrange it quick. I want both of them living out here where we can watch them as soon as possible.”
Hayden went to the window. “When Angie wakes up, make sure they get home okay. I’m going to go talk to the judge and the sheriff. I want to print out a couple of pictures of Lizzy’s ex, the senator, and his wife.”
Chandler frowned. “It’s not how I wanted this to happen.”
Hayden whipped his head around. “I’ll take her any way I can get her. We’ll make sure she’s and Angie are safe and worry about the rest later.”
* * * *
This isn’t how she’d wanted it to happen.
Waving goodbye to her parents and the Scotts, Elizabeth held Angie’s hand in hers as they walked across the restaurant parking lot to the truck for the ride home.
She and Hayden had gotten married only a few hours earlier in a ceremony that seemed more like a dream than reality.
Once they’d taken their vows, Chandler had come forward in front of everyone to take her hand in his. Sliding another gold band on her ring finger to rest against the one Hayden had just placed there, he smiled tenderly. “You belong to both of us now. I promise to be a good husband and a good father. I adore you, baby.” He’d kissed her softly, his eyes dark with promise.
That look had disappeared as they settled Angie in the truck for the ride back to the ranch. She’
d thrown a tantrum, not wanting her mommy to go back to the ranch without her. They’d promised her that after the wedding, the ‘pink room’ would be hers, and she didn’t want to miss a single night in it.
Elizabeth rode in the front with Hayden while Chandler sat in the back listening to Angie talk about Fluffy. Leaning toward Hayden, Elizabeth whispered. “I’m really sorry about this. I know you didn’t plan to have a three-year-old on your honeymoon.” She loved her daughter dearly but hadn’t spent any time alone with either one of them since the afternoon Richard had called.
Hayden reached for her hand, lifting it to brush his lips across her knuckles, his expression somber. “I didn’t want to leave her anyway. I feel better having her at the ranch, at least until things get a chance to settle. I don’t trust your ex-husband any more than I trust his parents. I can’t believe you didn’t call us when they were trying to force you into marriage.” His look hardened. “Don’t worry. We’ll take care of it.”
Elizabeth’s stomach dropped. Careful to keep her voice low enough not to be overheard by her daughter, she clenched her fists on her lap. “Hayden, it’s bad enough that we had to get married to keep them from trying to get Angie, but I can deal with them. I want you and Chandler to stay out of it.”
“Stay out of it? Are you crazy?” Looking over his shoulder, he smiled at Angie’s look of surprise. “It’s okay, sweetheart. Tell Chandler what you named your new doll.” He waited until Angie resumed her monologue, before pulling Elizabeth close. Keeping his voice low, he kept one eye on her and one on the road. “You will stay out of it and let us deal with it, which is what you should have done from the beginning.”
With a sinking heart, she remained silent the rest of the way home. She’d married them to keep Angie safe, but she wanted this marriage to work. Arguing with either one of them was a waste of time. She’d deal with anything as it came up, but in the meantime would do her best to get her husbands to see her as a grown woman instead of someone who needed to be looked after.
She couldn’t go through the rest of her life as an obligation.
Chapter Seven
Elizabeth tiptoed out of Angie’s room, her heart racing as she headed toward the master bedroom. The silk nightgown she’d bought for tonight slid sensuously over her legs as she walked, the friction of the lace bodice over her erect nipples sensitizing them even more. Wiping her palms on the matching robe, she reached for the doorknob, wondering which of them would be waiting inside for her.
Swinging the door open, she came to a halt, every erogenous zone tingling at the sight that greeted her.
Hayden, wearing nothing but unbuttoned jeans, rose from the chair by the window as Chandler, wearing jeans and a t-shirt reclined on the bed. Hayden quickly came forward, wrapping an arm around her waist and pulling her close. “Is Angie asleep?”
Elizabeth nodded. “Y—”
Hayden swooped before she finished, his mouth taking hers before she could even draw a breath. He released her long enough to slide the robe from her shoulders before pulling her against his body again and lifted her in his arms, his mouth not leaving hers until he placed her on the bed next to Chandler. Straightening, he shucked his jeans as Chandler began to undress her.
Chandler’s fingers moved over every inch of skin he exposed, teasing her nipples as he slid the gown down her body.
Once naked, Hayden reclined on the bed next to her. “Keep going. I want to see all of her.”
Trembling under their combined gazes, Elizabeth kept looking from one to the other. She should have expected this, but hadn’t.
Both looked at her hungrily as they slid the gown from her, touching her everywhere at once. Propped on their elbows, they both leaned over her, the low lights from both nightstands illuminating her body for their perusal.
It also let her see them better.
She couldn’t take her eyes from Hayden’s naked form. His cock rose toward his stomach and its amazing thickness made her shiver in anticipation. Rolling slightly toward him, she ran a hand down his chest, touching him the way she’d always dreamed of.
Taking her hand in his, he kissed her fingers, his eyes fierce on hers. “Touch me.” Lowering her hand to his cock, he drew a quick breath, his eyes closing when she wrapped her fingers around it. “Jesus.”
Chandler’s arm came around her from behind to caress her stomach.
Her stomach muscles quivered beneath his touch, her pussy clenching with need. Breathless now, she couldn’t tear her eyes away from Hayden’s as his fingers traced their way up her body. She gasped as they skimmed the sensitive skin on the underside of her breast, her nipples burning with the need to be touched.
Still he denied her, his eyes flaring when she moaned in frustration.
Chandler chuckled and kissed her shoulder before sliding off the bed.
Hayden looked over her shoulder at Chandler briefly, nodding once before turning back to her and kissing her again.
Elizabeth arched into Hayden, needing a firmer touch, but he continued to tease her with fleeting caresses. Her senses on overload from being with both of them this way, she kissed Hayden back hungrily, sinking into him. Teasing him, she ran her fingers up and down the length of his cock, thrilling at the velvety texture covering the steel beneath it.
Hayden rolled her to her back, lifting his head. “Enough.” His eyes stayed on hers, dark and glittering as he lifted her hand over her head.
Naked now, Chandler slid into bed on her other side, his slow smile somehow evil and tender. “Now we’ve got you right where we want you.”
Having both of the men she’d dreamed about like this, their hard bodies surrounding hers, had to be the most erotic moment of her life. Every inch of her skin warmed from the heat their bodies gave off, tingling where their gazes caressed her. “I didn’t know it would be this way. I never imagined…”
Hayden watched her indulgently as he continued to run his fingers lightly up and down her body, from shoulder to hip and back again. Lowering his head, he nuzzled her jaw. “You never imagined what, baby?”
Elizabeth gasped as Chandler bent to take a nipple into his mouth, sucking gently. “I didn’t realize you would take me together.”
Hayden’s lips hovered over hers, his warm breath gentle on her face. “We’ll take you together, separately, and one at a time. You’re not quite ready for together yet, though.”
Twisting restlessly, Elizabeth panted as Hayden’s fingers slid lightly over her mound. “I’m ready, Hayden. Don’t make me wait.” She cried out when he parted her folds and slid a finger through her slick juices, barely skimming her clit. Rocking her hips, she tried to get him to touch her there again.
Hayden chuckled softly, sliding his finger lower and into her pussy. “You are ready, aren’t you, Lizzy?” Bending again, he nibbled at her bottom lip. “We’ll have to work on getting you ready to take both of us together.”
Elizabeth barely heard him as Chandler ran a big hand over her stomach and down to her thigh.
Pulling it toward him, he hooked it over his, spreading her wider. “After all these years you’re finally ours.”
Hayden added another finger, smiling when she moaned. “That’s it, baby.” Running his hand through her hair, he curled the fingers inside her, pressing at a spot that had her catching her breath and making her tremble even harder.
Rocking her hips, she moaned again as Chandler raked his teeth over her nipple. “Damn it. I wanted to seduce you.”
Hayden flicked a thumb over her clit. “You did that by walking into the room.”
Elizabeth twisted restlessly, grabbing onto their shoulders, her cries growing in intensity. She’d had every intention of seducing first one, then the other, wanting to make them desire her as much as she did them. Every time she tried to reach for their cocks, they stopped her, teasing her with the feel of their thick lengths on each of her hips.
Cupping her jaw, Chandler turned her face toward him, taking her lips with his. “You seduc
e me by walking past me. You make me crazy when you twitch that ass at me.” Smiling, he shot a glance at Hayden. “I want my mouth on her pussy when she comes.”
Elizabeth’s eyes went wide. “Oh, God. I can’t believe the way you talk.”
Chandler laughed softly. “I like to let the anticipation build. Isn’t your clit throbbing, knowing my mouth is going to be on it real soon?”
Hayden withdrew his fingers, bringing them to his mouth to lick them clean. “She’s sweet and juicy.” His hand moved to cover a breast as Chandler positioned himself between her thighs.
Elizabeth shook as Chandler settled himself between her thighs and grabbed her ankles to pull her legs high and wide, smiling at her.
“Ready, baby?”
Elizabeth closed her eyes, unable to process all of the sensations racing through her. She never would have believed how exciting it would be for one of them to do such erotic things to her while the other watched her reaction to it.
It made the intimacy even more intense.
Chandler couldn’t see her face as he parted her folds and swiped his tongue through her slit, but Hayden could and wouldn’t allow her to hide her face against his chest or look away. After several licks of Chandler’s tongue, she no longer cared. He held her open and ate at her, flicking his tongue over her clit just often enough to keep her arousal growing.
She trembled uncontrollable, jerking in Hayden’s arms every time Candler touched her clit. “Please. I’m so close.”
Chandler chuckled, easily holding her legs as she kicked at him, sliding his tongue inside her instead of giving the attention to her clit.
Hayden kissed her deeply, his tongue sweeping through her mouth repeatedly as his fingers moved over her breasts. An occasional flick of his thumb or a light pinch on her nipples had her crying out, the warning tingles of an approaching orgasm driving her mad.
With her nipples and clit throbbing, her pussy clenching frantically on Chandler’s tongue each time he slid it into her, Elizabeth couldn’t stand any more. This is not how she’d envisioned seducing them. They seduced her, taking over her body so completely, she could do nothing but hold onto them as her entire body went up in flames.
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