by Redrae Gunn
Jenna went to set the pole in the holder and then she screamed. “Jace!” Her breathing was fast and her heart pounded. Something had bit her bait. “Something grabbed the little fish! I swear!”
Jace came back over and waited with her. He looked at the bobber in the water and sure enough the thing sank and Jenna pulled on the pole.
“What now!” Jenna was yelling as she held the pole over her head and jumped up and down.
“Pull it in,” Jace said, and Jenna went running toward the camper with the pole above her head.
“I’m pulling it in!” Jenna screamed to everyone at the table under the canopy as she held the pole above her head and ran toward them.
“Christ!” Tony said as he flew out of his chair and tried to stop Jenna before the line snapped. He could hear Kira and Rock yelling at Jenna to stop but the excited and satisfied smile on Jenna’s face told him that she was doing exactly what Jace told her to do. He wasn’t sure where Jace had screwed up but he was about to find out.
Jace managed to grab the pole-wielding Jenna before she got too far onto shore. He turned her back toward the water and reached around her for the pole. “Reel it in,” Jace said as he placed her shaking hand on the reel and started turning it in a clockwise motion.
“I have a fish!” Jenna yelled. A funny sound came from the little pole in her hands.
“A big fish,” Jace corrected her as whatever was on the end of the line pulled against them. “When he stops pulling, start reeling him back in.”
Tony was at Jenna’s side and he looked at Jace.
“I told her to pull it in.” Jace shrugged his shoulders as he smiled down at Jenna’s determined face. She was fighting whatever was on the end of that line. She wanted her first fish.
Finally, Tony waded out into the water with the net. Jenna had been fighting the fish for at least ten minutes. He was surprised that the line hadn’t broken or that the little pole hadn’t snapped in half. He scooped a big fat walleye into the net and brought it to Jenna.
“We have to get your picture with this monster,” Tony said.
“Why?” Jenna asked.
“Everyone gets their picture taken when they catch their first fish,” Kira said from behind them. “Turn around and smile, you three.”
Jenna held up the fish as Tony wrapped an arm around her waist and Jace wrapped one around her shoulders. She grinned so wide she was sure that her lips were going to split.
“Perfect,” Kira said. “I’ll clean him.”
“Wait,” Jenna said as she followed Kira, who had just grabbed her pole and her fish. “Why do you need to clean him?”
Jace looked at Tony and started laughing again. He sat down under the canopy. “Let Kira answer some of her questions for a while. I need a beer,” Jace said. “I’m falling. Hard.”
“I was done after this morning,” Tony said.
“Are you two planning on telling her this?” Rock asked.
“We need to,” Jace said as he looked at Tony. “This weekend.”
Tony nodded his head. “I want that contract extended to infinity, permanently, before I can’t sleep at night.”
Jace looked at Rock. “Is it normal to feel this way so quickly or are we jumping the gun?”
“I started thinking of where to have sex with Kira the minute I walked into her house,” Rock admitted. “Two weeks later I asked if she wanted a Master and when she nodded her head I knew that we would be this way forever.”
“We’re fine with telling her how we feel, but we need more ideas,” Jace said and then laughed when Tony raised his eyebrows at him. “Fine, we need to find a way to get our fantasies into reality.”
* * * *
Jenna looked down at her plate of food. Everything had been wonderful. Then men had cooked for the women and Jenna was full. She looked up at Jace and Tony. They were both looking at her. She looked back down to her plate and saw that there was still a bite of a hot dog left. She sighed and popped it into her mouth. They had told her to eat everything. When she looked back up Tony had smiled and Jace grunted with a smirk.
“When you guys get a chance”—Jenna looked from Tony to Jace and then lowered her head—“I’d like to talk to you about the employment contract?”
“Why?” Tony asked. If he had to do so, he was ready to chain her inside the house until she finished out the contract. During her captivity he would do everything possible to convince her to stay.
“I just thought that we have been on a good roll and I, um…” Jenna couldn’t look up. “I am learning quite a bit. I was hoping you’d extend it to the year because I don’t want to have to worry that in three months I’m going to need to find a new job or a place to live. And…”
“And what?” Tony asked. He looked at Jace. Jace was staring at Jenna and from the looks of it he was hanging onto her every word. Tony could see the pulse in Jace’s neck beating fast. Tony realized his own heart was racing as well.
“I really like living here,” Jenna said, throwing it all on the line. “I know I’m older by quite a bit. I know that you guys have to take the time to explain simple things to me but every day is different. Every day something else needs to be done, or checked, or fixed. But then there are those days where everything just seems to go right and I really like spending time with both of you. You are different. You two are what I need.”
Jenna knew that if she looked at either of them the tears that were blurring her plate would spill down her cheeks. She felt strangely relieved to have gotten all of that off of her chest. It had been bothering her since her first week on the farm. Now all she had to do was wait for their reply.
“I think that was two smacks,” Jace said.
“What?” Jenna met Jace’s gaze and saw nothing but comfort and compassion in his eyes.
“You thought that your age and our explaining things to you were negatives,” Tony said. “I’d agree with two smacks.”
Jenna looked at Tony. They still hadn’t answered the question. She wanted the contract extended and they were leading her away from the answer, trying to change the subject. She looked back down at her plate.
“Contract extended, sweet Jenna,” Jace said. “Our farm needs you. We need you.”
“Really?” Jenna asked as she looked at Jace and then at Tony. “Are you sure?”
“I’d rather have extended the contract for longer to begin with,” Tony admitted. “But I know that a month into things you might need an escape. I also think that you and Jace need to talk about things alone.”
“Alone?” Jenna asked. She had never once talked to either of them without the other in ear shot. Well, okay, there had been a couple of times. But they were always together. The only explanation for Tony knowing that she and Jace needed to talk was because Jace had talked to Tony. Jenna really didn’t want to face Jace alone if he had problems with her.
“I’m always watching,” Tony said, smiling his unforgivably wicked smile as he excused himself from the table.
“Jenna?” Jace asked. Her big brown eyes turned to him and he pushed a stray strand of wavy hair back behind her ear. “I know that you have wanted to do other things with me.”
“Yes,” Jenna replied. She had. Jace wouldn’t let her mouth anywhere near his cock and he certainly wasn’t trying to switch positions with Tony when it came to taking her ass.
“I don’t want to hurt you,” Jace said. He was surprised when Jenna smirked and rolled her eyes.
“Jace, sweet Jace,” Jenna said, reversing the pet name that he called her. “I know you won’t fit in my mouth. I have a little mouth. But don’t you think that I’d like to taste you? I could still lick you and run my hands along you. I could still pleasure you. I won’t bite. I promise.”
Jace grunted and smiled. He knew that. “What about the ass? I am not about to rip you.”
“Jace.” Jenna sighed. “Don’t you think that you are being selfish?”
“Selfish?” Jace asked, his voice rising a little.
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“Yes,” Jenna replied calmly. “It’s always Tony behind me when both of you take me together. So you and I get to see each other’s faces and watch the expressions. I don’t get to watch Tony. He doesn’t get to see me.”
“Oh,” Jace said as he frowned and crossed his arms across his chest.
“Tony knows how much pain I can take,” Jenna said. “So do you, even though you let me wimp out way before I’m ready. Honestly though, have I ever not asked to stop if something was too much to handle?”
“No,” Jace replied.
“Haven’t you ever wondered what it would be like?” Jenna asked. “To reverse positions with Tony?”
“I have,” Jace admitted.
“Don’t you think that Tony would have a great time getting me to wear butt plugs until I was able to take you?” Jenna asked and smiled. Shoving a plug as big as Jace up her ass was probably on Tony’s fantasy list.
Jace laughed. Tony would indeed love that. The thought of watching Tony watch Jenna trying to take him up the ass excited Jace. He knew that he would see what Tony called “the dark man” come out. Tony would be talking dirty to Jenna, which was something that Jenna loved, she would be trying to take his own cock, and in turn he would finally be bending her over and inside that nether hole that he had never experienced.
“Fine, sweet Jenna,” Jace said softly. “When would you like to have your fantasy fulfilled?”
“Obviously as soon as possible,” Jenna replied. Jace was serious. He was going to let her try. “Have you ever tried either of those things before? The sucking or the ass?”
“No,” Jace replied. “Well, the minute teeth hit my cock it was over. So basically no.”
“Thank you, then,” Jenna replied very seriously. “For letting me try.”
Tony came back to the table and sat down like nothing was out of the ordinary. “Well?” he asked Jace.
“He’s going to let me try.” Jenna smiled at Tony and leaned against Jace’s shoulder, gripping his strong bicep with her hand.
“It’s about time,” Tony said. “When do I get to start prepping you?”
Jace and Jenna laughed. Tony raised an eyebrow and tried to smile, but he looked way to serious, which made Jenna laugh harder.
* * * *
It was mid-afternoon and the women had decided to take a nap under the canopy. Jace was pulling in a fish and Tony had the net. Rock was drinking a beer and keeping an eye on the other lines. A boat with the New Town police logo coasted onto the shore and a Native American man with long hair hopped off the front of the boat and onto dry land. He pulled the boat a little onto the shore and walked to where Rock was sitting.
“Abe,” Rock said, and lifted his beer toward him.
“Rock.” Abe nodded.
“I stopped by Jace and Tony’s place and Miles told me that all of you were down here,” Abe said. He punched on his cell phone and talked quietly to someone on the other line.
Jace looked at Tony. Tony raised his eyebrows and shrugged his shoulders. They left the fish in the net and went to talk to Abe. The BIA didn’t usually do random checks on hunting and fishing permits.
“Jace, Tony,” Abe said.
“What’s the occasion?” Jace asked as he shook Abe’s hand. Abe looked solemn and way too pale for his darker complexion.
“Miles said you were down here,” Abe said. “I just called Sheriff Morgan from Watford City and told him that I had found you. He was worried about Kira when he saw that no one was home.”
“We are on a mini-vacation,” Jace said slowly. He crossed his arms across his chest and waited. “Don’t make us guess. We know you’re not checking our fishing license if you stopped at our house first.”
“Your neighbor, Tessa Hughes, was raped yesterday,” Abe said. He stopped suddenly, gagged, and then cleared his throat. “Husband found her when he got home. She had burn marks on her front. Sam Morgan thinks it was from a Taser. She also may have been drugged because we found some white powder on the counter and a half drank glass of murky water next to the powder.”
“Did they catch the bastard?” Tony asked. He knew that the men around him were thinking the same thing by the way every muscle in their bodies were suddenly ready for a good brawl.
“Listen,” Abe said quickly. “I’m not supposed to be talking about this but I know all of you and I like your women. I don’t want anything to happen to them. So we start calling around, trying to get some experts in on the investigation, and all of sudden the FBI is at the house and we are shut off. We aren’t supposed to say anything but I just wanted to make you aware because the Hughes farm is smack dab between both of your farms.”
“That’s not what’s making you nearly puke,” Jace said.
“FBI said they are looking for a group, they said at least four men, maybe more,” Abe said. “They have reports of this type of rape happening in several states. It wasn’t just a rape, boys, it was nothing I’ve ever seen before.”
The men were silent and waited for Abe to continue.
“There were these funny marks on the carpet in both ends of the living room and in the bedroom, too,” Abe said. “I almost missed them, but Sam noticed them. We couldn’t leave her laying like that in the living room so, yes, we disturbed the crime scene.”
“Christ,” Tony swore.
“She had struggled,” Abe said. “She was bleeding so badly around her wrists from where the cuffs had cut into her skin. It only got worse from there.”
Jace looked to where Jenna was sleeping under the canopy. The thought of someone or a couple of someones taking her against her will was more than he could stand. He knew that Tony had given Jenna pain but it was what she had wanted and what she had needed. The thought of someone hurting her in the ways that his poor neighbor had been hurt made him sick to his stomach. No wonder Abe had nearly retched while talking to them.
“The marks on the floor,” Tony said. “What do you think those were?”
“Sam actually remembered the same marks being on his carpet,” Abe said. “They were from the tripod he used when he recorded everyone opening presents at Christmas.”
“The bastards recorded it,” Jace said. He looked around. There was nothing for him to punch. He picked up a rock and tossed it into the lake as far as he could. He turned and saw that Rock had dropped to his knees and was pounding the sand with serious martial arts blows. Tony had shoved his hands into the pockets of his swim trunks but his arms were shaking.
“The FBI said they didn’t just record it. They broadcasted it on the Internet. Live.” Abe turned toward the water and coughed.
“Bleeding Christ!” Jace swore.
“We’re doing extra patrols,” Abe said as he rubbed his eyes. “But you know these roads. There aren’t enough of us. The FBI said that these guys only hit a couple of times in an area and then move on. They’ve been looking for them for six years.”
“A couple of times,” Tony scoffed. “That makes me feel better. Have they raped yet in this area so I can feel that Jenna is safe? Or that Kira is safe?”
“The feds aren’t telling us anything,” Abe said. “Both Sam and I tried to get some inside information but we both were cut off.”
Jace watched as Abe glanced at Rock.
“What,” Jace said. “What do you need?”
“I heard that Jenna is under surveillance from a certain friend of Kira’s,” Abe said.
“She is,” Jace said.
“You want to see if Kira can get Gunner to hack the FBI,” Rock said, and shook his head. “She’s got her butt in enough heat trying to keep him from hacking the planet.”
“Right now we just want the surveillance tapes,” Abe said. “Any vehicle that turned around in the driveway or has been caught by the cameras. But yes, we, meaning me and Sam, also would like to know what information the FBI is keeping from us so that we can warn some of the outlying farms of what to watch for.”
“It won’t take much convincing,” Rock said. “
Kira will give him an order to hack them good.”
“Jenna and Kira have been playing war games to pass some of the time,” Tony said. “Jenna has learned to shoot. She has weapons that have that military pepper spray.”
“Good,” Abe said. “I am assuming that Jenna is tied into Gunner’s system, then, for the Operation War Games?”
“Oh yeah,” Tony said. “It was one of the first things that Gunner did. He took over our Internet and our cell phones. The girls even have an ear piece that is voice activated. So even if their cell phone is at the house and they are within five hundred yards it will activate. They wear the earpiece everywhere because they can call each other at any time.”
“Well let me see those fishing permits,” Abe said as he sighed. “I’m only out here making sure everyone is within the legal limits.”
“Understood,” Jace said and nodded his head.
The three men reached for their wallets and displayed their permits.
Abe walked back to the boat. “Tell Kira I said no hand grenades, and tell her that doesn’t mean that she can let Jenna throw them either.”
The men watched Abe leave. Jace grabbed the fish out of the net and Tony went to clean it. Once the fish was cleaned they headed toward the canopy. Jenna and Kira had woken and were playing a game of dual solitaire at the picnic table.
“Hey,” Jace said softly when the game was finished and Jenna raised her hands in triumph. “We need to talk to you two.”
Chapter 8
Jenna had tears running down her cheeks and Kira had walked away from the group. Rock had followed her.
“Blow, baby,” Tony said as he held a Kleenex to Jenna’s nose. He liked the way that she smiled when he said blow. Jenna always appreciated his humor, no matter how inappropriate.
“It’s so awful,” Jenna said. “Are they going to find them?”
“That’s on the FBI,” Tony said. “So good luck with that.”
“But Kira said that Gunner will look into it?” Jenna asked. “Right?”
