by Marla Monroe
“I’m getting there. Why don’t you think you could love her?”
Luke didn’t like the way this conversation was going. All it would take to push Valerie out that door was for her to think Grant didn’t want her. He knew she was attracted to both of them and cared for them. She wouldn’t be able to handle living with them both and only one of them giving her affection. It would hurt her too much.
“I don’t know. I guess because of Lydia and the fact that it tore me up inside. I’m not sure I ever healed right. I think there are too many scars over everything she put me through to ever get past it.”
“How do you know until you try, Grant? Maybe you don’t want to try, and that’s the problem. Don’t drive her away before she’s even settled in with us.”
“I don’t plan to, Luke. I told her that I wasn’t sure I would ever fall in love with her but that I cared about her. I’ll take care of her and do everything in my power to keep her safe and happy, Luke. You know that.”
“But you don’t think you’ll ever love her. What about fucking her, Grant? Does that fall into taking care of her?”
Luke was angry now. He should have known his brother would let the past interfere with the future. He had wallowed in that hole for nine long years. Luke was tired of it.
“It’s not like that, Luke, and you damn well know it. I’m attracted to her. I can’t help it. She’s pretty and she’s sweet. I won’t act on it if she doesn’t want me.”
“Hell, I know. I just can’t see how you can keep from falling in love with her. I know I will before it’s over with. She’s everything I’ve ever wanted in a woman. All I’m asking is that you try, Grant. Try to open up with her. You might find out that she can help heal that broken part of you if you give her a chance.”
Luke walked back out of the barn and headed for the fence to check on the cattle. They had moved them closer to the house so it wouldn’t be so hard to keep water free of ice for them. He took the pickax and broke the ice on the two water troughs before he headed to the wood pile to take in more logs. He would pile it on the front porch. The snow made it difficult to maneuver to the front yard, but he finally stomped a path after several trips. On the third trip, he noticed tracks in the snow.
“Fuck! Wolves.”
He looked all around him but didn’t see anything. Then he piled the wood on the porch and walked back around to the back to let Grant know. Standing not fifty yards from where Grant was by the fence stood two wolves.
Grant shook his head to tell him not to move. He had his handgun out and aimed in the general direction of the animals. He wouldn’t be able to kill them from a distance with the small gun, but he could wound them if they decided to jump him.
They should have carried the rifles out with them. They knew better. In the winter they were worse and tended to hunt around the houses. The men from the families had been hunting them together over the last two years and had thinned them out to some degree, but they kept coming back.
Suddenly a crack rang out and one of the wolves howled and dropped before getting back up and following the other one as it raced off. He and Grant both turned toward the sound to see Valerie standing on the back porch with the rifle at her shoulder pointing in the direction the wolves had taken.
“What in the hell are you doing outside?” Grant holstered his gun and headed toward her at a dead run.
Luke ran as well, hoping to intercept his brother before he reached Valerie. He could only guess at what he would do. He didn’t make it in time, and Grant had the gun in one hand and her arm in the other, marching her into the house when he got there.
Ah, hell!
He hurried to follow them as Grant dragged her behind him toward the living room. He didn’t think Grant would hurt her on purpose, but he was holding her arm fairly tightly. He reached them as his brother put up the gun and turned to look at Valerie.
“Let go of my arm! You’re hurting me.” She glared at him.
He jerked back, releasing her arm. He took a step back then frowned.
“Do you realize how much danger you were in? One of those wolves could have attacked you.”
“I would have killed it. I’m a damn good shot. I wasn’t about to let you deal with two wolves with one small handgun. That was ludicrous. You’re the one who could have been killed. If the wolves are as dangerous as you say, you should have taken the rifles out with you in the first place.”
Because she said what he had been thinking earlier, he winced. Grant saw him and frowned.
“Stay out of this, Luke. It’s between us.”
“No, it’s between all three of us. We’re talking about being a family, so we have to treat it like a family. I have just as much right to fuss at her as you do.”
“You can both go to hell. I was never in any danger. They were looking at you, Grant. I hit one of them. I would have gotten the other one, too, if it had turned toward me.” Valerie planted her hands on her hips with a furious expression on her face. It almost matched Grant’s.
Luke wanted to knock some sense in both their heads, but that wasn’t realistic. He would never hurt a woman and he didn’t stand a chance against his older brother, and he knew it. It looked like they were at a stalemate when Grant suddenly acted. He grabbed the woman and threw her over his shoulder, heading for the stairs. What in the hell was he doing?
“Grant?”
“Shut up, Luke.”
“Put me down this instant. You have no right to manhandle me.”
“Baby, I’m not manhandling you. I’ll admit I was too rough dragging you inside, but you scared the hell out of me.”
“Out of you? You scared me standing there as if you were carrying a cannon to ward off those wolves, when all you had was a measly pistol.”
“I knew what I was doing.”
“And you think because I’m a woman that I didn’t?”
“Valerie. I told you to stay inside. Why didn’t you just stay inside, honey?” Luke wasn’t sure what Grant had in mind.
He reached the bedroom and dropped her on the bed. Then he sat down next to her and drew her into his arms and kissed her. It wasn’t an easy kiss. It was passionate and hard and totally arousing to watch. Luke couldn’t believe he was getting turned on watching his brother kiss Valerie.
She struggled halfheartedly at first before weaving her hands in Grant’s hair and holding on. She was obviously kissing him back. This was not what he had expected when Grant had thrown her over his shoulder like he had. He wasn’t sure what he expected, but this really wasn’t it.
They pulled apart, panting and staring at each other as if they couldn’t believe what they had just done. Luke wanted to laugh but knew it would be a big mistake. Instead, he began to remove his clothes. He wanted to have a head start because he was sure that they were about to tear each other’s from their bodies any minute now.
Sure enough, Grant grabbed the hem of her shirt and yanked it over her head. She wasn’t wearing a bra beneath the heavy material. Luke watched as Grant stared at her beautifully full breasts. His brother reached out and held them in his hands as if weighing them. Then he was suddenly on his knees kneading them while sucking on a nipple.
Luke took the other one in his mouth and hollowed his cheeks, sucking it in. He couldn’t get enough of her as she grabbed each of them by the shoulders to hold on. He took in her moans and mewing noises as they suckled at her breasts.
Grant began untying her sweatpants and pulled them down for her to step out of. She groaned in frustration since she still had her shoes on. Grant cursed when he pulled away from her breasts. He quickly did away with her shoes and helped her out of the offending pants. Then he was tearing her away from Luke, dropping her back on the bed. Luke quickly climbed up to return to her breasts as Grant stripped, throwing clothes in all directions. It was so unlike his brother that Luke nearly choked in amazement.
He grudgingly released her other breast for Grant. The other man quickly resumed sucking and nipp
ing at Valerie’s breast. Luke ran a hand down her abdomen and through her pubic curls to check her pussy to see how aroused she was. To his delight, honey coated his fingers when he got to her pussy lips. It had even leaked over to her thighs. She was with them all the way.
Slowly he made his way down her body, kissing and licking his way until he reached the apex of her. There he settled between her legs, pushing them further apart. Her smell had him closing his eyes in pleasure. She smelled of lust and excitement.
He looked back up to see Grant dividing his time between either breast. He had her top half under control. Luke concentrated on her bottom half. He quickly sucked in her pussy lips and moaned at the exquisite taste of her. It was a mixture of tangy and sweet. He couldn’t get enough of it, and licked her slit before stiffening his tongue to slip into her pussy for more of the delectable stuff.
When he did, she opened her legs even farther for him. He smiled. She was something else indeed. She seemed to enjoy sex as much as they did as she began to pump her hips in time to his thrusting tongue. When he pulled away, she whimpered.
“Don’t worry, honey. I’m going to take real good care of you.”
Luke lapped at her pussy before inserting one finger to test her size. She hissed out a breath. Her cunt quivered around him as he pumped it in and out before adding a second one. He fucked her with his fingers for a while, then searched for her hot spot. Once he found it, he stroked over it until she was writhing on the bed. Her cunt muscles contracted around him over and over. From the way she was moving, he knew she was close. Grant seemed to notice as well, because when Luke looked up, he was twisting and pulling on her breasts. He dove for her clit and sucked it into his mouth to tease with his tongue.
Her orgasm shocked him as she screamed and thrashed around on the bed. Luke placed an arm over her pelvis to keep her in once place as he stimulated her clit over and over while stimulating her sweet spot deep in her cunt. God, she was so responsive.
“Fuck, look at her. She’s a rosy glow all over,” Grant said in obvious awe.
“Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God. I’m burning up. Please, do something.”
“You heard her, Luke. Do something.” Grant smiled, shaking his head.
Luke was so mesmerized by the fact that Grant actually smiled that he almost missed what he had said. Without waiting a second longer, he pulled her legs over his arms and positioned his straining cock at her slit and surged forward. He barely got inside of her tight pussy. With a curse, he pulled out again and delved deeper this time. Slowly he pumped in and out of her until he’d fully seated himself against her womb. Her cunt muscles sucked at him as he pulled back out to thrust back in.
“She’s fucking tight.” His strained voice sounded odd even to his own ears.
He’d never been inside anyone as tight as she was. His dick was in heaven. He was in heaven. He tunneled in and out of her several times, then nudged her cervix by accident. She yelled out a resounding yes to this. He marveled that she liked to have it bumped. He did it again and again. She thrashed on the bed, making Luke curse as he tried to ride her bucking form.
“Whatever you’re doing is driving her wild.”
“She likes her cervix bumped. Oh, fuck! I can actually get all the way inside of her.”
He was longer than Grant, where Grant was thicker. He’d never been able to bury himself inside a woman for fear of hitting her cervix. Most women didn’t like that. The fact that Valerie did only proved she was the woman for them. There was nothing he wouldn’t do for her. He was sure that she would complete them if Grant would just relax and let her in.
Chapter Six
Valerie couldn’t believe how good it felt to have Luke inside of her. She wanted to shout to the rooftops the joy she felt. They both were driving her closer and closer to climax. It loomed ahead of her, a bright dot waiting for her to reach for it.
Luke stroked in and out of her cunt, bumping her cervix with nearly every thrust. It burned so good. There were so few men who could reach that odd spot of pleasure inside of her.
“Oh, God. Don’t stop, please.”
“Don’t worry, baby,” Luke managed to get out.
Grant was pulling and nipping at her nipples. The small bite of pain thrilled through her, adding to the fast-approaching orgasm. She reached for it, but it was just out of her grasp. Then Grant reached up and tapped at her clit and she flew. Pleasure coursed through her body as nerve endings ignited and sent her farther than she had ever been before. Suddenly she realized she was screaming and grasping Grant’s head in her hands.
She felt Luke still above her as he emptied his cum into her cunt. The warm splash of it against her womb sent shivers back through her body. She finally released Grant’s head, appalled that she was still holding it.
“I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.” She let go, panting, gasping for breath.
“Don’t be. That was amazing. You can grab my head anytime you want.”
She continued to pant as Luke collapsed above her. He managed to stop at his elbows, short of crushing her with his weight.
“Fuck, that was good. I don’t think I’ve ever come that hard before.”
Grant pushed him off of her, and then took his place.
“I want you, honey. Can you take me so soon after Luke?”
She glanced down at his ruddy cock. It was so much larger than Luke’s. She licked her lips and nodded. She wanted him to stretch her. She could just imagine the wonderful burn that would warm her body once again.
He lifted one of her legs over his arm and held his dick at her opening before pushing inside of her. He groaned as he made his way slowly deeper into her pussy.
“You’re so fucking tight. Luke, you were right.” He pulled back and thrust forward, making some headway into her wet cunt.
She jerked when he pulled out again and pushed forward. This time he lodged himself deep inside of her. She couldn’t help contracting around him. He cursed and pulled out only to surge back inside of her. Although he didn’t bump her cervix, every rasp of his thick cock stroked over her sweet spot, sending tendrils of pleasure straight to her clit.
There was no way he could possibly send her into orgasm again. She’d already come twice. Yet as he tunneled his way in and out of her, she grew closer and closer to climax. The burn of his thick cock pushing his way in and out of her tight pussy soon ignited into another climax that when he hit her hot spot just right, threw her into bliss. She called out his name in a hiss of breath. Then she soared even higher as he came as well.
It wouldn’t have taken much more for her to have passed out from the pleasure he had given her. She realized she was digging into Luke’s arm where he’d planted it next to her. Her nails hadn’t broken the skin, thank God. She turned stricken eyes up to him, unable to apologize for trying to breathe.
“Don’t, baby. You didn’t hurt me. I enjoyed every little prick. Seeing your body respond to my brother was the best thing I’ve ever seen.” He laid a gentle kiss on her lips.
Grant pulled out of her and backed off the bed. He stared at her for several long minutes then walked toward the bathroom. When he returned, he was carrying a wet bath cloth and proceeded to clean her up. She was soaking wet from her multiple orgasms and their combined cum. It dawned on her that she could become pregnant even from that one episode of sex. The thought thrilled her. Somehow she managed to hide it.
“Get dressed, guys. We need to talk.” Grant grabbed his clothes and walked out of the bedroom.
Valerie had no idea where he was going. It hurt that he had closed off from her so quickly after they’d made love. Maybe that was too strong of a word for what had happened between her and Grant. Between her and Luke, it had been special. They had made love. He had given her his all. Grant was holding back. She couldn’t help but wonder why he was so against succumbing to his attraction to her. She knew he was attracted to her now, at least on a sexual level.
“Here you go, baby.” Luke held up her underwear
and sweat bottoms.
She slipped into them, tying the cord as tight as she could make it. Then she pulled on the thick, long-sleeve top. Last she pulled on her socks and shoes with Luke tying them for her. He had his clothes on and was waiting on her to finish.
She turned and looked at him with worry in her heart. Was Grant going to tell her that she had to go once spring got there? He had seemed fine with her staying earlier. The unknown was weighing heavy on her heart. She just wanted to get it over with. With that thought, she hurried down the stairs with Luke rushing behind her.
“Don’t run, Valerie. You could trip and fall.” Luke took her hand in his and looked around for Grant. “He must be in the kitchen.”
They walked into the other room to find him sipping coffee at the table.
“There’s plenty more.”
Luke looked at Valerie and at her nod, poured them both a cup. She took hers over to the table and sat down across from the now-silent man. Luke pulled up a chair at the head of the table. She wanted to grab hold of his hand for strength, but refrained. She didn’t want Grant to think she was pulling favorites, because she wasn’t. She just needed some strength and knew that Luke would give it to her.
“What is it, Grant?” Luke started the conversation out.
“I’m not sure if this is really a good idea, but we’ve gone too far to stop now. You could be pregnant, Valerie. You’ll not leave with our baby inside of you. I want this to work as best as it can. I want us to be honest with each other in everything. Honesty is very important to me, Valerie. I’ll always be honest with you, which is what I’m doing now.”
He paused and ran a hand over his head. He took another sip of the coffee then held it between both hands.
“I like you, Valerie. I probably even already care about you, but I doubt I will ever love you. Sexually, you drive me to distraction. You’re so fucking responsive. I doubt I will ever be able to get enough of you. You’re going to have to decide if you can handle that or not. If not, then I’ll back away and you and Luke can become a couple.”
