by Lexie Davis
Branded
After her father died, Erin McConnell inherited Dirty Money Ranch and all its problems. With a surprising amount of debt tied to the ranch, she must come up with the money to pay it off or she will lose everything she has ever known.
To make matters worse, her brother Rory invites five blasts from her past to stay the week at the ranch while heading to the Austin Rodeo. But soon after they arrive, she realizes how much she needs them, and how much they want her. The five rodeo stars, Blaine, Kade, Dierks, Devin, and Scotty, immediately step in to help, but the memory of one night five years ago brings a rush of passion between Erin and the men.
While the desire is there, tension surrounds them. The reason they left the ranch hangs between them, as does the idea of being in an unconventional relationship in a small, old-fashioned Texas town. Will she be able to make their relationship work while solving her problems in the process?
Genre: Contemporary, Ménage a Trois/Quatre, Western/Cowboys
Length: 22,954 words
BRANDED
Lexie Davis
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Copyright © 2012 by Lexie Davis
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Prologue
Five years ago
“Are you sure you want to do this?” Kade asked Erin as he closed the door to her bedroom. “I am a little drunk. I say shit I usually regret when that happens.”
She stared at Kade and Blaine. The two men were opposites by nature. Kade was the fun-loving charmer that knew how to get anything he wanted and usually did. Blaine was the leader, a man that determined his every move and lived by order and took pride in responsibility. They were friends, boys she’d known since elementary school that happened to grow into two fine men that she’d been sleeping with for the past few months. They, along with their friends Dierks, Scotty, and Devin, came to work for her father at Dirty Money Ranch. All five men held a special place in her heart.
“Would you two regret being with me in the morning if the three of us did have sex?”
Kade rubbed his forehead. He’d lost his Stetson some time ago, back at the Dirty Money Ranch personal bar. Her father had spent time and money perfecting what he called his slight piece of heaven and the three of them spent the evening there, drinking, until Kade suddenly suggested they should have a ménage.
“I know I won’t.” Blaine licked his lips.
Kade smiled. “Me either.”
A ménage. It was a first for her, and she wasn’t quite sure she knew what she was doing. Honestly, she couldn’t believe she had said yes, but there was nothing more that she wanted. Her cowboys.
Erin stared at both Kade and Blaine. “Do you know how wet you two make me?”
She undid the snaps on her fitted denim shirt. Underneath, she wore a purple lacy bra that did absolutely nothing to hide her erect nipples from their sight. Knowing they stared gave her a sense of power. She liked it.
“I feel on fire.” She tossed the shirt aside and squeezed her breasts. “Hot and sticky. I’m afraid someone will notice when I walk by.”
She slid her hands down to the waistband of her jeans. In the back of her mind, Erin knew there was absolutely no way to take jeans off that seemed sexy. Especially skinny jeans. She slipped them off her hips and sat on the edge of the bed, taking one leg out at a time.
“I’m thinking you should show us,” Kade commented with the wicked grin he’d come to perfect. His dark eyes devoured her. He looked so damn sexy just standing before her, breathing.
Blaine propped his hands on his hips, stretching the thin white cotton T-shirt across his hard muscles of his chest. “I second that notion. Take the panties off.”
She stood and tossed her jeans aside. “Your immaculate control is slipping, Blaine.”
“Ten more seconds of teasing me then I’m ripping those panties off.” Blaine blew out a pent-up breath. “You’ve had me so fucking hard all day long. You and that damn skimpy yellow bikini. Then you wear those damn tight jeans around here…”
Erin smiled. “Maybe that’s what I wanted, Blaine. Maybe I wanted you so hard you could think of nothing but eating me out.” She glanced toward Kade. “Maybe I wanted you to join me by the pool, fucking me like there was no tomorrow.”
Kade licked his lips. “That could be arranged. I don’t know what your daddy would say, but I’m willing to risk losing my job and possibly getting a good ass whoopin’.”
Erin chuckled. “Is that so?”
She walked toward him and slid her hand down the front of his jeans. His cock pressed into her palm, and she squeezed. He muttered a curse. She wanted to do all kinds of wicked deeds with the two of them. Hell, she’d even bought a Kama Sutra b
ook, and if they had a little more time, they’d perfect it down to an art.
Kade cupped her cheeks and lowered his lips to hers. His mouth was warm, his lips soft as they coaxed hers apart. His wet tongue tangled with hers, stroking in rhythm with her hand.
Blaine came up behind her and pressed hot kisses against the back of her neck. She expected her nerves to take away the excitement of being with both men at the same time, but her nervousness only made the excitement greater. His hands cupped her breasts, tugging the flimsy lace down so he could pinch her hard nipples.
Her body felt on fire, and they’d barely begun.
Erin ended the kiss with Kade and sucked in a breath. Blaine’s hand slipped down her stomach and into her panties with deft fingers finding her slick clit. Kade’s mouth moved to the other side of her neck, kissing and licking, driving her wild with lust as both men continued to work her body into a frenzy. She dropped her head back against Blaine’s shoulder, and liquid fire shot down her spine. Fireworks sparked behind her eyelids as her pussy contracted.
Blaine’s fingers slid deeper, circling her opening though never penetrating. Erin swallowed hard and forced her eyes open. “Fuck me. Please, somebody fuck me.”
They chuckled and said in unison, “Not yet.”
Kade dipped his head down to her breast and flicked his tongue over one nipple. She clutched his ears. Erin had never felt so hungry before. Blaine pulled his hands away from her briefly and slipped her panties down her legs. She squirmed when the cooler air of the room hit her hot pussy lips. Blaine kissed the back of each thigh before running his hands along the smooth skin.
Kade tugged her bra open and slipped it from her arms. She cupped his cheeks and brought his mouth down to hers. His erection poked against her stomach, begging to be freed. Blaine stood to his full height again, with his hands on her hips.
“Why don’t we move to the bed?” Kade suggested, breaking the kiss.
Erin moved back, toward the bed. She expected them to follow her, but they took that brief break to undress. Hard muscles rippled as they came into her view. Their bare chests were not covered in muscles gained from the local gym, but muscles that came from working hard on the ranch. Her hands itched to touch them, to run her hands over the ridges and ripples. Or maybe she’d taste them. She licked her lips in anticipation.
“What are you thinking?” Blaine asked.
She blew out a breath. “You guys are taking too long.”
Kade grinned. “I guess we’ll have to make it up to you, then.”
He shucked his jeans from his hips while Blaine worked on his own fly. She’d been with both men before, and memories of those times flashed through her head. Blaine had a fascination with her ass, while Kade remained a breast man. She didn’t mind either one. She had a fascination for their cocks and couldn’t wait to get them both inside her.
They walked her back and pushed her gently onto the bed. The two men moved in, touching, kissing, licking. It surprised her how coordinated they were. She didn’t know what to expect when she agreed to Kade’s suggestion. She hadn’t really thought it out.
They alternated. Little love bites here and there. Smooth laps of tongues erasing the pain. Kisses in the most erogenous areas on her body. They did it again and again, until the pleasure built to the point it became painful. Blaine’s tongue dipped into her belly button while Kade’s teeth grazed her nipple.
“Please.” She wallowed on the bed, thrusting her hips toward Blaine’s cock. “God. Would one of you just fuck me?
Kade glanced back at Blaine who nodded. “Let me lie down and you can lie on top of me.”
Blaine pulled her upright so Kade could lie down behind her. Once Kade was situated, Blaine turned her around and bent her over the bed so Kade’s cock rose perfectly to meet her lips. A dot of moisture had gathered at the tip and Erin couldn’t help but lick it off.
“Damn, your ass is perfect,” Blaine muttered. “I wish I had lube.”
His finger brushed her bottom hole and Erin tensed. “Uh, I don’t know about that.”
“Relax, sweets. We’ll do it next time.” Blaine pressed a kiss against the small of her back. “I promise you’re going to love it.”
His fingers slipped into her wetness. Erin moaned, closing her eyes as he pumped two inside her. She widened her stance, needing more of his touch.
Kade brushed his hand against her arm, drawing her attention to him. “Suck me.”
He held his dick at the base and angled it toward her mouth. She smiled and happily obliged him. Her lips tightened around his thick length and sank all the way down, encompassing him with the hot heat of her mouth.
“Oh, fuck yeah.” Kade dropped his head back.
Blaine laughed. He tweaked her clit and she moaned around Kade’s cock. Another curse came from Kade, though Erin barely recognized it. Blaine pulled his fingers away from her pussy and gripped her hip.
“Are you still on the Pill?” Blaine caressed her ass, waiting for her response.
Erin gripped Kade’s cock with her left hand and pulled her mouth back to speak. “Yes.”
She slid her tongue along the underside, sliding it to the base. Blaine urged her to kneel on the bed with her ass in the air, and she complied. Every rational thought was replaced with lust. Both men were hers for the night, and she reveled in it.
The tip of Blaine’s cock pressed against her wet folds as he positioned himself to enter her. He pushed slowly, stretching the walls of her pussy around his dick. She tried to focus on sucking Kade’s cock, but Blaine made her forget her own name. Kade wrapped his fist around his cock and started pumping, watching as Blaine took her from behind.
Each thrust and withdraw sent a surge of pleasure coursing through her veins. Erin pressed her face against Kade’s thigh. He brushed her hair away from her face and offered his dick to her again. She gladly accepted.
It was strange having two men inside her at the same time. Erin didn’t know what to expect, but she didn’t expect to love it. The idea of one man fucking her while she sucked another was enough to push her over that cliff into unadulterated ecstasy.
Blaine thrust harder, faster as her pussy squeezed around his dick. She pumped Kade’s dick up from the base while sucking just the tip. She wanted them to come inside her. She wanted them to brand her as theirs.
“I’m coming.” Kade gripped her upper arms. “Ah, shit.”
The flood of warm sticky fluid spilled into her mouth as he thrust his hips forward. Erin swallowed, taking it all. Blaine muttered something and rotated his hips, thrusting at a different angle. Erin pulled back and laid her forehead against Kade’s thigh, closing her eyes as her third orgasm approached. She never had repeat climaxes before. She sucked in a breath as he bumped her G-spot, giving her the slight push they both needed.
Beads of sweat gathered between her breasts as the men withdrew from her. Energy spent, she knew this was the exact place, the only place she wanted to be. Kade rolled to the side, fighting off sleep. Blaine pulled her against him, wrapping his arms around her body.
“You’re mine,” he whispered. “You can fuck any guy you want, but at the end of the day, you’re still mine.”
She brushed her fingers along the coarse hair covering his arm. “Is that so?”
“Yeah.” Blaine scraped his teeth along her shoulder, leaving behind a love bite. “There’s your brand. No matter what happens, you’ll always be mine.”
Sometime later, Erin woke alone. Both Blaine and Kade had left for the rodeo in Austin, leaving her behind. They didn’t even tell her goodbye. She hated the feeling of emptiness creeping up on her, but nevertheless the reality stood as it was. She knew it was coming and made a pact with herself not to believe that somehow sex with her would change their minds. It hadn’t. Even after all he had said, Blaine had moved on to bigger and better things and left her behind.
Chapter One
Present day
“You can’t be pissed at me.” Rory McConnel
l stepped into his sister’s office at Dirty Money Ranch with a weary look on his face. “You’re going to be, but you can’t, ’cause I’m your brother and you love me.”
Erin didn’t even bother looking up from the financial books for the ranch. “What did you break now? Seriously, Rory, we can’t afford to replace anymore shit around here.”
He clutched the doorknob of the room. “I didn’t break anything. I, uh, invited some guests to stay here. It’s only for a few days…I think.”
She glanced up. “Guests?”
“Sure. Guests.”
Rory’s fleeting look suggested there was more to the story than he said. “How big of a pain in my ass are your friends going to be?”
Rory scratched his head, trying to hide his face with his white Stetson. “A big pain in your ass, probably. Kade and Blaine flew in today. Along with Dierks, Scotty, and Devin. They’re staying with you for a few days.”
Her eyes widened to the point her eyeballs should have fallen out. “What?”
“Don’t be mad.”
“Don’t be mad? I’m pissed!” She stood from her desk chair. “Why on God’s green earth would you invite them to stay here?”
She didn’t know where the anger came from. She honestly didn’t care if she saw them. She was over it, or she told herself that. Erin blew out a breath. Her brother was a moron. Even if she did have the room, the idea of those five men staying with her didn’t suit her. Especially since her daddy died and she couldn’t afford a pot to piss in.
