by Cee Bowerman
I decided that the bottle lesson could come later. Right now, I needed to feed all my men.
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“I’ve never been this tired in my life. We’ve only had them home for a week, and I don’t know how much more I can take.” Finn groaned as he flopped down on the bed beside me. “I think I fell asleep in that meeting.”
“That bad, huh?” I asked him, my eyes closed. “The phone rang at least thirty-three thousand times today. I interviewed four women for the receptionist position, and they were all a hard no.”
“Why?”
“One of them was too busy messing with her three-inch fingernails to pay attention to our conversation. Another one answered her cell phone twice during our interview. The third one just gave me a weird vibe, and then she asked me if we had a safe in the office. The fourth one told me she really didn’t want the job, but she needed me to sign a piece of paper for her parole officer.”
“Well, then. Try again tomorrow?”
“Yeah, I had Lily scheduling five more interviews for tomorrow. We’ll see how it goes.”
“I noticed Lily never answers the phone. Why is that?”
“Lily is deaf, babe. I thought you knew that?”
“I had no idea.”
“Remember when we came home and she was asleep on the couch? She never even stirred. She can read lips like nobody’s business, so as long as she’s looking at you when you’re talking, she’s good. Which reminds me, can you ask your brothers to trim their beards up around their lips so it’s easier for her to see? She doesn’t have a problem with Chess since his face is bare. It’s a little harder with Royal or Tavin, but she told me she can’t get a read on Ronan or Mace because their facial hair is so long around their mouth that it mostly covers their lips.”
“Yeah. I’ll tell them, but I’ll keep it on the down low. I don’t want to make a big deal of it and embarrass her.”
“That would be good. She wasn’t born deaf, something happened when she was young, but there’s been so many advancements that they think they may be able to do something so she can hear at least a little bit. Shirley’s been pushing for the surgery, but Lily is resistant for some reason. It’s an ongoing argument between the two of them. I think it’s because of money, but I’m not sure.”
“She’ll be on our health insurance in a month or so, right? Check and see what’s covered and let me know. Maybe we can help her out with the deductibles, tell her it’s a sign on bonus or something.”
“You’re so sweet.” I lifted my head up and leaned over to kiss him. “How tired are you really?”
“I’m fucking exhausted.”
“The babies just went down for a nap, so we have at least two hours to ourselves.”
“Yeah?”
I moved my hand slowly down his chest until it passed his belt and covered the zipper of his jeans.
“Are you too tired for this?”
I felt him start to harden under my hands, so I rubbed my palm over his lengthening cock for a few seconds. Once it was almost to full mast, I shimmied down the bed and undid his pants. His cock was barely restrained by his underwear, so it was easy for me to maneuver it through the flap on the front. Like I had done before, I took him deep into my mouth first, rather than building up to it.
He roared and arched up off the bed. I smiled wickedly and kept repeating the same movements until he fisted his hands in my hair and drug me up his body.
“You undo me, woman.” Finn growled. He kissed me long and deep, as he pushed my pants down over my hips. I pulled away and shimmied out of them, and then straddled him, making sure to line his hard cock up so I could rub against it as I moved over him. “Fuck. I could come right now.”
I giggled and slid back and forth over him a few more times, rotating my hips at just the right time as I moved down so that the head of his cock was caught at my entrance. He gasped and squeezed my hips as I pushed myself slowly down his shaft until my clit rubbed against his pubic hair.
I pushed myself up with my hands on his chest, and when I was fully upright I started to swivel my hips around, rubbing my clit against him on each pass.
I was stretched so tight around him, that it was almost painful. I liked it, that little bit of pain. I wanted more. I moved my right leg up so that my foot was flat on the bed, and then I moved up the length of his shaft and back down it slowly.
I stared into Finn’s eyes as I moved, and his gaze was so hot that I felt it in my core. I used my foot to push up, and then I dropped myself back down onto Finn. He grunted in pleasure and lifted his head off the bed to watch me move slowly back up his cock before I slid down again.
“That feels so fucking good, baby.” Finn’s head was back on the bed now, and his hands were fisted in the comforter at his hips. “I like it sweet, but right now I want it hard and fast. Can you do that?”
I smiled at him as I moved my other foot up to rest beside his hip. Using the muscles in my legs and my hands on his chest, I started to bounce up and down on his dick, slamming into him as he thrust up in sync with my movements.
I was stretched to the max around his cock, and it felt so good that I knew with one touch to my clit I could come. Since my hands were busy, I decided to be bossy, and told Finn, “Play with my clit, baby. Make me come.”
“Oh, fuck yeah.” Finn growled as he moved his hand down to where we were joined. I kept bouncing on him as he rubbed my clit with the pad of his thumb.
“I love how you feel inside me. I want to feel you, babe. I want to feel you shoot inside me, I want to keep riding you as you’re leaking out of my body.”
Finn grunted and I knew my talk was pushing him closer to the edge.
“Do you want to come inside me, or will you pull out and come on my belly Finn?”
Finn moved his hand away from my clit and clutched my waist as I felt the first splashes of his release inside me. His entire body was twitching with each spurt, but I never stopped moving, riding his release out just like I told him I would do.
The sight of him in the throes of his orgasm was too much for me, and I moved one hand down to touch myself, instinctively knowing what it would take to push myself over the edge. I kept bouncing up and down on Finn as I used my fingers on my clit, our combined fluids making it slick and easy to manipulate. Finn was still coming as I finally threw my head back and yelled, my orgasm making me clench around his shaft almost painfully.
Finn let out a shout and I felt more come shooting up into me as my pussy milked him. As I continued to rub myself, I drew out my orgasm, clenching around him until he finally grabbed me by the waist and threw me down beside him in the bed, his body rolling on top of mine as soon as I landed.
He pushed into me over and over again until I was drained, unable to move anymore. As his cock started to soften, he still moved back and forth inside me slowly, his forehead on the bed beside my ear.
“Jesus, Lena. Are you trying to fucking kill me?”
I giggled at his growl, and he shoved his now soft cock deep inside me, slamming into my clit with his pubic bone. I gasped and opened my eyes as his head came up off the bed. He kissed me softly, and I felt him start to harden inside me, his cock growing until I was full again.
“Your turn.” Finn said as he moved in and out of me so slowly, I felt every nerve ending start to fire. “We’ve still got about an hour, and really, who the fuck needs sleep?”
“We’re going to regret this later.”
“Oh, fuck it.” Finn said as he slammed into me so hard my body moved up a few inches on the mattress. “We’ll get enough sleep when we’re dead.”
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FINN
“Is it my turn?” I growled when I heard one of the babies start to whimper. “Rock, paper, scissors for it?”
“Fuck you. You know it’s your turn, Finn Conner.” Lena growled at me. “I think I’ve slept maybe six hours total in the week they’ve been home. Something’s gotta give.”
“I’m sorr
y, baby. You’re right. I’ll get them.”
“We’ve got them both, you guys.” I heard Royal’s voice through the monitor. Then I heard Ronan talking to one of the babies. “I’m turning this off. You guys get some good sleep.”
“I just fell in love with your little brother. Sorry, Finn.” Lena murmured into her pillow. “I’ll tell him tomorrow.”
“Go to sleep, baby. We’re both off tomorrow, so we’ll let the guys take care of them for a while.”
“Fuck yeah.” Lena whispered right before she started to snore.
I smiled to myself as I started to drift off to sleep. I had a good woman in Lena, she was one hell of a trooper. She took both babies to work with her, and Lily helped her with them throughout the day while the two of them worked. Then she came home and cooked dinner while she made bottles for the next twenty-four hours, all the while taking turns with me and my brothers in caring for the babies. I honestly couldn’t imagine how women did all that while recovering from giving birth. Superhuman fucking strength or something. Lena and I were both perfectly healthy and we had all my brothers in and out to help, but we were still exhausted.
I reached out and touched my hand to her face, and even in the dim light of the sunrise coming through the edge of the curtains, I could see the dark circles under her eyes. She had worked so hard for me and the kids that she was wearing herself out.
I was so fucking lucky to have her, and I wished that Bellamy, Greer and my parents could have known her. I had a feeling they would have loved her too.
“I love you, baby.” I whispered. I wasn’t surprised when all I heard was a snore.
12.
“If you touch me again, I’ll put my foot so far up your ass my shoestrings will get caught on your wisdom teeth.”
Lena to Creepy Ronnie
LENA
“We get an evening to ourselves for the first time in over a month and you want to go eat at the diner?” Finn asked me as he pulled into the parking lot of The Station, the diner my friend Shirley owned.
“I want to talk to Shirley. I miss her.” I pouted. “I’ve been so busy that I haven’t had a chance to see her. Besides, we should thank her in person for all she has done for us since the kids were born. She cleaned up my apartment and saved what she could of my stuff after the break in. She went and did all that shopping for us so we had everything we needed, and all those meals she sent with Lily. I think Shirley might very well be our fairy godmother.”
“When you put it like that, I think you’re right. What can we do for them to show our appreciation?”
“I have an idea, and since I got all that life insurance money and we close on the house in a few weeks, I want to send them on a cruise together. I talked to Lily about it and she said that Shirley has some great people working for her now that she can trust to watch the diner. Lily can oversee everything at the apartments, and the diner too if she needs to. We can give her some leeway at work for that while Shirley and Ralph are gone.”
“You’re not going to buy it all. My brothers and I will split the bill, you can chip in, but not pay for all of it.”
“You’re so sweet. I think this will be the best gift ever. You know they’ve been married almost thirty years and have never taken a vacation just the two of them?”
“Damn. Okay. Lesson learned. Start planning a vacation for us to go on sometime next year. We’ll make a deal. Me and you go somewhere once a year.” Finn looked over at me as he turned the truck off. “Is that a deal?”
“It’s a deal.” I waited for Finn to open my door and then I slid out of the truck and took his hand. As we rounded the hood I glanced into the diner and saw Creepy Ronnie staring at me. “Ugh. I wish I didn’t have to see him.”
“Who?” Finn asked as he looked in the window. “That guy that looks like he wants to kill me?”
“How did you guess? He scared the shit out of me when I was working here. Hell, he scares the shit out of almost everyone.”
“Why doesn’t Shirley fire him?”
“He’s her nephew or something. And, he doesn’t do anything weird in front of her. She’s kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. His Mom is big with the church, and her and all her friends come in all the time to eat. She’s the kind of woman that would make it her life’s mission to take away every customer if Shirley did something to her boy.”
“That sucks. God, I’m glad I’ve got good family.”
“No shit. And you’re sharing them with me.” I tiptoed up to kiss him and then walked through the door he was holding open for me.
I heard Shirley squeal and then saw her moving quickly down the aisle toward me with her arms out for a hug. We embraced and talked over each other in our excitement. When we pulled apart, I looked over and saw Finn smiling sweetly at the two of us. Shirley pulled him in for a hug and started asking him questions about the babies. He, of course, pulled out his phone to show her pictures, and I took that opportunity to run to the bathroom.
After I finished my business and pulled my pants up, I opened the bathroom door and found Ronnie standing there waiting on me.
“I’ve missed you, Lena.” Ronnie whispered as he reached out to touch my face.
I shrank back and scowled at him.
“Don’t touch me, Ronnie. Back the fuck off.”
“Did you miss me too? I wrote you a note.”
“Ronnie, I said back up. You’re talking crazy. I don’t know why you’ve missed me, I never even talked to you when I worked here.”
“I know that things are going a little crazy right now, but we can be together soon. She promised. I’ll pretend for now, just like you are.”
“Boy, I think the fucking cheese has slid completely off your cracker. I’m not pretending anything and I didn’t promise you shit. If you touch me again, I’ll put my foot so far up your ass my shoestrings will get caught on your wisdom teeth.”
I heard a chuckle behind me but didn’t turn around.
“Now, back the fuck off before I beat you like you owe me money.”
“You can’t talk to me like that, Lena. I won’t stand for it.” Ronnie glared at me as he growled. “I’m going to … “
“Listen, fucker, you keep this shit up and you won’t be standing at all. The woman said to leave her the fuck alone and she meant it. Do I need to hit you in the fucking head to clear your ears or are you going to get gone?” The man who had laughed walked slowly past me and started backing Creepy Ronnie into the corner of the hallway. As he walked past me, I saw that he was wearing a leather vest that showed he belonged to one of the motorcycle clubs in the area, The Texas Knights MC. He was a big man with a deep, growly voice. Once Ronnie scurried off, the large man turned around and smiled at me, and I saw that he was gorgeous, and had a dimple in each cheek. His eyes looked almost silver in this light, and they twinkled mischievously. “Way to keep your cool, babe. I’m out there with some of my brothers. You holler if you need me. If that asshole keeps bothering you, we can have a chat with him out back.”
“Thank you. I’m here with my boyfriend, he’s going to be pissed that Ronnie tried to corner me.”
“It figures that a pretty thing like you already has a man.” The big biker shrugged. “Isn’t that how it always goes?”
“Yep. We get snatched up pretty quick. You find one you better put a ring on it.” I laughed when he shook his head vigorously. I stuck my hand out and introduced myself, “Thanks for your help. I’m Lena. Nice to meet you.”
“I’m Clem Forrester. Pleasure to meet you.”
I smiled as I turned to walk away, and I heard his boots walking down the short hall to the men’s room. When I got out into the dining area, I didn’t see Ronnie anywhere, so I went to sit at the table with Finn and Shirley. She asked me about the babies, and then I begged her for the recipe to one of the casseroles she had Lily deliver to us last week. I completely forgot about Creepy Ronnie as I talked with my friend while I sat in the booth holding Finn’s hand.
I was right where I wanted to be, and nothing could burst my little bubble of happiness. Nothing.
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When the door chimed, I hit save on my document and turned to greet the woman who had scheduled an appointment with me. I stood and stuck my hand out.
“Hello! I’m Lena Sullivan.”
The woman stuck her hand out to shake mine as she smiled, “I’m Kari Duke. Thank you for meeting with me.”
“Of course. Have a seat. So, you have an employment agency?”
“Not exactly. Have you ever been by the Sunrise Apartments, over on the West side of town?” Kari asked as she pulled her wallet out of her purse and then handed me a business card.
“I’ve driven by there a few times. I have been living in Abilene for years and was only here occasionally to visit my parents until I moved back just a couple of years ago.”
“My family and I built the apartments expressly to help men and women escape violent domestic situations. We help them rebuild their lives, learn new skills if they need them, and then enter the work force and get out on their own when they can.”
“That’s wonderful. Are you here for a donation? I can talk to the Conner brothers about it and see what we can do. Finn hurried off for a meeting this morning, and his brothers are all over town doing other things right now.”
“Oh, no.” Kari chuckled. “They help us out all the time. Not just with money, but with building repairs, renovations, anything we need. I’m here because you have an ad in the paper about a receptionist position.”
“Oh, yes. We do, but I haven’t had much luck filling the spot.”
“I wanted to talk to you about possibly letting me fill the position for you, in a temporary capacity. As some of the women learn new skills and are ready for the work force, the problem we run into is that they don’t have any experience. I’d like to see if we can work together to get your position filled with four part time employees who will work for three to six months each. They can get the experience they need in an office setting, learn from you and the other staff about the various aspects of office work, and then I’ll help them find a permanent position with an honest reference from you.”
