Double Daddy Trouble: A Groomsman Menage

by Violet Paige

Hunger for one thing.

  And she was twenty floors above them. Shit.

  Why did she have to be so damn adorable and sexy? There was an air of innocence that floated around her. And she was theirs now. They had to protect her and keep her safe.

  Tyler coughed in his fist to stifle a groan.

  “We’re looking forward to the announcement tomorrow,” Roger Hanson smiled at Tyler.

  He had almost forgotten he was surrounded by StarCon Global shareholders. He was lost in his own world where only Brooke existed.

  “Yes,” he answered. “It’s going to be exciting. Lee and I have worked on this for years.”

  The truth was they had no idea how everyone would react to the charity work they planned to pursue. But they both knew it was time they gave back. They had more money than they knew what to do with.

  Bringing Brooke into the project felt right. It was as if she completed the picture. He had joked about looking for an empress to run their empire, but it didn’t seem funny anymore. She was the one. He knew it.

  Thirty-Six

  Lee

  The next twenty-four hours were a whirlwind. Lee couldn’t believe how far away the cabin felt. He slept with Brooke nuzzled on his chest last night, but he was sleepless. Restless. Tyler couldn’t even come to bed. He was too spun up about the launch.

  Lee stood on the stage, looking at the audience. Tyler was next to him. Lee looked over his shoulder. Brooke was standing in the wings beyond the view from everyone else.

  It had taken years for this moment. They were about to announce the creation of Dreams with Wings. And it was crazy, but he knew without Brooke it never would have all together. Tyler had chosen her design for the branding because she was supposed to be a part of the project. Yes, she had the best concept. Yes, he saw something in her art. Lee had no doubt she was the missing link they had been searching for all these years.

  He smiled at her before turning toward the audience. She gave him a thumbs-up and a soft smile. The last two months were extraordinary. They were bonded in a way that could take him to his knees.

  The words to the speech she had helped with started at the top of the teleprompter. Tyler nudged him. It was time for the announcement.

  The cameras in the front row began to flash and Lee heard the constant click and snapping sounds the photographers made as they adjusted their shots.

  “Welcome, everyone.” He grinned widely.

  Tyler waved.

  “This is one of those times we don’t what happens here to stay here. Tyler Star and I have an announcement that we want you to take with you. Something that we hope transforms your lives the instant you leave this room.” Tyler shook his hand as he began to take over the next part of the speech.

  “You all are probably wondering what Lee and I have been doing for the past few months. Well, for one, Lee has been working on his beard.” He paused while the audience chuckled. “And other than that we have something that’s going to take StarCon Global to a new level.” Tyler beamed at the crowd. “It’s time you know about Dreams with Wings.”

  Lee didn’t think he had shaken this many hands since his college graduation. He and Tyler were in a receiving line, thanking for everyone for coming. He guessed the pledges for Dreams with Wings were already in the millions.

  “Where is Brooke?’ Tyler asked.

  Lee looked for her. She was trapped in in the corner talking to Andy Gallagher. “I think she needs rescuing. I’ll be right back.” He left Tyler to pry Andy away from their girl.

  “Hi, Andy. Glad to see you again.” He slapped the businessman on the back.

  “Excellent presentation. I like your vision. I was just talking to Brooke here. I was wondering if she had any suggestions for one of my global projects.”

  Lee slung his arm around Brooke’s shoulder. “She has an exclusive with StarCon Global I’m afraid. You can understand though why we wouldn’t to let her get away, can’t you?”

  He felt the softness of Brooke’s eyes land on him.

  Andy backed up. “Of course.” He pressed his lips together. “Well, if you get out of that contract, Brooke, give me a call.” He pushed a business card in her hands.

  “Thank you, Mr. Gallagher. I appreciate it.”

  He walked away and Lee pressed a kiss to Brooke’s temple. “Was he bothering you?”

  She laughed. “No. Boring me, yes. Bothering me, no. Were you worried?”

  Lee felt his chest tighten. Maybe this was what jealousy felt like. He’d never had it with Tyler, but seeing how Andy looked at her. How his eyes took in her legs and breasts, did something to him. He had an urge to punch the man who was about as interesting as a bologna sandwich.

  “Never worried. Protective is all.”

  “I think I like you being protective,” she whispered.

  “Good, because it’s my mission in life now to keep you safe.”

  Thirty-Seven

  Brooke

  Her body coursed with the kind of life she had only dreamed existed. Brooke stared out of her new office window. It was hard to focus with the memories of the cabin. They had been back in Denver for a week, but she couldn’t get the months in the mountains out of her head.

  Lee and Tyler had given her her own office at StarCon. She even had her own assistant. She hadn’t gotten used to either.

  They had a new kind of routine now. One that didn’t involve hikes or stocking up on groceries for impending snow storm. Someone life was still perfect.

  Together Lee and Tyler were everything she wanted. They were perfect together. Perfect for her.

  She was working a job she took only to satisfy a debt. She had accepted the design assignment to bargain for her own freedom. And now she felt as if she had a stake in StarCon Global. It mattered what happened to the company. It mattered because Lee and Tyler cared about it. They had built this empire. And the gravity of keeping it as safe and protected as they kept her seemed more important than ever.

  As the head of Dreams with Wings, she had never had a more important job. This was the most important venture to them. If that didn’t demonstrate how much they cared, she didn’t know what would. She blushed. She was so crazy about them. It was more than that. She knew she had fallen in love. And it was the best feeling.

  She stared out the window, looking at the mountains in the distance. Her phone buzzed.

  “Hello?”

  “I saw the pictures, Brooke.”

  “Niall?” She hadn’t bothered to look at her phone. She had been in too much of a daze. Her stomach turned at the sound of his voice.

  “How are things, cuz?”

  “Don’t ‘cuz’ me. We aren’t family. I don’t know that we ever were.”

  She should hang up.

  “Oh come on. Looks like my little deal has turned out rather nicely for you.” She could hear the sneer through the phone. “I see you’re being treated like a princess.”

  “And what if I am? It’s none of your business anymore. You pawned me off. You don’t give a damn about me. Don’t try to pretend now that things are different.”

  “Oh I wouldn’t pretend. How about you pay me back for the nice life you have now?”

  She felt her jaw drop. “Pay you?” She looked outside her door to make sure no one could hear her. “You had me carted off in the back of someone’s trunk, Niall. You can’t honestly think I owe you anything. I’m hanging up now.” She wasn’t about to tell him she had wagered and won for her freedom.

  “I wouldn’t do that, princess,” he taunted. “Your boyfriends might not be too happy if I told them about what you used to do.”

  The hair prickled on the back of her neck. “Niall,” she hissed. “Why can’t you leave me alone? You paid your debt. Move on.” She felt the panic rising. She could almost taste it in her mouth.

  He chuckled. “So I struck a nerve? Well, why don’t you make a few payments if you want me to keep your secret?”

  “That’s blackmail.”

  “Y
ou can call it whatever you want. I want the money. You aren’t so innocent, are you? You’ve done your own things for money, cuz.”

  “How much?” she whispered. “What will it take to make you go away?”

  “See? I knew family was supposed to stick together.”

  “How much, Niall?” she insisted. She wanted to throw up.

  He paused. “Why don’t you make a few payments and I’ll let you know.”

  Brooke ran out of her office in search of the elevator. She tapped on the buttons rapidly.

  She squeezed her eyes tightly as the elevator finally arrived. A woman scrambled off.

  “I wouldn’t get on there if I were you. I got stuck on the ninth floor.” The woman was flustered.

  “Thanks.” Brooke smiled meekly. “I’ll take the other one.” It must be why everything was running so slowly.

  “Princess?” Niall was still on the phone.

  “I’m at work. I’ll call you later. Don’t do anything, Niall. Swear to me you won’t. I’ll get your money. Just don’t say anything to anyone.”

  “It’s our little secret. Always has been. Unless you don’t come up with the cash. Then it will be everyone’s secret.”

  Brooke stepped on to the next elevator. Niall held her future in his hands. And if there was one thing she knew, it was not to trust him for a single second. There was nothing steady or honest about him. He was filled with one thing only—greed.

  She leaned into the elevator. This was all going to fall apart. It would crumble at her feet.

  Thirty-Eight

  Brooke

  Trying to sit through a meeting and share her success about Dreams with Wings, should have made Brooke feel triumphant, but instead she felt sick. All she heard was the sneer in Niall’s voice, echoing in her head. It was like a broken record and she couldn’t pick up the needle. Why did he have to ruin everything? Steal the only happiness she’d ever known? She felt the pit of hatred harden. It was money—it always came back to money.

  How was she going to get through this?

  “Brooke?” Bruce waited at the other end of the conference table.

  “Yes?”

  “You were going to lay out how we should integrate your design into the website? Do you have that for us?”

  She blinked. “Yes. Right. Exactly.”

  She scrambled through her notes, looking for the file on the web design. It wasn’t her area of expertise, but she knew how she wanted it to look and feel when donors or families clicked to research the foundation. It would be the main basis for information. It had to be perfect.

  “Bruce, I’d like to consult with the web designer and then we could work through that at the next meeting.”

  “But we need that for the celebrity endorsement page. That should come up first, don’t you think?” he asked.

  Her head pounded. Why was Bruce giving her a hard time? “Sure. But I need a consult first,” she spat the words with more anger than she intended.

  “Sorry.” He pushed back from the table. “Let me know when you have something for me to see.”

  He marched out of the conference room.

  Brooke sighed. She had let her fear surface in front of everyone. She smiled at the group. “Let’s reschedule this meeting for tomorrow. Ok? I think we all need a day after the launch’s success.”

  She hurried out of the meeting, looking for a place to hide. She ran to the ladies’ room and splashed water on her face. She dabbed a towel to her neck. She had broken out in a sweat.

  There was no way she was going to give Niall money, but if she didn’t, she could lose Lee and Tyler.

  She didn’t have enough in her savings to make a payment that would satisfy her greedy cousin. She could take out a loan, but she knew that still wouldn’t be enough to make him happy. If she had been worth six-digits to Tyler in a poker game, Niall had to be thinking a figure somewhere near that.

  She leaned into the wall for support. The chills ran through her. Heat and cold. Back and forth, controlling her body with fear and rage.

  Where was she going to come up with that kind of money?

  Danny greeted her at the door when she arrived at the penthouse. Lee and Tyler were stuck at the office in a meeting. They told her to go ahead and eat dinner without them.

  “Anything you need, Miss?” Danny asked.

  “No. I think I’m going to take a hot bath.”

  “Should I draw it for you?” he asked.

  She looked at him. Danny was instructed to help her with anything she wanted, but that wasn’t something she needed help with.

  “I think I’ve got it.” She smiled. “Will you let me know when Tyler or Lee are home?”

  “Yes. Dinner is at six.”

  She rolled her eyes. She thought maybe since they were out for the night she could eat on her own schedule.

  “Ok.” She climbed the stairs, feeling the exhaustion hit her.

  Her phone buzzed. She saw Niall’s name appear on the screen this time.

  “What is it?” she asked quickly.

  “Are we meeting tonight?”

  “What? I said I would call you when I had something for you.”

  “I’m not patient.”

  She reached the top of the stairs and rushed to her room. The last thing she needed was Danny to hear her conversation.

  “You’re going to have to be. I don’t have the kind of money you think I do. You gambled me into this situation, Niall. It’s not like you sent me with a dowry.”

  “What the fuck is a dowry?”

  She hung her head. “It doesn’t matter. It just means, I need some time.”

  “You have until the morning. Or I go to the press.”

  “Morning? There aren’t piles of cash lying around the house, Niall. I don’t know what you think happens with rich people and money. It’s in accounts, not stuffed in a mattress.”

  He blew into the phone. “I don’t care how you get it. Just get it.”

  Before she could protest again the line was silent. Brooke looked at the phone. He had hung up on her.

  “Shit,” she whispered, sinking on the bed.

  Last night she had moved into her new suite of rooms, adjoining both Lee and Tyler’s rooms. She flattened her hand on the pillow where Lee slept and rolled to Tyler’s side. She could still smell them on the pillows. They were her everything.

  They would be humiliated if they discovered what she had done. They wouldn’t be able to forgive her. They would never look at her the same way.

  Her eyes burned. The tears stung. She loved how they touched her. How they kissed her. How they worshipped her body. The idea that she could lose it because of her past, was suffocating. She fell to the bed as the sobs filled her lungs.

  She couldn’t lose them. Not now. Not ever.

  Thirty-Nine

  Brooke

  She awoke to Tyler nuzzled to her breast. Lee was pressed against her back. She opened her eyes. Tyler smiled.

  “Good morning, sweetheart.”

  “When did you two get home? I never heard you come in.”

  They were naked. She felt the warmth of their skin under the covers.

  Lee kissed her neck. “It was after midnight. You must have been exhausted.”

  “I’m sorry,” she apologized.

  “We shouldn’t have both left you alone all night,” Tyler answered. “Someone should have been with you.”

  “I thought we established things are a little different away from the cabin,” she teased.

  “Do you want to lecture us on coming home too late or do you want us to fuck you properly?”

  She reached forward, clasping his solid cock in her hand. It dribbled with drops of dew on her fingertips. She sighed as Lee pressed his shaft between her legs.

  “Fuck me properly, my loves,” she coaxed.

  She heard them growl and for a second felt as if she was lying between two wild lions who were ready to devour her.

  “We’re at your service,”
Tyler groaned, spreading her folds.

  “Shit,” she hissed. “So intense, so fast,” she whimpered.

  “You have no idea what one night away from you can do to us,” Lee whispered, running his tongue along her slit. “Spread her wider, man.”

  “Oh fuck,” she moaned, clutching the sheets.

  Tyler held her open on display while Lee’s tongue went to work on her sensitive clit.

  “I can’t.” Her head rocked back and forth.

  “Flip her over,” Lee’s husky voice instructed.

  “Oomph.” Tyler picked her up, rolling her on her stomach.

  “I want that sweet sweet rosebud,” Lee growled.

  “Oh God,” Brooke mewed.

  “But first. Level four.”

  “Fuck,” Tyler climbed off the bed and returned with the biggest dildo Brooke had ever seen.

  She whimpered at the site of it, but felt an instant rush of wet heat between her legs. She wanted it. She craved it. Needed it.

  He chuckled behind her. He knew she wasn’t scared. She was turned on. Her glistening pussy gave her away.

  “I have something I want to try,” Tyler spoke up. “Since she’s being such a good girl, I think we do something hot.”

  Lee kept his hand pressed on her lower back. She had nowhere to go, she couldn’t move. Instead she got wetter and more turned on, not knowing what came next.

  “How big is the base on level four?”

  Lee held it up. “I think I know what you have in mind.”

  Tyler leaned against the headboard. His giant cock springing forward with his legs open.

  “Put your arms around me, sweetheart and suck,” he ordered.

  She licked her lips, hungry for his cock in her mouth. Brooke slid her arms around his waist just as Ty pressed his solid shaft between her lips.

  “Mmm,” she groaned.

  But before she could find a rhythm, he leaned forward lifting her hips just enough for Lee to slide the dildo under her. As soon as he lowered her the vibrator pushed inside her pussy. She tried to moan but her mouth was full of Ty.