Elite Dragoons 4: Tabby's Rescuers (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting)

by Becca Van

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  Tabby whimpered as the tears rolled down her face. She was so scared and couldn’t hold her emotions back. He was standing over her again, and she couldn’t even see his face or eyes. She didn’t know what he was going to do to her, but she knew none of it would be good. She was so damn cold and tired and all she wanted to do was sleep, and even though she couldn’t see, she didn’t want to close her eyes. Maybe by keeping her eyes open she could remain awake and alert and somehow fight him off if he did something.

  Then she felt his hand on her belly. It was a big hand, nearly covering her whole lower abs. He skimmed it up over her body, and she felt sick to her stomach. When he covered her breast with his fingers and palm, she cried out at being violated and also from the pain. He squeezed so hard she was sure there were instant bruises. He laughed and she swallowed the bile trying to rush up her throat, but when he released her breast she hoped he was going to leave and stop tormenting her. She should have known better. His fingers brushed just above the waistband of her panties and then delved beneath.

  Tabby screamed and screamed, hoping and praying that someone would hear her and come help her. Her chest was so tight and her heart was beating so rapidly she wondered if it was going to explode. She couldn’t get enough air into her lungs and she wanted to claw at her throat, but she was tied down and could do nothing. She’d never felt so vulnerable and helpless in her life.

  She screamed again when his fingers touched her sex and knew she was going to be raped.

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  Law’s eyes snapped open when Tabby whimpered. He flicked the bedside lamp on and stared down at her beautiful face. She was frowning and crying and breathing way too fast. He sat up and tried to take her into his arms, but she was flailing and he didn’t want to hurt her. He glanced over at Cal, who was in bed on Tabitha’s other side, and then down to the foot of the bed where Fletch was lying. Both his brothers looked just as worried as he felt.

  Law didn’t want to restrain her wrists and scare her, but he also didn’t want her hurting herself. He sat up against the headboard and lifted Tabby up into his arms. Just as he settled her on his lap, she started screaming. The sound was so tortured it broke his heart. Cal and Fletch moved in closer and began caressing her arms and legs as they tried to wake her from her nightmare.

  “You’re safe now, baby. Come on, Tabby, wake up for me.”

  Law knew the instant she woke up. She screamed the house down before jerking, and then she clutched at him and started crying hard. He held her tight against him and crooned nonsensical noises to her, hoping to calm her down, all the while rubbing gentle circles on her lower back. It took a while, but finally her tears slowed until she was hiccupping occasionally and she slumped down against his chest.

  She wiped the tears from her face and then looked up at him through bloodshot, swollen eyes. “I’m sorry.”

  “Shh, baby, you have nothing to be sorry for.” Law hugged her tighter.

  “Are you okay now, kitten?” Cal asked as he caressed her arm.

  “Yeah, it was just a nightmare. I’ll be fine.” Tabby looked around the room then must have noticed that they were all in one bed because her cheeks turned a light pink color.

  “Why are you in bed with me?”

  “There was nowhere else for us to sleep, love,” Fletch answered, and then he explained the situation they had come back home to.

  “Are you in danger because of me?”

  “No, kitten,” Cal answered and then told her about all their missions and the women they’d rescued from the Japanese underworld criminals. Just as he finished speaking, there was a knock on the door. Cal got up off the bed to answer it and Law saw the way Tabby ogled his brother’s boxer-covered backside and muscular body. Her cheeks turned a brighter pink color and she quickly looked away.

  Dalton stood in the doorway with his medical bag in his hand. “Is everything all right?”

  “Yeah,” Cal answered and then explained about Tabby’s nightmare. Cal then turned to face their woman and introduced her to their team leader and medic.

  “Nice to meet you,” Tabby replied quietly.

  “Your men are real worried about you, Tabby. Will you let me look over your injuries?” Dalton asked.

  Tabitha frowned, and Law wondered if she had caught Dalton’s slip of the tongue, but he figured she hadn’t when she said, “I don’t have any injuries. I’m fine.”

  Cal met her gaze and gave her a hard stare. “But you’ll let him check you over anyway.”

  Tabby sighed as if resigned and then nodded her head. Cal and Fletch grabbed their jeans and left the room. Law placed a light kiss on Tabby’s head and then lifted her off of his lap and seated her on the bed. He bent over, picked up his pants, and glanced back toward Tabby as he stepped into them. She was checking him out, too. That gave him hope that she would be okay with having the three of them as her men.

  Please let her want us as much as we want her.

  Chapter Five

  Tabby let Dalton check her over, and he smiled at her as he put his equipment away and then headed to the door. “I better let your men back in. They’re probably chomping at the bit to know if you’re all right.”

  “Wait!” Tabby licked her dry lips and then looked up at Dalton. “What do you mean by my men? I hardly know them.”

  Dalton turned to face her. “All the men in the team share their women.”

  “What?” Tabby scrambled to the other side of the bed and glared at him.

  “Shit! I didn’t mean that the way it sounded.” Dalton scrubbed a hand over his face and sighed. “My brothers and I are involved in a ménage relationship with our fiancé, Sara-Jane. The other team members share their own women. None of us besides Cal, Fletch, and Law would touch you. They really like you. I’ve never seen them look at another woman the way they look at you. And you’re just as attracted to them.”

  “I am—”

  Dalton held up his hand and cut her off. “You can lie to yourself if you want to, but you look at those three men the same way Sara looks at us. Give them a chance, Tabitha. They are good men, and they will do anything to make sure you stay safe.”

  Tabby watched as Dalton opened the door and then left. She wondered if what he said was true. Did they really look at her like they were attracted to her? If they did she hadn’t really noticed, but she’d had a lot to contend with and decided she would pay closer attention from now on.

  She really wanted a shower and some clean clothes to put on, but she didn’t have anything with her. Tabby hoped she could borrow some things from one of the other women. She hoped that she could make friends with them. She’d never really had any female friends. Of course, she got along with the other women at the hospital she worked at, but most of them were married and busy with their own lives. Plus Tabby had always been a bit of a loner. There was also the fact that she didn’t have much money since she was still paying off her college loans, and adding in that she had rent and bills to pay and no one to share the expenses with, there was never any cash left over for anything as frivolous as a social life.

  Tabby had been on her own since she was fourteen years old. Her mother had just up and left one day after Tabitha had gone to school, and she had never seen or heard from her again. Of course, she’d contacted the police and reported her mom missing, but after the police saw an image of her at an ATM cleaning out her bank account and realized there wasn’t anything sinister about her disappearance, they had stopped looking for her. Tabby had been taken away by human services and placed into foster care, and even though that had been downright scary at times, she had survived.

  Once she had finished school with her diploma in hand, she had packed up what little belongings she had, enrolled in college, and moved to a dormitory room. The next few years she’d worked whenever she wasn’t studying and was now a fully qualified nurse, but the bills from college had been exorbitant and it was going to take her forever to pay them off at the rate sh
e was going. But at least she had been able to be independent.

  She had no idea what she was going to do now. Her coworkers were probably worried about her, and if she didn’t continue to pay her rent, she was going to end up losing her small one-bedroom apartment.

  She spun around to face the door when it opened and quickly glanced away when Cal, Fletch, and Law entered the room. None of the men had shirts on, and she couldn’t seem to stop herself from looking at their muscular chests and abs, so she decided not to look at them at all.

  “How are you feeling, kitten?” Cal asked after nudging her chin up and staring into her eyes.

  Is that hunger I can see in his eyes? Was Dalton right after all? No, Tabby, it’s probably just wishful thinking on your behalf.

  “I’m fine. I don’t have any injuries except for a few bruises and chafing around my wrists and ankles.”

  “You certainly are fine,” Cal whispered and perused her body, stopping in strategic places, and then his eyes lifted to meet hers again. There was no way she could deny the heat she saw in his eyes this time, and when he leaned in to kiss her, she placed her hand against his chest and pushed him back. He looked a little hurt, but she needed to clean up before he kissed her. She hadn’t had a shower or bushed her teeth, and she felt really dirty.

  “As much as I want to kiss you, too, I need a shower and to brush my teeth. I was tied to a bed for two days, remember? And I kind of stink.” Tabby lifted her arm, sniffed, and scrunched her nose when she smelled the sweat.

  The frown on Cal’s face turned to a smile and he winked at her. “Okay. You go and shower, kitten. There should be some packaged toothbrushes under the sink in the bathroom. Use anything you want. While you’re cleaning up, I’ll see about getting you something to wear.”

  Tabby smiled at him and then at Fletch and Law before spinning on her heels and hurrying into the bathroom. Fletch and Law had been looking at her with desire in their eyes, too. She’d never been drawn to a man, let alone men, the way she was to the Garton brothers, and she wondered if they wanted a relationship with her or just sex. Even though she wasn’t a virgin, she didn’t just jump into bed with just anyone. She’d actually only had sex with one man, and that had been while in a relationship in college. It had taken her three months to become intimate with her ex, and even though she hadn’t thought the sex was anything to write home about, it had been pleasant enough. But it had been lacking, and after another three months she and Michael had decided they weren’t suited to each other and had mutually broken off their relationship.

  Now that she’d met the Garton men, she knew there hadn’t been any real spark between her and Michael. There had been a little something, but it had fizzled out fast. However when she was near Cal, Fletch, and Law, her body responded to their presence and she felt like she was burning up inside. But as much as she was willing to try a relationship with them, if that was what they wanted, she was also a little wary, especially after what she had just been through.

  It wasn’t that she thought these three men would hurt her in any way, at least not physically—not when they had put their own lives at risk to save her twice already—it was just that she was worried she would end up caring deeply for them, and if they decided they didn’t want her to hang around, she would be leaving brokenhearted.

  Tabby stepped into the shower and washed herself from head to toe twice over. After she rinsed out the conditioner and dried off, she wrapped the towel around her body, found the packaged toothbrush, and brushed her teeth. She stared at herself in the mirror and wondered what those men saw that made them look at her the way they did. She was small in height, being just one inch over five feet. She was okay to look at, but she didn’t think she was beautiful. Her nose was too small and she thought her chin was too pointy. Her eyes were too big for her face and she had that startled-doe look, and she didn’t think that was attractive.

  The only thing she had going for her as far as she was concerned was good skin, long, wavy white-blonde hair, and an okay body. Her breasts weren’t big, not much more than a handful.

  Tabby sighed and turned away from the mirror. She couldn’t change anything about herself, so why bother even looking. She opened the door and froze in the doorway. She hadn’t expected Cal and his brothers to be in the room, but there they were, draped about and looking so handsome and masculine that her breath hitched in her throat and her heart rate picked up. Cal was slumped on the small sofa along the far wall near the door, and his legs were splayed wide. Fletch and Law were lying on the bed, and all three of the men were staring at her.

  Her flesh tingled and goose bumps rose up everywhere their eyes touched as they perused her body. Tabby’s nipples hardened and brushed against the fabric of the towel, and it took everything she had not to moan with pleasure. She shifted on her feet, bringing her legs closer together squeezing her thighs, but that didn’t relieve the ache in her clit. In fact, it only managed to intensify the throbbing between her legs and cream leaked from her pussy onto her inner thighs.

  Cal straightened up on the sofa and then pushed to his feet. He spoke as he walked toward her. “Do you feel better, kitten?”

  “Yes.”

  Cal stopped when he was within touching distance, and then he wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her up against his warm, muscular body. She shivered when her breasts connected with his stomach and she felt his hard cock press against her.

  Is he turned on because of me?

  Tabby tilted her head back to stare up into his gray eyes and felt like she was drowning. Very deliberately, as if in slow motion, Cal bent down and brought his face closer to hers. She didn’t move her eyes from his even when she had the urge to look at his lips when his breath puffed against hers. And then he broke the connection as he looked at her lips for a moment or two and then met her gaze again. She drew in a ragged breath, and then his mouth was on hers.

  His lips opened over hers, and she groaned when his tongue slid into her mouth and glided along hers. He tasted so good she couldn’t get enough and never wanted the kiss to end. It was a hot, wild mating of mouths, and she didn’t even realize she was moving until her hands landed on his warm, hard shoulders. Cal thrust his hips against her, and she whimpered when she felt the ridge of his hard cock press into her belly. The more he kissed her, the hotter she became, until she was shaking with desire.

  Tabby moaned with frustration when he slowed the kiss down, until he was sipping at her lips and finally lifted his head. The hunger in his eyes was so full of yearning she wanted to fling herself back into his arms and beg him to make love to her.

  Hands landed on her shoulders, startling her, and she gave a little jump.

  “Easy, love, it’s only me.” Fletch’s voice rumbled in her ear, and the warm caress of his breath on her sensitive skin caused a shudder to race up her spine. Fletch turned her around so that she was facing him, and she looked up into his beautiful blue, heat-filled eyes.

  He cupped her face between his hands and looked over every inch of it as if he was trying to memorize her features. And then he was kissing her. Tabby must have blinked because she didn’t even see him lean over and down toward her. She stood on tiptoes and wrapped her arms around his neck, clinging to him. He tasted different from Cal but just as good. His tongue swept the interior of her cavern, exploring every inch of her mouth. He kissed her long and deeply, and fire raced through her blood. She loved the way his tongue curled around hers and then drew it into his mouth. She mewled in the back of her throat when he sucked on it and tried to move in closer to him.

  Tabby nearly cried out with frustration when he broke the kiss but was pleased that he was breathing just as heavily as she was. He looked over the top of her head and stepped back. She felt the warmth against her back and didn’t have to turn or look over her shoulder to know that it was Law. His spicy cologne assailed her nostrils, and she breathed in deeply.

  His hands gripped her waist, and when she felt the towel loosen
and realized it was in jeopardy of falling off, she grabbed the top and held it against her chest. Law turned her around then picked her up without seeming to make any effort at all.

  “You are so damn beautiful, baby. So sexy and sweet. I just want to eat you up.”

  Tabby gripped his shoulders. Her first instinct was to wrap her legs around his waist, but she was worried about exposing herself to them. She didn’t want to come across looking like a slut or too needy, although with her pussy all swollen and wet and aching, that was what she felt like.

  Law sat down on the edge of the bed and placed her on his lap. He reached out and secured the towel around her so it wouldn’t fall off, and she sucked in a breath as his fingers brushed against the top of her breasts. Tabby was aching so much for their touch she wanted to rip the towel aside and lay herself out on the bed for them to feast on. She’d never wanted to do that before and wondered why these three men brought out her passionate side. They were all so damn handsome, big, and muscular, but she’d seen handsome and muscular men before. She wondered if she had a bit of hero worship but quickly vetoed that idea.

  There was something about these three men that drew her to them, and if she could she wanted to explore those feelings further, but she didn’t want to come across as too hungry. She had no idea how they felt about her and wasn’t about to ask. They must have found her attractive enough because she didn’t think they would have kissed her otherwise, but she didn’t know if this attraction was because they felt responsible for her after rescuing her, or if they were just wanting to slake their lust with her.

  “What’s wrong, love?” Law tipped her chin up with a gentle finger until she was looking into his gorgeous blue eyes.

  “I don’t normally do stuff like this.” Tabby nervously nibbled on her bottom lip.

  “We know that,” Law said and then looked toward his brothers.