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STORY EXCERPT
Max and Sean had already left for work, and Eddie was sitting on the kitchen floor, playing with a couple of wooden spoons and three overturned metal pots, while Cali stood there and went through her e-mail on her tablet. She’d already fed the toddler, who’d likely be ready for a nap soon.
She definitely didn’t mind playing Aunt Cali, but yeah, she felt herself itching to be immersed in her usual routine. Motherhood did not suit her.
Just another affirmation that their decision to not have kids had been right.
Cali much preferred this, a temporary situation that had a set timeframe. Eddie was fun and all, but handing him back was a relief at the end.
As if reading her mind, her phone rang, Essie calling.
Cali answered. “Hey, momma. How’d it go?”
She laughed. “Well, if I wasn’t pregnant already, I probably would be now, after last night. Let’s just say the guys are enthusiastic about being fathers again. How’s my little bean?”
“That noise you hear in the background is him auditioning to be Mevi’s new drummer.”
“Thank you for yesterday. I really appreciate it.”
“Hey, what are besties for if not to convince you you’re acting psycho and need your men?”
“True story. Mark is going to drive me back later today. The house they’re working on for the show is really bad. Lots of mold going on from an old roof leak. They don’t even want me in the hotel with them, because they’re afraid they might bring in contamination on their clothes.”
“And they’re back to treating you like fragile china since you’re preggers.” Which was exactly what Essie’s men had done the last time, to an infuriatingly adorable level that had driven Essie nuts.
“Exactly.”
“No worries. We’ll be here when you get back. Are we going to spread the word about this yet?”
“Not yet. I want to go to the doctor and let a couple of months go by first. After…” She sighed. “After Mal.”
“Yeah, I get it. No worries.”
“I already called my doctor and made an appointment for next week while all three of them sat there staring at me.”
“Good for them.” Her phone beeped, and she saw it was Loren calling. “Hey, I need to run. Loren’s calling me.”
“Okay. Thanks again. We love you guys.”
“Love you, too.” Cali switched to Loren’s call. “Hey, lady. Wassup?”
“Do you have a minute to talk?” Her voice sounded grim, serious.
“What’s wrong?” She stepped out of the kitchen and into the dining room area, where she could still see Eddie sitting on the floor and playing but he hopefully couldn’t hear as well. When he was over, she reflexively checked the locks on the sliders, keeping the upper bolt pins in place as a precaution, to make sure he couldn’t get out onto their lanai and into the pool. She’d already checked them three times that morning.
“You alone?”
“Well, sort of. I’m babysitting Eddie.”
“Oh. Okay.” She took a deep breath. “Ross received a disturbing call a few minutes ago that you need to know about.”
A chill settled through her. “What?”
“Lydia was murdered last night.”
Cali was glad one of the dining room chairs sat right behind her for her to sink into. “What?”
“I don’t know all the details. Apparently, she was trying to run a pro-Domme gig off Craigslist, and it looks like a client killed her. She was renting a room from a woman down in Osprey, and when she came home this morning from working an overnight shift, she found Lydia dead. They estimate her time of death around midnight, plus or minus an hour or so. This is a rapidly developing situation, as they say.”
“Shit!”
“Yeah.”
Cali had hated the bitch, both for the scam she’d tried to pull on Cali and how Lydia had treated Sean and Max when she was with them, and she’d reveled when she’d found out Lydia was working a gig at a fast food restaurant…but she hadn’t wanted her dead.
Not…seriously. Just in a revenge fantasy way that no one expects to happen.
Although…
“That’s disturbing, but why do I get the feeling there’s more to this than meets the eye?”
“Because Max and Sean will likely be questioned by the police. Apparently Lydia had a bunch of information about her exes, and Sean and Max’s info was there, too. I would expect police to contact them by the end of the day today, at the very latest. Likely sooner. And you, too, since you’re their wife. This was a courtesy call from a friend in common who personally knows the history between Lydia and the guys and who is 99.9% certain the guys had zero to do with it. That’s why I’m calling you and Ross isn’t, if you catch my drift.”
Cali caught it, all right. Trying not to let anxiety get the better of her, she forced herself to stay calm. “Did they arrest the guy yet?”
“No. They’re still trying to figure out who he is. But our friend in common wanted the guys to be prepared for contact with law enforcement. It’s standard operating procedure in a case like this. And if they feel they want an attorney when they talk to the cops—which is totally within their rights—to call Ross immediately and he or Ed will go.”
Cali felt…numb. “Yeah, okay. Thanks.”
“You might want to call them sooner rather than later about this.”
That meant as soon as they hung up. “Okay. Do we know how she was murdered?”
“The…friend in common wouldn’t say specifically, because it is an ongoing investigation, but they indicated it was blunt force trauma.”
“Oh, shit.”
“Yeah. Maybe tell your guys to stay out of the workshop for a couple of days so their knuckles aren’t all busted up, too.”
This felt…surreal. “Yeah, thanks.”
“I’ll let you call them and tell them. I’d do it pretty quick. Talk to you later.”
“Thanks.”
Cali needed a moment. She felt…ill. Shaky. Nothing like this had ever happened to her before. Nothing like this had struck so close to home.
She wasn’t sure what the guys’ meeting schedule was like for today, so she texted Max.
Need to talk. Now. Urgent.
ADULT EXCERPT
Sean didn’t want to think. While he knew the cops needed to talk to him and Max to rule them out as suspects, it’d also been part humiliation, part anger-inducing. The woman was out of their lives and still a pain in their asses. Not to mention Sean didn’t know what she might have still had on them. He couldn’t exactly lie to the cops about the kind of relationship they’d had, just to have the cops come back on him later with proof he’d lied.
What Sean wanted to do was ground himself, with Max and Cali, his rocks, his loves.
He didn’t want to feel vaguely guilty that any time he’d thought about Lydia lately, he’d hoped Karma was smacking her around hard and often.
Karma had the last laugh, unfortunately.
As he kissed Cali, losing himself in her love and her body, his cock hardened. He shifted her in his lap so his cock could slide inside her sweet pussy.
Contented, he sighed. “That’s what I need, baby.”
She and Max both had a way of calming and settling his soul, every time.
Max reached for a tube of lube and gently pushed her forward, so she was lying against Sean. “Me, too,” he said.
Sean kissed her, swallowing her moans as Max’s fingers lubed her ass. This was always perfection between them, how they loved each other, hard and well. He fisted her hair, holding her in place and loving the way she started squirming against him as Max teased her clit with his other hand.
Their perfect girl.
Once Max had her prepared, he lubed his cock and stepped between Sean’s legs. He felt it when Max pressed the head of his cock against her rim, easing his way in. Through the thin membrane of flesh between them Sean felt every inch of their lover’s cock slowly fill her. It created a delicious, tight sensation inside her and drew soft moans from her.
“Yessss!” Cali gasped.
“Like that, baby?” Max asked, dropping down into Dom tone.
Sean was happy to let him run the show solo today. More perfection between them, that the three of them were switches who could change as needed depending on who needed what the most from the others.
Once Max was seated all the way inside her, he reached around her and played with her clit. “Play with her nipples, Sean.” Max leaned Cali back against him and started slowly fucking her.
Sean was happy to oblige. He watched her head loll back on Max’s shoulder, and Max’s brown gaze locked with his.
This. Them.
This was all that mattered. Everything else was merely a temporary distraction, and no matter his feelings about it, it didn’t matter.
The first explosion ripped through her pretty fast. That was typical for her when they double-teamed her like this. Her body milked their cocks, the men able to feel every contraction of her pussy around them as her orgasm swept through her. Sean’s cock throbbed and pulsed, his entire being focused on this, on her—on them. When he finally couldn’t hold back any longer, he started thrusting, needing release, his entire body on edge.
Pleasure spiraled through him, balls tightening as he finally hit the tipping point. Cum erupted, his groans and Max’s mixing as the other man’s thrusts sped up, seeking his own release.
Sean felt one last ripple of pleasure ricochet through Cali before she slumped onto Sean, sated, smiling.
Max edged in close, kissing the back of her neck, kissing Sean. “I vote we spend the rest of the day in bed, watching TV, and order pizza for dinner.”
“Sold,” Cali mumbled.
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