STORY EXCERPT

“I see it.” Dirk angled the truck on the side of the road as he pulled closer to the car, keeping it in the truck’s headlights. “Looks like it slammed into a tree. Whoever’s in there is likely hurt.”

“We’re about to find out.” Jade pulled the handle on the passenger door and had to put some muscle into opening it against the force of the wind and rain. He was soaked to the bone almost as soon as his booted feet hit the ground and had to flatten a hand on the top of his Stetson to keep it from blowing off his head. He rounded the front of the truck and got to the driver’s door of the car first.

“Anyone still inside?”

Jade barely heard Dirk’s question over the raging storm. “Yeah.” He could see a figure bent lifelessly over the steering wheel. “She’s hurt, too.”

He didn’t realize his mind had latched onto the fact that it was a female until the words left his mouth. Long, blondish-brown hair spilled down the woman’s back and hung like a curtain around her face. He tried the door handle and muttered a curse when he found it locked. Bending at the waist, he tapped his knuckles hard on the glass.

“Ma’am,” he yelled. “Can you hear me? Ma’am?” he called out again, raising his voice higher, and knocking on the glass. Finally, she stirred. “The door is locked. I can’t get to you. Can you unlock it so I can help you?”

She moved in super-slow motion, easing her head off the steering wheel, and turning it toward him. The truck’s headlights offered enough illumination for him to see her face. Her beauty nearly knocked him on his ass right then and there.

He shoved that aside, knowing his primary focus needed to be on getting her out of the car. “Can you unlock the door? I’m here to help you.”

She lifted her hands to her head, grimaced, and lowered one. When he heard the click of the automatic locks, he wrenched the door open, and bent inside the doorway.

“What happened?” Her voice was weak and nearly drowned out by the storm. If he hadn’t been leaning so close, he wouldn’t have heard her.

“You were in an accident. Looks like you ran off the road and slammed into a tree.”

“An accident?” She was disoriented, frightened, and in obvious pain. When her other hand slowly lowered from her forehead, he saw a nasty gash just below her hairline.

“Is she all right?”

Dirk had stopped near the back wheel well of the car. Jade glanced at him. “She’s hurt. Bring the truck closer so I can get her inside without her havin’ to go so far.”

“Carry me? Inside what?”

Dirk smiled, hoping to comfort her. “You need medical attention, darlin’. We’re gonna leave your car here for the night and get you some help. You’ve got a gash on your head. Are you hurt anywhere else?” He watched as she attempted to take stock, every move slow and cautious. She started to shake her head and grimaced again.

“I don’t think so.”

“Good. Good. Can you get out of the car yourself, or do I need to carry you?” He offered a hand when she turned in the seat and eased her legs out of the doorway. The hand she put in his felt fragile and warm and sent zings of electricity spiraling up his arm to short-circuit his system.

Ignoring the effect that simple touch had on his very being, Jade straightened and took a half step back as she started to get out of the car, ready to catch her if necessary. It proved to be necessary. She was barely on her feet when she swayed and her knees buckled.

Jade reacted fast, hooking a strong arm around her slender waist. “Easy now. I’ve got you.” As gently as he could, he scooped her into his arms and held her close.

Dirk had brought the truck within a foot of the side of the car and opened the passenger door. “Get her inside. I’ll look for her purse and grab anything else I see.”

Jade adjusted her in his arms as he climbed into the cab of the truck and tenderly situated her on his lap. Jesus, holding her awakened strong emotions inside him—the need to protect, the need to possess, the need to claim. He reined in those emotions as Dirk closed the passenger door.

“What happened?”

Her head was turned toward his, her cheek resting on the front of his shoulder, and her eyes dazed and confused as she gazed at him from beneath long lashes.

“You were in an accident, darlin’,” he told her again, reaching with one finger to push the hairs on the side of her face behind her ear. Her hair felt like strips of satin and his thighs burned to feel them dancing over his flesh while he buried his dick in her mouth.

“Where am I?” She tried to lift her head, but stopped and sucked a breath through her teeth when obvious pain shot through her forehead.

Jade tenderly stroked the side of her face. “Don’t try to move, darlin’. Just stay right like you are. You’re in our truck. I’m Jade Travis, by the way. What’s your name?”

“I…I…” Confusion and fear overtook her angelic face. “I don’t know.”

“It’s okay. You’re still in shock. You were unconscious when we found you. It’s gonna take a bit for your head to clear.”

“Where am I?”

“You’re in our truck,” Jade answered again patiently.

“No, where am I?”

Jade gazed down at her. She was more disoriented than he’d thought. “You’re on a back road just outside of Pleasure, darlin’.”

“Pleasure?” Sheer confusion sounded in her melodic voice.

“It’s a little town in Tennessee,” he elaborated. “Dirk and I are gonna take you some place safe for the night.”

ADULT EXCERPT

Skye bucked her hips against him as he reached his long finger impossibly deep inside her, drawing more juices from the depths of her womb to bathe his hand. He wiggled, stroked, and fucked her channel with the digit until her soft gasps turned to mewling cries of pleasure. He pulled the finger free and a protest sprang to the tip of her tongue. It got stuck there in the next instant when he added a second finger to the first and pistoned both inside her in a single thrust that drew more cries from her throat.

He nuzzled his face on the side of her neck, licked her earlobe between his teeth, and gave it a pressured bite. “Don’t come, darlin’. That’s lesson number one. You can’t come until one of us tells you it’s okay.”

She lolled her head on his chest as his fingers pumped into her pussy. Don’t come? How would she ever obey that command when she could already feel the pressure building and knew orgasmic bliss wasn’t more than a few more seconds away. What was it about his touch, about Dirk’s, that put her so close to release so quickly?

“If you do,” Dirk’s chimed in as he moved to stand in front of her, “we’ll have to punish you, sweetheart.”

Punish her? That threat should have sent fear slicing through her instead of making even more juices leak from her womb. She closed her eyes and battled back the rapidly growing need to come. “What are you going to do, spank me?” The mere idea had her ass cheeks erupting in a sizzling desire for exactly that.

“Naw,” Jade drawled, increasing her tortured pleasure by raking the pad of his thumb over her throbbing clit even as he continued to fuck her pussy in long, hard plunges of his fingers. “We’ll have to come up with a different punishment for what we have accessible here in the cabin. The room at the Cowboy’s Den is better set up for that.”

Skye’s mind tripped and stumbled over a response, unable to find one when everything in her very being insisted on focusing on the impending orgasm. She couldn’t come. That’s what they’d told her. If she managed to obey that command, she knew for a fact she would please them immensely.

“I can’t believe,” she managed breathlessly, “with all the Doms living on this ranch, that none of you have set this cabin up for playroom fun instead of, oh, God, going to this Cowboy’s Den place, oh, yeah…” She failed to complete the sentence when Dirk dipped his head in front of her and licked one of her pulsing nipples. He closed two of his fingers around her other nipple and pinched, simultaneously biting the one he had taken into his mouth.

She made a sound she had never heard herself make before as the white-hot pain ricocheted through her. It was true pain, but a spark of intensity, an erotic burn that shot a flaming path through her body straight to her pussy where Jade’s fingers continued to do marvelous things in her channel and with her clit.

She forced herself to think about anything and everything under the sun except for coming. She thought about her past, wondered if any man had ever shown her such pleasures. She thought about the accident, about how she hadn’t been able to recall a thing before Jade had knocked on the driver’s door window. She thought about making that fresh start with her life, even though she now knew who she had been before. She was doing that now, wasn’t she? She was making that fresh start despite her past with Dirk and Jade. She’d started doing it almost the instant she’d met them.

“We can’t turn the cabin or any place else at Rescue Ranch into a playroom,” Jade explained. “There’s too many young boys growin’ up on the land that might stumble across it.”

“Why not—oh, wow.” Damn it, every time she attempted to speak, one of them would do something different with his mouth or his hands that drove the thought right out of her mind. She forced herself to focus again and completed the question. “Why not tell them it’s off limits.”

The heat of Jade’s breath fanned the sensitive flesh beneath her ear when he chuckled. “You think that would make it less appealin’ to ten thirteen to sixteen-year-old boys that are used to livin’ on the edge of danger?”

She giggled, albeit breathlessly. “No, it would only make them want to check it out more.”

“Hence the reason we usually stick to the Den,” Dirk said as he released her breasts.

“Hey!” The protest left her lips before she had a chance to stop it.

He lifted a brow, but gave her a boyish grin. “Well, hey, back, sweetheart.”

“I was enjoying that.”

“Mmm-hmm, and how close are you to comin’, darlin’?” Even as Jade asked the question, he pulled his fingers from her channel and caught her clit between them for a pressured squeeze.

“Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God!” She barely kept the orgasmic beast from breaking out of its cage. She felt its insistent claws scraping through her womb in a demand to be freed.

Jade chuckled and licked a sizzling path from her shoulder to her earlobe as he pulled his hand from between her legs. “That’s what I thought.”

“Whoa! Wait a minute.” She scrambled for something to say that would bring his touch and Dirk’s mouth back to her body. She knew whatever she might come up with would be highly undignified, but who the hell cared right now? “I would’ve asked for permission before I came.” That’s what they wanted, wasn’t it? “You didn’t give me the chance.”

Dirk’s eyes glinted with triumph as he gazed at Jade. “I believe we just found our woman’s punishment for tonight. What about you?”

Fuck! She wasn’t exactly sure what she’d done wrong, but she would have attempted to kick her own ass if Jade didn’t still have it pressed so firmly against his body. He did though, and the realization sparked an idea. She wiggled in his embrace, grinding her lower back on the magnificently huge bulge barely contained by the zipper of his jeans.

“Damn it.” He growled the words as both his hands closed firmly on her hips, stilling her movement. “Darlin’, you start teasin’ me again and that punishment is only gonna get worse.”

“I was enjoying that.”

“Mmm-hmm, and how close are you to comin’, darlin’?” Even as Jade asked the question, he pulled his fingers from her channel and caught her clit between them for a pressured squeeze.

“Oh, God. Oh, God. Oh, God!” She barely kept the orgasmic beast from breaking out of its cage. She felt its insistent claws scraping through her womb in a demand to be freed.

Jade chuckled and licked a sizzling path from her shoulder to her earlobe as he pulled his hand from between her legs. “That’s what I thought.”

“Whoa! Wait a minute.” She scrambled for something to say that would bring his touch and Dirk’s mouth back to her body. She knew whatever she might come up with would be highly undignified, but who the hell cared right now? “I would’ve asked for permission before I came.” That’s what they wanted, wasn’t it? “You didn’t give me the chance.”

Dirk’s eyes glinted with triumph as he gazed at Jade. “I believe we just found our woman’s punishment for tonight. What about you?”

Fuck! She wasn’t exactly sure what she’d done wrong, but she would have attempted to kick her own ass if Jade didn’t still have it pressed so firmly against his body. He did though and the realization sparked an idea. She wiggled in his embrace, grinding her lower back on the magnificently huge bulge barely contained by the zipper of his jeans.

“Damn it.” He growled the words as both his hands closed firmly on her hips, stilling her movement. “Darlin’, you start teasin’ me again and that punishment is only gonna get worse.”