STORY EXCERPT

Elicia woke with a jolt, groaning with pain when she jerked and she blinked her eyes open. The sun was lower in the sky and she knew it would only be a few hours before it would be dark again. There were also dark clouds forming on the horizon which meant it was going to rain and maybe even storm again. She groaned with frustration.

Nevertheless, she counted her blessings that she was still alive and hadn’t encountered a black or a grizzly bear. She’d heard a couple of bears moaning and roaring over the last couple of nights, but so far she hadn’t seen any and she hoped she never did.

While lying on her back she studied the terrain of the slope, mapping out the next path she’d take in her endeavor to reach the top of the gulley and though she wished she could start right now she didn’t have any energy left even after her nap.

She frowned when she felt something tugging deep in her chest, a feeling that made her heartbeat speed up but she didn’t know why she was feeling what she was.

Her frown deepened when she thought she heard someone talking but after listening intently and she didn’t hear anything but the sounds of nature, she convinced herself she was hearing things she wanted to.

She closed her eyes again, drifting in and out of a doze but she opened her eyes when she felt that emotional tug to her heart again. Elicia was sure she was imagining it but she could feel worry and urgency coming from somewhere or maybe it was someone.

The more she tuned in to that emotion, the stronger it got and a moment later she startled when she heard someone shouting her name. She sat up, ignoring the tears of relief rolling down her cheeks, inhaled deeply and then she yelled, “Here! I’m over here.”

A sob escaped when she knew she hadn’t been loud enough but after screaming herself hoarse she couldn’t yell any louder, but she wasn’t giving up. Sucking in another breath, she opened her mouth and shrieked as loudly and in as high a pitch as she could.

“Elicia!”

She tried to yell again, but nothing came out but a raspy wheeze. Looking around the ground to use something to get their attention, she snatched up a rock then banged it onto the rocky ledge she was sitting on. She repeated the action over and over again, hoping that sound would lead whoever had been calling her name to her and she’d be saved.

She had no idea how many times she’d slammed that rock onto the ground but she wasn’t counting and she didn’t care. She kept her gaze up toward the rim of the gorge, panting, hoping and praying.

And then a miracle happened.

A man stood on the edge of the gulch and looked right at her. He stood on the rim for about five minutes and then he turned and disappeared.

Elicia dropped the rock, covered her face and she cried over the cruelty of it all. Just when she thought she was about to be rescued, the man had left.

She sobbed quietly since she’d lost her voice, but her shoulders shook and the tears flowed in a never-ending stream.

She cried so hard she exhausted herself but after a few minutes, she inhaled deeply, sniffed, swiped the tears from her face with the back of her hands and glared up toward the ridge.

She was so shocked and happy to see that the man hadn’t left at all. In fact, he’d rigged up some climbing equipment and was making his way down toward her.

Moments later he lowered his feet to the rock she was sitting on and then he crouched down beside her.

“Thank fuck we found you, baby. Are you injured?” He shook his head and continued before she could reply. “Of course you’re injured. You wouldn’t have spent the last four days out here alone for the hell of it. Where are you hurt, Elicia?”

“Ankle, thigh,” she rasped out.

“Fuck. You lost your voice shouting for help, didn’t you, honey?”

She nodded.

“My name is Asher Johns. My brothers, Bennett and Desmond, are up top waiting for my report. I need to see what your injuries are so I can treat them and so I don’t exacerbate them. Do you have any broken bones?”

Since she wasn’t sure, she shrugged but she also pointed to her left ankle and thigh.

Asher shrugged off his backpack, unclipped his canteen, unscrewed the lid and handed it to her. Until that moment Elicia hadn’t realized how truly thirsty she was. She clutched it in shaking hands, lifted it to her lips and took a sip. Although she wanted to guzzle all the water down, she knew that wasn’t a smart thing to do, so instead she took another three sips, licked her dry cracked lips and handed it back to him.

“I know you probably want more but I’ll give you some in about fifteen minutes. I need to make sure you keep that down first,” Asher stated.

She met his blue eyes and nodded to let him know she understood.

He turned his gaze from her face to his bag, unzipped it, riffled in it then he pulled out a first aid kit. It wasn’t a big medical kit but Elicia had a feeling it had everything he needed in it.

She glanced up when she heard dirt and stones rolling down the slope and saw that another man had hooked up some climbing gear. He was only about ten yards above them. She stared at the second guy and gaped when she realized that he looked exactly the same as Asher and guessed they were twins.

ADULT EXCERPT

Her thoughts whirled around in her mind at a rapid pace and just as she was about to tell Des and his brothers that she cared for them a lot, he slanted his mouth over hers.

She moaned when he swept his tongue into her mouth, dancing and parrying it with hers. He groaned, moved the hand he still had against her cheek to cup the back of her head, then he deepened the kiss.

Her nipples hardened and her pussy clenched the longer she and Desmond kissed. By the time he released her lips, she was panting and so horny her folds were drenched and her panties were soaked.

He was breathing just as harshly as she was and when she opened her eyes to gaze into his, she couldn’t miss how heated his eyes was.

“I want you, Elicia. We all want to make love with you, sweetness. Don’t you want that too?”

She nodded, licked her lips, tasting his masculine flavor on her tongue and her inner walls clenched. “I’ve wanted you all for days,” she said, glancing at Asher, Ben then she looked into Des’s eyes again. “I appreciate that you were all waiting for me to heal, but I’m fine now. We don’t have to worry about busting the stitches open anymore.”

Asher shoved to his feet, hurried toward her and held his hand out to her. She placed her hand in his and he helped her to her feet before he wrapped his arm around her shoulders and guided her across the living room toward the bedrooms. “What about the dishes?” she asked.

“Fuck the dishes, baby. We can clean up in the morning. I can’t wait to make love with you any longer. Being around you without being able to touch you the way I, the way we wanted to has been a test of our patience.”

They entered Asher’s bedroom, Ben and Des right behind them and Asher grasped her shoulders, turned her to face him, then he bent toward her and opened his lips over hers. He didn’t start off with a slow build up but he devoured her.

His speared his tongue into her mouth, kissing her with so much passion she went from a low simmer to a blazing inferno in seconds.

She moaned with disappointment when he broke the kiss but then he was staring deeply into her eyes as he grasped the hem of her T-shirt, his fingers brushing over the skin of her belly and sending more heat deep into her pussy and womb. When he didn’t pull her shirt up she realized he was waiting for a signal from her so she nodded and lifted her arms above her head.

Asher tugged her T-shirt up and off then flung it aside. Continuing to stare into her eyes, he flicked the button of her jeans open and then he hooked his thumbs into the waist band, shoved her jeans and her panties down over her hips and down her thighs.

When she realized she still had her sneakers on, she toed them off. Asher crouched down at her feet pulled each sock from her feet, tapped one leg then the other and removed her jeans and panties.

Ben moved in behind her and when he pressed his chest against her back she figured he was naked. He stepped closer, his hard cock brushed against the top of her ass and her back.

Glancing to the left, she spied Des and was just in time to see him kicking his jeans and boxer briefs away. She eyed his manly body over, from his wide shoulders, muscular chest and his bulging biceps. He had ripped abdominal muscles, that sexy V and long strong legs. His dick was long, thick and hard and so mesmerizing she couldn’t make herself tear her gaze from his cock.

“Do you like what you see, sweetness?” he asked, wrapping his hand around his dick, stroking up and down.

She was so breathless with need she couldn’t answer so she nodded.

Ben flicked the clasp of her bra open, caressed the straps from her shoulders until it fell to the floor between her and Asher.

Asher, who had hold of her hips, his forehead resting against her belly, leaned back, met her gaze briefly then he lowered his eyes to her pussy. “You are the sexiest woman I’ve ever seen, baby.” He leaned forward, kissed and licked her stomach, taking a moment to swirl the tip of his tongue around her belly button before he moved lower. “I love being able to see your sexy cunt, baby. I love this little landing strip you have but what I want more than anything, is to taste that honey I can smell between your legs.”

Elicia stopped breathing when he used his thumbs to part her pussy lips and when he licked up through her folds, his tongue swiping over her sensitive engorged clit, she moaned and her knees weakened.

Ben cupped her breasts in his hands, molding her flesh before he pinched and plucked at her nipples. She gasped and groaned, hoping that her knees wouldn’t fold out from under her. Asher swirled his tongue around her clit, lashing the knot of nerves with the tip and she began to tremble.

She cried out when he stroked a finger up into her pussy, pumping it in and out while administering to her clit with his tongue. The tremble grew stronger until she was shaking with desire and when her knees gave way, Ben caught her against him.

Asher removed his finger from her pussy, stood then glanced at Ben and said, “We need to get her onto the bed.”