Authors: Marla Monroe
The men left her to go start on the bikes. She used their bathroom to complete her morning ritual and pulled on a T-shirt before pulling on her boots last. Then she refilled her coffee cup from breakfast with the last of the coffee and warmed it up in the microwave. She sipped at it for a few minutes thinking about what all had happened to her in two days since she had met them.
Would she be able to get up the nerve to ride alone again? She wasn’t sure at that point. She still shivered thinking about what could have happened.
Tina finished the coffee and rinsed the mug out in the sink before heading for the door they had come in the night before. She found the men washing her bike first. Neither man had a shirt on, and moisture clung to their bodies. Frowning, she stomped over to where they were polishing up the chrome and growled out loud.
They looked up and grinned.
“We told you to rest. We’ve got your bike taken care of.” Cole dropped his rag in the bucket of sudsy water before picking up the hose to rinse the bike off.
Zack stepped back as his partner sprayed down the bike. He walked around to where Tina stood with her hands on her hips trying to look menacing.
“I’ll just wash your bike then,” she said and reached to get the bucket of sudsy water. Zack beat her to it.
“Nope. You’re doing no such thing. You need to rest and get past the attack first. Then you can take care of yourself again. Relax and let us baby you some.”
She looked at him and had to swallow around the lump in her throat. “I’m scared if I let you take care of everything, I’ll never get my nerve back.”
“Aw, baby. Come here.” Zack pulled her into his arms. She could already smell the masculine sweat on his skin. She rubbed her face against his sweaty chest, breathing in the heady aroma of unwashed male musk.
“I think I need to go inside.” She pulled away from Zack and walked back toward the door she had come out of.
She wanted them so badly now, she wasn’t sure she wouldn’t strip them down outside if she stayed out there much longer. Instead, she slowly walked inside when all she wanted to do was run.
Chapter Six
“She’s scared of what she’s feeling for us.” Cole rinsed his bike next and they both grabbed a rag to wash it.
“Yeah, I’m not sure why, unless it’s like she said. She’s afraid she’ll lose her nerve to ride on her own again,” Zack agreed.
“I don’t want her riding alone again. I want her with us. Permanently.”
“Me, too. I’m just not sure how we’re going to work it. She’s used to being on her own. This has her spooked, but maybe not for long.” Zack worked on the back tire while Cole took the front.
“Doesn’t give us a lot of time to convince her to stick with us.”
“I think we should keep supporting her plans to ride alone but spoil her so that she doesn’t want to,” Zack suggested.
“That’s going to be hard to do for me. I don’t want her alone for even one minute. Seeing those bruises on her neck is about to drive me insane as it is.”
“Rein it in, Cole or you’re going to scare her away.” Zack rinsed out his rag and picked up the water hose to rinse the bike off.
Cole stepped back, dropping his rag in the bucket with a splash. He watched his friend rinse the bike down then step to his bike. They repeated the process again without talking. Once they were through, Zack rolled up the hose while Cole emptied the bucket and tossed the rags in the wash. He purposefully avoided going all the way inside the house to give Tina time to settle down. He knew he was pushing it, but damn it, like Zack had said, they didn’t have a lot of time.
Zack joined him on the back deck a few minutes later. Cole wanted to go inside but knew if he did right then, he’d seduce her, and she wasn’t ready. He needed to get hold of his libido before he went back in the house.
“Too horny to go inside right now?”
“Yeah. Fuck, I want her under me,” Cole told him.
Zack nodded and relaxed in the lounge chair.
“Any ideas on how to ease her into wanting to stay with us?” Cole asked.
“It’s going to take patience. Something, unfortunately, you don’t have a lot of.” Zack clasped his fingers together behind his head.
“Maybe a short ride with her would help both of us. She would see that riding with us won’t take away from her enjoying the ride and it will give me time to be around her without being able to touch her.”
“Good idea. Let’s give the bikes a few more minutes to dry. The sun is hot enough they should be ready soon.” Zack closed his eyes.
Cole knew better than to close his. All he would see was images of Tina on her knees sucking his cock. Her luscious red lips stretched tight around his dick as she deep-throated him. He wondered if she could take all of him. No one ever had, but then few had even tried.
Everyone paled next to her, though, and he knew she would be it for him and Zack. Provided they could convince her, they would marry her and make her their wife. It had already been decided since Cole had an inheritance that he would officially marry her, but she would be Zack’s bride as well.
Kyle and West had already pledged themselves to Brandy from their last job. They would be arriving in a few days once Brandy was over her big scare. Maybe if Tina were around Brandy some she’d see how well a ménage relationship could work.
Hell, he was putting the cart before the horse. They hadn’t even made love with her yet. He didn’t count getting her off against the door earlier. That had been an appetizer.
Cole smiled when he heard Zack’s snore. The man could sleep anywhere, through anything, but whisper his name, and he’d be instantly on the alert. It was left over from their army days together. Back then, they had to be able to sleep anywhere and then be at attention with one word.
“Zack.” He woke the other man up after another ten minutes.
“What?” Zack sat up looking around him.
“Let’s get Tina and take a ride.”
They walked back inside to find Tina reading through a magazine on the couch in the living room. She looked up at them and frowned.
“How about a ride to clear the cobwebs?” Cole asked.
She jumped up smiling. “Sounds good to me.”
Cole liked that the mention of a ride could perk her up in a hurry. She was so perfect for them.
“Let’s go.” Zack took her hand and pulled her along toward the carport door.
They put on their helmets and climbed on the bikes. Cole wished he could have suggested she ride with him, but knew she needed to ride her own bike for now. He longed to feel her plastered to his back with her hands tight around his waist. Maybe he was getting the hang of backing off, after all. He grinned and she grinned back.
They pulled out onto the street. Cole led them around the neighborhood to give her a feel of the place, then took them out to the interstate. There, they opened it up and enjoyed the ride.
When he reached the restaurant he wanted to take her to, he signaled and turned into the mom-and-pop diner on the outskirts of Dallas. When he parked and removed his helmet, the other two did the same.
“You’ll love this place. They’ve got the best hamburgers in town,” Zack told her as she climbed off her bike.
She looked around warily and Cole realized she was looking for danger. Even with them there to protect her.
You weren’t there before when she needed it.
He closed in on her to walk her to the door. She seemed to relax with them surrounding her. Zack noticed it, too. He looked over her head at Cole and lifted his eyebrows. Cole shook his head. They didn’t need to call attention to it.
Zack opened the door for her and she walked inside. By the look on her face then, she was pleasantly surprised at the cleanliness, and the fact it didn’t smell like week-old grease. June, their favorite waitress, met them at the door and fussed over them.
“Haven’t seen you in a week of Sundays,” she complained.
“Been out of town on a job,” Cole told her. He kissed her on the cheek, and Zack hugged her.
Tina looked on with a knowing smile on her face. June was at least fifty, if not sixty. It was hard to tell with her. She and the cook were married.
“Hey, Harold. Look who the cat dragged in.”
Harold waved from the back.
“And who is this sweetie you’ve brought to see me?”
“June, meet Tina. She’s staying with us for a few days. She had a nasty run-in with ah, um, mugger, and is recuperating at our place.” Cole had to catch himself so as not to make it uncomfortable for Tina.
“You poor thing. Well, these boys are good as gold. Naughty to say the least, but good men. You let them take care of you.” She winked and proceeded to herd them to a table in the back. “What can I get you all to drink?”
She took their drink orders and scurried off.
“She’s a jewel, isn’t she?” Tina asked.
“Treats us like her own boys.” Zack handed her a menu.
“What are you two getting?” she asked.
“Hamburger steak. It’s the best.” Cole licked his lips.
“I think I’ll stick with a hamburger. I don’t think I can eat that much. It comes with two vegetables.” Tina shook her head.
“What?” Zack asked.
“I don’t see where you two put the food you eat. It hasn’t been all that long since breakfast and you ate a huge stack of pancakes—twice.”
The laughed and exchanged smug smiles.
“We work it off, baby.” Cole winked at her.
Tina rolled her eyes at them and shushed them as June returned with their drinks. She took their meal orders then disappeared in the back.
While they waited on their food. People began to arrive and seat themselves. June and another waitress began taking orders left and right. Then she brought out their meals.
“Eat up, but don’t forget dessert,” she said.
“You must eat here fairly regularly for her to know you so well.” Tina took a bite of her hamburger and moaned. “Damn, you’re right. This is the best burger I’ve ever tasted.”
“Told you,” Cole said.
They finished up their meal and settled up at the cash register. June fussed that they hadn’t eaten dessert.
“Don’t let it be so long the next time. I almost forgot what handsome men you were.”
They hugged her and led Tina outside. They kept close to her and waited until she was on her bike before they mounted theirs, pulling on their helmets and cranking them. This time, Zack led and Cole brought up the rear. They rode around for another hour then headed home.
* * * *
Tina relaxed again on the ride back to the men’s house. Walking outside the restaurant had unnerved her. She didn’t like that she’d lost her confidence. It weighed heavily on her. She worried that she might never get it back. The man hadn’t gotten her, but it had been close. She knew from the newspaper article what would have happened to her.
Once they were back at the house, she climbed off the bike and followed them as they pushed them into the garage. They lowered the garage door behind them. Zack turned on the light just before the door closed and shut them in the dark. There were no windows inside the garage.
“Come on, Tina. Time for a nap, I think.” Cole took her hand and led her toward the bedroom.
“I’m not sleepy,” she protested with a frown.