AnnaThey aren’t there when I wake, and it cripples me. My heart races as I pull my knees to my chest, all alone in way too much bed.I scared them away. This whole crazy thing scared them away.I have to take a breath before I force myself out of bed. My hands are trembling as I grab a spare t-shirt from Riven’s open drawer. I tug it on and prepare myself to face the news.Prepare myself for the crushing blow of having them both change their minds and throw me away.It wouldn’t be the first time.I head downstairs slowly, being so quiet on the stairs. I peek around the corner at the bottom, listening out for any sign of them.The kitchen door is open at the far end. I hear low voices and wonder what they’re saying about me.If they’re working out how best to let me go.I could cry as I head closer, teeth gritted tight so they don’t see me break, but when I reach the open doorway it’s not a load of thanks but no thanks excuses waiting for me, but smiles and open arms and a fresh pot o
RivenSheep and goats and ponies.Fuck that.I can only imagine the chaos if our sweet little Anna had a whole menagerie to take care of. And yet the thought makes me smile to myself as we leap across the brook after her.She’s so alive out here, our gypsy girl. Her wind-whipped hair flies wild and her cheeks are rosy pink. She’s nimble on the banks and quick over the fences, putting us to shame as she scrambles up and over in a flash.She belongs out here. This land is more hers than mine, even though it’s my name on the deeds.I make her wait for the praise, eyes like saucers as she watches me examine her new fence panels.“Well?” she asks finally. “Are they good or what?”I take a breath as though I’m about to deliver bad news, but Kennedy blows my ruse.“He’s dicking about with you,” he says. “He’s impressed.”“I’m impressed,” I admit. “You did great.”My heart flutters like a fucking sap as her chest puffs up proud. “I told you,” she says. “It’s in my blood. It’s all in my blood.
AnnaIt’s warm in the middle, wedged tight between two hot bodies in Riven’s bed. I love it here.I try not to remember it’s Sunday night and they’ll be back at work again in the morning.Riven’s hand is on my stomach, Kennedy’s is in mine. One of my legs hooks Riven’s, the other hooks his.I should be exhausted but I’m not. I should be ready for sleep after an afternoon trekking through fields, my pussy sore from taking Kennedy again earlier.But I’m not.I want them both again and I want them now. I can’t get enough of them.I can’t get enough of them loving me. Wanting me. Taking care of me.I can’t get enough of the way I know they’ll pull me back in line whenever I get too much, either.Rough. That’s what I want.Rough and strong and dirty.My two dirty daddies.I must manage an hour or two of trying to sleep before it gets too much. Riven’s rolled onto his side, facing me, his breath even against my cheek.Kennedy is still on his back, rigid as he stares up at the ceiling.I kno
One mouth on mine, then another. Over and over. Open-mouthed kisses that set me on fire. A thumb on my clit that drives me insane.I want this every night. I want the three of us in a bed from now until the end of time.It’s Riven that rolls me to face Kennedy and guides my leg up and over. It’s Riven that urges us on as four fingers make way for one hard cock.He slides his hand down between us, fingering my clit as Kennedy pushes his dick inside me. His hand is wedged tight, fingertips pressed right on target.Slow thrusts, all the way in and all the way out again. And then Riven, hitching up tight behind me with his big dick pressed against my ass.I want to tell him I like it. I want to tell him I’ve done things. Dirty things. Things I know I like already.I want to tell him to do them to me, but I don’t know how to say it.I’m going to come already, fucked so slowly by Kennedy as Riven circles my clit. Only Kennedy stops before it gets that far. He pulls out and urges me to back
KennedyThe whole town knows Anna Josephine is staying with Riven. Three different people question me on my way to the office, three nosey fuckers without anything better to be worrying about.Yes, she’s staying with Riven. Yes, she’s working for him.The gossips will talk, rumours will ripple. Maybe some of them will even be close to the truth.I know I’m going to have to face Pam, but I head to my desk first and turn on my PC. I’ve no idea yet what I’m going to say to her, and I’ve never been a man to lie – that’s not my style, but I’m not about to offer up the full, honest truth to her either.Not when I’m still coming to terms with it myself.If I weren’t so invested in helping the poor kids on my books that need someone to fight their corner, none of this would bother me.But there’s no arguing the fact that I’ve stepped over professional boundaries, even if Anna Josephine is a case all of her own. I’ve stepped over lines that would be impossible to justify to co-workers, and my
RivenIt’s the same old office with the same old team in it. The same old faces asking me about my weekend out of politeness.I give them the same old bland answers and wonder how I didn’t realise my life was so flat and dull before Anna Josephine came tumbling into it.I normally struggle to give too much of my time to this business, but right now, with that delicious girl waiting at home for me, I’m struggling to give it any time at all.I’ve never been so pleased to jump back in my car at the end of the work day. I’ve also never been so pleased to pull up onto my driveway to find Kennedy’s old car already parked in my space.I’m grinning as I step through the front door, whistling a stupid tune as I head straight through to the kitchen.“Someone’s happy,” Anna says, but it seems like I’m the only one. She gestures at Kennedy, head resting on his palm as he flips through the local newspaper.He looks like he’s had a pig of a day, but as I step closer it looks like it’s even more tha
AnnaI hate seeing Kennedy so sad. I don’t understand all of it, but I know it’s bad, and I know it’s about work.I also know how hard he tried to work with me when I was sitting across his desk every week. He’s good with people. He cares.Even if that place is stuffy and snooty and no good for people like me.I don’t think now’s the time to tell him that, so I keep my mouth shut and do what I can do, which is mainly make coffee.He closes his newspaper and pulls me tight against him as I dish out the drinks, and it’s nice to feel him smile against my cheek.“I’m sorry,” he says, “I don’t mean to seem miserable. I’ve been looking forward to seeing you.”I nod. “I’ve been looking forward to seeing you, too.” I look over at Riven. “Both of you.”I love how Kennedy’s arm feels around my waist. I love the smell of him in his suit.He’s wearing the tie I bought him and it makes me feel proud.“Did they say anything?” I ask. “About me, I mean? Did you get into trouble for helping me?”“No,
KennedyLoving Anna Josephine is everything I thought it would be. More than I thought it would be.Because the Anna Josephine who snapped and sneered at me every week in my office has transformed into a girl who’s everything I knew she could be.Even more than I knew she could be.I know I said packing my clothes and bringing them here would be way too soon, but here, in bed, with Anna snuggled into my side and Riven pressed up against the back of her, it feels anything but soon.It feels like all roads led here, even if I didn’t know it before it happened.The whole town undoubtedly knows Anna is here, even if they didn’t even know where here was before now.Riven’s house will have been discussed and pointed out, questions raised over just what’s going on between the man they know makes a shit ton of money out of insurance, and the mouthy little gypsy girl they shake their head at in the street.But I don’t care.My job is the only string left holding me to any of their unwanted opi
DANEFuck! It had taken longer than I had anticipated dealing with Eric, that I’d lost sight of my goal—to get to Tel’annas. By the time I’d knocked him out and left him for the Feds to deal with, she had been loaded into the back of an ambulance and was being rushed to a hospital. Dread started to pool within my gut thinking the worst as I scanned the chaos around me, looking for the one person responsible for the shit storm we were currently facing.“Did anyone see where Blaze went?” I yelled down the comms, hoping that at least someone in my team had been keeping an eye on him. Maybe it had been the guilt that had stopped me from going straight for her, I couldn’t tell. “We need to find out which hospital they are taking her to, I want feet on the ground there when she arrives, we can’t leave her unprotected.”All day I had been quietly trying to convince myself that everything would be okay after this, we’d be able to go back to what we were, but somewhere deep inside I knew that
TEL’ANNASPain radiated from my shoulder, I knew going into tonight that Blaze had changed the plan, he assured me he’d told the others of the change and after much apprehension I’d agreed to it. But fuck me, even though it was a blank I’d been shot with it fucking hurt like a bitch and I hit the ground like a sack of potatoes.Anarchy had descended over the fight ring. It was enough of a distraction that no one noticed Alexander Ducane had made his way over one of the exits. Playing dead and stuck in this tiny cage, there was nothing I could do.Everyone was out to save themselves, they were running for the exits as the guards and security tried to round them all up. Some were trying to fight their way out, while others were resigned to the fact they’d been caught and put up little resistance.Towards the middle of the ring I could see Dane and Eric going at one another. The look on Dane’s face fucking scared the shit out of me. Max Ducane had disappeared into the chaos and the othe
DANEI’d let my anger get the best of me last night. I saw the hurt briefly flash in Tel’annas’s eyes when I had the club whore grinding all over me. It gave me a small amount of satisfaction knowing that it had affected her, just as much as having to watch the little show she and Blaze put on affected me. The only difference was while mine was out of spite, I had trouble making out whether her little act was done in order to keep up the charade or if there was something little more starting between the two of them.“You’re just lucky you didn’t do anything you couldn’t come back from Dane,” Madden had been giving me shit all morning over the night before, and it was starting to really piss me off. “You didn’t hear the hurt in her voice as she watched man, it fucking killed her.”“Okay I bloody get it Madden, I fucked up,” I snapped at him, I’d had enough at this stage, and I didn’t need this shit right now, not when we were about to head into the final stages of the plan. “Can you j
TEL’ANNASWe’d been here for an hour and already I was ready to get out of here, unfortunately Alexander had other plans. The asshole had spent the last thirty minutes talking to some of his other backers and from the little I could make out, something had them scared. More than a few wanted to pull out, stating they wanted nothing to do with whatever revenge plan he had cooked up.Hearing that, I could only surmise that either my family or Dane had figured out the other parties involved and had applied some pressure. It gave me some hope that all was not lost and a small amount of satisfaction that Eric was full of shit—my family did care. I still hadn’t been able to make contact with Dane, and Blaze had been busy playing his part, schmoozing the others that shared the VIP balcony, always making sure I was within his reach.Security had been beefed up tonight as well, many of whom I didn’t recognise, although that wasn’t hard given I’d barely been allowed to leave the room I’d been
DANEI should have guessed this little party would be held at the Dolls House. I mean why hold it in a classy establishment when you could invite the scourge of society to a place and ply them with alcohol while throwing pussy at them.“No one is to drink,” I turned to my guys, even as the words left my mouth I had doubts about whether I’d be able to stick to the order. I wanted them to be alert at all times tonight, I had no idea what we were walking into. We’d seen the floor plans for this shit hole, and had been inside once or twice since we’d arrived in Claymore but we were not as familiar with it as I'd have liked. “I want eyes on all our targets, if an opportunity should arise, we take who we can.”“Dane, Blaze said not to cause any trouble,” Madden reminded me of the conversation we’d had. And yeah of course I know I was asked not to cause waves, but it won’t stop me if the opportunity comes my way.“Don’t care,” I said as we made our way to the entrance of the club. I had mor
TEL’ANNASMy nerves were frayed, ever since the night of the fucking live stream, even the slightest movements made me jump. Blaze tried everything he could to reassure me there’d be no repeats of that fucking shitshow, I just had trouble believing him. I’d tried numerous times to reach out to Dane, yet Madden always answered and kept saying it wasn’t a good time, then would go on to ask what had happened.No matter how many times he asked, I couldn’t find it in myself to discuss, hell even I was having trouble coming to terms with it. Dane had told me to do what I needed to, and I had to a certain point. I had no idea how far I’d have to go, and when I realized the gravity of it all, it was too late by then. The room was full of people, guards had guns, I had just retreated into myself and tried to block it out.Thankfully Blaze had left me since, having sensed that I was not in the mood to talk to him, at this stage I’d convinced myself I had been stupid to blindly follow along. Ra
DANE“What the fuck happened the other night?” I could hear Madden talking on the phone. The last three days I’d done nothing but train. It was all I could do to keep the images of my Princess on her knees out of my head. “He’s been raging ever since the damn live feed.”It took a full day before I’d been ready to talk to anyone after the crap show. Madden and Ax had really stepped up and taken charge. They’d had to sedate me in order to get me to calm down and in that time they’d found out a whole fuck load of information that we’d been able to use.Jonah had been able to identify almost eighty percent of the other contestants and all of the other partners that Alexander Ducane had gathered on that night. While I’d have liked to have had some say in the planning that followed, Madden had really stepped up as my VP. Liaising with Stryker to have their resources work on taking out the financial backers.I wasn’t quite sure exactly what they had told the Lennox’s about that night but f
TEL’ANNASMy skin crawled as the guards led me back to the room I shared with Blaze. The events of the night were on constant loop inside my head, everything on display for everyone to see. Gripping my robe tightly around my body, I tried to assure myself I’d get through this. I did what I had to do to survive. When I closed my eyes all I could see were the faces of the men who’d jerked off while I was strapped to the table. I heard their moans as they reached their release and smeared it over me as if they were laying claim.When I’d entered the room the first thing I did was run to the waste bin, everything inside me came up. Angry tears ran down my face as I stepped into the bathroom. Making sure the door was locked, I’d trusted Blaze before and that had landed me here. I felt dirty and ashamed. I had no doubt that Dane and some of the others were privy to the deprivation I’d experienced tonight.I rushed to the toilet again, the mere thought that Dane had witnessed tonight's even
DANEMadden, Ax and I had gathered in my room, laptop ready for the Contenders Preview. About an hour ago we’d all received an email from the organizers, with a link to an invitation for a special preview of what we could look forward to. My stomach had been in knots ever since.“You ready for this?” Madden asked. It was a loaded question if I ever heard one. Was I ready? Fuck no, there was no preparing for what was about to unfold. I just shook my head and let out a loaded sigh.“Let's just get this over with,” I answered. Checking my phone one last time, still no answer from Blaze. That didn’t sit well with me, once we’d read the initial email, I’d reached out in order to find out more about the event, but there had been no reply which didn’t help with the angsty feelings I had.Both men just looked at me, a silent message passed between them before Ax clicked on the link. I was thankful that I’d given Jonah one of the links for tonight, because it became evident rather quickly tha