Page 45 of Single Mom for the Mountain Men
I remember the massive size of him and how he stretched me and filled me to the brim. I had never experienced something like that, either, but I had loved that just as much as the wild sex that I initiated.
Could I tell them that I had slept with all of them? Would they be willing to…share me?I bite my lip at the thought. Men are so often territorial. I can’t imagine them being willing to all be in a relationship with me at the same time.
I suddenly think about a sexy novel I read before Sophie and I came up the mountain. In the book, the girl was in a relationship with three men at the same time, and they…all shared her. I nearly moan aloud at the thought.Why does that turn me on so much? I can’t ask something like that of my mountain men. How would I even bring it up?
I realize then that my frantic brain is thinking about all kinds of things that don’t apply to our current situation as a way to distract myself. I should be worried about our safety, not trying to escape from my fear by daydreaming about the boys.
I shake my head, trying to gather myself. Suddenly, I hear booted feet walk onto the front porch. I suck in a sharp breath and squeeze Sophie closer to me. I press a hand over her mouth in case the sound of feet means that someone has come to harm us.
But then, I hear Tanner’s voice. “You can come out, Lena. It’s safe now.”
With a sigh of relief, I rise to my feet and pull Sophie with me. I don’t allow her to run ahead and find Tanner as she clearly wants to do. I don’t entirely trust that we are safe yet, not with my heart still slamming against my ribs.
I come into the living room and find that Tanner and Aiden are standing there with matching looks of grim concern on their faces. I let Sophie rush to them, and they both soothe her with quiet words and soft strokes of her hair.
I send them a shaky smile and allow first Aiden, then Tanner to enfold me in a hug.
“What happened?” I ask, clearing my throat when my voice wavers.
Aiden glances down at Sophie and puts his hands over her ears. “The men came back to find Tanner. They were standing in the yard, yelling and shooting their guns in the air. Brody tackled them to the ground and then tied them up. Now, we need to question them.”
I gulp. “Shouldn’t we call the police?”
Tanner shakes his head and glances out the window. I see with a start that there are thick flakes of snow pouring down out of the sky.
“There’s a storm sitting over the top of the mountain. We don’t have cell service right now, and we don’t have time to mess around. We need to know who sent them up here to threaten me and what I need to do to set things right. I can get in touch with the police later, but right now, their presence here needs attended to,” Tanner says.
I square my shoulders. “Sophie and I will be fine while you do that,” I say as bravely as I can.
Aiden smiles a little sadly at me and shakes his head. “I think that you two need to come stay with us for a bit until this whole mess blows over. I don’t think we’ll be able to make it to your cabin easily once the snow has been falling all day, anyway, and there have been enough issues lately that it’s better if we are all in one place for safety.”
I bite my lip, but I nod, realizing that he’s right. It will be a little snug from being all stuffed into the same cabin, but I also can’tface the idea of Sophie and I sleeping alone while there are two kinds of madmen out there threatening our safety.
“I’ll pack bags for us both,” I tell the men. “Sophie, go get dressed.”
“Momma,” she whines, “I’m hungry.”
“I know,” I tell her as patiently as I can. “Just get dressed, and we’ll go to the boys’ house to eat.”
“Fine.” She sighs and trudges off to her bedroom.
I roll my eyes a little and spread my hands. “Kids,” I say to the men standing before me.
“Let me help you get packed,” Tanner says.
“I can pack a bag for Sophie,” Aiden offers, then starts to follow my child to her room.
“Thank you,” I say to both of them, heading back to my bedroom. I grab my suitcase out of the closet and start putting warm clothing into it, my thoughts racing.
“I’m sorry about all of this.” Tanner comes up behind me and hugs me. I lean back against him, grateful for his warmth.
“Some of it is my fault, too,” I say to him regretfully. “I shouldn’t have brought James up the mountain with me by accident. I was just trying to get away from him.”
“We’re all trying to do the best we can,” Tanner reassures me. “We all have our demons.”
“Tanner,” I say to him, my lip captured between my teeth. “I want to admit something to you.”
“Sure,” he says easily. “You can tell me anything.”
