Love Under Two Outfitters Cara Covington (primary phonics txt) đ
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Alice became really, really ticked off.
She set her hands on her hips and stepped right into her menâs path. Theyâd just escorted her into the houseâand very promptly locked the door behind them.
âAre you two playing the role of my bodyguards? Is that whatâs going on here?â
Sheepish? Guilty? Alice didnât know what she would call the expressions on her menâs faces, but innocent curiosity sure wasnât it.
âWhy are you ticked off?â Kenâs question in answer to her question was a good tactic, one sheâd used in the past. Funny how something is good when I use it but not so much when itâs used on me.
âBecause it wasnât me that Owen Baker sued a couple of years ago. And it wasnât my business he torched. Hell, he likely doesnât even know that I exist. Youâre the ones who might be in danger. Maybe I should just, you know, head on over to the firing range the family has and gear up. Iâve heard they have all manner of weapons and ammo over there. Iâll outfit myself with a couple of big black deadly guns and some ammo belts worn cross-wise on my body. That should do it. Then I can protect you!â
Well, hell. Alice tried not to let the shock of her personal epiphany show on her face. Who knew? Maybe that heroine treading-into-danger plot device isnât as incredible as I thought.
âAnd if he does?â Ian put his hands in his pockets and rocked back on his heels. âIf Owen Baker is so pissed that he didnât manage to get us arrestedâand privately, Adam told me he thought that would likely be a possibilityâthen he might decide to try again. He could, perhaps, start following us. Or maybe he would hire someone to follow us. So maybe he does know about you since, you know, we canât seem to be without you and vice versa.â
âThereâs only one thing on this earth that could destroy us, sweetheart.â Kenâs voice shook. âJust one fucking thing. And thatâs if something bad ever happened to you. Especially if something bad happened to you because some asshole was looking to hurt us.â
Alice understood in a heartbeat that, as much as she loved her men, they loved her right back. They were pissed, but she was smart enough, and tuned into them enough, to understand that they werenât pissed with her.
They were pissed with Owen Baker and the threat he had become to the three of them and, by extension, likely the rest of the family. And they were pissed with themselves for daring to breathe and, therefore, putting everyone else in danger.
âIâm sorry. Iâm justâŠâ Words failed her.
Ken sighed. âYouâre as upset as we are and for the exact same reason. We get that.â He reached for her and eased her into his arms. âHonest to God, sweetheart, if he hurt you, I donât know what Iâd do.â
âYouâd hurt him right back,â Alice said.
âNo, weâd probably fucking kill him.â Ian said. He snuggled against her back, and Alice sighed with pleasure.
Alice thought they just might do that very thing. And that, more than anything, gave her all the motivation she needed to shove her affronted feminism into a corner and hang onto Ken really tight, even as she reached out her hand to Ian, silently urging him to closer.
When she had them both the way she loved them best, cosseting her, holding her, that urgency, that fear for them, eased a little.
âThere will be no murder and no one getting hurt,â Alice said. âI wonât allow it.â
âYes, maâam.â
Her men said that together, and they moved in even closer and held her even tighter.
âI meant to comfort the two of you, and here you are again, taking care of me.â
âItâs mutual, baby girl. You have comforted us, and maybe thereâs something wrong with me because that image you just gave us, of you all weaponed up, that was a definite turn-on.â
âFuck yeah,â Ken said. âMaybe we can role-play sometime. Weâll be the world-renowned business titans under threat, and you can be our deadly, but very sexy, bodyguard, ready to take on the worldâor at the very least the two of us.â
Both men pressed their erections against her, and Alice suspected that lecture timeâfor the momentâwas over.
âWell, now, if weâre going to get into role-playing games, I have a couple of fantasies myself that I wouldnât mind exploring.â
âOh yeah?â Kenâs hands felt hot as he stroked her arms.
Since her arms were wound around his neck, she showed her appreciation by gently rubbing her breasts against his chest. His erection pressed into her stomach.
âWhat kind of fantasies, baby girl?â
Ianâs erection pressed into her back. Alice thought her grin must be sexy as hell, because that was how it felt. âThe naughtiest and dirtiest fantasy that you can possibly imagine,â she said.
âYou have to share, sweetheart.â. Kenâs voice definitely had an edge to it. âWe thought that was the perfect description of our loving, already. If thereâs another degree to it, you have to tell us.â
âTell you what, handsome.â Alice loved the look on her men and, especially now, when the shadows that had crept into Kenâs eyes had cleared. âTake me upstairs and get me naked, and Iâll tell you all about them.â
Kenâs grin looked dangerous. He cast a glance over her head, and she knew he was having a Zen-like moment with his cousin. That means I am gonna be in such big trouble. Yay, me.
âUpstairs?â Ianâs gruff word tickled against her ear. âOh, I bet we can be a lot naughtier and dirtier than âupstairsâ would ever allow us to be.â
* * * *
Ken was beginning to suspect something about being in love that actually surprised him. Heâd thought, in his analytical way, that once they found the woman they were meant to love, once theyâd gotten to the point of proposing and receiving a yes from the woman in question, that heâd be able to map out the future, point by
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