The American Soldier Collection 16: Seeking Love in Salvation (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) Read online

  “Kenny seemed to be having fun. Evan said he enjoyed the farm animals and really liked the chickens,” Ridge told her.

  She chuckled. “He wants us to get chickens now so he can gather the fresh eggs.”

  “You can bring him over to our place. We have plenty,” Ridge told her.

  “Thank you. I may have to take you up on that, because I don’t know a thing about farms or chickens and eggs.”

  Jace reached over and took her hand. He brought it to his lips and kissed her knuckles. “We can teach you lots of things,” he whispered. He was leaning back and she held his gaze.

  “I bet you could. I also bet you say that to all the women you bring out here at night by your fire,” she replied and then started to pull away. Jace wouldn’t release her hand. “Baby, we don’t bring any women here. You’re the first one,” he informed her, and she seemed shocked.

  “He’s telling the truth,” Beck added, leaning in closer on her other side. She looked at him and then back at Jace.

  “Well, then I’m honored to be the first,” she replied, sounding sexy as hell. The way the firelight enhanced the blonde streaks in her hair and how petite she looked sitting between his brothers aroused Sparrow, but all he could do was watch and wait for Jace and Beck to make a move.

  Jace pulled her closer. “Never made out on these bales of hay in front of the fire, either. Care to be the first?” he asked, and Sparrow watched as Jace pressed closer, weighing whether or not she would want to or push them away. When she met him half way, reached up and pressed her palm to Jace’s chest and then kissed him first, Sparrow felt like celebrating.

  * * * *

  Jace didn’t know what it was about Valentina, but he felt flirty, encouraged, and wanton over her. As he kissed her deeply and pulled her closer, she didn’t resist. Instead, it seemed like she wanted to reciprocate the kisses, and with little effort he pulled her onto him as he laid down underneath her and explored her mouth. He couldn’t resist moving his hand along her ass and squeezing her to him. She straddled his hips and kissed him right back. She had a great ass and a superb body he couldn’t wait for the opportunity to explore.

  As he maneuvered his hand under her shirt she tensed up and pulled from his lips. He held her firmly. “Don’t pull away. I want more,” he admitted to her and pulled her back down to kiss her again. He then moved her onto her side so he could explore her body more. She held onto him as he caressed up under her shirt, along her ribs, and then to her breast. She moaned into his mouth, then she tightened up and he knew Beck had joined them.

  “You smell so good. I love the scent of your hair,” Beck whispered to her, and then he began to caress her hip. Then Beck’s arm touched Jace’s arm for a moment before Beck maneuvered his hands lower. Jace wondered what Valentina would do as his brother moved his hand down her pants.

  * * * *

  Valentina was on fire. She couldn’t believe how turned on she felt, so aroused. She wanted to feel their hands everywhere, and she opened up to them and let them touch her breasts and kiss her deeply. Then Beck had his fingers against her pussy.

  She pulled from Jace’s lips. “Beck,” she whispered.

  “Just exploring what is going to be ours real soon, Valentina. God, you’re wet and warm,” he told her and eased his fingers deeper into her cunt. She went to grip his wrist, but Jace pressed her arms up above her head.

  “Hold them up there and let us make you feel good.”

  She needed that. His command, an order to let go and relinquish control in what was happening. She wanted so much. The walk over, she’d anticipated kissing them again, each of them, and wondered what it would feel like to have their hands on her breasts, their fingers stroking her pussy and, hell, the taste of their cocks as she explored them, too. She felt wild and, well, just downright horny. It shocked her, yet prepared her. Or so she’d thought.

  Now, with Jace and Beck exploring her body freely with Sparrow and Ridge watching, all she could do was absorb it all and pray she wasn’t making a huge mistake.

  Jace lifted her shirt and she did as he told her, keeping her arms above her head as she tilted her pelvis forward. Beck’s fingers felt long and thick as he stroked her pussy and made those tingling sensations filter through her body. It had been so long since a man touched her, never mind made love to her. She tightened up and gulped.

  “Nice and slow. Just exploring and enjoying this sexy body under the stars,” Beck whispered next to her ear. Then she felt Jace’s lips against the scar on her belly near her ribs and then up over her breast, where his tongue lapped at her nipple beneath the bra she wore.

  She rocked her hips as Beck stroked her cunt with two fingers and suckled against her neck. She was on fire and felt about ready to come with her hands above her head and both men feasting on her. Then she saw Sparrow and Ridge.

  “I want to taste that sweet pussy of yours, sugar. I bet it’s delicious,” Ridge said to her, looking serious and aroused. He gripped her wrists with one of his hands. She moaned and came from his words and all their combined tactics. Just like that.

  “Oh, God,” she exclaimed, and then she felt her pants being lowered down and Jace’s mouth licking and sucking down her body as Beck removed his fingers and Jace’s tongue replaced them.

  Jace pressed her thighs apart. One thigh hit Beck’s body, and even the sensation of his jean-covered thigh stimulated her senses. On the other side, the feel of hay tickled her skin and made her move her thighs wide as she enjoyed the stimulation.

  “Oh, Jace,” she gasped, but Ridge remained holding her wrists in one hand, looming over her from above. She tilted her head upward, making her breasts push forward as Beck licked and explored them despite the material that stood in the way. She locked gazes with Ridge above her. The feel of his hand holding her wrists snugly, combined with the intense expression on his face right before he kissed her, made her come some more.

  Jace was relentless with his tongue and teeth. He nipped her clit then circled his tongue round and round her pussy lips before plunging back into her pussy. Then he pressed a finger to her cunt, making more cream flow, and he moaned and suckled some more. She felt her pussy spasm and then he released her pussy so Beck could taste her next. It was outrageous. They took turns and worked together to stimulate her body, making her feel weak but so good.

  “My God, you’re so beautiful when you’re coming, Val. Fuck yeah,” Beck said and lowered his mouth to her pussy. He pumped his fingers continuously, then alternated fingers and tongue. She felt him swirl his tongue around her clit and tug before releasing it. Sparrow took his place next.

  “This is more than I expected tonight. We’ll always take care of you, Valentina. Always,” he told her and stroked her pussy. Ridge released her lips, trailing his mouth along her breast now, too. He remained holding her wrists. Keeping them locked together added to the arousal she felt. He seemed so fierce and wild.

  Beck moved to the side and Sparrow took his place. He pumped his fingers as his expression grew darker, more determined, and she gasped when he pressed his fingers to her pussy and he used his thumb to stimulate her anus. She lifted up and then he lowered his mouth to her cunt and feasted on her.

  She was wet and feeling so wild right now, so good she didn’t care what she must look like. So when Sparrow moved out of the way and Ridge took his place, she knew from one look in his eyes that she was in for it.

  “Damn, I’d get used to having this every night.” He slowly stroked her pussy with his fingers as he held her gaze. Sparrow and Jace held her thighs open and caressed her groin and hipbone, adding to the oversensitivity of four men touching her at once, including Beck, who took over holding her arms above her head while he kissed her wrists and up her arm to each breast. Beck and Jace kissed her neck on either side, and then Jace helped Beck hold her arms above her head. She felt Ridge spread her cream from her pussy down over her anus. Back and forth the thick digit stroked, stimulating her anus and her cunt.

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nbsp; “Exploring is my specialty,” he said, leaning over her as he pressed a finger to her cunt and one to her anus. Right as she realized what he was doing and gasped from the pinch, he covered her mouth and kissed her. She felt his finger press through the tight rings and his other finger thrust in and out of her pussy. He pumped both of them at the same time and she moaned into his mouth.

  She was shocked, never having experienced a man exploring her ass, but considering there were four men, sharing her would be a regular thing. The thought had her moaning and thrusting back against his fingers. She shook and shivered and then he pulled both fingers from her body, released her lips, and latched onto her cunt with tongue and teeth while he gripped her hips firmly. She couldn’t move or wiggle free from the wild, foreign sensations he was causing in her.

  “Ridge,” she grunted. She gasped and then cried out her release as she shook and came hard.

  She was recovering as they kissed her everywhere and then pulled her pants up and fixed her top. Jace held her in his arms and kissed her forehead.

  “Feel okay?” he asked.

  “That was incredible, and not what I expected when you asked me to join you by your fire.”

  They all chuckled.

  Jace caressed her face with his finger and held her gaze with a very intense and serious expression. “The first of many nights by the fire, I hope.”

  She couldn’t help but to smile. “I sure hope so,” she whispered, and he leaned down and kissed her softly on the lips.

  * * * *

  Jace could not believe how content he felt laying here with Valentina with his brothers surrounding them. The feel of her hands running under his shirt and over his skin were making his cock super hard. He couldn’t take it as he gripped her hand and then held it against his chest. She lifted up.

  “What’s wrong?” she asked him.

  He licked his lower lip.

  “Unless you plan on staying the night, I can’t take it. The feel of your palm against my skin, rubbing me.” She swallowed hard and lifted up. “I’m sorry, it’s been a long time for me,” she admitted, and he saw the sadness in her eyes.

  “Been a long time for me, too. Hell, for all of us.”

  She looked at his brothers who all sat around the fire with them.

  “You’ve shared women before, though? It’s what turns you on?” she asked.

  Beck leaned over and caressed her back now that she was sitting up. Jace remained leaning back on his elbows, watching her.

  “We’ve had some short experiences with other women. Nothing like a full commitment,” Beck told her as he rubbed her back.

  “So this thing between us, what we’re feeling, is just a thing?” she asked. Jace could tell she was upset. It was crazy how she’d gone from not wanting anything to do with them and pushing his brothers away today to now feeling possessive. Possessiveness was also exactly what Jace was feeling.

  “No. Not just a thing for us, for me. You see, we shared women before, but it was more out of safety and security.”

  “How so?” she asked.

  “It makes us feel in control, like our brothers, our troops, have our backs, per se,” Jace said to her and reached up to caress her hair from her cheek.

  “I don’t understand,” she whispered.

  Sparrow moved from his seat and stood in front of her. He placed his hands on her thighs and looked down into her eyes.

  “You haven’t told us about your scars, about why you moved out here with Lois and Kenny and why she’s so timid and on edge. You have your fears, your reservations, and so do we. You see, we’re soldiers, Green Berets, trained to not feel vulnerable, but invincible. We’ve been through a lot in our careers. Things changed us, Valentina. Made us feel not so invincible, but rather, susceptible to those fears, those memories. Being intimate, getting lost inside of a woman’s body and seeking a feeling of freedom from the memories isn’t always achievable.”

  “But with our brothers surrounding us, with us making love to a woman together as a team, a unit, where no one is more important but all are equal, we can let go and just feel,” Beck said.

  “Because our brothers have our backs,” Ridge added.

  “And we are there to protect you as a team, as brothers, always,” Jace whispered.

  She was silent a few seconds and Jace wondered if the whole ménage thing scared her that much. Would she deny the attraction because of a fear of not knowing how great a relationship like this could be?

  “Talk to us?” Sparrow said to her, breaking the silence as he caressed her thighs.

  She covered her hands with his. Jace watched as she brought Sparrow’s hand up to her lips and she kissed his knuckles. It was sweet, sexy, and the expression in Sparrow’s eyes told Jace that his brother was falling for Valentina as hard as he was.

  She closed her eyes and held his hand to her cheek.

  “I don’t know if I can let go like that. What you describe sounds so amazing, but then I think about the fears, about my sister and Kenny and what could become of them if I’m not right there giving them all of me. You don’t understand,” she said and then held Sparrow’s hand on her lap.

  Beck caressed her hair and her back. “Talk to us. Make us understand your fears.”

  “We’ll go slow, Valentina. We’re not going to take you away from your sister and Kenny. We’re going to help all of you and be part of your lives, hopefully part of your heart, Valentina,” Ridge added.

  She looked up at him.

  “I want you to know that I love what we did. How each of you made me feel tonight. Just letting go a little and giving into these feelings I have for each of you was amazing. It was powerful and like nothing I’ve ever felt before. That power was also scary, too. What if things don’t work out? What if one of you stops caring, or all of you? It’s a lot to consider. And then where does that leave me?

  I don’t think I can take another emotionally traumatic experience in my life. It’s been hard enough trying to deal with everything, and I’ve honestly always held back on giving my heart up to any man, to any person other than my family. I just don’t know if I have the strength, no matter how much I hoped coming here would help my sister and I achieve salvation. That this town was more than a name, it was fate and a place to heal and be free.”

  Jace felt his gut clench and his heart ache for her. She was obviously fearful for a whole lot of reasons.

  He pulled her close. “We all have our fears and concerns. It’s normal. We can take all the time you need. We’re not going anywhere, Valentina. Salvation is our home. It’s where we, too, have sought out our salvation, our peace, as we try to live normal lives. We’re in this together. I promise you,” Jace told her, cupping her cheek and pulling her toward him to kiss her softly on the lips. In no time at all, that kiss grew stronger, more sensual, and he rolled her to her back, pressed between her legs, and explored her mouth thoroughly until they were both panting for breath. When he finally released her lips, she looked so sexy and well-kissed.

  “You keep that up, Mr. Green Beret, and I won’t be able to leave you. To leave any of you.”

  “Oh, yeah, let’s keep on kissing her, then. Move on over, Jace, it’s my turn,” Ridge stated firmly, and they all chuckled.

  Chapter 7

  “I have nothing to say. I don’t know why you keep coming here,” Roxie said to Valentina. Valentina sighed. She glanced at the three kids as they remained on the floor next to the couch. They didn’t go play with some of the other kids. They looked scared and sad, especially the six-year-old.

  The one-year-old baby was crying up a storm now. Roxie wasn’t even holding her right. She didn’t have her pressed to her chest, to feel the comfort of her mother’s embrace. Instead, she had her laying low on her lap, the baby’s neck tilted in an uncomfortable fashion.

  Valentina couldn’t take it any more as she sat there wondering why this woman was being so defiant.

  “I can’t take this. I just want out of here and to
be left alone.”

  “Well, that isn’t going to happen. You can’t just go wherever. You have no money, no means of surviving on your own, and the second you do and Samuel finds you, you’re as good as dead.”

  “That’s not true. He won’t kill the mother of his children,” she said with attitude and then shifted the baby and rocked her hard. It was killing Valentina to watch how uncaring this woman was. She was starting to think that placing these kids in foster care would be better for them.

  “Stop that. Go play or something,” Roxie snapped at the little six-year-old and gave his shoulder a shove.

  God, it was making Valentina nuts, especially as the baby continued to cry. The four-year-old looked at her mother with fear in her eyes. Every cop instinct and motherly instinct in Valentina’s body was on alert. Had her boss and the detectives even looked into the well-being of these children? Did Roxie really even care about them, or was she just holding onto them in order to keep their father in her life? She had seen it before in cases in the city. The children always suffered. It didn’t sit right with her.

  The baby was screaming now, and Roxie was moving her onto the couch like she was done trying and that was it. Glancing toward one of the women who ran the shelter, Valentina saw the disgust on her face, but another woman needed help.

  “Let me try,” Valentina said to her.

  Roxie looked at her. “Go ahead. She cries all the time. She’s never happy or content. I’m stuck here with these three babies. I didn’t even want them,” she stated. Valentina’s heart ached as she saw the six-year-old and four-year-old look about ready to cry, but then they turned away and stared off, watching the other kids play with blocks and trucks on the rug.

  Valentina rocked the baby in her arms and held her tightly. She looked down into her eyes and then spoke to her calmly. As the baby settled down, the tears sitting on her thick black eyelashes, Valentina smiled.