Love Slave for Two: Reckoning [Love Slave for Two 4] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting)
Authors: Tymber Dalton
Tags: #Romance
Love Slave for Two 4
Love Slave for Two: Reckoning
Love and passion…
Nevvie, Tom, and Tyler have made it through more than their fair share of ups and downs, including surviving a cross-country family vacation cooped up together in an RV. With their family growing by leaps and bounds, their future looks bright even as their love and passion for each other burns ever brighter.
A deadly storm...
Now Nevvie has to stay strong not just for her men and her sons, but for her brothers, parents, and her little sister as she helplessly watches a killer hurricane bear down on Tampa from the safety of Savannah.
An even deadlier foe…
When confronted by an evil man hell-bent not only on revenge, but on destroying all Nevvie loves, can Nevvie, Tom, and Tyler rely on each other and draw on inner strength they never knew they possessed to face the final reckoning?
Genre:
Contemporary, Ménage a Trois/Quatre
Length:
63,098 words
RECKONING
Love Slave for Two 4
Tymber Dalton
MENAGE EVERLASTING
Siren Publishing, Inc.
www.SirenPublishing.com
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LOVE SLAVE FOR TWO: RECKONING
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First E-book Publication: September 2012
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Love Slave for Two: Reckoning
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Thank you to all my readers who’ve patiently waited for this.
If you want to know more about Nevvie’s friends Sarah, Del, and John, you can read about them in my book
Dead Moon Rising
(available from Siren-BookStrand).
LOVE SLAVE FOR TWO:
RECKONING
Love Slave for Two 4
TYMBER DALTON
Copyright © 2012
Wednesday
Nevvie Kinsey-Paulson lay on the exam table and stared at the ultrasound screen where her ob-gyn, Dr. Fagen, had just highlighted two blurry shapes.
I wish Tommy and Tyler were here.
“Twins?” Nevvie asked again, for confirmation.
I can’t have heard her right.
She nodded. “Twins.”
Crap.
Tom’s sister, Karen Kinsey, sitting on one side of Nevvie, giggled.
Dr. Fagen continued. “My guess is you’ll be due around January 20, based on what I’m seeing here and their measurements and level of development. That’s the best date I can give you since you don’t remember the exact date of your last period. With twins, however, it’s not uncommon for them to come early.”
Karen continued to giggle. “Twins!”
“This isn’t funny,” Nevvie said as she tried to absorb the news. So much had happened in the past couple of months. During their recent cross-country RV trip, Nevvie had reconnected with her adopted mother, Mary, and her two half brothers, Jacob and Kyle. She used the information when they returned home to find her birth parents, John and Kelly.
Her family had grown. Unfortunately, she also found out upon their return that Alex LaRogue, the man who had almost killed her, had been released from prison on parole and was now at large.
Which was why she was now hiding out in Savannah at Peggy’s, instead of at home with her men.
I don’t know how much more I can take.
“No, you’re right,” Karen agreed with a snort. “It’s not just funny. It’s hysterical.”
“Karen, don’t pick on her,” Peggy Kinsey gently chastised. Peggy was actually Tom’s mom, but Nevvie and Tyler had long ago adopted her as their mom. “She’s already stressed out enough as it is.”
Nevvie looked at Peggy and didn’t miss the pleased smile on her face.
“
Et tu
, Mom?”
“Well, it’s not like you’re giving birth to a litter of kittens or puppies, sugar. And twins do run in our family. Danny and Elle, for example. And two of my sisters had twins, as did a couple of my aunts. I’m surprised none of my brood were twins.”
Still stunned by the news, Nevvie stared at the screen.
“Nev, listen,” Peggy said. “You have Tommy and Tyler, and Andrew, and me, and your mom and dad and everyone else to help out. You don’t just have a village to help you with these babies. You’ve got half the damn Eastern Seaboard between Florida and Savannah who will pitch in.”
Nevvie couldn’t take her eyes off the screen.
Twins
.
Not one, but
two
babies she now had to protect from Alex LaRogue, in addition to her young sons, Mikey and Adam.
“I need to go talk to Ben Jones,” Nevvie said. She’d meant to do it a few days earlier, but finding out she was pregnant had shoved the errand out of her mind. Then, with a houseful of guests and the Fourth of July holiday weekend, and concern about what the ob-gyn would say about her baby…
Babies
, she corrected herself, she hadn’t thought about it since.
Peggy burst out laughing. “Ben Jones? Well, that’s sure one heck of a segue, hon.”
She looked up at Peggy. “Can we go talk to him today? Do you think he’s home?” He was Peggy’s next-door neighbor. A widower, he wanted to move back up north to be near his family and had expressed interest in selling his house and property.
Peggy’s brow furrowed. “Okay, I said this before and I’ll say it again. Don’t let your worry about Alex being out there somewhere on the loose drive you into making a rash decision. I’m happy to have you and the boys living with me. There’s plenty of room. I’d be happy with you living next door, too. If you want to buy a house up here, that’s fine. Just don’t buy the first thing you see because you’re afraid.”
“Did I miss something?” Dr. Fagen asked.
Karen spoke up so Nevvie didn’t have to. “Her ex was in jail for attacking her. They let him out on parole a couple of weeks ago, but he hasn’t checked in yet. There’s a new warrant out for his arrest because of it. Nevvie’s been talking about them moving up here permanently from Tampa. He’s not a nice guy.”
“Ah.”
Peggy chimed in. “We’ll contact Nevvie’s ob-gyn down in Tampa and have him send up her records. She’ll need a planned C-section due to complications when she had Mikey.”
Nevvie turned back to the ultrasound screen and stared at it, letting Mom and Karen take over. All she wanted to do was focus on her babies.
“Sounds like a plan,” Dr. Fagen said. “With twins, it increases the risk a little, so I’ll want to see you in here more frequently than you probably were used to with your first two pregnancies.”
“Did I hurt them?” Nevvie asked. “I’ve had wine. And I took stuff for my headaches and upset stomach because I didn’t know I was pregnant.”
“If it’ll put your mind at ease, we can run the full battery of tests,” Dr. Fagen said. “I seriously doubt a few glasses of wine and some ibuprofen hurt them, considering all the women I’ve seen over the years who did a lot worse during their pregnancies. You don’t smoke, you don’t do drugs, you’re in great health, and your vital signs are all normal. What might hurt your babies is you stressing yourself to death over them. I’d write you a prescription for relaxation if I could.”
Nevvie spotted the doctor’s kind smile. Her other doctor had accepted her relationship with Tom and Tyler without hesitation or question. She liked that this doctor had also seemed unfazed by her nontraditional poly triad relationship. “Okay. Let’s do it. Everything.”
“Let’s get you cleaned up. I’ll send my nurse in to get some blood work from you.”
“What about an amnio?”
Dr. Fagen shook her head. “Not this early. Not unless the blood work shows something. I’d rather wait a few weeks. I know it’s considered a routine procedure, but it’s still invasive.” She pushed a button and two snapshots of the screen slid out of the machine. She pulled them out and separated them before handing one to Nevvie. “One for your scrapbook, and one that I’ll put in your file for my reference,” she said.
“Thank you.” Nevvie stared at the blurry picture while the doctor wiped the gel off Nevvie’s belly.