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“It’s okay, Ashley. I know you’re awake.” The soft rumble of Keeton’s voice echoed against her ear planted on his chest.

“Umm, I’m not sure how I got this way,” she whispered.

“No need to whisper. I’m awake, too,” Boyd said with a chuckle.

“You climbed on top of me in the middle of the night. I have to say, as covers go, you’re a hell of a lot better than the blanket,” Keeton said.

The hand on her ass caressed it, then squeezed it and moved. She shivered. Boyd’s hand had felt good playing with her ass.

“Okay, you can slide off me to the middle of the bed again. Just, um, watch your knee.”

Ashley drew in a deep breath and slowly slid off Keeton’s magnificent, hard body. When her knee felt his thick cock against it, she lifted it and attempted to slide over it, but it followed her over. He grunted but didn’t say anything. She really had tried to be careful.

“Are you okay?” she asked in a near whisper.

“I’m horny as hell, baby. But I’m okay.”

Ashley was at a loss as to how to reply to that statement.

Boyd chuckled behind her. Ashley didn’t think it was a laughing matter, but when she turned over to tell him so, she found herself face-to-face with him, almost lip-to-lip. Her leg brushed up against him and she could feel the tip of his dick against her belly. She opened her mouth to say something, but she wasn’t sure what. Instead, she found herself in a sensual kiss.

Boyd had closed the short distance between them and wrapped his lips around hers and kissed her. His mouth covered hers then sucked in her lower lip, where he teased it with his tongue. When she gasped, he plunged his tongue inside of her mouth and teased along the roof of it. Ashley all but swooned at how good it felt to be possessed like that.

His hands held her face, cupped at her cheeks as he explored her mouth. She felt his cock thrum against her belly with each beat of his heart. He mimicked fucking her with his tongue thrusting in and out of her mouth. Then he withdrew and kissed the corners and both eyelids.

“Good morning, Ashley.” He ran a finger down her nose.

Then as if he suddenly thought of something important, he rolled over and got out of bed. She couldn’t help but admire his physique. He was very good-looking, and when she looked lower, she nearly gasped. His cock was rock hard and shooting out from his body as if pointing the way.

She turned over to her back and stared up at the ceiling in an effort not to look anymore.

Keeton got up on one elbow and looked down at her. “How about my kiss?”

“Y–Your kiss? Um, ah, okay. I mean sure.” Ashley didn’t know what he wanted.

“Kiss me, Ashley.”

She swallowed hard around the boulder suddenly lodged in her throat. She didn’t know the first thing about kissing. She’d never kissed anyone before. Yes, she had been kissed, but had never done the kissing.

She leaned over and brushed her lips against his, then pulled back, hoping he would be content with that. He wasn’t. He growled and pulled her head down for a deeper kiss that rocked her world. He devoured her mouth as if she was a favorite dessert and he hadn’t had one in months, maybe years. When he had finished, she was dizzy and not quite sure what had just happened to her.

“Why don’t you stay in bed for a little while longer? We need to look around the house and yard to see what needs to be done.” Keeton turned over and sat up on the side of the bed.

He stood up and stretched, bringing his body in profile and exposing her to the up-close sight of his massive cock. It was longer than Boyd’s and had a slight curve to it, but it stood out heavy with need. Had she made them hard, or were they always like that in the mornings, as she’d heard?

Ashley wasn’t sure what to do now. Staying in bed sounded like a good idea to her, but she knew she couldn’t hide from them forever. They needed breakfast, for one thing. She waited until he had pulled on his clothes and left the room before she got out of bed and grabbed clothes to put on. She shut herself in the bathroom and after completing her morning ritual, dressed and hurried downstairs.

She found them sitting at the kitchen table talking and eating cereal. They immediately grew quiet on her arrival.

“I thought you were going to stay in bed for a little longer,” Keeton said with a frown.

“I figured you needed breakfast.” She wrung her hands.

He seemed mad that she had come downstairs.

“We can get our own food, Ashley. You don’t have to wait on us.” Boyd appeared to be trying to smooth things over.

“But isn’t that what I’m supposed to do?”

“You’re not our fucking maid or cook, Ashley. You’re our wife.” Keeton shook his head and got up from the table. He took his empty bowl to the sink and rinsed it out. “I’m going outside to look around.”

Ashley felt tears well up in her eyes. Why was he angry at her?

Boyd stood up and pulled her into his arms. “Ashley, we don’t need you to wait on us like that. This is a partnership. We work on the ranch and around the house, you take care of the house and the garden, but you don’t have to wait on us like some sort of servant. What did they tell you women, anyway?”

“That you would be working long, hard days and need to be taken care of when you were home.”

Ashley liked being in his arms. They felt warm and comforting around her. She could spend a lifetime in his arms. Then he pulled back and looked her deep in the eyes.

“I need to ask you something personal, and you need to answer me honestly, Ashley. Okay?”

Ashley wasn’t sure she liked the sound of this, but she nodded anyway.

“Are you a virgin, Ashley?”

She panicked. What would they do if she said yes? If she said no, they would find that out the first time they had sex with her. She finally bit her lower lip and nodded her head.

“Fuck!” He turned away with his hands on his hips and sighed, hanging his head.

When he turned back around it was with a face devoid of anger but full of worry.

“How did you get paired up with us? They screened us all to be sure we would be well-suited.” He shook his head. “You didn’t tell them you were a virgin, did you?”

This time she shook her head no and tried to stop her lip from trembling and the tears in her eyes from falling. What was she going to do? What would they do? Would they try and send her back?

“Please don’t get rid of me. I won’t fight you. I promise.” Ashley grabbed hold of his arm and held on.

“Ashley, making love isn’t about just fucking. It’s a give-and-take. You need someone who can be patient with you. Neither Keeton nor I are patient men. We wanted someone with a good bit of experience for that reason.”

“They were so desperate for women to come, they aren’t picky anymore, but I was scared they wouldn’t take me if they knew.”

He looked down at her and sighed, pulling her into his arms. He held her there for a few minutes while she got hold of herself. Then he pulled off a paper towel and handed it to her to blow her nose and wipe her tears.

“Do you see what our dilemma is, baby? We don’t know how to introduce you to sex, much less to our kind of sex.”

“I thought sex was sex. What can be so different than what the books say?”

“Books, fuck, Ashley. They don’t even come close to what sex is. Did they say anything about different positions or different types of sex?”

Ashley’s eyes grew wide.
Different positions?
“No. I thought you just got on top of me and put your, um…”

“Cock,” he supplied.

“Inside of me, and that was it.”

“God, no one can be that innocent. Where were you raised, in a convent?”

“No, but my parents didn’t talk about things like that, and I was so busy going to college getting my degrees that I guess I missed that portion of my education.” She was angry now because he was making fun of her.

“Did you say degrees? Just how many do you have?”

“Three. I have one in business, one in advertising, and one in graphic design.” She couldn’t figure out what that had to do with anything.

“Do you know how many degrees Keeton and I have between us? A big, fat zero. We finished high school, but we never went to college. We’ve worked on a ranch since we were fifteen.”

“I don’t see where that matters. You got on-the-job training. I got book training and had to learn how to work when I took my first job. Believe me, you were much better off. I nearly got fired the first week.”

“My point is, you’re nothing like we expected. This is going to take some figuring out.” Boyd sighed again and shook his head. “I’m going outside to look around. We’ll be in for lunch.” He turned around and marched out the door, shutting it behind him.

“At least he didn’t slam it.”

What was she going to do now?

Chapter Three

“What do you mean she’s a fucking virgin? How the hell did that happen?”

“She didn’t tell them in her paperwork. She didn’t think it mattered.” Boyd leaned up against the barn that held three horses.

Boyd had found Keeton mucking out the stalls and feeding the horses. Now he leaned on the pitchfork and looked as if he wanted to ram it through something. Keeton was known for his fierce temper, though he was slow to rile. Right now, he was in full-fury mode.

“What in the hell are we going to do with her?” Keeton asked.

“Introduce her to sex. It’s all we can do. I for one am not going to go the rest of my life with a hard-on using my fist for relief.”

“Boyd, I’m too rough for a virgin. I’ll hurt her. I couldn’t bear to hurt her.” He swallowed hard and turned back to forking hay over in the stalls. “You’re going to have to take care of her. I can’t touch her.”

“Like hell you’re putting this all on me, man. This is a partnership we have here. You’re just as much responsible for her as I am. We signed the paperwork. We share everything between us. Including the problems,” Boyd reminded him.

“This isn’t a problem. It’s a fucking disaster! Think about it, Boyd. She’s a sweet girl. She deserves someone who’ll make love to her every night and kiss her good-morning. We fuck more than we make love.” Keeton slammed the pitchfork down into the dirt floor of the stable and leaned it against the back wall.

“We have to give her a chance, Keeton. She deserves more from us than this. She didn’t balk when I kissed her, and she didn’t panic when she found herself wrapped around you like an octopus.”

Keeton paced in front of the stalls. He balled his hands into fists before relaxing and balling into fists again. Finally he turned to Boyd and huffed out a breath.

“Fine. You take her virginity, though. I’m not about to do that.”

“As long as you’re there in case I screw something up. I’m not doing this alone.”

“How in the hell did we end up in this mess? I was so brutally honest on my form I thought for sure they wouldn’t take me,” Keeton said.

“You and me both. Get this, she has three degrees on top of being a virgin. How did they manage to pair her with us even without her virginity being in the way?” Boyd asked.

“Hell if I know. Sounds like they played spin the bottle to me.”

“Come on. Let’s look at the rest of the yard. Danny said we need to put up a fence around the house as soon as possible. We’ll have days off where we can work on it.” Boyd led the way as they circled the house and stopped at the garden.

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