Two Men for Piper [The Men of Space Station One #7] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) (17 page)

The deeper Tripp fucked her aching cunt, the deeper she took Keith until she could no longer go any farther. She could tell he was getting close by the way he erratically thrust up into her mouth. She lightly racked her nails over his balls as she sucked him down once again. He erupted down her throat. Ribbons of cum filled her as she swallowed convulsively.

She licked his dick down her throat until she’d taken every drop of his cum. He massaged her head as he panted, trying to catch his breath.

Tripp began stroking in and out of her pussy faster and deeper now that she wasn’t sucking on Keith’s cock. He pummeled her cunt, rasping across her hot spot with almost every plunge. Her juices eased his way and ran down her thighs.

“Fuck, you’re so freaking tight. I’m not going to last, baby.”

She squeezed her cunt muscles around him, trying to throw him into orgasm. She loved being able to send all his plans into the trash that way. He jerked inside of her and, after two more strokes, began to fill her cunt with his cum.

Keith reached under her and fingered her clit as Tripp finished pumping through his orgasm. She thrashed on top of him as her climax stole over her when she hadn’t expected one. She screamed and tensed up until her ass cheeks hurt. Pleasure overrode the small discomfort, and she plunged over the top, their names on her lips.

Two days later, Keith was up and walking around on his own. He was even able to negotiate the stairs as long as he held on to the rail. They were making plans to meet up with the other families on the ranch the next Saturday night. Piper was equal parts excited and nervous.

She had found out that the main family was made up of Andrew, Danny, and their wife, Rachel. They had one child, a little girl. Then there was the other family working the ranch, Boyd, Keeton, and Ashley. They had a little boy.

Piper was outside documenting how fast the plants were growing and getting close-ups of the native ones like the currick. Her pamphlets and booklets were growing thick fast. She finished with her camera and hurried inside to print out the pictures.

“There you are. You’re awful difficult to find these days.” Tripp teased her unmercifully about being a wildlife photographer.

“Ha, I can only be in one of a few places. You’re just lazy and don’t want to have to walk through the house looking for me.”

“Regardless, I want a little hug and a kiss. I missed you this morning. You got up awful early.”

“I couldn’t sleep for some reason. Figured I’d do something productive instead of tossing and turning. All I was going to do was wake up you guys.”

“Anything on your mind that would keep you from sleeping?” Tripp wrapped his arms around her.

She leaned her head against his chest. She didn’t have a clue.

“Not really. It might be meeting the other families on Saturday. Other than that, I don’t know.”

“Well, put that out of your mind. They’re just regular people like we are. I bet you’ll enjoy having other women to talk to.”

“Oh, I know I will. I don’t know. That may not be it at all. It could just be a fluke and nothing else.”

He hugged her tight and kissed her on the nose. “Well, don’t make yourself sick over it. We’re not even eating with them.”

“Are you hungry? I’m about to start breakfast.”

“I’m always hungry, oh, you meant for food.” He chuckled when she popped his arm.

“Be serious. Is Keith awake? I’ll start breakfast now if he is.”

“He’s in the shower. He’ll be down in a little bit. Breakfast would be great, babe. I’m going out to water the garden and check the fence. I’ll be back in a few minutes.”

Piper watched him through the window as he set up the hoses among the plants. Then he disappeared around the side where he would start checking the fence for any problems with it. So far nothing had tried to enter it. She hoped it would be enough deterrent to keep everything out. She didn’t want the men worrying about her any more than they already were.

Twenty minutes later, Keith walked in the kitchen, his hair still wet from the shower. He headed straight for her and wrapped his arms around her waist. When he drew her in for a kiss, she responded as if she hadn’t had a kiss from him in months. She still hadn’t gotten over nearly losing him.

As his mouth ate at hers, she ran her hands up his wide chest and grasped his broad shoulders. He felt alive to her, and that meant so much. He finally pulled back and touched their foreheads together.

“Morning, baby. What freaking time did you get up?”

“Um, maybe five. It’s not all that early. When you start working, you’ll go to work at seven. I sure dread it when you work nights. I’ll worry about you two. I doubt I’ll even be able to sleep while you’re gone.”

“You’ll be just fine. What’s for breakfast? Where’s Tripp?”

“He went out to water the garden and check the fence. Sit down, and I’ll bring your plate over.”

About the time she put Keith’s plate on the table, Tripp walked in. He eyed Keith’s plate and chuckled.

“What?” Piper asked.

“He’s got you wrapped around his finger. You’re waiting on him hand and foot. Don’t you think he’s gotten enough pampering time out of his ordeal by now?”

“No,” Piper and Keith said at the same time.

Tripp laughed again and went to wash up.

“Seriously, he’s right, you know. I don’t need all this coddling. I’m fine now. I’ll be going to work next week.”

“I know. I can’t help it.”

“Sure you can. Just say no.” Tripp walked back in with a grin on his face.

“Easy for you to say,” she grumbled.

They sat down and finished breakfast while talking about their upcoming meeting on Saturday. Piper listened but didn’t join in. She could tell the men were excited about getting back on a horse and working again. According to them, it had been almost a year since they had worked on a ranch.

Then her mind wandered to the women and what she knew about them. They had both gotten pregnant about the same time and both had been exposed to creatures that either bit them scratched them, or something. Either way, they had odd-looking scars and some sort of mutated cell or something in their blood. She shivered.

“You okay, Piper?” Keith asked.

“Yeah, I’m fine. Just got a chill for some reason. I’m not cold or anything.”

“Maybe you need to take it easy today. You’ve been working nonstop on those book things of yours. You need a break.” Tripp reached out and squeezed her hand.

“I’m okay, guys.”

Keith stood up with his empty plate. “Still, you need to rest anyway. How about a nap after lunch today?”

“I thought you said I needed to rest.” She grinned at him.

“I’m talking about a
real
nap, baby. No messing around.”

She pouted. “I like messing around.”

Tripp and Keith rinsed their plates and added them to the dishwasher. She really had good husbands. They weren’t messy, and they cleaned up after themselves, for the most part. They were generous lovers and her best friends. She had worried so much about them when she had been on the shuttle. She knew some men didn’t like their wives to be sexually aggressive, but Tripp and Keith loved it. Plus, they knew what she liked and gave it to her. To think that a computer had chosen them for her boggled her mind.

They excused themselves and went outside to look around. She knew that Tripp had been checking the fences every morning to be sure nothing had messed with them. He was worried something would either break through or dig under it. She felt like they were worrying over nothing but didn’t say anything. She didn’t make a big deal out of it since she hated that they were anxious about leaving her alone while they were working.

When lunchtime rolled around, they came back in talking about how fast the garden was growing.

“She’s going to be harvesting some of that stuff in the next two or three weeks.” Tripp shook his head.

“Makes you wonder what it will do to us when we eat it.”

“I hate to tell you guys, but we’ve been eating stuff from the planet all along. Remember? It’s too late to worry now.” Piper set a plate of sandwiches on the table.

They all sat down and ate. Tripp told her that so far there hadn’t been any signs of animals messing around the fence anywhere.

“Maybe it is enough of deterrent just being there in their way. They’ve probably never seen anything like it before.”

“I’d feel better if we could see how something reacts to it.” Keith took a bite out of his sandwich.

“I think you two are worried for nothing. I’m the one who has to worry about you two being out in the wide open every day. Not to mention when you have to be out at night. I’m going to be a nervous wreck until you get home every night.”

“Piper, we’ll be on horses and have rifles with us. We’ll be fine.”

“You’ll have to call me up on the radio every once in a while to let me know you are okay.”

Tripp chuckled. “Yes, ma’am.”

Piper sighed. They weren’t taking her seriously, yet they were taking leaving her seriously. Men were so exasperating sometimes. She resigned herself to constantly worrying about them. She just hoped they weren’t trying to placate her and were really taking their safety seriously.

* * * *

Saturday morning, Piper couldn’t be still. She flitted from one thing to another without accomplishing anything. Keith and Tripp both commented on how tired they were from watching her jump around the house.

“Settle down, Piper, or you’re going to be too tired to go.” Tripp tried to hug her, but she pulled away.

“What time did you say we had to be there?”

“Two o’clock. That’s three hours from now. How about an early lunch.”

“Lunch! Oh, God. I forgot about lunch.” She hurried to the kitchen to see that she’d already started pulling out things to make sandwiches.

She sighed and mentally kicked herself for being so nervous. They were just people like she was. There was really no need to get so uptight about meeting them. Piper finished making the sandwiches and called for the men to come eat.

After they had finished and Piper had cleaned the kitchen, they sat in the living room waiting on time to leave.

“How will you know where to go when we’ve never been there before?” she asked.

“We’ve got the coordinates, and all I have to do is punch them into the buggy transport system, and it will direct us right there.” Tripp grinned at her.

She sighed. She had probably already asked him that once. Keith had been quiet through most of her questions. He caught her eye and winked at her now. She smiled and relaxed some. She really was being silly about the entire thing. She needed to relax and enjoy talking with the other women. She knew they wouldn’t get to see each other very often.

“You’re awful quiet over there,” Tripp said.

“Trying to calm down. I know I’m driving you crazy.”

“Naw, you’re cute when you’re all flustered.”

“She’s really cute when she’s embarrassed.” Keith chuckled.

“Guys, don’t embarrass me today. Please.”

“We’ll see. Depends on how much time we have on our hands when we get there. I love it when you get pink all over. It’s almost as pretty as my handprint on your ass.”

She rolled her eyes and frowned at him. “Don’t start. I’m hanging on to my sanity by a very thin thread.”

Keith tried to hide his laugh by clearing his throat and his smile behind his hand. She wasn’t fooled one single minute. They were both laughing at her. She would get back at them when they least expected it though. That made her grin. The guys saw her and sobered fast. They weren’t stupid. They knew she always had the upper hand.

Two hours later, they loaded up and pulled out to go to Andrew, Danny, and Rachel’s house. It took them a good fifteen minutes to get there. On the way they saw several different-looking trees that Piper would have loved to have taken pictures of. They guys promised her they’d take her driving one day when they were off.

When they pulled up outside the house, Piper’s butterflies returned. She thought for a few seconds that she might actually get sick. Then two women emerged on the front porch with four other men. Tripp got down from the transport buggy, then Keith jumped down and reached up to help her down. She found herself hiding behind Keith.

“You must be Tripp, Keith, and Piper. Come on in, and we’ll introduce everyone. I’m Andrew, by the way.” He led them into the house.

Piper thought it looked almost identical to theirs except for the decorations. She guessed they built one type of house and stuck to it. It would make for an easier time building the houses if they were all the same layout.

“This is Danny and our wife, Rachel. Over there are Ashley and her husbands, Boyd and Keeton.”

Everyone nodded and shook hands. Rachel waved for her to come over and follow her and Ashley into the kitchen. She smiled as they sat around the table. Rachel poured coffee for them.

“The men will come get their own in a little while. So, how are you getting on so far, Piper?”

“Okay so far. I’m really freaked a little bit about how fast the garden is growing. I guess I will get used to it after a while. Then there was Keith getting sick, and that scared me to death.”

“I’m glad he’s doing fine now. That’s scary. We’ve all had close calls, though, and lived through them. I’m not sure if that’s a testament to how strong we are, or if it just means that it wasn’t really a bad case.”

Ashley spoke up. “You also have to be very careful of the animals here. I got slobbered on by a muskie, and it left bubbly scars that are yellow. I hate them. We’ve got a fence around the back of the house and garden now, and if you watch to be sure they don’t dig under, then you’re okay.”

“The guys are worried about them doing that. They check the fence every morning. So they will actually do that?”

“Yep. We’ve had to hunt them down here a couple of times when they dug their way under.”

Piper didn’t like the sound of that. She’d thought the men were being overly cautious, but maybe they weren’t after all. The chance of one getting in was greater than she thought. She shivered. She needed to add that bit of information to her booklet. She thought about telling the other women what she was doing, but didn’t want to sound like she was a braggart.