Boots and Roses (12 page)

The hint of pain made Bunny tingle even more, her pussy contracting around Cory’s cock as he pulled out to the tip, then thrust into her again.

With men coming at her from both ends, Bunny rode a tidal wave of sensations until she shot to the edge, hovering at the precipice, unable to breathe or move.

Jack thrust into her mouth one last time and pulled free.

Cory drove in once more and held her hips in a tight grasp, his cock buried to the hilt. Then he moaned and his shaft pulsed inside her.

Bunny’s arms gave way, and she lowered her face to the rug, her ass still high in the air as Cory came inside her.

When his grip loosened, he eased her the rest of the way to the floor and spooned her body against his.

Jack lay down in front of her, his hand resting on her breast.

Bunny caught his cock in her hand and stroked its hard length. “You didn’t come.”

“I can wait.” He smiled, though his face was tight, his dark eyes intense.

“What if I don’t want to wait?” she asked.

Cory pulled out of her and eased her onto her back. “Are you sure?”

A muscle flickered in Jack’s jaw. “I don’t want to hurt you.”

She spread her thighs wide. “Please. I’m begging you. Take me now.” With a wicked smile, she winked.

Jack grabbed a condom from his discarded jeans, tore it open with his teeth and rolled it over his engorged penis. Then he lay between her legs and guided his cock to her entrance. “You’re amazing,” he said and slid into her in one long, slow stroke.

Bunny wrapped her legs around his waist and dug her heels into his buttocks. “Deeper.”

“Are you sure?” Jack frowned, his body tense as if he was holding back. “I’m pretty big.”

Cory snorted. “Like I’m not?”

“Please.” Bunny increased the pressure on his butt cheeks, wanting all of him inside her and his balls slapping against her ass. She raised a hand to Cory’s cheek. “And yes, you’re big too.” She chuckled. “Are you two always this competitive?”

“More so.” Jack pulled out and sank back into her.

As Jack filled her, Bunny drew in a deep breath. “And you’ve shared a woman before?”

“Yes, but we were all a little drunk,” Cory explained. “We all agreed we weren’t going to make it a habit.”

“Why?” Bunny asked as Jack withdrew and she could breathe again.

“She wasn’t the right girl for us.”

“And we weren’t the right men for her. She was a one-man kinda woman.”

“Was she insane? One man, when she could have had you both? Stupid woman.” Bunny’s legs clamped around Jack, dragging him back into her. “Faster, please.”

Cory tapped Jack’s arm. “You heard the woman. She has needs.”

Bunny wanted to ask if she was the right woman for them, but she didn’t want to put them on the spot if their answer was no.

Again, she had to remind herself this was a one-time deal. They were under no obligation to date her ever again. Her eyes burned with a sudden need to cry.

“Is he hurting you?” Cory leaned over her, his brows drawn together in a fierce frown.

“No.” She laughed, the sound more of a sob. She’d never felt this cared for or pampered in her life. She’d never known a man, or men, who took the time to make her feel that same euphoric feeling that only came with an incredible orgasm. These two men knew how to treat a woman, how to make her scream and beg for more. They cared enough to make foreplay an art.

A tear slid from the corner of her eye.

“Jack, stop. You’re hurting her.”

Jack started to withdraw.

“No!” Bunny locked her ankles around his waist. “Faster, damn it.”

Jack complied, pounding into her like a jackhammer.

Bunny closed her eyes, loving the force of each thrust, the heat building in the juices lining her channel and the ultimate slam, leading to Jack’s release.

He pulled free and collapsed on the rug beside her, his fingers finding her clit, stroking.

“You don’t have to.” She squirmed, pressing into his hand.

Jack shook his head. “I like watching your face tense and your body come alive when we get you there.”

“Makes us hard all over again.” Cory nudged her bottom with the proof of his desire.

“You two are insatiable.” Bunny gasped as Jack’s finger found the spot and took her the rest of the way there. The pleasure so intense it was almost painful. Bunny grabbed his hand and stopped him, reveling in her pulsing release.

At last she fell back against the rug and lay spent, drained, and for the first time in her life completely satisfied. “That was so much better than my vibrator.”

Jack and Cory laughed and pressed up against her.

After a few minutes, Cory lifted her and carried her into the bedroom. The three of them touched and fondled until they’d regained strength and the party began again.

Somewhere around two in the morning, Bunny slipped out of the bed, tiptoed across the living room and out onto the front porch where she quickly dressed. Then she pulled her cell phone from her purse with the intention of calling Mona.

No service.

“Going somewhere?” A gravelly, deep voice rumbled from the doorway.

Bunny stifled a scream and spun toward the sound.

Cory, dressed only in a pair of jeans, leaned against the doorframe, looking rumpled, sleepy and sexy as hell.

Her pulse increased, heat building in her body. “Oh, it’s you.”

A slow smile slid across his lips. “Expecting someone else?”

“No.” She stared down at the phone. “Can’t get a call through anyway.”

Cory held out his hand. “Come back to bed.”

Bunny clutched her purse to her chest. “It’s after midnight. Our date is officially over.”

“It doesn’t have to be.”

She swayed toward him, wanting to go back to bed with him and Jack, but the thought of waking up with these two men was too much. She’d want it to last even longer and longer still. Best to end it now, before they did.

“I have a wedding to work in a few hours.”

“Screw the wedding.” He reached for her again.

Bunny backed away. “I can’t. It’s my business.”

“We’ll get you there on time.”

Bunny shook her head. “I need to go.” She stared across at him, her eyes stinging, on the verge of tears. “Please.”

Cory remained leaning on the doorframe a few moments longer, his blue eyes dark in the shadows. Finally, he straightened and nodded. “Okay. Let me get my keys.”

He was back in less than a minute, wearing his boots and a T-shirt and carrying his keys.

“Jack?” Bunny started to ask.

“Asleep.”

“Good.” She climbed into Cory’s convertible and settled back against the leather seat, closing her eyes.

The ride sped by and in too short a time, Cory pulled in front of her shop and switched off the engine.

When he started to reach for the door handle, she laid a hand on his arm. “You don’t have to walk me up.”

“The hell I don’t.”

“Please.” She leaned across the seat and kissed him. “I can make it on my own.”

He captured her face in his hands and stared hard into her eyes. “I know you can make it on your own. It’s one of the things I love most about you. You’re independence and self-reliance.”

“Then let me go. I’ll be okay.”

He stared a little longer and finally let go. “What should I tell Jack?”

She smiled and slid toward her door. “Tell him he was great and thanks.”

Bunny hurried out of the convertible and up the stairs to her apartment without looking back, afraid that if she did, she’d lose her nerve and beg Cory to take her back to his place. When she’d let herself in and closed the door behind her, she leaned her back on the panel and listened. Somewhere in the back of her mind, she’d hoped Cory would follow her and ask her to come back with him.

Face it, girl—the date was just a date.

Bunny slid down the door and settled on the floor, letting the tears that had been burning in her eyes all the way back to town slide down her cheeks.

In the few hours she’d spent with Cory and Jack, she’d learned more about making love than in the entire time she’d been married. And damn it, she didn’t want it to end.

Chapter Eight

“That’s the last of the arrangements,” Charli said, carrying a small vase, which she set in the middle of the last empty table.

“Thanks, Charli,” Bunny said from her perch at the top of the bridal arch. “I’ll be done with this in just a minute, then we can leave.”

“Not staying for the event?” Mona asked, her tongue pressing against the inside of her cheek.

“Hell, no.” Bunny smiled. “After Ray blasted me at the garden party, I think he’d be appalled if I dared to invite myself.”

“I’d love to see Ray’s face if you sat in the front row.” Mona giggled. “Jerk-face would have puppies.”

“Shh, Mona. Jerk—Ray will be here any minute. I want to be out of here when he arrives. The wedding starts in less than two hours.”

“Poor Chrissy has to spend the rest of her life having sex with him.” Mona’s eyes narrowed. “Speaking of sex…”

“I’m not talking about last night. I told you all I’m going to tell you.”

“That good, huh?” Charli piped in. “Back when Connor was playing dirty tricks on me, he had a couple of his buddies join the fun. I’ll bet those two were in on it. Might not have seen their faces, but those chests…”

Bunny glared down at Charli.

Charli raised her hands. “What? You said there wasn’t going to be any more dates with Cory and Jack.”

“You could at least wait a few days before you start adding them to your list of sex partners in front of me.”

“Yeah, Charli. Have a little respect for the lonely spinster.” Mona grinned.

Bunny flung a rose bud at Mona. “You’re not helping.” She tucked the last spray of roses and baby’s breath into the arch and climbed down from the stepladder. “There. Now we can leave.”

Tired from her late night with the guys and wanting to see them again more than she could tell anyone, Bunny was ready to go back to her little, lonely apartment and wallow in a half gallon of rocky road ice cream. Alone.

They loaded her van with the stepladder and the supplies she’d used to create the fairytale wedding for Ray and Chrissy and went back into the chapel for one last glance.

Mona hooked her elbow and squeezed her arm. “They don’t deserve what you did for them.”

“I don’t harbor ill feelings toward them. Maybe this is all working out for the best. Ray and I didn’t click as a couple. It’s just too bad we wasted so many years of our lives trying to make it work.”

“It’s too bad you spent so many years of your life getting him through dental school only for him to ditch you as soon as he finished.” Charli tugged her arm. “Come on. I’m sure Kendall will be ready to close the shop and call it a day.”

“She’s an angel for volunteering to help out.” Bunny smiled and turned toward the exit. “I’m glad I did Ray’s wedding. It proves to me once and for all I was never in love with him in the first place. I think I was in love with the idea of being in love and being married.”

“Now that you know what love is?” Mona waggled her brows. “Come on, you have to tell us something. We’ve been good all day.”

“Really, Bunny. What are friends for but to share all the intimate details of each other’s sex lives?” Charli waited for a few seconds, then rolled her eyes. “Forget it, Mona. She’s not talking.”

Bunny cast Charli a thankful look and patted Mona’s arm. “I’m not ready. Maybe someday.”

“They were that good.” Mona sighed. “I knew it.”

Oh yes, Jack and Cory had been so good it would be a long time before Bunny went on another date with any man. How could anyone measure up to what her two “dates” had done for her?

Hell, she’d have been better off not going out on that date. She’d been happily lonely, content to give her vibrator the occasional workout.

Now she couldn’t even touch the cold, hard tool without thinking of how warm, thick and velvety smooth Jack and Cory had been in her hands and mouth, and…

Bunny climbed into the van with its bright pink swirling letters declaring it as the property of the Sweet Temptations Flower Shop.

“Another wedding.” Mona slid into the middle seat and sighed. “I gotta quit helping you with these. It’s too darned depressing. Always the florist, never the bride.”

Charli chuckled, climbed into the passenger seat and slammed the door. “Always giving the flowers, never getting them? God, I’m glad Connor has a romantic streak in him.”

A smile curved Bunny’s lips. “You liked that arrangement of daisies he had me deliver to you at the Ugly Stick?”

Charli’s eyes narrowed. “Your idea, or his?”

“All his.” Bunny raised her hand. “I suggested carnations. He said you preferred daisies because they made you smile.” Bunny’s heart twisted at the man’s sentiment. “You got a keeper in Connor.”

Charli smiled. “I know. And he’s not so stuffy he won’t consider an occasional ménage.”

Bunny cast a quick glance at Charli. “I didn’t know he was kinky like that.”

“Oh, he’s quite the trickster. And there are more threesomes and moresomes than you think in these parts.”

“Right. Look at the Gray Wolf twins and Libby,” Mona piped in.

“And the three O’Briens and Isabella.” Charli laughed. “I bet she’s kept really busy.”

“Nothing wrong with multiples in a relationship,” Mona said. “Wish I could find me one man, much less two.”

Bunny shifted into drive and was just about to pull out of the church parking lot when Ray pulled up in a black Cadillac and blocked her way.

He climbed out, dressed in a crisp white shirt and his black tuxedo trousers. “Everything ready?” he asked.

Bunny climbed back out of her van and stood before Ray. “It is. Just as Chrissy wanted.”

Ray sucked in a deep breath and let it out. “I’m just glad this will be over soon, and we won’t have to deal with each other anymore.”

“Does this mean you’re going to shut me down after all?”

“Don’t have to. I turned over my shares to the bank for a profit. They paid me ten grand for my half of the business.”

Bunny’s heart sank. “Without talking to me?”

“I’m a busy man. I don’t have time to fool with you and your stupid shop. The bank took care of it. Now you’ll have to answer to them. Seems to me they were looking at that location for possible expansion.” Ray smirked.