Saint James, Elle - Unbridled and Undone [The Double Men Rider's Club] (Siren Publishing Menage Everlasting) (18 page)

Zachary nodded and smiled, but her father didn’t want anyone’s opinion to matter except his own.

“Great. Let’s go.”

Tessa entered the limo when the chauffer opened the door. She sat in one of the two rear seats next to her father while Dell and Zachary flanked them on either side of the limo’s plush interior.

“Would anyone like something to drink?” Her father poured himself a tumbler of whiskey and for her two men as well. Tessa loathed this night already. In less than a minute, the small talk would ensue. She’d planned to give her men a rundown of topics to avoid on the way to her father’s house, but now that was out of the question.

“So, tell me about your ranch in
Wyoming
.”

Dell smiled and cleared his throat. “We’ve got three thousand acres of prime cattle land, but we also breed and raise horses. I manage the ranch, and Zachary handles the legal aspects.”

“Well, now, three thousand acres seems like a big enough spread.” When he didn’t say anything further, Tessa assumed he might be surprised by the vast acreage they owned. She certainly was.

“It’s been in my family for a number of years,” Dell added.

Her father pretended vague interest and made more small talk until a few minutes later when the limo slowed, then came to a stop. She heard the driver’s door open, and a minute later the back door opened, and she got the first look at where they were having dinner.

She stepped out on to the street at the front of the bar where she’d first met Dell and Zachary.

An ache formed in the pit of her stomach, and she wondered if her father knew that this was where they’d met and under what circumstances.

She hoped not or this was going to be the longest night of her life.

* * * *

 
The second they all stepped from the limo and saw where Tessa’s father had decided to eat dinner, Zachary didn’t think the evening boded well. Either he already knew about the Double Rider Men’s Club and that Tessa had met them here, or he was about to find out. Either way, Zachary could tell Tessa was nervous. She visibly tensed as she got out of the vehicle. He and Dell exchanged a quick worried glance, but Mickey seemed oblivious.

Zachary decided to pretend they’d never been there, or that they’d discovered the love of their life within these walls.

Mickey played big man and entered the place through the front door of the trendy, popular bar like a rock star. Zachary actually hadn’t seen this part of the place as he’d been in the back room watching a sex show.

The four of them were shown to the best seat in the house, and no less than two members of the wait staff hovered at their table for the duration of their superb dinner.

After they’d taken away the dessert dishes, Zachary relaxed a notch. Mickey seemed to like Dell, and as meetings between fathers and first loves went, he figured it went pretty well.

The phone in Mickey’s pocket buzzed, and he excused himself to take the call.

“Sorry,” he said a few seconds later. “I’ve got to check with the security manager over some surveillance footage. Someone’s been stealing from me. Perhaps they’ve finally figured out who it is. I’ll be back in a few minutes.” He stood and turned to leave, then turned back. “Why don’t you wait inside the limo?”

“Sure. And thanks for dinner.” Tessa smiled at her father. “I truly enjoyed it.”

Zachary was delighted that whatever rift between them had been forestalled if only for one evening.

After Tessa stopped for a brief bathroom visit, and Dell requested a separate taxi to take them back to the hotel, the three of them exited the building and walked a short distance to where the limo was parked in a reserved area.

The beautiful night kept them outside staring at the stars. They would say their good nights and ask her if she wanted to come back to the hotel for a drink. Her father could continue on in his limo.

“Tessa,” her father screamed from the front door of the restaurant. “I need to talk to you right now.”

The furious expression on Mickey’s face, directed solely at them, spoiled any notion of continued goodwill from the civil dinner.

On Mickey’s heels came Arthur out the door of the restaurant. What was that asshole doing here? His expression was smug. Zachary figured out what happened fairly quickly. The lunch he’d shared with Clay and dismissed any reprisals over a short piece of accidental security film roared back to bite him in the ass.

If Tessa’s father had gone to look at surveillance footage, he must have seen the three of them together in the private room at the back of the club. While nothing sexual had transpired between them on film, her father’s belief that they’d met at the hotel during the conference was destroyed. Not to mention that the public live sex show directly before they met ensured Mickey knew all about their particular predilection regarding sex. It was not the ideal situation any father wanted to learn had taken place with his daughter and the two men she’d just met.

“What’s wrong?” Tessa asked.

“You lied to me.”

Zachary moved closer to Tessa to block any physical advance by either her father or Arthur. Dell moved in her direction at the exact same time. Both wanted to protect her.

“I showed your father some interesting footage from Monday night,” Arthur said. The smug smile held firmly in place with his superiority over tattling on her to her father.

“What footage?” she asked.

Mickey sent his irate gaze from Dell to Zachary and back a few times before answering, “The surveillance where you pretended to be a waitress at a closed private party here.”

Tessa’s eyes widened a fraction.

“The footage where you spilled water on him,” Mickey gestured with an incline of his head to Dell. “And flirted with him.” Another nod in Zachary’s direction for reference.

“Why do you give a shit where I met them?”

“Why didn’t you tell me where you really met them? And that they lured you to their hotel?”

“Because they didn’t lure me. I followed them there. I don’t answer to you. I’ve never lived with you as an adult. Why do you insist on trying to run my life?”

“You’re my daughter. You should do what I say. And I say you don’t see these two degenerates ever again.”

Zachary and Dell still stood half between her father and her as the conversation escalated.

“Degenerates? What is wrong with you? I love them.”

Zachary and Dell both turned toward her the moment she declared her love.

“We love her, too,” Dell said. “We want her to consider moving to
Wyoming
with us.”

“Over my dead body. I forbid you to ever see these men again. I mean it, Tessa. If you choose them, I’ll make you regret it.”

Tessa was silent for several long seconds. “There is nothing you can say to make me regret choosing a life with these men.”

His face contracted on itself. He raised his hand and pointed his forefinger in her face. “Leave with me in this limo right now or I’ll have your house leveled.”

“The house is mine. You have no authority to level it.”

He sent a caustic glare Zachary’s way. “I can and I will. Ask your ‘lawyer’ why don’t you? The house may be yours but the land it sits on belongs to me based on your grandfather’s previous will. I’ll bulldoze that ancient rat hole as sure as I’m standing here if you don’t do as I tell you.”

A taxi drove up alongside them and the driver got out. Hanging one arm over his open door, the man asked, “Someone call for a cab?”

“I did.” Dell turned to the driver and held up one finger. “We’re almost ready.”

Mickey gritted his teeth together loud enough to make a noise. “Make your choice right now, Tessa. Them and a life of debauchery or the house you’ve always wanted and a good, solid life with Arthur.”

Tessa stepped forward, linked her arm with each of theirs, and calmly said, “I choose them.”

Chapter Eleven

The cab ride back to the hotel was silent. Tessa did her best not to cry. Wedged between Dell and Zachary, she did her best not to break into a thousand pieces. She’d made her choice. In the end, it hadn’t been that difficult.

She mourned the loss of her house, but still didn’t quite believe her father could be so heartless. Then again, she’d seen the look on his face. Even though he shouldn’t, she could tell he felt betrayed. He’d level her beloved home in an instant because he felt he’d been wronged. His failure to bend her to his will with Arthur and her recent life choices would be the final straw to allow the destruction of something she loved.

At least she had Dell and Zachary. Honestly, they were all she needed. Her grandmother’s house was the past, and they were her future.

“Are you going to be okay?” Dell asked. He brushed his knuckles down her arm gently. Tessa sighed and leaned her head on his shoulder. Seated between them in the back, she relaxed a notch when Zachary rested a hand on her thigh and squeezed her leg reassuringly.

“I hate that he made me choose. Why would he think I’d pick a house over love?” Tessa would never forget the look on her father’s face when she walked away with her two men. Fury marked his features before he called a few choice threats at her back.

“So you really do love us?” Dell murmured. He kissed the top of her head.

“Of course I love you.” She lifted her head to stare him in the eyes.

“That’s good because we really love you, too.” He kissed her mouth as Zachary leaned closer and kissed the back of her neck. They were practically piled on top of each other in the back of the cab as it was. She twisted to give Zachary better access to her neck and lifted her face to kiss Dell’s mouth. With her emotions riding high, Tessa couldn’t keep her hands off either of them. One arm went around Dell’s neck, and the other rested on Zachary’s thigh.

Dell devoured her lips in a passionate kiss. His tongue delved deeply inside her mouth as if he couldn’t get close enough to her. Behind her, Zachary nibbled the sensitive place beneath her ear and stroked one hand over her breast, lingering there and teasing the nipple through her blouse.

The taxi driver chuckled to himself suddenly and turned the radio up very loud. Perhaps that was his way of giving them privacy. She didn’t care who saw her being loved by her two men.

“I’ll look into the details of your grandmother’s will and see if I can find a loophole to help you keep your house, okay?” Zachary placed a kiss on her shoulder.

Tessa broke the sensual kiss with Dell, smiled, and turned in his direction. “I appreciate it, but don’t go to any trouble. I don’t want you to have to argue with my father’s lawyers. As you well know, they’re a bunch of pompous ass kissers.” She cupped his cheek. The texture of his day’s growth of beard against her fingertips tingled. It didn’t stop her from twisting toward him to kiss his full, sensuous mouth. His tongue licked a way between her lips and scorched her desire with the promise of what would happen once they reached their hotel. His hand went from her breast to between her legs.

Dell gripped her waist in his steely grasp as if he wouldn’t ever let her go and buried his face into her neck. He brushed one hand from her collarbone to her breasts. He edged his fingertips beneath her blouse and had his hand stroking her naked breasts in the space of a heartbeat.

The radio volume in the taxi went up once more. Tessa glanced over and caught the driver’s interested gaze in the rearview mirror. She wasn’t sure if he was interested in watching her or if he wanted to join the party. He was not invited, but she learned something about herself in that moment. She didn’t care if he watched them. Perhaps the idea of a public sex show wasn’t out of the realm of possibility. Right this moment, she didn’t care
who
watched her.

A few minutes later, the driver pulled into the circular drive of their hotel. As if they’d planned it in advance, they both stopped kissing her at the same time. Zachary opened the door and pulled her outside into the chilly night as Dell paid the driver.

The three of them practically raced to the elevators. If they hadn’t been sharing their car with four other people on the way up, she might have gotten lucky against the paneled wall enclosure.

The second they stepped into their hotel room, Dell pulled her into his arms and kissed her like he might never see her again. Zachary pressed his body against her back, cocooning her between them. It was her favorite place to be. His hips pushed into her ass, and since his cock practically gouged a hole in her skin, she figured he wanted her as much as she wanted him.

Dell devoured her mouth in a volcanic kiss she never wanted to stop. Zachary slid his hands from her waist to cover both breasts. As Dell distracted her with the kiss, Zachary undressed her.

Before she knew it, she stood completely naked, save her bra. Zachary’s fingers brushed the center of her back, and soon she wasn’t wearing a stitch of clothing.

Dell broke the amazing kiss, dropped his head, and latched his mouth around one distended nipple. Tessa cried out as the rush of pleasure zipped down her body. Her clit pulsed with need. Zachary must have sensed it because before she drew her next breath, his fingers danced between her legs and found her hot spot. Fluid gushed from her pussy in anticipation of what would come next.