Jedidiah: Dragon’s Savior – Ménage Erotic Fantasy (Dragon's Savior Book 2) (3 page)

Jacob could see that too. She looked…sunken, he supposed was a good word for it. Her lips were cracked and peeling, her cheeks were deep crevices in her face that make her appear to be nearer to death than he could bear, and she looked like she’d been wearing the same clothing for some time. Clean, but they were worn almost to nothing but a few threads in a lot of places. When she started shaking again, he looked at Zak.

“When they brought Essie here, Asher climbed into bed with her naked so she’d be warm. I’m not saying you should do that, but it might help keeping her warm when she’s shaking like she does.” Zak said he’d do that. “And a shower. I’m not sure what that might do for her, but she might feel a bit better cleaned up, and the warm water would make her warmer on the outside too. I know I would.”

She wasn’t just dirty, but muddy too. While in the cave, Jacob thought perhaps that the dirt had clung to her while she’d been fevering, and when she was chilled it had caked on her as well. He could see that her hair was thick with it, as well as her nails and feet. Poor thing was just covered in it.

The water turned on in the bathroom, and he looked at Zak. The boy had some powers that he didn’t brag about to anyone, and he was pretty sure that Jed had no idea what some of them were. Jed, he knew, had a few of his own, more than likely something from being with Zak all this time. Zak’s momma had given him a little extra, might even have given them all a little extra, and they knew what they were already. As Zak stood up and started to strip down, Jacob left him to his job. He reached for his son and told him what was going on.

You want her to die, then you go on ahead and keep pouting like you’re five or so. Not a man nearly three times the age of most trees.
Jed didn’t answer him
. Zak is here doing all he can for her, and you’re sitting out there with your thumb up your nose and acting like you been hurt. Well, what you gonna do, son, if she dies? Wonder for the rest of your life if she was the one and you flittered it all away?

I didn’t ask for this.
Jacob told him no, he’d not done that, but he had it all the same.
What if she hates me?

Right this minute, I don’t like you overly much either. And if you let her die because you’re too stupid and stubborn to get your butt in here and see to her, then I’ll never forgive you for this, Jedidiah. Sure as I’m standing here as your daddy, I won’t. There isn’t no reason for you to let her go just because you think you might not want her. How is that fair to that poor thing up there, I ask you?

He heard the door open downstairs and then the steps creaking. When Jed was standing in front of him, Jacob wanted to first hit him, then hug him hard. Jacob looked at his son and wondered what the hell had gotten into him to make him so stubborn. He didn’t get any of that from him. Jacob looked up at his second born and felt his heart twist up for all that the boy had gone through, and how much more he was going to have to endure.

“You did the right thing.” Jed nodded and looked at his bedroom door. “Go on in. I’m betting Zak is having a hard time getting her in the shower with him. It’s hard to hold onto an unconscious person, I’m betting.”

Jacob went down the stairs and out into the yard. He’d made his way to the graves several times over the last few weeks, and headed there now. It bothered him to see his own there, the dates so far gone that he didn’t even remember the weather back then. But his wife, his Sally, he did remember the day that she’d passed. With all his heart.

“Jed has him a mate now. I’m not sure how that one is gonna work out, but he’s got her. Her name is Lindsey. So I guess so if you got yourself any of the power you had when we were living, I’d like for you to use a little on her. She’s really ill and might die. Elbert seems to think she’s going to be fine with what they’re doing, but I don’t know.”

Jacob started pulling weeds off her grave and then looked over at his. Last time he was here, he’d put a blanket over it. He’d told them it was for him to sit on when he was visiting, but really it was to hide the thing. Shivering, he looked at his wife’s headstone that one of the boys had made for her.

“You remember them roses I got you one year? They’re in bloom again. Never seen a prettier flower than them yellow ones. I’ll bring you some the next time I come.” He thought he heard her, his Sally, and waited for her to say something more. “Can you come out now, love? I miss you something terrible. I know you can talk to me, but I wanna hold you a little now and then.”

I’m here, my Jacob.
His heart fluttered in his chest when she spoke.
I have been thinking on why I’m not free like you are. It might be the earth is holding me for someone to find.

“Who might that be? You tell me and I’ll go and get them and show them where you are.” Sally told him that she didn’t think it would work like that. “You know who it is? Maybe one of the girls?”

I do. One of the women of our sons, perhaps. Or maybe none of them. But when I ask the earth to release me, they say that I will have to wait on a powerful love to come and free me. And before you ask, it’s not you or the boys.
He nodded, knowing that would have been too easy.
Are you reading still, Jacob? I would very much like for you to bring a book with you sometimes and read to me again. You have such a lovely voice.

“I don’t have much time right now, but I do read the backs of some of them boxes of sugary breakfast stuff that Essie eats. Do you know what is in that stuff?” She told him that she didn’t even know what it was. “Flakes of corn, they say on the box. How the hell do you flake corn? And one of them has berries and nuts in it. Never seen a berry look like that before, except when it’s been a dry summer and they’re all dried up. But she loves it and I have a hard time not watching her enjoy it. You’d really like her, that one. Can make me smile the way she fusses on them boys of ours like they were her own. And she loves Asher too.”

Jacob was thinking about the other things that his Essie enjoyed when his Sally spoke again.
She comes to see me, did you know that? Once a week, she comes out here and just sits. She never speaks to me as you do, and I’m not sure I can talk to her, but it’s nice to have her so close and to see what her day has been. I really like her, Jacob, I truly do.

“I do too, honey. I surely do. You should talk to her a little. Might do you both some good to do that. If it don’t work, I think she’d still come to see you a bit.” Sally said that she’d think on it. “I got me one of them reader things I was telling you about a few days ago. Well, Gideon got me one. Had to show me three times how to load things on it. Been playing some games on it too. One of them is a matching game, like the card games we played with the boys when they was younger.”

If it’s a reader, Jacob, you should be reading. Games are for children, not for grown men that have difficulty reading a corn flake box.
He smiled at her tone, missing it even when she was reprimanding him for something.
You’re laughing at me, aren’t you? You know how much that makes my temper rise up.

“I remember that temper of yours. Nah, I’m missing you. Something powerful too. I’ll be glad when we can figure this here thing out, love. I want to hold you again.” He looked toward the house and the bedroom he knew to be Jed’s. “I sure hope Jed figures this out too. Gonna be in for a long haul if he don’t. And if’n she dies, there will be nothing left for him, I’m thinking.”

He will love her. Jedidiah is a good man. He’ll not leave her to be hurt and unloved.
Jacob hoped so. But he more hoped that she’d be all right.
And she will live as well. I know it.”

They were all good boys and better men than he’d ever dreamed they’d be. But this thing with Jed, it did worry him a mite, more than he wanted to admit even to his Sally. He leaned back on the ground and they talked for another hour. He missed her more and more every day, and decided that he’d be coming out more to talk to her. It made him feel like she was there with him instead of gone from him. Jacob loved his wife as much as he did their sons, and wanted her home too.

Having her die the way she’d done had never set well with him. One day she’d been putting up some beans for the long winter, and the next she’d been sick with a cold. And a week later, after it had settled up in her lungs, she’d been gone, his love, his heart gone with her. Jacob had sat with her for a week before he’d let them take her out and bury her. And he had a hard time, even now, knowing that she’d gone off without him. Sally and his children had been his entire life, and still were.

Chapter 3

Jed wasn’t sure how to hold her in his arms and not touch her. It was stupid, of course, but he wasn’t sure what she’d feel like if she woke up and a man who was only wearing a pair of jogging shorts was holding her. And he was hard as stone too. She was slippery, and they were having a hard time keeping her from falling to the stall floor.

“Hold her still. I don’t want to get shampoo in her eyes.” Jed glared at Zak. He’d told him the moment he came into the room that he was going to do the washing and Jed the holding. “Jed, have you never held a woman before? You act like you have no idea what to do with one, if you want my opinion.”

“I don’t, so keep it to yourself. And I have held onto one, but she’s usually holding onto me, too, when I’m…when we’re…just wash her damned hair.” If Zak laughed at him once more, he was going to shove her into his arms and leave him. “Why do you think she’s so small? I mean…we both can hold her with one hand.”

“I don’t think she’s been eating all that well.” Jed nodded. “And this wound has me worried too. The red streaks going up her leg can’t be good.”

“No. It’s a sign of blood poisoning. We’re going to have to try and get the poison out of her before it kills her.” Jed wasn’t really sure how to do that, but he did know that much. “Maybe I can, I don’t know, suck it out of her.”

Her breasts were plastered against his chest and the thought of sucking anything on her had him hurting again. She was thin and a little on the undernourished side, but she was most assuredly woman. And one he wanted to sample in the worst kind of way. He looked up at Zak when he didn’t answer him.

He was looking at her like he was starved. And while Jed might have been jealous of someone else looking at her that way, all he could feel for Zak was need. Not for him, but for the two of them to share this woman. Good Christ, this was not helping him at all.

“I’ve never been with a woman before.” Jed knew this, and they had talked about it before. Zak had never intruded on him making love to a woman, but he knew that he was there, watching them. “Do you think she’ll be able to take us both? I mean, enjoy us?”

“Yes.” Jed reached down to his cock and adjusted himself again. “Christ, we have to get this done. I’m ready to push her up against the wall and have her right now, I need her so much.”

Washing her body nearly took him to the floor. And watching Zak scrubbing her, the sponge going up and down her lovely body, had him nearly sobbing. When Zak rubbed his cheek over her ass and moaned, Jed turned off the water and pulled her out with him. Zak told him he wasn’t done just yet.

“Yes you are. You’re killing me.” He snarled at Zak when he asked him what he’d done. “You were touching her. Like sexually. I can’t…what the fuck? I hurt like I’ve never been with a woman before, and here you are moaning like…like…well, like you want her too. And knowing that you want her as much as I do is not helping me one bit.”

Jed took the towel from Zak and started to rub it over her. When she cried out, he realized how hard he was doing it and had to step back and take a breath. Never in all his life had a woman affected him like this one. And looking at Zak in the mirror, he could see that he was just as needy.

“We’re going to hurt her if we go at her this way. I mean, when we make love to her, we’re going to hurt her with our need.” Zak asked him what they could do. “I’m not sure. But this isn’t working. We have to figure something out.”

“Jacob said that we should get in bed with her to warm her up.”
Well, that wasn’t the least bit helpful
, Jed thought. “I’m thinking that it might be a bad idea…what do you think? I mean, the thought of her being naked with us…I just think that’s a bad idea.”

“We have to get her healthy, and if that means we have to lie with her, then we do. We’ll behave ourselves when we do.” Zak asked him if he thought they could do that. “I have no idea, but we’re going to do it.”

Wrapping her gently in the towel made him feel better. Putting her in the center of the bed, he realized how small it was and reached for Asher. Telling him what he needed and why was embarrassing, especially when Asher told him that closer was better. But as the bed stretched out for them, he tried his best to ignore the rest of his brother’s advice.

When she wakes, I will tell you it could go one of two ways. The first, it will be wonderful. The second…not so much. She might tear you to ribbons before you convince her that you’re her mate. And then it might be iffy. I’d say to bring her around with a climax.

Shut the fuck up.
Asher laughed harder.
You know, right now I could gladly kill you and go to the chair with a smile on my face. I really hate you that much. More I think.

And while you’re sitting there with the electric going through your body, you’ll have the biggest hard-on known to man.
Jed growled.
How is Zak doing? The two of you ready to pounce on the first thing that touches you?

Fuck off.
He closed the connection between them and crawled into the bed, but had to get up to take off his wet pants and was thoroughly mortified by his erection. Getting under the covers helped some, but when he pulled her body to him, he nearly cried. Zak crawled in on the other side and wrapped his body around her too.

At first all he could think about was how much he wanted her. Then, as he began to relax, his body warming up with her, he thought of how much he wanted her to be better. Her body was warm, really, and when she began to shiver, he moved so that her body faced his and Zak curled around her backside. The three of them were as tight together as any one person could be to another, he figured.

“She’ll be fine.” Jed nodded at Zak. “I have a feeling that when she wakes up, she’s going to tell us, without any problem, how much she appreciates us doing this for her. Don’t you think so?”

“Are you assuming that she’s going to be thrilled to find herself in bed with us?” Zak shook his head no and smiled. “Yeah, me either. If we’re lucky she’ll only hurt us and not unman us before we can…you know.”

“You mean she’ll try to harm us?” He sounded so shocked that Jed laughed. “I have no idea why, but I thought a woman would like to have two men in her bed.”

“Not when they’re strangers.” Zak said he had a point, and he closed his eyes. Jed tried the same, making his body forget about the warm naked female that was nearly atop him. So he tried to think of the castle and what it was going to look like when they got it finished.

The stone had been cut over a period of several years, they’d found out. Jed had, with the help of Zak and Asher, figured out where they had mined the stone. The quarry that they’d referenced it to was now overgrown with trees and other foliage, and Zak had found a couple of places where he thought his parents might have used their own heat to break some of the larger pieces free. The dark stain on the walls of the rock looked old, of course, but it was there for them to see and that was great. They also speculated that perhaps they had even brought the stone to the growing building when there was no one around, carrying it in their massive claws to set it in place. It would have been easy for them as opposed to bringing it in by horse and wagon.

The forest the furniture had been built from was also overgrown. But they could see where someone had planted the newer trees, some of them centuries old, in straight lines, and that they had been, for a time, taken care of. No one had been in that forest for decades, they’d figured, and if they had been there, it wasn’t to cut trees. Deer and other animals were present in the area, a great deal of them. It made him think of a protected forest he’d been in a very long time ago, and he wondered what had ever happened to it.

Over the next few days they were going to have the entire place excavated of the fallen stone. The two walls that remained upright were helping in the fact that they could see how they were stacked. It had surprised them all that most of the back of the castle at one time had been built into the stone of the mountain behind it. He would bet anything that it had kept the keep at a constant temperature no matter the time of year. And they, too, were going to utilize that as a part of their home.

The castle was going to be bigger than the one that had sat there all those years ago. Not that there were more people to live and work in it, but they’d all decided that they’d have it bigger for their families to use. Asher and Essie were going to live in it, of course, but it was as yet undecided if any of the rest of them wanted to live there. Not that they’d not be welcome, but Gideon and Onimia had expressed a desire to live in their own home should they ever find a mate. Jed wondered what he and Zak would do now.

Jed yawned, only just realizing that he’d done it several times now. When he felt his body drifting to a very relaxed state, he knew that sleep wasn’t far off. Jed was sort of nervous about falling asleep with her in his arms, knowing that she wasn’t going to be happy when she woke up. He could only hope that either he or Zak, or both, would wake before her to make sure that they were well away from her when she finally did rise. In theory, it was a solid plan.

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Lindsey felt warm. Too warm, actually, and she tried to move away from the heat even if only to cool off just a little. But then the front of her was warmed up by the rock that was there as well. She had no idea how the stones in the cave were this hot, but she might stay in here for the rest of her days just to bask in the warmth for a change. When she moved her hand to see if she could maybe shift over it, the rock moaned.

Opening one eye, she looked at the man lying on his back beside her. She was almost terrified to see what…or who…was behind her, but the man that she’d touched was looking at her now, and she opened her other eye. He had the most beautiful blue eyes, and his face looked like someone had sculpted it from the rock she’d been laying on. Or thought she’d been laying on.

“You’re all right?” When she nodded to the man he smiled at her, and Lindsey felt her heart skip a beat or two. “We were worried about you. The wound on your leg was badly infected. We had to clean it up, and then Zak had to burn it a little to make it well again.”

“Zak?” The body behind her moved, and she felt him rock into her bottom. Her body heated up, and she was sure it had nothing to do with the fever she’d had when she’d been in the cave. “I’m naked, aren’t I? As are you, I’m betting.”

“Yes. We’re all naked. We had to keep you warm. You had a high fever.” Nodding again, she felt sort of like a simpleton. “I’m Jed. Well, Jedidiah Benson, but only my mother called me that.”

“And she is…?” He told her that she’d died some time ago. “I’m sorry. But you are…and I’m really trying my best not to freak out here, but you two decided all on your own that being naked with me in a bed would help me get better?”

“No. My dad thought it was a way to bring the fever down. And it worked for my sister-in-law, Essie, when she was sick.” He shifted on the bed and his body was turned to hers now. His cock—she could feel it now—was right at her belly, and she wanted to move closer to it, and had to work very hard not to. “You’re doing very well. I was afraid that you’d hurt us.”

The man at her back moved his hand up from her waist to her breast. As soon as he cupped it in his hand, she felt her nipples pucker up and her breast tighten. When he tugged on her nipple, then rocked hard into her ass, Lindsey moaned. She had no idea what the man behind her looked like, but his hands were rough and big enough to cover her entire breast.

The bed shifted again, and she moaned when she was laid back. Her entire body felt hot when Jed moaned as the covers that were on them began their journey down her body. She didn’t even try to stop the blanket, but watched the face of the man who was moving it. And when Jed took her other breast into his mouth, Lindsey curled her fingers in his hair to pull him back, but instead held him to her. The other man took her other breast and she nearly came apart.

Their hands were everywhere, touching her in places just long enough for her body to get worked up before moving to someplace else to touch her. When the other man moved up on his elbow and smiled at her, his hands running from hip to hip, she wanted to ask him if he was going to do more than touch her when he just stared at her. Lindsey wanted to beg him to go back to her breast, suckle on it enough to give her some relief, but he kissed her mouth. His tongue, slick and very quick, knew every part of her mouth before he lifted his head and moved to her breast again. Jed turned her to him, and he kissed her while the stranger moved down her body to her navel.

“Zak wants to taste you. Eat your pussy and see if he can make you come. Would you like that?” Lindsey had no breath to tell him that was a good idea because Zak sucked on her navel before moving down between her legs. “I will as well, when he’s had his fill. I doubt we will ever be full of you, but he promised to share you. All right?”

“Yes. Please, I would like that very much.” Jed kissed her, her legs were spread apart, and she felt Zak’s breath on her heat. Her pussy soaking wet now, she tensed up for his touch. “I’m not sure that this is right. I’ve never…Christ, yes.”

Her climax took her breath away, and when Zak sucked on her clit, she rode his mouth until she came again. His tongue fucked her; his fingers spread her wider as he ate her, devoured her like she was a fine piece of beef. Jed was at her breasts, sucking on one and then the other before nibbling on the tip until she wanted to sob. When she came again, this time screaming out Zak’s name, she felt as if every part of her had been touched by them, inside and out. And it wasn’t enough. Not nearly enough to satisfy her. She didn’t think they were going to stop until she was dead, either. She wanted to touch them too, feel their cocks, even taste them if they’d let her. But when Jed lifted his head, she wanted to have him fuck her, his cock to fill her.