Please Save Me (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) (2 page)

Selina continued to nibble on her lip warily until they left the reception office and went to their own shared office to work. She let her body relax for the first time that morning and sighed. She had a lot of work to do and pushed her worries to the back of her mind. There was nothing she could do about her past at the moment, so she concentrated on the job at hand. Five minutes later she was lost in her tasks.

* * * *

“She’s such a sexy little thing. I wanted to pull her into my arms and soothe that lip she keeps nibbling on,” Gary said quietly as he closed the door to the office he shared with Steve.

“She makes me so hot and hard, I ache,” Steve stated in a deep rumble.

Gary watched as his friend and lover stalked toward him with a predatory grace. He and Steve had been friends since college and had become partners in every sense of the word just after they had completed their education. They had been together for years and had started up their own construction company. They completed each other like no one else could, but lately they had both been restless, and Gary had figured out they needed a woman in their relationship to soften the hard edges of their dominant personalities.

Ever since Selina had walked through their door asking about employment, Gary had tossed the idea around in his head of asking her to join their relationship permanently. He had discussed the idea with Steve, and since they were so in accordance with each other, he had known even from the look on his lover’s face that he wanted the same thing. Steve had said that he thought Selina was the perfect feminine counterpart to join their relationship.

Gary groaned as Steve’s lips met his. He grasped his friend’s hips and pulled his body in close to Steve’s. The hard ridges of their cocks ground together as their mouths ate at each other. He sucked on Steve’s tongue and bit down gently on his lower lip. Their breaths mingled, and he moved one of his hands down to Steve’s crotch. He gripped the head of his lover’s cock over the denim of his jeans and massaged his hand up and down his hard shaft, tantalizing and caressing him.

Steve pulled away when there was a tentative knock on the door. They glanced at each other’s hard dicks bulging in their pants and shared a wry smile. Gary moved to sit at his desk, and Steve followed suit, sitting behind his own. When he knew prying eyes wouldn’t be able to see the state of their bodies, Gary called out, “Come in, Selina.”

“Sorry to disturb you, but Josh called and said there is a problem on the Bartholomew project. He wants you to call him back.”

“Thanks, baby. I’m on it,” Gary replied, reaching for the phone. He hesitated when he saw the confused look on her face. “What is it?”

She didn’t answer, just shook her head and then left without another backward glance.

“Fuck. I don’t know how much longer I can be around her without making a move. She has me so tied up in knots I can’t concentrate on anything,” Gary groaned.

“Yeah, me, too,” Steve replied. “She is such a sexy little thing. I love it when she wears that long brown hair down her back. I want to stare into her eyes until they become glazed with desire. Have you ever seen such eyes before?”

“No. I didn’t even know it was possible to have different-colored eyes. One is so green it looks like a deep pool of water, and the other is half green and half brown. I could just drown in her depths,” Gary rasped out.

“And man, does she have a body made for loving. For such a small package, she has curves in all the right places. I want to strip her naked and run my hands up and down all her dips and curves. I want to know what color her nipples are and whether her pussy is bare or not. I want to see what color her eyes turn when she is aroused. She is such a sweet thing. She never seems to lose her temper, and she handles the customers with quiet efficiency.” Steve’s voice was deep with arousal.

“Shit, man. You have to stop, or I’m gonna come in my pants.” Gary adjusted his hard, aching cock. He took a deep breath and reached for his cell phone. He dialed Josh to find out what the problem was.

“Hey, Josh, what’s up?” Gary asked. “What? Shit, that delivery was supposed to be made yesterday. I’ll get Selina on it. You can bet your ass you’ll have that stuff before the day is out…Yes, she’s that good. Call if you have any other problems.”

“Selina,” Gary called as he walked out to the reception area. “The roof supplies haven’t turned up on the Bartholomew site. Can you get them to deliver today?”

“Sure,” she replied, immediately reaching for the phone.

Gary turned back to the office, knowing he could leave the dilemma to be sorted out by Selina. She was so good at getting what was needed, and not once did she ever ruffle any feathers. He admired her polite tenacity and was glad she was employed by them. Now all they had to do was to try and woo her into a relationship with him and Steve. He somehow knew that wasn’t going to be an easy feat. He sighed as he and Steve headed out to the house site they were working on, waving to Selina as they passed.

Selina had worked hard all week, and by the time Friday afternoon rocked around, she was exhausted. Gary and Steve had spent most of the week out on work sites, so Selina closed up the office herself before she made for the exit.

As she was finishing up her work that afternoon, she had smiled over Steve and Gary’s determination to take her out for a meal as their thanks to her. One or the other had asked her every afternoon to have dinner with them, but she had politely refused. Not that she didn’t want to have dinner with them, because she did. She just wasn’t willing to spend more time in their presence than necessary. She was afraid they would be able to determine she liked them way more than she should.

She walked through the door and turned to lock it behind her. Just as she put the key in the slot she heard a car backfire.

“Selina, get down,” Gary yelled, and she looked up to see him barreling fast at her.

She shrank back at the furious look on Gary’s face as he sprinted toward her. Something whistled near her ear, and then glass shattered around her. Her heart began to pound in her chest, and then she was flying through the air.

She landed on the pavement with an “oomph,” and Gary’s body landed on top of her, covering her completely. The breath left her lungs with a whoosh, and pain radiated in her chest and torso. She could hear Gary’s voice in her ear, but his words seemed to be unintelligible. She was glad when Gary moved his big body from hers and she could finally gasp in much-needed air. Her hearing seemed to come back with the oxygen, and she could hear Gary asking her over and over again if she was all right.

“Selina, are you okay? Where are you hurt?”

She continued to take deep breaths until she could almost breathe normally again. Only when she didn’t have to think about how to breathe did she realize that Gary was running his hands up and down her arms and legs and over her torso.

“I’m fine,” she stated in a shaky voice.

“Are you sure, baby? You didn’t get hit?” he asked with concern.

“By what?” she asked with confusion as she tried to stand.

“Stay where you are, Selina. I want to make sure you haven’t got any injuries before you move,” he said quietly, still squatting on the ground next to her. “Someone fired a gun, baby.”

Selina felt all the blood in her head drain away. She was sitting on hard concrete with strangers milling around to see what had happened, and she felt like she was about to pass out. Her vision dimmed, and she felt herself sway. Strong, warm, muscular arms wrapped around her and scooped her up off the ground. She clutched the only thing familiar in a world gone crazy and buried her face against Gary’s neck. She was gripping him tightly and didn’t think she would be able to let go.

“Fuck, what the hell is going on?” Steve roared.

“Unlock the office door, Steve. We need to get Selina inside. She’s going into shock.”

Selina felt her whole body begin to tremble, and cold traversed her body right down to her bones. Her teeth began to chatter, and even though she was clinging to Gray really tightly, her limbs felt so weak they were like Jell-O.

“Why would anyone want to shoot you, Selina?” Steve asked.

She really wanted to answer him but was so overcome with fear and she guessed, as Gary had said, “shock” that she couldn’t get her mouth to work with her brain. Gary carried her into his office and sat down with her on his lap. He wrapped his arms around her, gently rocking and crooning to help calm her down.

“Shh, it’s all right, baby. You’re safe. The police are on their way. We won’t let anyone hurt you.”

Selina listened to the sound of his deep, soothing voice, and slowly her body began to quiet. Her teeth stopped chattering, and the shaking diminished to intermittent shudders. Finally she slumped against his chest, her eyes closed, and breathed in his familiar masculine scent with the underlying fragrance of pine. Her eyes snapped open to meet Steve’s concerned blue eyes when she felt warm hands rubbing soothingly on her lower thighs. He was on eye level with her since he was squatting down in front of her.

“Are you okay, sugar? Did you get hurt when you hit the ground?”

“I—I don’t know. I think I’m all right,” she answered in a shaky voice.

She watched as Steve took her hands into his own and gently turned them over to inspect them closely. She looked down, confused when she noticed that her palms were dirty and grazed, blood seeping from her torn flesh. Once she saw that she was indeed hurt, if only mildly, her grazes as well as her aches and pains seemed to make themselves known. Her ass and left hip were throbbing from where she had hit the ground, and her ribs felt achy where Gary had landed against her as he tried to protect her. She knew he hadn’t meant to hurt her, therefore she wasn’t about to tell Steve. She didn’t want Gary to feel guilty.

She heard the police sirens stop outside the office and pushed up off Gary’s lap, forcing Steve to stand and back up a few steps to give her room. She couldn’t quite contain a wince of pain as her aching muscles and burning hands protested her movement, but she quickly smoothed her face into an expressionless mask.

“Later we’ll talk about who might want to shoot you, sugar, and when you answer, you’d better tell the truth.” Steve pinned her with his cool, blue-eyed stare.

Selina watched him warily until he turned away from her and headed out into the reception area to greet the police. She heard Gary move behind her and looked over her shoulder and up into his cool green eyes.

“I’m glad you’re all right, baby, but we will talk after we have dealt with the police. Come on out to the reception area.” Taking her by the elbow, he guided her out of the office.

She was nervous about dealing with the police. She’d had to deal with law enforcement back in her hometown only a couple of months ago, and things hadn’t gone as they should have. She hoped that this time would be a lot better and that Gary and Steven wouldn’t look at her differently when she told her story to the cops. She knew she was going to have to explain everything to the officers, and she wasn’t looking forward to seeing the reaction of her two bosses. She prayed they wouldn’t look at her with pity or decide she was going to be too much trouble to keep in their employ.

Steve followed her and Gary as they stepped into the reception area. He walked over to her and placed his arm around her shoulders, steering her toward the sofa positioned alongside the far wall. He helped to seat her in the center and sat down to her right while Gary took the seat to her left. She could feel their body heat, and even though she was still feeling achy, her pussy decided it liked the sensation. Her cunt clenched and released, leaking her juices onto her panties and leaving them wet and slippery. She gripped her hands together and then winced as her injured palms burned.

“Selina, this is Detective Crispin Slater and his partner, Russ Lyon. This is our personal assistant, Selina Bauer,” Steve said.

“Hi, Selina,” Crispin greeted. “I have a few questions I need you to answer. Are you up to giving your statement?”

“Yes,” she replied, looking at the two handsome detectives and wondering why she didn’t feel aroused by them, too. Then she realized she didn’t know the two officers like she did her bosses and wondered if that was one of the reasons her employers got her libido fired up all the time. She liked them very much, but not just because they were tall, handsome, and muscular. She liked their personalities as well.

Steve was much more arrogant, dominant, and demanding than Gary was. Gary could be just as assertive as Steve when he thought it was necessary, but he was also more lighthearted and quicker to smile than Steve. They seemed to complement each other when they weren’t arguing or hashing out their differences. It was as if they were two intrinsic parts of a machine working together to create a perfect whole.

“Selina, tell me what happened this afternoon,” Crispin implored quietly.

Selina went back over the events of the shooting, telling the detective in a soft, quavering voice what had happened. She took a deep breath when she felt two hands rubbing up and down her back with soothing motions. When she was done, she sank back into the sofa and sighed, trying to steel herself to be calm for what she knew was coming.

“Selina, do you have any reason to believe someone would want to harm you?” Russ asked.