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I walked across the yard, my path lit by the full moon that was shining down on me. I felt the same surge of nerves and excitement that I’d felt before, the last time I’d made this same trip from my bedroom to the bunkhouse in the middle of the night.
This time was for different reasons, though.
I still didn’t know what to expect. I was still more than a little surprised that Cade and Boone had come back at all, even after they’d promised they would. And I still didn’t know what that meant forus—for the three of us.
But I was about to find out.
“Hey, beautiful,” Cade said, his bright smile gleaming in the moonlight as he met me at the bunkhouse door and ushered me inside. “I was wondering if you’d forgotten about us.”
“You know I didn’t,” I said, giving him a quick kiss as he pulled me close. “I just had to wait for my uncle to go to bed before I could come out here. Were you guys sleeping?”
“Not at all,” Boone said, emerging from the other side of the room to give me his own quick hug and kiss. “There’s no way we could go to sleep without talking to you first.”
I felt a little sense of relief at his words. Not because I didn’t want both of them to get some rest—God, they’d already been through so much in the past twelve hours—but because just knowing that they’d wanted to stay up for me meant they thought this was an important conversation to have, right?
I was going to take it as a good sign, anyway.
“I shouldn’t have run off before,” I said, still feeling more than a little guilty about the way things had ended the last time we’d all been out here together. “I was just… I heard what you said and I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know how to handle it.”
“You don’t need to apologize for anything,” Boone said. “I’msorry you had to hear it like that. And I’m sorry I was such an idiot. I was scared and I didn’t know how to handle it, either. So, I guess we had that in common.”
I laughed in spite of the tears I could feel welling up in my eyes. I thought I’d already cried more that day than was humanly possible, but my body seemed ready with more waterworks on standby.
“That’s not a great thing for us to have in common,” I said. “But I guess I’ll take it.”
Cade snickered but didn’t interrupt as Boone continued. “Well, to be honest, we don’t have it in common anymore. I didn’t know how to handle itthen, but I know exactly what I need to donow.”
He walked me over to the bed and waited while I sat down, then they sat on either side of me. It felt a little surreal—maybe because the last time we’d all been together on this bed, it had been under very different circumstances. And even though I still didn’t know exactly what Boone was going to say or do, he was being so slow and deliberate that I knew it was important. This was a big deal for him.
“Going and dealing with that fire made me realize something,” Boone said. “I realized that I haven’t been really living my life these past few years. I’ve been going through the motions. I’ve been too scared to let myself experience any feelings at all, scared that God might decide any minute to take it all away from me again.” He paused and shook his head, his eyes suspiciously bright with emotion. “But I realized tonight, after I thought I’d lost you and when I thought we were going to lose everything on the ranch, too… I realized that I couldn’t be afraid of love anymore. Somehow, I’d let myself miss out on love and hadstilllost it all. And fuck that, you know? If I’m going to risk losing everything anyway, I want to at least be able to say that I’velivedmy life—that I’ve loved… that I’ve lovedyou, Janessa.”
He’d been talking so fast and his words had been so heartfelt that it took a moment for my brain to catch up. God, he’d had me crying from the beginning, but when I finally understood exactly what he was saying?
I threw my arms around him and hugged him tighter than I’d ever hugged anyone before. “Are you saying…” I was almost scared to let the words come out of my mouth. “That you… love me?”
“Yes,” he answered without hesitating. “I love you. I’vebeenin love with you. I’ve just been too scared and too stupid to admit it.”
“We both love you,” Cade added, putting his big arms around both of us. “And we hope you’ll give us a chance to prove it. We want to be with you, beautiful, if you’ll let us. If you’ll forgive us both for the way we handled things earlier.”
“Of course I forgive you,” I said, smiling as I dashed at my tears. “There’s nothing to forgive. I love you both so much.”
I turned from Boone and kissed Cade, loving the way he instantly pulled me closer. And then I felt Boone’s hands sliding up the back of my shirt, caressing me, wanting me…lovingme.
Without another word, I shrugged out of my shirt and bra, then raised my hips so Boone could help me out of the loose pants I’d thrown on.
I shivered with anticipation as I watched them both get undressed next to me. “Lie back, beautiful,” Cade whispered. “Are you cold?”
“No,” I said, shivering again as his hands moved up my inner thighs. “I’m just… I need you both so bad.”
“We’re here,” Boone said, his thick cock right next to me, so close that I couldn’t stop myself from reaching out and stroking it. “We’re not going anywhere.”
He’d said those words before, but it felt different this time. With the promise of love—the promise offorever—between us, everything felt new and different and so much more meaningful than before.
“I want you both to stay here with me,” I said. “Here on the ranch. I don’t want you to leave.”
“We’ll stay,” Cade said. “Don’t worry about that tonight, sexy. Let us make you feel good right now. Let us make up for everything else that happened today.”
I wanted to tell him again that there was nothing to apologize for, nothing to forgive, but then I felt his cock parting my slick folds and I completely forgot about everything else. Everything except for these two gorgeous men who loved me.
