Divine Charity(Divine Creek Ranch 18)(113)

Once again, all of her friends started talking at the same time as Charity looked on. Beyond the table they were clustered around, her three men sat with their friends, mostly the respective spouses of the girls. Justin made eye contact with her and smiled before nudging Val and Ransome, who looked up and smiled when they realized she was watching them.

Justin signed “I Love You” to her and she felt her cheeks warm and her eyes mist over with tears. None of it really mattered as long as she had the men she loved, her kids, and the friends she cared about around her. Even so, she imagined it was going to turn out to be quite a party.

A gentle nudge caught her attention and she turned to find Lucy standing beside her, gazing over at her own men.

Lucy said, “Remember last year at the ROT Rally?”

“I will never, ever forget.” So many memories flashed to mind, some sweet, like seeing Jayne and Lucy come out of their shells in their sexy leather outfits, some tumultuous, like Lucy’s public confrontation and lusty reconciliation with Beck and Patrick, and some memories that were fiery-hot, like Charity’s late-night public exhibition with Justin.

Lucy smiled, evidently cataloguing her own memories, and then said, “You sent Val and Ransome to check on me and Jayne at Seth’s exhibit spot. They were walking us to the restroom and Val asked me a few questions about being in a committed ménage. I thought he was just curious in the general sense. He asked me if Patrick and Beck ever got jealous of each other and he wondered if I felt worn out by all of the baggage two men might bring to a relationship. He asked me if I thought all the changes, challenges, and strife I went through to be with them was worth it.”

“What did you tell him?”

“I told Val that they made it worth it. All of it. That was true then and it’s even truer today. In the course of that conversation, he mentioned that the two of them already had their hearts set on a woman. I was understandably curious but didn’t ask because it wasn’t any of my business and I had my distractions that day as well. But when I heard that you and Justin had added the two of them and formed a ménage…”

“Yeah?”

“It made perfect sense,” Lucy said, with a simple nod. “I wasn’t a bit surprised but I was very happy, for all four of you. You fit together perfectly. Oh, man. That didn’t sound the way I meant it to.”

Charity burst into laughter and hugged Lucy’s shoulders. “I know exactly what you meant and you’re right.”

Across the club, Ethan waved at her and gave her a thumbs-up from the DJ’s box. Charity excused herself and left the group to their planning and squeezed her way through the crowd to where her men were sitting, all their eyes on her, clad in her leather miniskirt and halter and tall boots. The bandage on her upper arm was a much smaller flesh-colored one and was barely noticeable now. Her wound had healed well and most days she didn’t even notice it unless she overused the muscle in her upper arm. Her men had been like mother hens, keeping her from doing that. She was really missing rear-entry sex and planned to do something about that soon.

She squeezed in between the three of them, returning their kisses as they crowded even closer to her.

“Anybody feel like dancing with me?”

“Me,” all three of them said at once, and then chuckled.

As the funky beat of “Locked Out Of Heaven” began to pump through the sound system, she said, “I was hoping you’d say that, gentlemen. Come with me.”

“Bruno Mars? In the Dancing Pony?” Val asked, as he clasped one of her hands.

Charity was already moving with the music, her arms rising over her head and her hips swaying as she strode forward confident all three were in her wake. “Of course. Ethan played it just for me. That okay with you?” she asked as she gently gripped Justin’s T-shirt collar and pulled him in for a light peck.

“As long as you’re rubbing up against me,” Justin said, “I don’t care what we dance to.”

“True,” Ransome said as she turned on the dance floor. Justin slid in behind her with his chest to her back and she began grinding with him. She grabbed Val by his belt buckle and pulled him close until he was chest to breast with her and his thigh slid between hers. She held him near while she reached out for Ransome and tempted him closer, until she was surrounded by her sweet, hot, sexy giants. She arched her back and pulled Ransome down by the collar of his button-down until his lips met hers and she wrapped her arm around his waist so his chest rubbed against her and she slid her fingertips into the waist of his jeans, enjoying the feel of his muscular ass flexing under her hand.