Lumberjack Weekend(Divine Creek Ranch 21)(71)

His dick wasn’t happy about it, but his heart enjoyed taking care of his woman as he lifted her from the bed so Lucas could pull back the blankets and top sheet, and then he laid her, still sound asleep, in the center of her bed. The crooked smile on Lucas’s face told him that he felt as sappy as Josh did. She made a slight purring sound and tucked her hands under her chin, cuddling down in the bedding. Gazing down at her, he couldn’t find the resolve to leave her alone.

He glanced up at Lucas and was sure his face mirrored Lucas’s smitten look. “Let’s stay for a little while. Watch over her.”

Lucas quickly nodded his agreement. “She might get sick. We need to be here to take care of her.”

Josh chuckled, noting his brother’s eagerness despite the unabated erection he sported. “I’ll go hunt down some aspirin or something for her head.”

“I’ll get her a big glass of water. I think her bed could hold both of us if we squeeze in tight and don’t move around too much.”

“We shouldn’t get too comfy,” Josh said as he followed him and stood in the door of the kitchen. “She didn’t invite us to stay the whole night.”

Lucas’s shoulders slumped, but he nodded. “She told me she was going to work in the morning, to get a jump start on the week.”

“Until we can talk everything out, when she’s sober, I don’t want to be presumptuous.” One night’s abstinence certainly wouldn’t change what he felt for her.

“You think we should leave now?”

Josh shook his head. He couldn’t do it. They’d had a crazy weekend and little time to process any of it. Part of him wondered if she would’ve told him she loved them if she’d been sober.

“We’ll stay for a while and make sure she’s okay,” Josh murmured as they returned to the bedroom after finding what they needed.

He tried to wake her up to get her to take the Tylenol and the water, but she’d fallen too deeply asleep and only muttered and drifted off again without opening her eyes.

The bed was a snug fit for three, but they made it work, slipping off their jeans and boots and stripping down to T-shirts and boxers before climbing in on either side of her.

Lucas balanced his chin in his palm while he stroked her back, smiling when she made a happy moaning sound. She wiggled her ass against Josh’s groin as she snuggled against Lucas’s chest, oblivious to how her movements inflamed his already stiff dick, and sighed in her sleep.

He didn’t doze off, vigilant about being gone well before sunrise. Violet moved a lot in her sleep and the night was long as she lay between them, soft and squirmy, making kittenish sounds that made him want to bury himself in her sweet softness and fuck her into dreamless oblivion. He settled for placing his hand on her hip and breathing in the scent of her hair while she slept, the tether between his heart and her growing stronger by the moment.



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“Boss lady, I’m gonna run to Cassie’s place and get some lunch. Do you want some coffee or a kolache? Pain killers, maybe?” Lizzy asked as she leaned against the doorjamb to Violet’s office, the concern obvious in her eyes. She’d coaxed Violet back to her office, to get her out of the bright sunlight filtering in through the windows at the front of the store when it was obvious it made her head worse.

Normally, Violet loved the sausage-stuffed pastries Cassie made by hand at Divine Drip, but that morning the thought turned her stomach. “Nothing to eat, but I’d love a cup of coffee. Hot, black, with lots of sugar.” She pulled a bill from her purse and slid it across her desk. “Thanks, Lizzy. How’s your arm?” she asked, watching as Lizzy absentmindedly stroked the bandage on her forearm, where she’d required a few stitches from the flying glass the day before.

“It’s fine, just a little sore. I talked to the billing department at the hospital, and they told me you’d already settled the emergency room bill. Thank you for that.”

“It was the least I could do. I’m grateful all you needed was a few stitches.”

Lizzy shrugged, steadfast as ever. “I haven’t seen Tex yet today.”

Violet snorted. “He’s still sleeping off his binge.”

Lizzy giggled and made a sympathetic sound for their irascible feline mascot. “There’s no one in the shop right now, so you can stay back here if you want. You could leave after I get back if you need to. This was supposed to be your weekend off,”

“I know, but I needed to contact the hospital and the insurance company and ask for the police report. All that’s taken care of, but I still have orders to handle. I’m expecting the Abbott brothers after your lunch, and I’ll probably leave then.”