Their Divine Doctor(Divine Creek Ranch 9)(64)
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Christmas night…
Gage rolled his eyes at Emma as she hid her laughter behind her hand. Emma’s father did his best to keep a straight face as he explained again to Emma’s partially deaf grandmother. “Duke is Emma’s boyfriend and Gage is Duke’s cousin.”
The sweet, but opinionated, gray-haired lady said, “Why in the hell is his cousin traveling with them to Timbuktu? Doesn’t he know they want to be alone?”
Desiree, Emma’s little sister, looked ready to choke on her candied yams as they all sat talking at the dinner table on Christmas night. “Grandma, it’s not every day you have the chance to see the northern lights. Maybe they wanted him to come.”
Emma made eye contact with Gage and splurted her iced tea as some went up her nose. “Oh! Ouch! I’m so sorry. Oh my goodness!” She held a napkin to her face. Emma’s sister proved that a perverted sense of humor ran in the Guthrie family when she kept letting little innuendos like that slip.
Gage laughed, marveling that Emma could turn that deep of a shade of crimson. Her eyes were watering, and he couldn’t tell if she was laughing or crying. Sitting beside her, playing the part of adoring boyfriend, Duke patted her back and offered her his napkin as well.
They’d had a choice to make. In deference to her extended family, they’d needed to determine who got to play Emma’s boyfriend. The choice had been made after a bottle of wine had been consumed, and they played spin the bottle.
Duke had won the honors, and Gage got to play the sexy, unexplained cousin at all the gatherings who got hit on by all the single women in the family. Emma had a large extended family and several single female cousins, as well as one gay male cousin, and all of them had been checking him out the night before, on Christmas Eve.
Emma made it up to him when he snuck into her bedroom with Duke later that night. Emma’s parents had set Duke and Gage up in the guest room and, with equanimity, told them that as long as they didn’t know or hear who went where, they didn’t care, just as long as Emma was happy.
Diffusing the moment, Emma’s mother, Roberta Guthrie, said, “We’re just so glad that they could all come. Gage is considered a part of the family, too.”
Gage smiled at the secret sincerity in her words. Despite the unorthodox nature of their relationship, Emma’s parents accepted Duke and Gage both equally. Aunt Mary and Uncle Joe were his mom and dad, but it was an unexpected bonus that he was accepted by Emma’s family, too. Neither he nor Duke had allowed themselves to believe that would happen when they pursued Emma.
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New Year’s Eve, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada…
Emma reached out to Duke and Gage as she stepped into the hot tub located right outside their sliding glass door. She quivered with delight as the frigid breeze blowing over her bare skin was replaced by the languid heat of the water. She sank to her neck in the frothing water, and they settled on either side of her. Duke reached for the switch and turned off the lights on the deck. Emma had debated about leaving her glasses on the vanity inside their room but was glad she’d left them on now.
Tilting her head back, she looked up at the sky, and her heart was filled with wonder. “Oh, would you look at that.”
Shimmering, swirling shades of green danced in slow, undulating motion across the night sky. They were far away from city lights and the weather was clear enough that their view of the aurora borealis was nothing short of magnificent.
Emma let her breath out slowly and allowed herself to relax in their arms and take in the shimmering, scrolling curtains of light. At times, she was sure she could reach out and touch them as they swept by. At other times, she thought she could somehow see the very darkness that seemed to move independently of the shimmering skirts of light. It was an entrancing display, and she felt hypnotized by it.
She smiled when she saw the lights shining on the faces of her sweet, handsome men. They gazed at her like there was nothing else in the world they wanted to look at, and she temporarily forgot about one of the natural wonders of the world as the wonder she experienced in their arms superseded it.
“I love you,” she whispered as she looked from one to the other. “I’m so happy when I’m with you.”
Duke pulled her into his lap so she faced him, straddling his thighs. Tenderly, he kissed the healed incision over her breastbone. The position made her feel opened and vulnerable to him, and her pussy swelled and tingled with the need to be taken. She gasped when he held her to him and slid his back up the side of the tub until he sat perched on the edge, the water cascading down their limbs. His cock was pressed against her mound, and her body felt superheated in the cold air. She braced one knee on the decking around the hot tub and groaned softly as he slid his cock in one swift, hot stroke deep into her pussy.