her robe. “I want to take you right now more than I’ve ever wanted anything in the world,” he said softly. She inhaled sharply, the desire that had been growing inside her as she sat on the couch exploding to full life.
But before she could say or do anything, Spencer was gone. He closed the door gently behind him, leaving her alone.
“Oh, boy,” she whispered, then thought, well, make that, oh boys.
Chapter 2
It was so dark she couldn’t see six inches in front of her. She squinted, trying to make out a hint of light. She realized she was moving, and not just forwards—she was also being jostled up and down.
What was going on? Then she connected the sensation to something familiar that she had just experienced. She was riding a horse. But why was she alone in the dark?
Suddenly the darkness turned into blinding light. She had been riding the horse through a dark forest, and now it emerged into a pasture glowing with blinding sunlight. She recognized the horse, cream-colored and dappled with black. It was her old friend Oreo.
“Where are you taking me, Oreo?” she asked. The horse seemed to know something she didn’t.
In the distance, she saw the silhouettes of two men on black stallions. The sunlight was too bright to make them out. She felt a growing buzz of excitement as the horse made its steady way in their direction.
The horse covered the distance between them. Getting closer, she saw that Spencer and Nate were sitting astride the stallions, each dressed only in jeans and cowboy hats. Their muscles rippled as they held on to the reins, taking her in with calm, expectant expressions.
Nobody spoke as Oreo slowed to a gentle stop. Suddenly, she was no longer riding Oreo, but sandwiched between Spencer and Nate on one of the black stallions. She couldn’t tell if the horse was moving. She felt her body being rocked backwards and forwards between the two men. The sensation it produced inside her was unlike anything she had ever felt before. She felt pleasure in the tiniest crannies, delight oozing from each of her pores, excitement, arousal, and the purest feeling of happiness she had ever known.
“Jess,” she heard Nate murmur from in front of her. “Jess,” Spencer echoed from behind. The rocking grew more and more urgent, pulling her towards a pinnacle that was strange and unknown. Harder and harder, faster and faster they rocked her. A sound was building up in her throat…
She opened her eyes with a start. The sound that woke her up was issuing from her mouth, a gasping cry of need. For a moment she wasn’t sure where she was, half of her still riding a horse in a pasture between two strong men as pleasure and joy filled her being.
Then she realized that the bright sunlight that met her eyes was streaming into the bedroom of her cabin. Her heart was hammering. Wow. That was intense. She had yelled out loud from a dream—when had that ever happened before?—and a mighty strange dream at that. Her, Spencer, and Nate…strange as it was, it had also been beautiful.
She sat up and looked at the clock. 8 a.m. It was high time she get up, anyway. She felt a fleeting sense of disappointment that the dream had ended. In the reality she lived in, she remembered suddenly, she had a decision to make. There would be no sexy sunlit rides with two handsome cowboys: she had to choose between the two of them.
***
“Meet us by the stables if you want to know which one is able.”
So read the note that she’d found slipped under her door on her way out for breakfast. She’d stared at it for a while, trying to figure out what the cryptic message meant. Meet us , it said. That meant the two of them.
She forgot about breakfast. Mind and heart racing, she walked as quickly as she could to the stables. There she found Spencer and Nate, standing outside dressed in jeans, plaid shirts, and cowboy hats. They cut two equally handsome figures against the lush green grass of the pasture.
“Good morning,”
Matthew Woodring Stover; George Lucas