Van, Becca - Double E Ranch [Slick Rock 2] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) Read Free

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    “We’d like to offer you the position of ranch hand. You’ve proved you’re more than capable of doing the job. You’ll be paid cash for today, as today is payday. You’ll be paid weekly just like the rest of the hands. I want you living on this ranch, just like the other hands do, but since we don’t have a separate bunkhouse for women, you’ll be staying in this house. We have a spare room you can use. You’ll get all meals supplied, as well as a roof over your head. We want you to sign a contract just like all the other hands have. The contract is for twelve months, but if we feel you have breached any of our rules, we can terminate your employment, effective immediately. You are not to date any of the ranch hands. We don’t want relationships causing any trouble between the hands. So now the decision is yours. Do you want the job, Felicity?” Tom asked.
    “Yes. Thank you. I do. There won’t be any dating, I don’t date. I don’t think it’s right that I live in your house, though. I don’t want to be seen as given preferential treatment just because I’m female,” Felicity asserted.
    “I don’t care what you want, little girl. There is no way in hell I’m putting you in the bunkhouse with those men. Think about the trouble having a woman amongst them would cause,” Tom replied.
    “Don’t they have separate rooms?” Felicity asked.
    “Yes, they do have their own rooms, but the shower is shared between them all. How would you like to have five big, horny men holding you down to have their way with you?” Tom almost spat out.
    Felicity paled as the image of five men raping her coalesced in her mind. It looked like she was staying in their house and not the bunkhouse, after all. “Okay. I’ll stay in your guest room. Thanks.”
    “I make the rules in this house and on this ranch. What I say goes. No arguing, you have to accept mine and Billy’s word as law. Do you have a problem with that?”
    “No. As long as your rules are fair and not discriminatory,” Felicity replied.
    “I don’t care whether you think my rules are discriminatory or not. My rules are to be adhered to at all times. The rules I set in place are for everyone living and working on this ranch. They are to keep you and everyone else safe. Do you understand?” Tom rapped out.
    “Yes.”
    “Will you obey my rules?”
    “Yes,” Felicity replied, her eyes on her feet.
    “Okay. Here is your contract of employment. Read it over and then sign it. You can leave it on this desk. When you’re done, come into the kitchen to find me. I’ll show you to your room. If you give your car keys to Billy, he can unload your stuff and park your car in the carport,” Tom stated then left the study.
    Felicity stared after Tom, nibbling on her lower lip, wondering if she was doing the right thing. She had nowhere else to go. She didn’t really have much of a choice. She picked up the pen on the desk and signed her name to the bottom of the contract. She looked up to see Billy standing in the doorway, eying her speculatively. She handed her car keys to Billy then headed toward the kitchen. She really needed a drink of water.

Chapter Two

    Felicity sat down for lunch with the ranch hands. Over the last couple of weeks, Felicity had gotten into a routine of helping out in the stables, feeding the horses, and cleaning out stalls. She was actually relieved to be staying in the ranch house guest bedroom, and she knew it would have been uncomfortable if she was sharing the bunkhouse with five other men. Tom and Billy had been courteous but distant toward her, except at mealtimes. Everyone would convene in the large kitchen dining room where the elderly housekeeper, Nanette, would have the meals ready for serving, and share the food. The noise of seven men chatting at every meal could be quite loud and rambunctious.
    Felicity was still trying to come to terms with the fact “the guest bedroom” was indeed the master bedroom of the