Page 48 of Mountain Men’s Nanny

Being the joker was only useful when there was nothing to do, but in a crisis I felt helpless. Now they needed me, and I was going to get us there.

Brie stared ahead; she didn’t look over at me when I changed gears, and she bounced around when I hit bumps in the road. I caught Tobias out of the corner of my eye, his fingers wrapped around the grab handle and his jaw tight. For once, our mission was real. There was no playful competition, no room for coming out on top. It was just something that had to be done.

Lexi going missing and then turning up sick had shaken something loose in me. I always said I lived each day as if it were the last, carpe diem and all that, but I didn’t actually believe every day could be the last. There would always be a tomorrow. But Brie had taken a tumble down a hill. Anything could have happened to her. Then Lexi wandered off and fell somehow. She got sick. We didn’t have the medicine for her. ‘Normal’ could change in an instant and not always for the better.

The road wasn’t well lit, but up ahead I could see a tree trunk lying in the middle of the road. I swerved to avoid it. There was supposed to be enough room to do that. It wasn’t a risky maneuver, but for some reason, the truck leaned to the right. It might have been the sleet; I couldn’t be sure. I held on to the steering wheel and tried to keep us on the road, tried to keep us moving forward. But we were stuck halfway into a ditch. I stepped on the accelerator hard, trying to push forward. The truck whined, and I tried again.

Brie and Tobias turned to me wide-eyed and panicked. It was getting dark. We had left Lexi in the cabin with Gideon, desperate for the medicine we had to bring back with us, and now we were stuck.

“Damnit, Gunner!” Tobias shouted, slamming his palms on the dashboard. “Couldn’t you see that log? Were you distracted again?”

I was shocked. How could I not be? I thought we were all on the same page, all doing everything and anything we could to get Lexi that medicine.

“We didn’t hit the log. I saw it. I swerved, but the tire's caught on something. It could have happened to anyone,” I snapped. “And had you been driving, we wouldn’t have even made it this far.”

I saw the fire in Tobias’s eyes. I leaned across Brie and pulled my beacon out of the glove compartment. It had a signal that would let patrols in Salmon know we were in trouble and where we were. I switched it on and put it on the dashboard.

“You can’t get anything right, can you?” Tobias started again.

Before either of us could get going, Brie cut in.

“What the hell is wrong with the two of you? You’re really going to scratch at each other right now? Like we don’t have more important things on our minds,” Brie hissed.

Even our breathing became quiet. She was right, but more than that, she was fierce. Her gaze raked over both of us, her nose scrunched in disappointment. She was beautiful. So I kissed her. I didn’t think about it, or maybe I had been thinking about it for so long that every other thought was secondary. And now that my mind was black and shaken, it was all I could actually think about.

Brie pulled back. She wasn’t alarmed, she wasn’t angry anymore, but she did want answers.

“I’m so tired of pretending and playing it cool,“ I admitted. “I love you, Brie, and I can’t imagine a life where you’re not around anymore. If the last few days have taught me anything, it’s just how quickly and easily things change.” I didn’t know what to say after that. I had said everything, but still felt like I should say more, explain myself.

The car was quiet again for what felt like a full minute, but in reality was probably just a few seconds. Then Brie lunged forward and kissed me back, her fingers crossing behind my neck.

“I… I love you too,” she said, her voice trembling. “All three of you. I know it’s weird. It’s not how things are supposed to be, but since we are being honest, that’s my truth. I want you all in my life equally.”

It was quiet again. It wasn’t what everyone expected. It wasn’t anyone’s dream to be caught in some love quadrangle, but that’s where we were and there wasn’t another web I’d rather be caught in.

Tobias nodded his head slowly, looking at Brie, then past her at me. He held Brie’s hand tenderly and gently pulled her into a kiss. Soft, gentle, and instead of making me angry or jealous, it just felt right, not just for Tobias to kiss her, but for me to be there too.

We were stuck on a road everyone else knew better than to take at this hour, and it would be a while before the patrol came for us. I held Brie’s hand, and when she turned to me, I kissed her neck and unzipped her jacket. I slowly unwrapped the warm layers of her clothing and trailed kisses down to her breasts. I slowly freed them from her bra and took her nipple into my mouth, gently squeezing it between my teeth.

She turned her head to kiss Tobias, and his hands found her other breast. I could glimpse his hand kneading it while I unbuttoned Brie’s pants.

She undressed Tobias, her fingers moving quickly and skillfully over each button of his shirt before turning to unbutton mine.

I made more room for us in the tight confines of the car, lowering the back of Brie’s seat until it touched the back seat of the truck. I leaned over her and whispered in her ear, “Are you comfortable?”

She nodded, and I nipped at her earlobe.

I lowered my backrest until I was lying next to her with her hands unbuttoning my pants. Tobias pulled her pants off and quickly buried his head between her thighs, as if he had been craving her for too long and couldn’t hold back.

My dick pulsed, engorged and growing while Brie struggled to free it from my briefs.

She moaned, finally having it in her palm. She held it, clenching her grip as she moved up the length of my shaft from sack to tip. Her hands were surprisingly warm, still soft, smooth and determined to milk the pleasure from me.

Brie moved her hand up and down, collecting the moisture from my tip and using it to glide her hand over my cock. She moaned as Tobias pushed his fingers into her wetness.

Overwhelmed by her building orgasm, Brie loosened her grip on me. Her body tensed, shaking with desire as her mouth opened in an ‘O’ I couldn’t resist. I shifted up to the top of the seat and thrust my dick into her mouth. It pushed past her tight lips and into her warm, inviting mouth, rubbing against her tongue and pressing against the inside of her cheek. The soft, slick flesh pressed against the head of my cock and sent waves of pleasure coursing through my body. I thrust my hips forward again, fucking her mouth.

We’d taken over, and she loved every second of it.