Two Wanted Men [Badlands 2] (Siren Publishing Menage Amour) by Elle Saint James Read Free Book Online Page A

with dark hair and wide blue eyes, she was perfect.
    “We should ask her to come with us.” Luke knew it was a blatantly shocking thing to say given their particular past with sharing a woman, but he meant it from the depths of his soul. Miranda Herrington, the doctor’s daughter, was ideal for them.
    “I agree. We should definitely ask, but don’t get your hopes up. She may not want to leave her home. She may not want to move into the ‘uncivilized west’, either.”
    Luke pushed out a long sigh. Reese was right. They’d already gone through this once before when they’d left their hometowns back east. Serving as lawmen in two small towns close by for the past twelve years had forged their friendship. Leaving behind the woman they’d shared for the better part of last year had been difficult.
    Eileen hadn’t wanted to travel to the Badlands of South Dakota in the first place, however she’d promised to try living with them out there for a year. She had already served as secret lover to each of them for six months prior to them finding out about each other by accident. It had been a surprise to learn he wasn’t the only man in her affections, but she told them she wouldn’t choose.
    Luke had so much respect for Reese, he planned to bow out and let Reese continue his relationship with her. However, Reese suggested they simply continue to share her as the best solution. Two months later, and after showing up on the same night at her request, they’d spent another several months sharing Eileen at the same time.
    Not surprisingly, Luke and Reese hadn’t been jealous once they’d found out. It had been a relief to Luke since he and Reese had been talking about going out west for years once they got tired of being shot at. Luke wanted to ask her to go, but didn’t want it to be awkward for Reese to be without a woman.
    Once they were both sharing her bed, it seemed perfect that she’d go with them and forge a life on the land they’d already purchased. Two hundred acres of partially wooded land waited for them to farm or ranch, or whatever they decided to do.
    A month before they’d packed up to leave, Eileen had sent a note to each of them declining to go and favoring a different lifestyle altogether. Instead of settling down with them, she moved into a local whorehouse to share many more men than just the two of them and get paid to boot.
    Luke and Reese had gone to visit her before they left to make sure the note hadn’t been a joke. With an arm around the necks of two drunken townsmen, who spent the whole time pawing at her breasts, Eileen informed them heartlessly that she didn’t want to move out to the “uncivilized west” for only two men.
    While they stood centered in the parlor’s garish red décor of her new address, Luke and Reese learned that Eileen hadn’t been exclusive to just the two of them after all. A hard lesson ultimately, but better to find out before they left with her than afterwards.
    “Maybe it would be different with Miranda. Maybe the two of us would be enough to keep her happy.” Luke brushed a dark lock of her hair away from her hairline to reveal the hidden side of her beautiful face.
    Reese stared down at her with a rare soft expression. “Undoubtedly. But like I said before, don’t get your hopes up.”
    “She’s not Eileen.”
    “No. She’s better. And she doesn’t deserve undue pressure.”
    Luke nodded. Reese was right. “We’ll ask, but if she says no, then I won’t bring it up again.”
    Reese nodded and sent his gaze to the beautiful woman beneath him.
    She sighed in her sleep and Luke’s heart melted a little bit more. It was the first time in a long time that he seriously considered the extreme pleasure of them sharing a woman again. And this time would be so much better.

Chapter Five

    Miranda stirred awake from a deep slumber unable to move her arms and legs. Panicked a little at being trapped, she woke enough to realize that she was sandwiched