want to get together, but I think we can make do with one wedding between the three of us as a reasonable substitute. What do you think?"
"I... oh God! Yes! Whatever!" she gasped as Ed's finger slid inside her and his thumb settled fair and square on her clitoris. Not to be outdone, Denny nipped at her, bedeviling her nipple. Whatever she'd thought she was going to say dissolved as she climaxed hard.
Sometime considerable time later, happy and glowing sticky with semen, Laurie managed to think straight enough to remember.
"Unless I'm not mistaken," she said, glancing from one man to the other, as they lay on either side of her, each propped up on an elbow, "I think I heard some kind of a proposal in there before things got a bit crazy."
"Yes, I heard it too," remarked Ed with a grin, reaching to brush her hair out of her eyes, "How about you, bro?" He stared across as at Denny.
"You heard it. I meant it. And I know Ed concurs." He glanced at the darker man, even though Laurie felt his smile encompass them both. "I know it's a bit complicated, with three of us instead of the usual... um... configuration. But I think with a bit of finagling we could make it work, together."
The men seemed to wait, and Laurie understood the expression baited breath at last. Neither Ed nor Denny seemed to breathe until she finally gave her answer.
"I'd love to... but..." Happy tears started to form, and from either side of her, her men swept the moisture away tenderly from the corners of her eyes. "Well, the question is, which one of you do I marry? Please don't ask me to make a choice between you. You choose!"
"Well, I'd be thrilled to do the honors," said Ed with a soft smile, "But seeing as how Denny's rolling in money, and is quite likely to be a lord one of these days, I think he's probably the better candidate from the point of practicality, and finances, etcetera."
"Are you sure, man?" Touching first Laurie on the cheek and then Ed, Denny sounded awed, but happy.
"It makes sense." Ed leant over to kiss Denny, and then dropped a kiss on Laurie's brow.
"Well, if you're happy with that, sweet Laurie, I'd say it's more or less settled then," Denny murmured, before yawning hugely and reaching across to tousle first Ed's hair then Laurie's, "So let's get some sleep then... and tomorrow we'll go out for a slap up lunch somewhere to celebrate."
"Sounds great!" Ed snuggled up, draping his arm across the two of them while Denny nuzzled his face against Laurie's neck like a sleepy puppy.
"Sounds wonderful," sighed Laurie, eyes closing, already drifting blissfully.
Tomorrow a new adventure lay ahead of them -- love and challenge and a future to the power of three -- but for now she surrendered to sleep, between her men.
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Also from Portia Da Costa
THE EFFICIENCY EXPERT
an erotic short story
Still stinging from a stringent management review at her workplace, office girl Susie encounters the very last man she wants to meet when she hits her favorite bar to relax and unwind. Gorgeous Noah Stevens is the ruthless company troubleshooter who's been making her life hell for the past three weeks, but after hours, he soon proves that his dedication to "efficiency" can work wonders in the bedroom.
Excerpt
Oh no,
he's
here. The efficiency expert. He's in my favorite bar on my favorite stool, just when I thought we'd got rid of him.
I'm supposed to be here celebrating. The company's efficiency review is finally over, and I've kept my job by the skin of my teeth. I thought that hyena of a consultant or troubleshooter or whatever the hell he is would be long gone by now, and good riddance. But what do I find? He's still here and drinking in the very place where I'm about to toast his departure.
Noah Stevens, that self-same efficiency troubleshooter stroke corporate carnivore. The very monster everybody's so glad to see the back of, even if he is unbearably cute and sexy in his stern, almost machine-like sort of way.
He doesn't look stern
Carey Heywood
Boroughs Publishing Group
Jack Hodgins
Mike Evans
Mira Lyn Kelly
Trish Morey
Mignon G. Eberhart
Mary Eason
Alissa Callen
Chris Ryan