Claimed by Her Two Alphas by Sedona Venez

Author:Sedona Venez
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sedona Venez

Chapter 4

The sun was almost down by the time we reached my little campsite, if an abandoned tent and a lone pack could be called a campsite. It was much darker beneath the canopy of trees. The pines added a green bulk that seemed to soak up the last of the sunlight. We all had flashlights, and Colt and Jericho made a complete circle of the area. I stood in the middle, a little bemused. I’d never seen anyone do that before, except in rattlesnake country. But we didn’t have rattlesnakes here. I chalked it up to idiosyncratic camper superstitions.

“Nice tent. You want some help setting it up?” Colt dropped his pack beside the pile of nylon and fiberglass, picking up the pieces I’d left in a heap.

“Help yourself. It was what drove me down to the springs. I’d given up trying to puzzle it out.” I picked up my pack, ferreting out matches and my fire starter kit. “I’ll get the fire going—”

But Jericho already had a tiny flame cradled in a bunch of pine needles, and I watched as he tenderly set it among a pile of tinder, carefully feeding it small twigs, the flame growing quickly. He glanced up, catching my gaze, grinning at me over the flickering flames. “I got a merit badge in camping when I was a kid.”

“I see.” I dropped the stuff back into my pack. “Is there anything you guys can’t do?”

“Not if it involves living off the land.” Colt stepped away from the tent. It seemed it had materialized out of nowhere. “We’ve been roughing it in some way since we were kids. Both of us grew up near here, spent most of our time messing around in the woods.”

“Or getting into trouble.” Jericho added a larger branch to the fire. The flames licked around it, turning blue and yellow. He dropped to the ground, leaning his back against the log. He gave me an encouraging smile. Hell, he gave me a smile that could have lit a fire without matches.

I stood for a moment, debating where to sit. Suddenly, I was shy, as if I were on a blind date, not sitting around the fire with two guys I’d just had sex with in the hot springs. Two guys who certainly had an effect on me and my libido. I perched primly on the log.

“I’ll round up some more firewood.” I just caught a glimpse of Colt as he disappeared silently into the woods.

Jericho tugged his pack closer, pulling out a Thermos. After a minute, he handed me a metal cup. “Here. Brought enough for all of us.”

I took an experimental sniff, then a sip. Bourbon, I thought. Whatever it was, I was pretty sure it was the strongest thing I’d ever tasted.

Jericho stretched his legs toward the fire. We watched the flames for a minute. Somewhere in the woods, a night bird called, its mate answering. Then it went still, and the only sounds were that of the crackling fire.

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