Paying Their Piper with Passion and Love [Loving in Silver 6] (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour) by Lynn Stark Page B

won’t hurt anything. Besides, I owe Merck.”
    “What did he do?”
    “He and a couple of his buddies got up on stage at the Silver Edge and did an impromptu striptease. They were such a big hit with the members that I was pestered for weeks to have them to do it again.”
    “Hot, huh?”
    “That’s what Bambi told me,” Colt confirmed, grinning like the devil.
    Thinking of the hot cowboy on stage, lights flashing over his body, imaginary music throbbing through her body, Piper could feel her pussy heat up and the creamy juices begin to flow. Closing her eyes on a moan, she was in just the right mood when Colt leaned toward her and kissed her firmly on her parted lips.

Chapter Six
     
    Merck saw red. And if the growl at his side was any indication, Jace wasn’t any happier about Colt Redford sucking face with their woman. Bastard. The man was decidedly smug when he finally lifted his head and glanced in their direction. Fucking bastard. Merck’s gaze went to Piper, checking to see if her lips were still connected. She was staring at Colt with a startled expression on her beautiful face.
    “I do not want to ever see that again. We’re going to have to kill him.”
    “Yeah. It sounds like a plan to me.” Merck didn’t know what Colt was playing at, but whatever it was sure was pissing him off. He couldn’t remember the last time he had been this furious with anyone. And after the fantastic night he’d experienced with Jace, he had looked forward to seeing Piper and talking to her. But this? Not only had they been shut down once earlier in the day, they had to watch Colt treat their woman like she was some kind of fucking dessert? “We need to think of something to get some time alone with her.”
    Merck watched as the two took turns feeding each other. It made him want to puke.
    “He can’t stay with her every minute of the day and night,” Jace said reasonably, when all Merck wanted to do was rip Colt’s guts out.
    Well, maybe not rip them out, but he did want to punch the guy for putting his hands and mouth on what he considered his. It didn’t matter that Piper didn’t know yet that she belonged to him and to Jace. She would know soon enough. Then she wouldn’t have to worry about anyone loving on her but them.
    When they hadn’t been making love, Merck and Jace had held each other and talked. Then they had slept, woke to make love again, then talked some more. Actually, they had talked until sunlight had found its way through the narrow gaps between curtains and the windows. Jace wanted to know everything about Silver and the people who made it what it was. And Merck wanted to know everything about Jace and his past.
    Merck found it a wondrous that he and Jace had connected immediately. Not just in a physical sense, which was beyond fantastic, but on a level where he believed someone understood him and what he needed deep down inside. He let Jace inside his head and heart, hiding nothing, believing it was the only way he could build a relationship with the other man.
    It was a risk. But he would take it.
    They agreed on many things, the most important of which was they needed to get to know Piper Barrows and convince her that they were the men for her. They suspected they would have to prove themselves more with her than they would with any other woman. She had been through so much. Merck couldn’t believe that her father had treated her in the manner he had.
    Maybe it wasn’t physical abuse, but it had certainly been a kind of emotional abuse. And what was the excuse? Douglas Barrows wanted his daughter safe? Safe from what? He was keeping her from experiencing every aspect of life beyond basic existence.
    Jace told him Piper had been like a tiny, beautiful bird in a gilded cage. He told him about the formal dinners every night, where she was no more than a body in a chair. Father, mother, and daughter rarely interacted. Then there was the house her father had built for her. It wasn’t in some