smoothly all the time. If it did, she had really lucked out with her men.
It wasn’t long before she was fighting sleep. The men had long since started snoring. She grinned. They snored in unison. She didn’t know why she didn’t want to go to sleep, but she figured it was because she was afraid when she woke up it would have all been a dream. If she didn’t go to sleep, she wouldn’t wake up and find she’d made it all up.
Despite her resolve, Piper lost the battle and fell asleep.
Chapter Five
Piper woke up early the next morning. The men were still asleep. She didn’t want to wake them up, but she really needed the bathroom. She carefully scooted out from under Tripp’s arm and extracted her leg from beneath Keith’s. Finally, she made it to the foot of the bed without waking the men.
After taking care of everything in the bathroom, she grabbed some clothes and tiptoed down the stairs to the living room. It was a little chilly down there. She dressed and padded to the kitchen to make some coffee. She would hold off on breakfast until the men woke up. She could wait. There were meal bars if she needed something before they woke up.
As soon as the coffee was ready, she poured a cup and sat at the kitchen table and thought over what all needed to be done in the next few days. The guys had said they would take today off to get to know each other, but they had pretty much done that the night before. She actually felt herself blush by the heat that flowed up her neck and into her face. Why was she blushing for goodness’s sake? She wasn’t a shrinking violet by any means.
Still, despite being sexually progressive and having experimented in her few short years, Piper had never been with two men before at the same time. It had been an eye-opening experience to say the least. Two sets of mouths and hands were definitely better than one.
She hoped the men had really enjoyed themselves like they said. She wanted to be sure she took good care of them. She would start out by cooking them good meals and keeping the house clean. They would feel better after working all day if they were well fed and had a clean place to eat and relax.
If only she could figure out the garden. It really worried her. She needed to learn the difference between the weeds and the vegetables so she didn’t pull out the wrong thing. Maybe the first thing to do would be to see what the grass around here looked like. She finished her coffee and rinsed out her mug. Then she opened the back door and stepped outside.
Alpha was sure different. Between the colored trees and the two moons, she definitely knew she wasn’t on Earth any longer. She walked around and studied the grass. Surely she could tell the difference when the grass was a deep blue. She knew that the plants from Earth were all green. She felt marginally better and let out a breath.
I can handle the garden. I just have to have confidence and read over my books several times.
When she turned around to head back to the house, she caught movement out of the corner of her eye. She focused on the movement and was startled to see a dog-looking animal that seemed to be sneaking toward her. If it was one of the animals in the pamphlet they had been reading from, she knew it was dangerous.
Without taking her eyes off the advancing creature, Piper began to back up, hoping she was headed in the right direction. With each step she took, the doglike animal took two. She began to panic and considered running for the door. She remembered what she had been told a thousand times by her parents and brothers. Never run from an animal. It would chase you for sure. Running only excited them.
She took one more step backward and ran into an immovable wall. She stopped, holding her breath.
“Easy, Piper. It’s me. Don’t move. As long as you don’t move, he won’t move. Keith is getting the gun and will be here any minute.” Tripp squeezed her arms where he had placed his hands.
“It’s