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WHEN IT RAINS
Illiandyanndra Illiandyanndra@yahoo.comStephanie Plum
Pairings: Stephanie/Ranger & Merry Men(Core Team)
Rating: Eventually NC-17
Spoilers: Anything & everything up through Sizzling Sixteen is fair game…I can never remember what book what stuff happens in.
Disclaimer: Not mine Stephanie and her world belong to Janet Evanovich, which if you are reading the fanfiction…you probably already knew.
^^Thoughts^^ ^Spoken Aloud Thoughts^ “Speech”AN: I have made an Executive Decision. No longer will I force you to read long sections of poorly translated Spanish…from now on if it is spoken by Hector, it will be italicized, and you can automatically assume that it is in Spanish. Google Translate will greatly thank me for this decision, since now they can go back to helping high schoolers pass their foreign language classes (Why was there no Google Translate when I was in High School)… Anyway thanks so much to all the Reviewers, esp. Margaret Fowler & RangerKate.
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CHAPTER 8 “Estefania, is a dirty girl. I walked in to find her covered in cum. She was quite tasty. But I wonder…Lester do you have anything left…can we give our girl a show?” Hector said with a wicked smile.Stephanie PoV
Lester looked over at me with a huge smile on his face. “What do you think about that Beautiful? Would you like to watch Hector blow me, or maybe you’d like to watch me fuck his tight little ass?” I was blushing to beat the band, but I was so aroused, you’d never guess that I’d had over twenty orgasms since my shower. “God Yes. Please?” I’m not even sure what I was asking but before I could think about which I wanted to see most I found myself saying, begging, “both.” “You can have what you want Estefania, but only if you ask for it.” Hector said with Lester translating for him. “I want to watch as your lovers react to hearing you say naughty dirty things.” “Our Lovers Hector. They love you, even those who aren’t sexually drawn to you…we all belong to each other. That’s the only possible way for this to work.” I said with a smile that touched each and every one of my JLS, and in that moment I realized that I was telling the truth. Even if only a few of them were comfortable with Hector sexually, they all still loved him in their own way, and really isn’t that how we each loved. “Our Lovers, Estefania,” Hector agreed. “But you still have not told us want it is you want? The words, Little Bomber Girl, and be as descriptive as possible…or you get no show.” I pressed my fingers to hot cheeks, and sighed. Ranger and Tank had finished stripping off their clothes, and Tank gently lifted me from the bed before settling himself and sitting my on his lap with his erection pressed against me down there. If I could have hunched forward just a bit, but neither my ribs, nor my boys were willing to let that happen. Tank and I were sitting against the headboard, so Ranger laid alongside us, his head resting on my thigh. I think he was doing it on purpose. If he tilted his head a bit his breath would have blown across Tank’s cock and just the image of that in my minds’ eye sent me babbling. “I want to watch Lester kiss you, Hector. I want to watch you seduce him with your mouth and tongue. I want to watch you take his cock into your mouth and play with his balls. I want to see you drive him to the depths and heights of passion before you let him lay down and you impale yourself on his cock. I want to watch you ride, Lester’s cock, while you jerk yourself off. I want to see you cum…I want to watch Lester cum up your ass. I want to see it all.” I breathed. I was so wet I was dripping around the base of Tank’s shaft.Hector PoV
Hal told me what our girl wanted to see, and I was more than willing to oblige. But the truth of the matter is that she was asking for more than what Lester and I have ever done together before. She wasn’t asking for a stress relief fucking...she was asking us to make love to one another. “Are you ok with what she asks? I know you tend to prefer it rougher and anonymous…so you can pretend it is just another ass.” “Yes, my friend, I’m fine. There is nothing I wouldn’t do for her. Besides, it’s not like I haven’t had you before.” Lester said reasonably. Straight men never understood the difference. Oh well maybe he would after. He pulled me into his arms and began to kiss me. This was a first for us, so he began slowly. Acclimating himself to the different sensations. Kissing a man was the same as a woman, and yet so different. Lester and I were both very aggressive and you could feel it in our kiss. Our tongues, didn’t just duel, they battled for dominance. When we finished raping each other’s mouths, Lester fisted his hand in my hair, and wrenched my head to the side. He nipped and bit his way down to my collarbone, before sucking the skin there into his mouth. A few seconds, minutes, days, of painful pleasure later, and he lifted his head with a smirk. “Damnit, Lester…you know how much I hate hickeys.” I said before delivering several bruising nips to his shoulders and chest. I lowered myself to my knees, licking my way down his rock hard and well defined abs. I snaked my tongue into his navel and smirked up at him as he hissed in pleasure. Finally after long enough that I could hear Cal taunting us. “Just blow him already. This foreplay is killing me.” I swirled my tongue around the very tip of Lester’s cock. Slowly, maddeningly slowly I took him into my mouth. Drawing him in further and further until he was in my throat and my nose was buried in the dark nest of curls at his base, I licked my tongue out and swiped it over his balls. “Oh dear God. Holy shit Hector. Do that again. Do that Again!” he whimpered slipping in and out of English. I pulled back up and repeated the entire process again. “Ey Dios Mio, Hector. Suck me. Fuck! Suck my dick.” Soon I was bobbing my head up and down, working Lester to the edge of insanity, and when I would taste a thickening of his pre-cum, I’d back off and force him to regain control. “I’m not going to allow you to cum this way, Lester. Tasty as your jizz may be. Our girl wants to watch me take this monster up my ass. And I cannot do that if he is satisfied. Lay on your back for us, Sexy Boy.” I’ve never seen Lester move so fast. Tank tossed me a bottle of lube from El Jefe’s nightstand. I smoothed a large amount onto the tower of flesh that was perpendicular to Lester’s body and the floor. Locking eyes with Little Bomber Girl, I slowly allowed my ass to travel the same route my mouth had. Slowly enveloping his cock into me. “Oh Estefania, soon you must experience this for yourself. We will go so slow open up your sexy little ass bit by bit, poco a poco. It feels so good. The cock, it stretches you so wide.” I whimpered. I heard Tank translating for me. “It’s so sexy when you all talk in Spanish. God I wish I didn’t have to have it translated.” Estefania whimpered. I watched as Tank rubbed his cock over her pussy. She must have been so wet, because his cock was positively dripping with her juices. “Si. Little Bomber Girl. We will teach you, even as we teach you to take our cocks in every part of your beautiful body.” I said as I slowly rode Lester. I must have gone too slowly for Lester, because the sexy little bastard wrapped his hands around my hips, bouncing me on his cock harder and faster. I let him take the control and instead began to stroke my own dick. All too soon it was too much and I found myself roaring in pleasure. Crying out to the heavens as my cock erupted over Lester’s chest and neck, and even chin. “FUCK! Cum for her Hector. Cum for me.” Lester growled as he started to pump me full of his own orgasm. “Hell yeah. God!”Stephanie PoV
“Oh my God. That was so hot.” I turned to Bobby. “I don’t give a rat’s ass about my ribs Robert Tibedeaux Brown. If I don’t get one of you in me very soon, I will kick you in the fucking ribs.” Apparently Bobby could see my desperation in my eyes. He thought for a minute. “Ok Hal, look in the closet and get Bomber a pair of heels…3 to 4 inches.” Hal moved quickly. Once he had them, he came over and out them on my feet. Bobby continued. “Ok guys, gently stand her up, Sweetheart if you bend at the waist and keep your back straight, no bowing or arching…those will hurt your ribs, Ranger and Tank can take you together that way. One in your mouth and one in your tight little cunt.” Bobby gave me a devilish smile, “And just to make sure. I going to sit under your chest and suck on your pretty little tits, whenever you begin to bow or arch…well I’ll think of some way to make sure you keep yourself from doing any more damage.” With some help from Cal and Hal, Ranger and Tank positioned me exactly as Bobby ordered. Bobby slid into place under me while Ranger and Tank made the decision as to who would be where. They were taking way too long. “Tank behind me, Ranger in front. I can take a lot more Ranger in my mouth than I can Tank.” I said settling the discussion. They moved into place after bumping knuckles like they had just come up with the solution themselves. “OoohhhhGoooddd!” I moaned as Tank slowly stretched me wide. He entered me so gently, but filled me so full. This is why I’d wanted in my there, he could make me feel as if I’d been truly fucked, even as he was as gentle as a lamb. I looked up at Ranger with a smile, jerking just a touch when Bobby bit a very sensitive nipple. I gave the medic of the crew a playful glare, before leaning forward to take the head of ranger’s cock into my mouth. I rolled my tongue over the v shaped ridge and up into the slit. Slowly as I could I moved forward taking him in two inches and retreating one, eventually I relaxed my throat and hummed a little as I sucked him past my gag reflex. They took control and soon I was being slid back and forth between them fully sheathing Tank, then Roger and back again. The entire time Bobby was licking and sucking my nipples, his fingers teasing my clit. I experienced the weirdest orgasms of my life. It was as if, once they started they didn’t end, and yet at the same time they were gentle and soft. “God Little Girl. You feel so good. It’s like you’re getting tighter and tighter.” Tank moaned. “Fuck baby, never experienced a cum like this.” Ranger slid all the way forward, trapping me fully impaled at both ends, and I could feel myself being flooded with cum. I swallowed as rapidly as I could, using the motions of my throat, to stroke Ranger’s cumming cock, while I basically used kegal exercises to stimulate Tank’s. “Babe…fuck. So good!” I was lost in the haze of this gently rolling orgasm that seemed to last forever. I didn’t notice Bobby move from under us. I didn’t notice when Ranger, pulled all the way out of my mouth, though I’m told I whined and refused to let Tank pull out. They took off my shoes and put me to bed sandwiched between Tank and Ranger. If I’ve ever slept that well before in my life, I don’t remember it.Ranger PoV
The next morning was a mass of unorganization. At one point I’m fairly certain my eye began to twitch. Babe was rather unhappy that we’d only given her an hour to get ready. The rest of us took less than a quarter of that time. Though I must admit that she looked far better than the rest of us. We decided to abandon our uniforms since this was a personal venture, and it was Saturday. Stephanie looked amazing in a pair of sexy tight jeans that made her ass look even more luscious. And a wrap around top that made me want to untie the little bow keeping it together. She actually made the bandages look as though they were just some shirt she had on under the top. My Babe would never want to be less than fashionable, even when injured. The rest of us were all similarly attired. Khakis or dark slacks and polo shirts in black or navy blue…though Hector’s was red and Lester’s was almost the same color as Our Woman’s eyes right before she cums. We made it to the Lobby several minutes late; thankfully Manny was keeping his sister busy. “Esperanza Ramos-Hummel, I’d like to introduce you to Stephanie Plum.” Esperanza turned to Babe with a huge smile, and pulled her into a hug. All eight of us guys had to smile. Stephanie looked really uncomfortable. She was not comfortable with hugs, especially not from someone she’d never before met. “Thank you so much for being with my brother when he was injured. I was out of town at a conference. It meant so much to me to know that there was someone there so he wouldn’t be alone.” “Yeah…wifey was great. She sat with me until they were sure I was out of the woods.” Manny said jokingly. “Stephanie is good to all us ‘Merry Men’. She treats most of us like we were the brothers she never had.” “Well most of you are. You help me and try to protect me…as much as I will let you. You keep trying to train me, make me better. You take care of me.” She said giving Manny a devilish smile. “Sometimes you even sneak me Tastycakes when I’m broke.” Manny just smiled, looking innocent. “Why on earth would anyone want to do that? Those things will kill you.” I threw back my head in laughter as did the rest of Babe’s men. “Hardy, har har…let’s get this show in the road. Esperanza, I hope that you don’t mind but Tank and I took the liberty of creating an itinerary of the houses.” “I’d assumed you would.” She chuckled as we headed to the garage. We split up into two SUVs and headed to the first house. While I could control the tour schedule a bit, it we Esperanza’s show. The first house was huge, more of a mansion than a house, it was located too far from Haywood for me, but I’d kept it on the list for a frame of reference. “This is the largest of the homes I have to show you. The school district here is the best in Trenton. It’s also the furthest you can get from downtown and still be in Trenton.” She joked. “The home has hardwood throughout the main areas with carpeting only in the bedrooms. It boasts both a swimming pool and a Jacuzzi.” She led us through the first floor. “The Gourmet kitchen has all stainless steel appliances, and granite countertops. It has dual ovens and a breakfast nook. Through here is the laundry room and it leads out to five car garage. Above the garage is a two bedroom apartment perfect for onsite live in maintenance. That kitchen also has all stainless steel appliances’ though it doesn’t have an extra baking oven.” “Wouldn’t it be noisy having Ella and Luis right above the garage?” Stephanie asked. Translation…’I’d be too embarrassed to let loose if they were this close to the main house.’ “Oh no… this apartment has been fully sound proofed. The last owner used to allow his son’s band to practice up there since they used it more as a guest house than anything else.” Esperanza assured us. But I knew that the close proximity would be a no go for Babe. As we toured the house Esperanza continued extolling its virtues, but when we saw the top floor, we all knew this was definitely not the one. “as you can see the top floor holds two fully functional master suites, both with spacious master bathrooms and sitting areas. The walk in closets are a bit on the small side, but could easily be expanded later.” “I’m sorry…but I just don’t think this is the one. It’s too…formal; too…it’s not somewhere that could be made a home. It’s just a house. A big pretty house, don’t get me wrong…but this is a showplace. Not a home.” Stephanie said before Esperanza could show us the next floor down. “I hate to be rude. But I’d hate to take up your time showing us the rest of the house, knowing its wrong for us.” “Think nothing of it. Ranger’s last purchase was made sight unseen.” She chuckled, “at least you got him to come and take a walk through this time.” We were back in the SUV’s moments later, and Babe let out a breath I didn’t realize she’d been holding. “Thank God I made it out of there without breaking anything.” We all laughed. I watched in the rearview mirror as Lester turned to her and began to kiss her deeply. I love watching her, listening to her be kissed. She’s so responsive and the sounds she makes even from kissing, just beg us to take her. When Lester finished kissing her, she was making a very sexy mewling sound signifying that she wanted more. So Hal on her other side, turned her face to him and covered her mouth with his own. Far too soon we reached the second house. Stephanie PoV This house was a lot closer to our real lives. We walked in and I heard Hector say something caustic. “No. this one is not the one.” I said quietly to Ranger, walking beside me. “this place feels wrong.” My spidey sense was going buggy. I actually started to shiver and shake. “Bob---Bo—“ I tried to say. “Bobby!” Ranger yelled. My Dr. Fate came over and hustled me out of the foyer quickly. Esperanza joined us there. “I’m gonna go out on a limb and say we can skip the tour on this one and strike it off our list?” she joked. “God. What was wrong with that house?” I asked getting my breath, my equilibrium back. “I have no clue. I didn’t feel anything…but right before you freaked out Hector said the house felt evil.” She told me quietly. “Ok next house please…I’d like to put as much distance as possible between me and that place.” I said climbing carefully into my seat in the lead SUV, Hector climbed in in Hal’s seat while Bobby took Lester’s. The two of them kissed and tormented me for the entire fifteen minute drive to the next house. All the kissing was nice but it was a bit of a tease. This house was actually pretty close not only to Haywood, but also to my parent’s house. “Good location,” I said panting a little as Bobby helped me down. “We could get to Haywood in about ten minutes, and my parents in less than fifteen.” “Looks like we are close to Rossini’s too.” Ranger said coming around the car. He guided me towards the house, while Bobby, Tank and Hector exchanged comments in Spanish. The only words I recognized were beautiful and culo. Apparently Esperanza understood what they were saying, because she stopped and gave them a lecture in Spanish. “Maybe we should explain things to Esperanza. I’m sure if we explain that we want to tell the guys ourselves, she will keep it to herself, but most importantly we don’t have to limit our behavior so much.” I said quietly to Ranger. He gave me a 1000 watt smile. “You do that Babe. I think the guys will appreciate not having to keep their hands to themselves so much.” I gave him a full glare. ^Of course I have to tell the lady I just met two hours ago that I’m a nympho slut who is keeping the seven hottest, sexiest men in Trenton all to herself.^ “Oh my God, really, you lucky bitch.” Esperanza said from behind me. “I said that all out loud.” I whimpered. All the guys nodded, and Esperanza laughed. “Manny told me you talked out loud without realizing it. But I didn’t believe him. Oh man, are all of you really together?” she asked, when I nodded she turned to Ranger. “If you’d told me that on the phone, I wouldn’t have bothered showing you any of those other houses. This is the perfect place for you.” She dragged us into to the huge back yard. “This property has two outbuildings. One is a pool house, but the other is a three bedroom, two bath, guest house. It’s fully soundproof and has a really nice kitchen with stainless steel appliances, and granite countertops.” She showed us the guest house quickly. It was perfect, Ella would love it. The living area was plush and comfortable. And the master bedroom had duel walk in closets. Best of all there was a covered walkway connecting the out building to the main house. Then she showed us the pool house. Unlike normal pool houses, this one actually covered the pool and hot tub. At the back, there were two small locker rooms, perfect for changing to go for a dip. The pool was heated, and the pool house had motorized blinds that would allow us to either have tons of natural light or total privacy. Outside was a full outdoor kitchen complete with bar and barbeque. After falling in love with the pool house she took us in through the back to the kitchen. “The kitchen is fourteen by nineteen, and boasts both a breakfast nook with a banquette that seats eight, and a breakfast bar. It has rainforest black quartz countertops with complementary ebony pearl quartz backsplashes. It has a six burner commercial grade gas range top and dual ovens. The cabinet system is amazing and custom designed for this kitchen, all done in dark cherry wood.” It was one of those completely organized cabinet systems, Ella and Bobby would both love it. “There are two pantries and a subzero refrigerator.” She smiled and lead us though a similarly well organized and cabineted laundry room. “Each bathroom had a laundry chute that leads down to this room. The finished basement has a bathroom and a home gym, both of which have a dumbwaiter system in place that also runs to this room. Down there you’ll also find a In-Laws suite, which has a living room, study and bedroom and it even has its own bathroom with a little apartment type laundry closet. It even has its own entrance. You’ll note that this laundry room comes already equipped with a decent washer and dryer, however you could update it to the latest with very little problem. Also note that the same cabinetry and countertops have been continued throughout all the two first floor bathrooms, this laundry and kitchen. The entire house with exception of the bedrooms have this cherry stained Brazilian hardwood throughout.” “I have never seen a sexier floor.” I said with a sigh. “Before I saw these floors, I didn’t even know floors could be sexy.” Esperanza gave me a smile…”Just wait.” She teased. The first floor was open concept, with the magnificent kitchen opening up into a media/family/great room. Further away and separating the family area from the more formal areas was a formal dining room. Then two large rooms at the front that were separated by a gorgeous two story foyer. Unlike the other houses, this house was bare of furniture, or any other accessories. “The house has eight regular bedrooms, four family bathrooms and two master suites. They are distributed on the second and third floors. One Master suite and four bedrooms, two bathrooms on each floor. There are also central gathering areas on both floors. But the top floor is what you have to see.” She said with a huge smile. “And best of all, the top floor including the bathroom and closets are soundproof. The top floor was huge; it covered the entire length and breadth of the house. Its floors were hard wood, but stained a rich ebony with very subtle cherry tones. The floor was divided into a large bathroom that put the masters to shame. It had a massive black tub, that one climbed four steps to sink into. There was a huge shower with room for all of us, and even a few more. It had rain shower heads, but there were at least a dozen of the flat in the wall heads as well. It was all done in black quartz, which seemed to have stars shining in it. The glass enclosure was startlingly clear. Rather than chrome or gold fixtures, everything was brushed nickel or pewter. The toilet had its own room and in there it was as white as the shower was black. The toilet was kept company by a bidet and urinal. For some reason one corner even had a drain in the floor. I glanced at Ranger and he gave me, an ‘I’ll explain later’ look. The sink area had four sinks and a seated vanity area. The cabinets were a lighter wood than the floors, but only subtly; these were more of an ebony kissed cherry, than cherry kissed ebony, like the floors. The bathroom was lit with both recessed lights and brushed pewter drop lights. The countertops were more of the starry black quartz of the shower and tub. And the sinks were large bowls of the brushed pewter that sat on the countertops. The fixtures came directly out the wall and God did I want this bathroom. The sinks were divided evenly with the sit down vanity are in the middle. It had dozens of drawers, and cabinets. And the entire area was bracketed by large closets. One would be a perfect place to keep lingerie, and the other things the JLS were hoping to see me in. “Ok this seems too perfect. So let’s see what’s wrong? Hector’s tech, is the house cable ready and is it wired for computers?” Ranger said quietly. “Yes, the house was built in 2008, there are two cable ports in each bedroom, and there is an area of the basement that would be perfect for Hector to set up an office area and still be part of everything. Up here there are three cable ports. I believe the builder actually had it staged with three different plasma screens up here. It is also has a intercom between the top floor and the kitchen.” Esperanza answered reviewing her notes. I looked around at the others. “So what are we talking in the price arena?” I asked. “It’s listed for a million five. But it’s been on the market for eighteen months, and is bank owned so you may be able to talk them down some.” She said with a smile. “Can we have some time to look through the rest of the house and then make our decision?” Tank said smoothly. As the others moved on, he caught my hand and pressed me against the wall of the shower. “We’re getting this house. And I’m gonna have you on my cock in this sexy ass shower.” He said before devouring my mouth. “We know that by now you are desperate to get off. And this bathroom only made it worse. You were looking at the shower like we were all already naked and wet in there waiting on you.” He growled, as he undid my pants. He pushed them gently down my thighs, and with his thick fingers, brought me to a screaming orgasm, far quicker than I really want to admit. He licked my juices off his fingers, before helping me to get my clothes righted. “Thank you. I really did need that.” I whispered as we hurried to join the others. Esperanza gave me a knowing look. “You know I can tell just looking at you what you two were up to. Do you always glow like that after?” I groaned and buried my face in Tank’s chest. “Sorry I only kid cause I’m brutally jealous.” “But your name is hyphenated…aren’t you married?” I asked looking for a ring. “Divorced. My ex-husband and I disagreed on what out vows meant…I thought it meant he had sex only with me…and he disagreed.” She explained. “But because I was already well known by my current name, I didn’t change it, simply for business purposes.” “See when my ex-husband and I had that disagreement; I hadn’t even finished the process of changing my name…so that wasn’t a problem for me.” I joked. “Well God has definitely made up for that mess up for you.” She gave me a smile. “Yeah he has.” I said with a serene smile for my men. Ranger spoke up, “Alright we are going to take the house. The top floor is perfect for our needs. And Ella will love the kitchen and the guest house is perfect for her and Luis. Now my attorney is already beginning the process of financing, however since Rangeman LLC will be out mortgage holder, there is no problem there. How long will it be before we can move in?” “We can probably get everything completed and turn over the keys in one month to six weeks.” Esperanza said realistically. The guys had another idea. “It’s already been on the market for over a year. Tell the seller we’ll give them a million even and we will pay all closing costs. But we want to be able to get our designers in here within two weeks.” Esperanza left to make the call. I turned to Ranger and gave him a startled look. “Designers?” I asked. “Babe, do you know how long it would take to fully furnish and decorate this house without at least one interior designer. The eight of us will handle the top floor, but the rest of the house will be divided between, my sister…she did my apartment on Haywood, and the design firm who did the apartments on four.” His explanation certainly made sense. “Okay.” I said contemplatively. “Do you think your sister would be comfortable handling my alone space? I really love the apartment on seven.” He gave me a sexy smile. “I’m sure she’d love too. Just don’t pump her for too many embarrassing stories.” “I make no promises.” I returned cheekily.
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