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"So, what were we talking about before Jake came over?" Shay asked the group.
"Frankie wanted to know how you and Frank came to be together," Katie reminded her. She was shocked to realize she wanted to know as much as the others.
"Oh dear....we'll be here all night. Short version?"
The men watched passively and saw four heads bob in unison.
"Okay. Me, undercover DEA, held hostage in order to get one Franklin Donovan to Colombia. Frank was tortured and during our escape a snake bit him. Jake, who was hiding out a short distance away, bullet in his leg, couldn't possibly take care of the Big Guy, so Me, skimpy dress, completely nude underneath and barefoot to boot carried his ass over my shoulder for a couple miles through the jungle."
"Holy....and you've been together ever since?" Katie asked fascinated.
"Oh, hell no!" Alex interjected. "After that little fiasco...Shay...or should I say FALLON, disappeared off the face of the earth for about thirteen months."
Shay shrugged and bit back a smile. "I had issues."
"That was YOU!" Frankie exclaimed in surprise. "Jesus, Frank was a mess after that."
Shay nodded. "Trust me, I was no prize afterwards either. And, God help me, when I got transferred to the unit to take Mon's place..."
"Oh yeah...the sexual tension between those two..." Alex purred. "We even placed bets on how long it would take for them to wind up in the sack."
"No!" Frankie exclaimed, laughing loudly.
Alex nodded. "Cody won that bet. Three days."
Shay grinned and rolled her eyes. "Yeah, well...what can I say? Damn sexy bastard had me goin' in all directions. I couldn't have told you which way was up if you pointed toward the sky."
"So....."
"So, what, Mon?" Shay asked, playing dumb.
"So how hot is the IceMan in bed?"
"Oh, hon...you just can't imagine," Shay admitted. "The man is insatiable. And most creative...and he makes the sexiest noises when he..."
"Say it, Shay...don't be a wuss," Frankie goaded.
"Cums, okay...cums." Shay squealed. She began to laugh uncontrollably and slid off the chair and landed on the ground with a thud.
"But sistah, the question is...do YOU?" Monica asked, trying on a mask of seriousness and failing miserably.
"What?" Katie asked. "Make sexy noises or cum?"
The other four women's jaws dropped, not expecting Katie to join them in the gutter. What composure remained was lost in group squeals and laughter.
"He...he..." Shay couldn't even speak she was laughing so hard.
"He makes the ground tremble..." Frankie finished for her. "Leaves you breathless and begging for more?"
Shay nodded as her laughter subsided. "I thought you said you never slept with Frank." The slightest twinge of jealousy could be detected in her voice.
"Never did, Sistah. I was talking about Jake." Frankie winked.
Both she and Shay shared a dazzling smile and both released a sigh at the same time.
Frank shook his head and grumbled as he tossed the hamburgers on the grill. "I can't believe her sometimes. What would possess her to share such intimate details of our sex lives?"
Ty slapped him firmly on the back. "I wouldn't complain if I were you, Donovan. There isn't a man here, or anywhere for that matter, who wouldn't love to know whether he pleased his woman or not. The ground trembles? Leave her breathless and begging for more? Damn, man...you own that woman."
Frank lifted his head to glance at the ladies at the same moment Shay locked eyes with him. Her smile...damn how she turned him inside out. Absently, his tongue ran over his bottom lip and his thoughts turned to getting past the meal and being alone with her in their tent. He suddenly felt a bit dirty for spying on her and the other women. He would make it up to her in some way.
"Wow," Katie said. "How amazing."
"Naw. What's really amazing... is that each of us here can say the same thing. Our guys ALL make each of us feel the same thing. When we're with him, we don't give a damn about the rest of the world. All is right as the rain, the earth moves and we give up our most intimate passions just to him and him alone." Frankie sighed softly.
"Amen, Sistah," Shay responded jubilantly.
"What about you Frankie? How did you and Jake finally hook up?" Monica asked.
"Ohhh... long story," she laughed. "A lot like Shay and Frank - except mine takes place over a few years."
"I think we got time. I don't smell anything burning yet." Alex giggled.
"Well, You guys know I met Jake and Frank... well, the whole team while I was being blackmailed by Morhoff, right?"
All the girls nodded except Katie. "Uh, I.."
"SHIT! Sorry Katie. A few years ago, an arms dealer in Chicago was blackmailing me. In short, he threatened my health while in the presence of my brother and my brother had emotional fits. To keep him quiet, I went along with whatever Morhoff said."
"Eric was about 10 years old mentally." Monica added. Katie nodded as if that made things a lot more clear.
"So... For one reason or another, the team was sent in to get me out. Morhoff was the actual target; I was a secondary prize. Jake was flirting with me without even knowing who I was. Eventually everything went down and Morhoff was arrested. Fast-forward a year or three to about 7 months ago. Frank was having some issues personally, Alex was out of town, a good friend of mine got killed as part of a serial killing spree and at my friend's funeral, Jake and Frank asked me in to help the case. I went down to Florida with Jake to talk to the coroner down there. While there, Jake and I kinda gave in and started some heavy petting. However, a certain female who shall remain nameless.." Frankie coughed, the noise sounding suspiciously like 'Shay'
Shay and Alex giggled. They'd heard the story already and knew what happened. "Anyways, a phone call interrupted us and Jake passed it off as nothing."
"Oh no he did not!" Monica gasped.
"What a jerk!" Katie sniffed.
"Oh he made it up to me. Anyways, to make a long story short -"
"TOO LATE!" the other four women chimed in at once before they all dissolved into laughter.
"Anyways, Jake knew he was wrong, I gave him the ice queen routine and rubbed his nose in it for about a day, I got shot in the back saving Shay's life, wound up in a coma after dying twice on the table, Jake stayed by my side while in the coma for three weeks and woke up to him telling me he loved me."
"How sweet!! Not the coma part, but the waking up part." Katie sighed sappily.
"It was. He took care of me for the next couple of months. Insisted I move in with him while I was in therapy. He proposed to me right in front of the therapist and her assistants!!"
"Oh my. Talk about romantic." Monica grinned.
"No kidding. I'm still finding all those little 'sweet-spots' on his body that do the trick."
"Sweet-spots?" Katie blinked.
"Yeah. Every guy has.. well, everyone really, has certain spots on their body that just DO it for them. Sweet spots." Alex laughed. "Christian's is behind his knees."
"Tyler's main spot is the small of his back. I can rub his back for hours but if I wanna get him fired up and ready for an all-nighter, I just rub the small of his back for a few minutes."
"Sounds like a wind-up toy!" Katie giggled.
"Oh honey, all men are." Shay laughed. "Stroke them right and they just get all sorts of energized! Frank's is...oh, I shouldn't say. I mean...some of you work with him; he'd never forgive me. If he knew the things I've told you already, he'd shoot me dead."
"Sure, he would...not!" Alex said, laughing. "Damn, Shay...he went to hell and back with you on a few occasions. I don't think telling cutsie stories about him is gonna change how he feels about you."
"To hell and back?" Katie questioned. "What did you do?"
Shay blinked. "Me? Nothing...everything...." She sighed and shook her head. "Well, remember I said Frank and I didn't get together when we first met?"
"Uh-huh," Katie nodded.
"After Jake and I got Frank to relative safety in a tiny hospital in Bucamaranga, Colombia, I found out I was pregnant."
"Shay..." Frankie breathed. "I've wondered about that, but Jake would never tell me...and well, you and I..."
"Yeah, I know, Frankie. We got off to a rocky start. Funny how a little thing like a bullet could form a bond between us. That and the fact that the godfather of my children adores you so much." Shay reached over and placed a hand over Frankie's. "Now, it's like you're the sister I never had and always wanted."
Frankie smiled warmly. "Me too. Now, about being preggers the first time..."
Shay laughed. "Okay. Jake would never tell you this, because it's a touchy subject for me. LJ's birth father was the drug lord I was sent undercover to investigate in Colombia."
Katie gasped in relative horror. "Did you love him?"
Shay shuddered in disgust. "No, hon...na-never. I had to shut myself off...literally to get through that assignment. Anyway, I was devastated when I found out I was pregnant. I ran away...disappeared. When I returned to the team as Mon's replacement, I had a six-month-old little boy. It wasn't long after Frank and I finally put the past behind us that LJ was kidnapped by his birth father...who we thought was dead."
"That must have been horrible, Shay," Monica said, reaching over to brush Shay's hair back from her shoulder. "I'm sorry I wasn't around to help."
"Thanks, Mon. Yeah...it was bad. I lost myself somewhere along the line. It was a couple of weeks later before we found where he'd been taken. But...Jorge...he wanted the whole package...Mama and baby. I played Frank...made him believe Jorge was in one place and went to meet Jorge where he was actually holed up. It was bad...but, somehow...Frank found me. Just in time, and he never made me feel guilty for what I had done...he just loved me and LJ all the more, if that was possible."
"Wow again," Katie responded.
Shay nodded. "Ya know, I could spout all night about the wondrous things he's done or does...but the thing I remember the clearest...is the first time he held Ariel just after she'd been born." She paused and bestowed one of those special mother smiles on the group of women. "I've seen the man in many situations, a strong, noble man. I've seen him at his happiest...but nothing compares to the joy and the light that comes into a man's eyes the first time he holds his daughter."
Shay heard Frankie sigh as she sat back into her chair. Her face had become shadowed in thought for just a moment before she shook it off and Shay could see the mischievous Frankie come back.
"Okay, okay..." Alex groaned. "So, are ya gonna tell us Frank's sweet-spot, or not?!"
"Tell, or I'll make Cody your partner in the Kayaking," Monica threatened.
Shay balked at that idea. "His left butt cheek, dammit. A soft touch over that cheek and wham-o...instant love slave."
Cody cast a glance at Frank, who turned suddenly, a large cooking fork firmly in his grasp. "Don't even think about it, geek-boy."
Christian was on the verge of losing it. The laughter was about to bubble up and spill out. He had to turn his back to all of them before he let loose and the women found out what they were up to.
The girls all dissolved into laughter again. Frankie grinned, her eyes sliding over to Jake as he stood with the guys apparently doing nothing. "Know what else is amazing?"
"What?" These women fascinated the young Ranger. She had always been a loner and never had any of these "girlie" moments before.
"Jake's spot is right at the back of neck. If I run my nails over it....he practically cums right then and there." Frankie nodded her head as if she was delivering gospel to the masses.
"Oh, Jacob Aaron Shaw...tell me he doesn't loose his wad prematurely," Shay commented with a wicked grin.
"Hush your mouth," Frankie admonished. "He's like the Energizer Bunny...keeps going and going and going...." Her eyes twinkled as she leaned forward to whisper... "So far... his record is 2 hours."
"Stop it!" Shay screamed in laughter. "My sides are killing me."
"Jake...what's wrong with your face?" Cody asked playfully.
"I..uh...she..." Jake stammered.
Frank grinned. "Not so much fun when it's you they're holding the measuring stick up to, is it?"
"It's...forget it," he growled. He was angry...and embarrassed...and mostly hurt that Frankie would share things that should only be between them. He looked up at Frank who was gazing longingly at Shay and showed no animosity towards her whatsoever. By all accounts, it looked as if he wanted to stride over to the group, scoop her up, carry her off and ravage every inch of her. Jake shook his head in confusion. He was too angry with Frankie to want to touch her...how did Frank get past that feeling?
All five of the women were laughing hysterically until Monica hushed everyone. "Do you smell that?"
"OH MY GOD!" Alex yelled. "The hamburgers are on fire!"
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.... nighttime is nigh people...and activities abound in our next episode....stay tuned!!!