Total pages in book: 156
Estimated words: 160192 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 801(@200wpm)___ 641(@250wpm)___ 534(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 160192 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 801(@200wpm)___ 641(@250wpm)___ 534(@300wpm)
Rex nodded to her. “Nice to meet you, Angie.”
“You too,” she replied.
“Rex has been with me a long time and he’s extremely loyal,” Jared said to her quietly. “He won’t betray me just in case you were wondering.”
Drat. That hadn’t occurred to her.
Idiot.
“Can you get her some snacks?” Jared asked Rex.
“Of course. Looks like she could do with some feeding up.”
Did everyone have an opinion on the way she looked?
Sheesh.
Rex loaded her up with snacks and she made her way back to the living room to find North waiting.
“Looking for me?” she asked sweetly.
“Just checking that you’re behaving.”
“I haven’t run. Yet.”
“And you won’t. You’re here to stay.”
“Jared doesn’t seem so sure,” she said.
“He will be. Don’t worry about that.”
27
Angie couldn’t sleep.
Urgh. She felt guilty for being here.
Correction: She felt guilty for not hating being here.
She walked down the stairs. Perhaps she should be spending her nights trying to find a way out of here.
As she moved along the hallway, she heard a noise. A door ahead of her was partially open and she peeked through.
Hey, it was Jared’s office.
Just as she’d thought.
All right, all right, she’d thought that was a few doors down. But she was close.
Then her brain caught up with what her eyes were seeing. North was bent over a desk while Jared was pushing his dick into the other man’s ass.
Oh. My. God.
That might be the hottest thing she’d ever seen.
“Why are you in trouble, boy?”
“For taking her without permission.”
“And what else?”
“Lying to you. Keeping it from you. Keeping her locked up and maybe hurting her mental health.”
Shock held her immobile.
Jared was upset with North for locking her up?
“Her life with Fergus was hell. I should have helped her.” As Jared spoke, he kept moving. She wished she could see his cock.
Whoa. Where had that come from?
“Your hands were tied. He’d have killed you.”
“Sometimes, I think that I would have been better off.”
“Don’t say that!” North tried to rear up but Jared pinned him to the desk with his hand on the back of his neck.
“Don’t you move,” Jared snarled.
“I know I shouldn’t have locked her up. Or kept her presence from you. But I won’t apologize for taking her. It’s what you both need. Each other.”
Jared didn’t reply. Instead he slammed into North’s ass until he came with a groan. Then he drew out, grabbing the other man and turning him so he could kiss him.
Savagely.
Hotly.
Her body stirred, desire throbbing through her.
She decided to leave before they noticed her. As she snuck away, her mind was reeling from what she’d just seen and heard.
Angie headed back to her bedroom, only getting lost twice.
Yay her!
Lying back on the bed, she slid her hand down under the waistband of her pajamas and panties.
Her pussy was wet. Her clit throbbed.
Maybe she’d finally be able to come.
Maybe this was it.
But as she started touching herself, as her arousal grew, Fergus’s face filled her mind.
Fergus sneering down at her.
Fergus hurting her.
And it was an instant block, her arousal disappearing.
Her hand slid away as a cry of despair escaped her lips. She heaved for breath.
Was she ever going to be normal?
Jared sipped on his Scotch as he stared out the window of his office.
Yes, he had work to do. He couldn’t afford to sit here and do nothing.
But he couldn’t seem to make himself care about anything but her and North.
The three of them.
Impossible. It would never work.
He’d bought himself some time by refusing to let her call Zander. He’d scrambled for ridiculous excuses. However, he’d just delayed the inevitable because he knew what he had to do.
Send her back.
Because he couldn’t keep her safe. He couldn’t make the three of them work. And he couldn’t force her to want them.
“Drinking Scotch before five isn’t a good sign,” North said as he walked into the office, closing the door behind him.
“What happened to knocking?” Jared asked.
“I knew you were in here alone. I am your secretary, after all.”
Jared eyed him. “Assistant. And we both know you’re more than that.”
“We know that. No one else does.”
Was he upset over that? Jared frowned. “That’s to keep you safe.”
“Jared, we both know I can take care of myself. I don’t need your protection.”
Jared knew he was right . . . so why did he keep insisting on their relationship being a secret?
Was it because of how the family would see him?
Who gave a fuck about them?
“You’re right. We should stop keeping it a secret. And you shouldn’t have to be someone you’re not.”
Because assistant North was very different from real North.
North stared at him, blinking. That was a big reaction from him. He obviously hadn’t expected Jared to say that.
“You want to come out?”
Jared’s lips twitched at the wording. “I do.”
“Not sure that’s wise. The family—”
“Can get fucked,” Jared growled. “I don’t give a fuck about any of them except Tabby. And we know that Tabby will be happy for us.”