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)
“Do you really think this can work?” she whispered, feeling hope fill her. “Us?”
“I know it will work. I will make certain of it. All I need is for the two of you to try. To stop running. To do as I tell you.”
She rolled her eyes. “I’m sure that would make your life much easier . . . if we just did what you told us to do.”
“Yes, exactly.”
Angie shook her head. “I’m not easy.”
“Yes, you’ve told me that.” Jared stood with her in his arms and set her back on the bed before sitting, facing her. His dick was still pressed against his boxers.
What would he feel like in her mouth? Taste like?
“And we also told you that neither are we. Nothing worth having was ever easy, Angie. I’m not asking for easy. I’m just asking that you try.”
“And if I said I didn’t want this?” she asked. “You’d let me go?”
“No. I’d call you a liar, spank your bottom, and lock you in this room until you changed your mind.”
She had to grin.
Only he wasn’t smiling.
“Jared! You wouldn’t!”
“I think you’ll find that I would. Like I’ve said before. I want you and I always get what I want. And North wants you too.”
She’d sworn that she’d never go near a Bartolli again.
But this was Jared.
She hadn’t stopped thinking about him, wanting him. He could be so cold and arrogant.
And then warm and protective.
And now it was North too. Her robot man. Her kidnapper.
The man she couldn’t stop thinking about.
However, where was he? Had he changed his mind?
“Where is North?”
“I’m here.”
She gasped, glancing over at the doorway. “Haven’t you heard of knocking?”
North just raised an eyebrow. “That’s not how I thought you’d greet the man bringing you coffee.”
“Coffee! Gimme!” She held out her hands.
“You drink too much coffee,” Jared stated as she took the mug and sipped it, sighing in happiness.
“I do not. Take that back. It’s blasphemy.”
“I don’t think that’s what blasphemy is, baby girl,” Jared told her as he took the other mug that North held out to him. But instead of taking a sip, he set it aside and then stood, wrapping his hand around the back of North’s head and drawing him in for a hot, sexy kiss.
She swallowed another mouthful in an attempt to stop herself from throwing herself at them.
It was hard.
Very, very hard.
Much like something else. Her gaze dropped to Jared’s cock. North was fully dressed so it was harder to tell if he was turned on.
But how could he not be?
Then Jared slid behind North, turning the other man to face her.
“Our girl has agreed to stay with us,” Jared said.
North nodded. “Good.”
“Did you get up early?” she asked, feeling shy.
“I don’t sleep well with others,” North told her. “I prefer my own space. So I left you guys to it last night.”
“I didn’t scare you off?”
He stared down at her arrogantly. “I don’t scare off that easily. Unlike you. You ran off on us again last night.”
“I know. I’m sorry. I’ll try not to do that again. I was . . . I’ve always been scared of being rejected. It seems my whole life no one has wanted me so it’s my default setting.”
Jared moved to her, crouching down to cup her face between his hands. “Then we need to change that default setting, don’t we?”
She nodded.
“You’re staying here with us. Because we want you. Both of us.” He turned back to look at North who was staring down at her.
Was he going to say anything? Her stomach tightened into a knot.
North nodded. “Yes.”
“Good,” Jared said. “And we all need to remember that communication is important in a relationship. Especially one like this. So you will both talk, understand? If something feels wrong or uncomfortable or there’s something you need to get off your chest, talk. I will not accept anything else.”
“Yes, Your Lordship.” She saluted him.
He raised his eyebrow and looked at her arrogantly. Then he turned to North.
“There are some things we can’t talk about,” North said.
Jared nodded. “Of course. But anything we can talk about that might affect our relationship should be discussed.”
Shoot.
That probably meant she should tell them about her orgasm issue. Because that could affect their relationship.
She was hoping that it would all be solved by having someone else touch her.
But she didn’t even know how that would go. Jared had touched her breasts last night and that had been hot.
However, she’d also run from them. Twice.
So, yeah . . . she wasn’t in the most stable frame of mind. Should she tell them about the scars, too?
Urgh.
This was going to suck.
How should she tell them? Could she say it without saying it?
“I can’t orgasm.”
Yeah, or blunt and to the point would work.
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Did she just say what he thought she said?
North studied her. Was it a medical thing? Or something else?