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)
“The only person I’m submissive to is Jared,” North told her. “So don’t go getting any ideas.”
She pouted. “You mean I can’t order you to crawl for me?”
North made a scoffing noise. “No.”
“Back to your limits,” Jared told her as he cupped the side of her face. “What things would you never want us to do? And what things you want to try.”
She licked her lips and he groaned before bending down to nip at her lower lip.
“Fuck,” she whispered.
“We’ll get to that soon,” North told her. “Limits, wants, and the name.”
Jared shot him a look. “You’re not taking him out, North.”
“Why not?” North asked.
“Well, not unless he hurt her. Did he hurt you?” Jared asked Angie.
“What? No. Michael was just a normal, average guy that I dated. I haven’t seen or heard from him in years. Why would you want to take him out?” she asked North.
North shrugged. “If he didn’t hurt you, then, fine. I won’t touch him.”
Jared shot him a look because he didn’t quite believe him. But he’d take him at his word.
For now.
“Are you sure you still want me?” she asked. “After hearing that I’ve only slept with Fergus? I get it if you don’t.”
“I won’t tolerate talk like that, understand?” Jared growled at her as he took firm hold of her chin. “Any more talk like that from you and I’m going to have to punish you.”
“Which he’d like,” North added. “And so would I.”
31
Any more talk like that from you and I’m going to have to punish you.
Holy moly.
Were these guys trying to make her self-combust? Because that’s what it felt like.
She shouldn’t find their possessive, bossy ways hot. But she did.
“I’m tired of waiting,” Jared warned. “Limits. Now.”
Shit. She should have known she couldn’t put it off for much longer. She licked her lips, wondering what to tell them.
“Remember, you need to lay them all out,” North warned.
“I’ve never talked about this sort of thing before,” she told them.
Jared ran his hands along her thighs. Up and down.
Was he trying to kill her? Shivers ran through her body.
“Don’t hurt me,” she blurted out.
“That’s a limit?” North asked. “Not to hurt you? What about a pain that’s pleasure?”
“What do you mean?” she asked.
She felt so naive. She had no clue what she was doing. The most she’d done with Michael was suck his dick a couple of times.
And that hadn’t exactly been a mind-blowing experience.
For either of them.
“What if I was to twist your nipples?” North asked. “The pain could border on pleasure.”
She wrinkled her nose. “I don’t know. Can pain really be pleasure?”
“It can,” North said.
“North enjoys pain,” Jared told her. “Sometimes that means I have to choose other punishments for him. How long has it been since you’ve been allowed to come, North?”
“Six days, but who is counting?”
“Oh, I’m sure you are, boy. And when I say you can come, you’re going to go off so quick. Perhaps I will let you come inside our girl here. What do you think of that, baby girl? Would you like North to come inside you?”
“Yes,” she breathed out without even having to think about it.
Was that a flicker of surprise on North’s face? No, she must be seeing things.
“I was tested after . . . after Fergus. I’m clean. And I have an implant so I can’t get pregnant.”
“Good. We’re also clean. I like the idea of taking you bare.”
Jesus.
Did she like that idea too?
“I know you said you didn’t want to be spanked a while ago, but are spankings really a limit?” Jared asked.
“I don’t know if they are a limit or not.”
“I guess we won’t know until we try,” North said.
Whenever she’d read a spanking scene in a romance book, well, it had turned her on.
It wasn’t anything that Fergus had ever done to her . . . so maybe it would be okay?
Maybe you’d even like it.
She’d never thought she might like some pain. Fucking Fergus. He’d taken so much from her and now she needed to claw some of who she was back.
Who would she have been if he hadn’t been in her life?
Was she someone who would just jump into bed with two guys without all this bargaining and talking about limits?
Probably.
“If we do anything that scares you or makes you uncomfortable or causes too much pain, say your safeword,” Jared said. “We will always honor a safeword.”
She swallowed heavily. “I don’t have one, though.”
“Make one up. Or use Red,” North suggested.
“Is that what you use?” she asked him.
“No. I don’t have one.”
“You don’t?” She glanced between them both. “Why don’t you have one?”
North shrugged. “I don’t need it. I trust Jared not to go too far.”
“Because he knows that my limits would kick in before his,” Jared told her. “There is little that North wouldn’t let me do. Some things would be too far for me and he knows it.”