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“I’m not forgiving you. No matter how many flowers you all send, no matter how you try to apologize to me, no matter….”

She trails off, and I smirk. “You feel it too, don’t you? You belong to us.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” she argues, but her blush gives her away.

“Uh-huh. Because you’re not as fucked up as we are,” I say, stopping her hand before she can finish her buttons.

She trembles. She’s so fucking soft. She’s so perfect to ruin. She’s malleable, always so damn sweet, and I want to break her. I want her moaning for me, under me, chanting my name unless her mouth is filled with a cock. I want her giving in so entirely and completely that she can’t hide from the truth.

“You did like what we did. On some level. I know it. I know pleasure when I see it, and yours started when Dimitri asked you if you wanted to choke on his cock and prove how sweet your mouth can be.”

I remember every moment and I see the confusion, embarrassment, and something else on her face. She shakes her head slowly. “I didn’t.”

“I don’t like liars,” I say darkly, then take a step back. “Ask your dad.”

I leave her there, trembling, thinking that over. If I can’t forget the one night I got to have her, then she won’t forget that she wants more. She had us all in one hole each. That’s it. One position, and there are so many more for us to try. There are so many options, and by the time she’s ready to beg for all of them, she’ll already be tangled up in us.

Twenty

HOPE

Ican’t help but think about what Knox said. It’s impossiblenotto think about it. It keeps playing in my head. Of course, so do the good parts of that night. The things I shoved way down because if I enjoyed all three of them using me like that, what does that make me?

No. I shake it off and take a few deep breaths. I managed to last this morning after giving Knox the all clear. I’d forgotten to do it last night. I’d actually left early since I was worried that he’d come back, or that Jaxon and Dimitri would find me and corner me. Jaxon is the only one who’s made a real effort. I have a feeling the flowers were his idea. He notices things like that. He’s the only one who’s asked what I wanted.

“Warning,” Jaxon says before coming into my office.

I turn to look at him. Dimitri shoves him. “What the hell is that about?”

“She knows,” Jaxon says. “There are plenty of options, plenty of… methods to make something obvious.”

“Yeah, I’ll say it. Hey, he wants to fuck you,” Dimitri says. He lowers his voice and turns his gaze on me. It’s intense, hot, ripples across my body. “And he’s not the only one, sweetheart.”

I swallow and look between them. “This is—”

“Professional space. You wear that word like it’s armor, but the fun thing about armor,” Dimitri says, “is that it can be peeled off, bit by bit.”

“Boundaries are important to me. Here especially,” I say slowly. I want them to understand. Maybe logic will get through to them. “I worked hard to be here. It’s mine. This ismyvictory. I want to keep it. I don’t want… I don’t want to lose it. I earned it.”

Jaxon nods. “The guys say you’re damn good. We don’t want to take it from you.”

“Hell no. We just want to add some very necessary perks,” Dimitri purrs. “God, I’d even buy you dinner just to let you eat while I devour you under the table, never letting you come until you beg.”

I shudder and look around, not sure exactly what to do with that information. “I, um… I…”

“Knox got alone time with you last night,” Dimitri says suddenly.

Jaxon’s eyes flare at that reveal. I step back again. The guys both look at me. Dimitri speaks. “He’s not capable of being in the same room as you without doing something. We like to stay even. Fill us in.”

“He talked to me. Almost gave me an apology. He grabbed my wrist and…” The rest of the words fall away. He did touch me. He was clearly thinking about doing more, but if I tell Jaxon and Dimitri that, I have a feeling they’ll want to do at least that. And they won’t stop.

“And?” Dmitri asks.

“Don’t keep us on our toes,” Jaxon says as his hand lingers against my side.

I push them both away from me, or I try to. They don’t move. I shake my head. “No. No. If either of you touches me, then you won’t stop. I know you. My words won’t matter. The whole team will hear and everything will be gone. Everything will be gone. You already let my dad come back.”

Jaxon freezes. His hand falls away. Dimitri’s eyes darken and he shakes his head. “You don’t want to say no to us.”

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