Page 56 of Indecent Lies

Hell no. He grabbed her wrist and hauled her butt onto his lap.

“You got something to confess? Then you tell me right here.”

“I mean.” She stumbled. “I don’t think it’s something you will like.”

“So what? Tell me anyway.”

“You might not want to kiss me. And I really want those lips, Tait.” She dropped her gaze to his mouth and he was sure he could already feel her sucking them.

“Little girl, I’ve had a gut full of secrets to last me a lifetime. I don’t want to do it anymore. I don’t care if you’re confessing to skinning farm animals in a bathtub to make new dresses, just spit it out so I can deal with how serious it is.”

“Okay,” she inhaled hard enough to suck up some of his hair and that didn’t bode well for whatever she needed to say.

He was thinking all sorts of shit that wasn’t good.

Pregnant was top of his list, even though she said she never fucked the guy.

“Okay, here goes.” She said again.

“Poppy, just spit it out.”

“Iwasengagedtwomoretimesbeforethis.”

Her run on words flooded out of her lips too fast for his ears to pick up.

It couldn’t be what he thought she said. “Say again.”

Trepidation coated her green irises and color highlighted her cheeks as she fiddled with the neck of his shirt, her skinny fingers scraping his already too hot skin because she was sitting on his dick. “I was engaged twice before I was engaged to Ronnie.”

Not pregnant then.

Texas exhaled. He didn’t mind kids, but he had a problem fucking a woman who had a kid in her belly that wasn’t his. It would feel too much like a home invasion.

“To different fellas or Ronnie?”

She snorted and put her forehead to his shoulder. “Three separate engagements and three men.” She lifted her head and shyly peered at him through the curtain of her hair. He moved it back and held his fingers to her soft cheek. “Do you think I’m a giant floozy? Did your attraction disappear?”

He smirked from one corner of his lips. “Gorgeous tramp.”

“Tait,” she huffed, slapping his arm.

“That’s some engagement ring collection, Poppy.”

“They just happened.”

“You just fell into being engaged to three guys?” Amused, he couldn’t help teasing her. He could give a fuck what she did in the past, it didn’t affect how his dick was reacting to her squirming one bit. The only thing he was concerned about was if she’s going to scrape this new guy off or she’s just currently mad at him and will change her mind once she sees him.

“I mean, the first one was on my eighteenth birthday, he asked me in front of all my family, how could I say no? And the next one was a few years later, after that first one didn’t work out…obviously.” Her cheeks were still flame hot and Texas was chewing the inside of his cheek to stop from grinning.

He was starting to feel for poor fucking Ronnie.

“How did the second one ask?”

“On Daddy’s yacht.”

“In front of everyone?”

“No, but he’d asked daddy’s blessing.”

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