Page 57 of Indecent Lies

“You love these guys?”

She bit her lip and shook her head from side to side.

“Little girl, I hate to break it to you, but you’re either addicted to wedding cake or you’re unable to tell anyone no.”

She groaned and laid her head on his shoulder again, keeping it there this time until he tangled a hand in the back of her hair. He figured if she was perched on his hurting dick, then he could put a hand on her too.

“So the little socialite has a wild past. I think my attraction is worse.” He grunted.

It wasn’t a lie.

At least he knew he wouldn’t be breaking her or shocking her with what he wanted to do.

“Not so wild.” She muffled and lifted her head. Doing that nervous lip biting thing again.

Jesus, more secrets?

He didn’t know an Astor as good as her would have skeletons in her closet.

“I mean… I haven’t..”

“Haven’t what?”

“I was engaged, that part is true, Tait. But I haven’t done the other stuff.”

“Down the aisle and smashing wedding cake into each other’s mouths you mean? Kind of glad you don’t have three marriages, baby.”

“No. I mean yes, that too.” Red. She turned very red and then blurted. “All the sex. I’ve never done it with them. With anyone, Tait. I’m waiting for marriage, the real kind, where I know it’s right.”

Oh.

Shit.

His brain computed what she was saying.

All the while his poor unused dick was waiting not so patiently to be tagged in.

He didn’t know how to break the virginal news to him.

So Texas didn’t.

He just lowered his forehead to hers and groaned.

FIFTEEN

“Keep your friends close and your enemies at arm’s length.” – Texas

Texas wasn’t so gentlemanly that he put Poppy to bed that night without kissing the savage hell out of her first.

They made out like teens on his couch until he thought he might seriously combust out of his skin, leaving shards of Texas shaped bones all over the living room.

Only when she started whimpering and popping her hips on his groin did he dump her on his bed and leave her there so he could take a cold shower and beat off until he felt okay again.

He also wasn’t dumb enough to stick around the following morning to face her.

Coward.

She was saving her body for when she married.

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