Page 50 of Brooke's Bliss
The last thing he wanted to do was get her in trouble withthe new boss.
Brooke’s eyes had gone wide as she stood there in thespotlight.“You set up a room for me?We’re not sharing?”
Bay frowned like he didn’t understand.
Shane moved in and loomed over her.She came to his chin,and he loved the way her head tilted up to look at him.“We are absolutelysharing a room, and your things are already in the closet.There are two in theprimary.Bay and I will share one.No, he’s talking about the sewing room weset up.Beth and Hope tried their hand and didn’t like it, but they still hadall the equipment.”
Her jaw dropped slightly.“A sewing machine?”
“All kinds of things, and there’s more in storage if youneed it.This way you don’t have to be here to work.”Or maybe she would wantthe escape.“Not if you don’t want to.”
Her mouth curved in the sweetest smile.“I want to.I missmy machine.It’s getting shipped to me, but it’ll be a while before it getshere.”She looked to Bay as she reached for Shane’s hand.“Thank you.I’m sureI’ll love it.Did Cleo lock the door?”
“I’ll check.”Bay started down the stairs.“You getundressed.”
Shane kissed her forehead.“I’m going to find some rope ifyou think it’s okay.”
“I think Cleo would find it amusing,” Brooke replied andthen sobered.“I had a rough day, Shane.I would like to forget for a while.”
This was what they could offer her.Respite.Calm.A placewhere she didn’t have to worry.
“Do you want it soft and sweet?”Shane asked.
She shook her head.“I want to play.I want what we startedlast night.I know you have a lot of experience…”
Shane stared down at her.“We’re with you, Brooke.For aslong as you’ll let us be, we’re yours.No other women and no other subs.We dohave experience, but sharing it with you makes me so fucking happy.We startedthis because Stef offered us training.Well, he offered Bay training, and Icame along for the ride.”
“He offered us both training,” Bay said, walking back up thestairs.“He might have liked my art, but he saw something in you, too.”
“He saw I needed to find some control,” Shane conceded.“I’ll be honest, at first all I cared about was having sex.And kinky sex.Meeting women who didn’t pretend, who were upfront and honest about what theywanted.It felt like a whole new world, and I reveled in it, but the lastcouple of years, I’ve wanted something more.I don’t want to walk in a club andselect a partner for the night like I’m picking out a treat.I want a woman whowalks in there with us every time.Who we can get to know so well it’s secondnature to please her.So I don’t want to hear about how inexperienced you are.I want our experiences for now to be together, and that means you have to tellus what you want.”
“I want you to be rough with me.I want it hard and kinky.Idon’t want to feel like myself.”
“What do you think you are, Brooke?”
Her expression went stubborn.“Weak.I feel useless.I feellike I wasted my brothers’ time and money.I feel like a failure, and I want tofeel…wanted.”
Bay had gone still beside him, and he knew what his brotherwas thinking.If she wanted some discipline, this was absolutely the way to getit.
But Shane was the one who would talk first and then spank.The last thing she needed was to think she was right and that she was beingpunished for it.“You think you’re weak because you got fired?”
She nodded.
“You tried to fight.”He knew a little about it.“You wentto HR.”
“Yes, but…” she began.
“Did you shrug and cry and walk away?Or did you meet withGemma this afternoon for something other than catching up?”
“She told me how hard it would be.”Brooke sniffled butseemed to fight off the emotion.“I can’t put my family through it.”
“So let me get this straight,” Shane began.“You were sotalented that some asshole stole your designs and the company stood behind him.That’s not about you being weak.That’s about them being corrupt.Do you knowhow many times I’ve seen people fired because the boss wanted to cover up hisown mistakes?Hell, if I go by your standards, I’m the weakest man in the worldbecause I took all of my stepmother’s abuse.”
“You were a child,” she argued.
“And you were an employee they took advantage of,” Shanereplied.
“I signed the contract.”
