Page 22 of Roses and Murder
Because Keeva was not nearly as scary as her sister. She usually had sweets for us and always thought it was amusing when we cut up. She was honestly probably one of the nicest women in Guttertown. I couldn’t see her saying or doing anything to traumatize someone like Beck.
“So, I’m not going to spill a woman’s secrets without her permission, but she’s got some dual training from my ancestors. She’s only really using the baking, but shecoulduse the other if she wanted. Anyway, I don’t want to talk about it because it still disturbs me. Get naked and join us.”
They’d all seen me naked, but we hadn’t had time aside from once in the barn. I’d been too busy with Mom and then Folcard gave me his task. I wanted them again. I didn’t think Mom would care if she overheard anything if I invited them to my bedroom. She’d probably be happy for me and never say a thing about it. I just felt like it was a little rude to make my mother hear my sex noises since she told me how long she’d been in labor with me.
I didn’t know why I was shy right now. They’d seen all this before. They told me how much they liked it. I’d seen plenty of naked women playing in the brothel. I knew I didn’t look bad, even if I had to hide it. It was just weird exposing myself to thembecauseI had to spend so much time hiding it.
Ollie came up behind me and wrapped his arms around my waist.
“You don’t have to. You can just roll your trousers up and put your feet in.”
No. I wasn’t passing up something I’d been wanting to do for most of my life with people I loved because I was still getting used to not hiding around them. I pulled out of Ollie’s arms andyanked my shirt off. Ollie traced the edge of my binding with his finger.
“You’re beautiful as Lucy or Lance, but I hope one day, you don’t have to wear this because it looks like it hurts.”
It was uncomfortable, and I had scars, but I was used to it. If I could ever stop wearing it, I’d jump at the chance, though. I went to take it off, which was always a pain, but Ollie stepped in to help. He wasn’t as big as Neco or Autar, but he was still bigger than me and muscular from helping out on his uncle’s farm. He was still just so gentle.
Once I was naked, I was fine. I didn’t want to cover myself up. I liked the way they looked at me. I felt beautiful. I felt like Lucy.
I groaned as I sank into the pool. We bathed more often than most of Nestran because we had easier access to water. The palace had decent access and I couldn’t imagine royalty walking around as ripe as the Barons and merchants did, but I’d never meet them to confirm they didn’t stink.
We could either bathe in the ocean or haul water home. Unless you had access to this. The Madame had a pit cut into the ground and lined with stones. She filled it with water and perfumed oil.
This was the most luxurious thing I’d ever done. I was figuring out when Beck had his baths scheduled so I could sneak over if it didn’t interfere with the tavern.
“You can bathe with me whenever you want, but you can’t make that noise unless you want sex with your bath,” Beck growled.
“That was definitely a sex noise,” Ollie said.
“It really was, Lucy,” Ronan said.
Yeah, maybe I was feeling a little more confident than I originally thought. We’d known each other since we were babies. I rested my arms out on the sides of the pool and gave them agood look. I really was just enjoying the bath, but if they wanted to go there, I wasn’t going to stop them.
“Maybe it was supposed to be,” I purred.
I might have been pretending to be Lance, but Lucy paid attention at the brothel just in case Lance ever got to go away. They all started swearing.
“Well, weweregoing to wash you after you’d soaked a bit, but not if you’re going to have a filthy mouth,” Ronan said.
“Maybe you should put something in it to shut me up.”
We hadn’t done that last time, but I knew it was something men liked. I wanted to try it. Ollie stood up so fast, he tripped over Ronan and ended up in Beck’s lap. My mouth went dry.
I knew they were together, too, because they told me, but they’d kept that from me because they didn’t want me to feel left out before. I wanted to see it. I thought it would be sexy, but I also had no idea what I was doing.
“Show me what you like.”
“I have an idea,” Ollie chuckled.
We were all naked, so I was pretty sure we weren’t going to end up in the cells this time, but this was also one of Ollie’s ideas and stranger things had happened before. Ollie stalked over to me, picked me up, and placed me on the side of the pool.
“I know what these arseholes like. They know what I like. We need to learn whatyouenjoy, so I’m going to figure that out while Ronan shows you how Beck likes it.”
I let out a whimper because I very much wanted that. I locked eyes with Beck as Ollie and Ronan knelt before us.
“Ollie and Ronanlovegiving oral,” Beck said. “The only reason they aren’t fighting about it is because we’ll definitely do this again, but with them switching.”
Ollie devoured me. Beck and Ronan were standing where I could see everything. There was just something beautiful aboutwatching a man as deadly as Beck receiving pleasure. If I was the one doing it, I wouldn’t be able to see it from this angle.
