Total pages in book: 141
Estimated words: 132138 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 661(@200wpm)___ 529(@250wpm)___ 440(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 132138 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 661(@200wpm)___ 529(@250wpm)___ 440(@300wpm)
“Oh, I dare, Princess. You’re going to find out how much I dare. And don’t you even start saying this isn’t exactly what you want. You broadcast so loud I’m surprised the damn squirrels can’t hear you. You want us to take you. You want to be able to wake up in the morning and go right back to believing you can get out of this. Well, I’m going to tell you that you’re getting what you want. We will take you, but you’re going to know you’re ours by morning, love.”
The fact that his words are so very true does nothing to assuage how angry he makes me. “Put me down now, you overgrown idiot.”
Another smack. “Every time you curse me, I’m adding five to your punishment. You’re at thirty right now. Thirty smacks to that sweet ass of yours. Do you want more?”
I’m not getting any reason from an overly possessive vampire. I look toward the fire, hoping to find a vampire more amenable to my cause. “Roan. Roan, my brothers are paying you, right?”
Roan never even looks up from the fire. “Not at all, Princess. Your brothers don’t have a single piece of gold between them. Your father-in-law is paying me. And he’s paying me quite handsomely. I would advise you to take your well-earned spanking with dignity and then attempt to please your husbands. I think you’ll find you have an enormous amount of power over them should you choose to use it wisely.”
Damn mercenary. “You aren’t going to be any help at all.”
Now the mercenary looks up, and there’s a grin on his face. “On the contrary, Your Highness. I think you’ll find I’ve been very helpful. After all, I’m the one who gave them the kit I think they’re about to use on you. It has all sorts of helpful items in it.”
Gillian stands up, her eyes flickering between her brothers and me. “Can’t we talk about this?”
“Sit down, Princess,” Roan says in a deep voice that he more than likely uses on soldiers to keep them in line. “You are not going to come between husbands and their rightfully bonded mate. They won’t hurt her. They’re bonded. They feel what she’s feeling. Do you think your brothers would enjoy her pain?”
“Gillian won’t help me.” She made that plain.
Gillian sits back down, wiping at her eyes. “It seems I’m the villain at every turn with you, Bron. I know you won’t believe it, but I do love you. And so do my brothers.”
Lach strides past Shim, his long legs eating up the forest floor.
“Is this really what you want, Bron?” Shim asks. “Because we can be gentle.”
“She doesn’t want gentle.” Lach keeps right on walking.
I hold my head up. It’s either that or watch Lach’s perfectly formed backside move. “Fuck you, Lach. And you can fuck yourself, Shim.”
Lach stops. He sets me on my feet, but I don’t stay there long. He gets to one knee and flips me neatly over. I find myself facing the grass, my ass in the air. Oh, goddess, I pushed him. I knew what I was doing and I did it anyway because I want this. I want to see what makes Kaja moan, but I don’t want to ask for it.
“You know exactly what you’re doing, don’t you?” Shim sounds tortured. “This doesn’t mean anything to you. This is physical for you.”
“There’s no use talking to her. She knows what she wants, and she’s figured out how to get it.” Lach’s big hand steadies me. “One last chance, Princess. We can play this the way we would prefer. We would prefer to simply love you tonight. There will be time enough for games later. We want to bond. We want to know you inside and out.”
And then they will know how to handle me every single time. I’m already at a disadvantage since they seem to be able to read my thoughts. No. I can’t let them in. This is all I can give them. For now. Maybe forever. “Fuck off, Lach.”
His hand hits my ass with a loud crack, and tears spark from my eyes. The pain is sharp and cuts through me. Lach barely gives me time to process the first one before he strikes again. Ten times his hand rains down. I can’t breathe. I can’t move. I can’t think past the feel of Lach’s hand on my ass.
And the feel of his cock hardening. I can feel it rising against my side, but more than that, I can feel it as Lach feels it, jutting out from his core, his cock filling with blood. There’s a primal anticipation taking him over. This is a good place for him. This is a place he loves, and it’s so much sweeter because I’m here with him.