I stay quiet in passenger seat as Archer drives the car toward the dinner event. In the backseat, Mia mumbles softly to herself, apparently oblivious to my doom and gloom and the tension that is now thick in the car between Archer and me. He kissed me. He hasn’t kissed me since way back when, befo
Inside the hotel, the brothers had rented most of the first floor, including the bar area and all of the meeting spaces. Near the bar is where I spot Angela, so I head over to greet her. There are two empty martini glasses on the bar top behind her. A third is in her hand. “One more,” she says,
“Of course he found out,” Beau says. “Neil is as subtle as a heart attack.” “I’m sorry, Chloe,” Angela says, and I have no idea why she is apologizing to me, when I’m the one who fooled around with her boyfriend. Even if she is cool with it. “I should have warned you about their father.” “I had
“Attention, guests,” comes a calm female voice over the speaker system. “Dinner is ready to be served. Please proceed into the dining room.” Angela lifts her martini glass in my direction. “See you in there.” I guess we can’t enter together. I suppose it makes sense, though it does sting. The gu
I push open the door, eager for escape. “What’s wrong?” Neil asks behind me. I glance back in time to see Archer stand and whisper in his ear. Neil’s eyes go wide. “Angela,” he corrects, far too late. “Will you marry me, Angela?” Then, suddenly, everyone starts talking at once. I dip out i
The couple split apart. The woman looks behind me and gasps. Seeing her face, she’s older than I expected. Probably one of those wives who flirted with Beau earlier. Beau himself just smirks at me now. He’s still palming the woman’s ass. “Something you needed, Nanny?” I roll my eyes. I want to t
I can see the exact moment Beau reads about what happened in the dining room. Something flashes in his eyes. He tries to hide it, but I still see it. And Gods help me, it looks a hell of a lot like amusement. I know I’m in for a world of torment. Oddly though, that amusement flickers in the next i
But I feel like I should know, before this goes even one minute farther. “Am I fired?” I ask. He goes very still. Then his gaze flits back down to Mia in my arms. “Don’t ask stupid questions.” I look at him with wide eyes. There are so many other fears, but that one, at least, is assuaged. F
I’m happy because I have four hearts beating alongside mine.“Do you feel it, too?” I ask. “My connection to each of you?”I blink my eyes open once more. I want to see their faces, their reactions.Neil has his hand over his own heart. “It’s strange. It’s like part of you is inside of me.”“Me, too
In the darkness of my mind, I floated, surrounded by the comforting embrace of love. Distantly, I could feel another presence, one that grew stronger and stronger, the more I focused on it: my wolf.As I thought of her, she appeared before me as if I willed her into being. Maybe I did. We are in my
Damn alpha wolves and their heightened senses.“I’ve already made my choice,” I say. “Honestly, I think I made it a long, long time ago.”Archer relaxes marginally. Steven starts to smile.Neil turns to me, worry still on his face. “You say that now, Chloe. But the pull could be strong…”“I don’t ca
The eve of my birthday, I rest in bed and stare at my ceiling. It’s late, near midnight, but I still have my bedside light on.With my feelings shared and grown with Neil, Archer, and Steven, I didn’t expect to spend any night alone, especially the one right before the day that could change everythi
I awake to a sharp knock on my bedroom door. Neil’s arm is still draped over me but some distance had inched between our hot bodies in the night. I’m able to slink out from under his arm without him waking.Naked, I quickly stop by the bathroom to throw on my fluffy bathrobe. Then, after glancing ba
They.Beau glances at me and see my incredulous look. “What do I need to go out every night? Can’t a man just enjoy staying home for a change?”“You can do whatever the hell you want,” I say.“Good, then.” Beau slumps down on the couch. He stretches out, lifting his feet up and into my lap. “Now tel
For the rest of the morning, I desperately try not to think about Neil. Whoever he’s in love with, I won’t be offended by it. The hurt I feel has nothing to do with this new person. She must be great for her to have won Neil’s affections.The hurt is my own loss, my own problem. I let my feelings fo
After Steven and I have cleaned ourselves up with a quick shower, we fall back into bed together, giggling and laughing all the way. My now, Steven has discovered a few of my tickle zones, which he is exploiting. As revenge, I touch the places I now know make him shiver.For a while, nothing seems l
His hands fumbled with the buttons of his own shirt. Such usually steady hands are rendered useless by his nervousness.“Allow me,” I tell him. I lightly bat his hands out of the way before replacing them with mine on his shirt buttons. My times with Neil have served me well. I’m able to undo all th