For a moment, Luc just stared, as if he wasn’t sure what to make of her smile or what to do first. She took the decision out of his hands. An odd bravery, feminine resolution—pure need to tempt Deke—flowed through her as she reached for the hem of her top and pulled it over her head, completely baring herself to Luc. Deke got a great side view. Then she pinched her nipples, ensuring they were hard. “I’m more than ready.” She hoped those husky words went straight to Deke’s cock. They sure went to Luc’s. Staggered by them, he sank to his knees. “Stay on the sofa.” Casting a challenging glance Deke’s way, Kimber wriggled, rolling her hips and making a great show of getting comfortable. Then she primly crossed her legs, imitating her best ladylike posture, and wasn’t it lucky for her that the pose thrust her breasts right into Luc’s face? Yanking out the elastic band restraining his midnight hair, Luc tossed it on the table. Waves of inky hair fell around his strong face. His shirt ca
Suck me. So fucking good.”Knowing she could do this to him, yes. It was good. And she wanted him to come, needed to know he felt the ecstasy, too. Luc withdrew from her backside slowly, carefully. Kimber moaned at the odd sensation of his withdrawal, of the ache of sudden emptiness.He leaned over her body and planted a kiss on her shoulder. “You keep amazing me. That felt incredible.”Behind her, she felt Luc rise. Vaguely, she heard him peel off the condom. Then his padded footsteps left the room. And she focused her attention on Deke, on the muscled thighs beneath her fingers, the thick stalk her tongue cradled.Instantly, Deke tensed. “Get the fuck back here!” Kimber lifted her head, puzzled. “I’m here.”“I meant Luc,” he growled.Deke needed Luc…why? Certainly Deke could come without him.“Back in a minute,” Luc called from across the house.“I want your ass back here now.”Luc didn’t answer. Deke’s hands became fists, and he jumped to his feet and cursed, something mean and ugl
“Deke?” Luc called from the door.His cousin was asking what he planned to do. Deke whipped his head around to meet Luc’s dark, inquiring gaze. What the fuck could he say? The temptation to break his every rule gnawed at him. Kimber wasn’t someone else’s woman. If he fucked her now, she wouldn’t belong to another man who would take responsibility if something went bad.At least in this moment, she belonged to him. Only him.“I offered,” Kimber explained softly. “I asked him to make love to me. To be the first.”Luc’s smile was damn near blinding as he entered the room, sat on the sofa, and grabbed Kimber’s hand. “It’s a lovely gift. If Deke hasn’t said it yet, he’s touched and honored.”Deke shot his cousin a dirty glare. “I didn’t accept.” Brow raised, Luc took in their position, the way Kimber was all spread out and welcoming, Deke’s cock gloved up and ready.Deke let out a shaky breath. The fact was, he hadn’t turned her down, either.He had to do something. Now. The need bubbling
Making a great show of straightening the pillows on the sofa, he was unprepared when Kimber tapped him on the shoulder. He turned to her, and she smacked him across the face. Hard.“If all this vile shit you’re saying is the truth, then you’re a first-class asshole and I wish I hadn’t come here in the first place. If you’re saying it so you can leave your precious scarred heart wrapped in ice, then not only are you an asshole, you’re a coward. Unless you get over the past, you’ll be alone for the rest of your life, because Luc will someday meet a great girl, get married, and leave you to rot alone.Enjoy your misery; it’s well deserved.”She spun and stormed away. Victory. And yet he’d never felt more wretched.“Kimber…” Luc called after her departing figure, auburn hair curling around her back. “Sweetheart!”She didn’t hesitate, much less stop. Instead, Kimber just marched out of the room, across the house to Luc’s room, then slammed the door.Deke flinched at the angry sound of the
He waved her compliment away. “It’s easy when you have a hairdresser, a personal trainer, a chef, blah, blah, blah. Sit down. It’s great to see you!” He tugged her to the sofa and she sat beside him. “Since we haven’t had the chance to catch up in a couple of weeks, tell me how your dad has been?”“You know the Colonel. Always busy. Always running a tight unit. He’s been all over the world lately. He’ll be heading home next week for a mini-vacation. He hasn’t had one in over a year.”Jesse nodded. “That man was always driven. Remember that week at the lake we all spent the summer he guarded me?”Remember? That’s where she and Jesse had fallen for each other, and they’d started talking about the possibilities of a future together.Nothing had changed since then. Yet everything had. Jesse had drifted into a wild lifestyle, according to the tabloids. Now,Deke kept intruding in Kimber’s thoughts. Her stomach was in a constant knot of pain. Standing in front of Jesse with Ryan looking on,
But now she’d never know.Jesse breathed a sigh of relief. “So they just talked to you?”“They touched me. I learned to touch them.” She wasn’t going to lie. She just wasn’t going to tell him she was in love with someone else.Thunder boomed across Jesse’s dark face. “Touch, how?”“Enough that I understand the appeal of the ménage and what draws you to do it.I never expected you to change your sexuality for me. So I tried to adapt for you.” I tried to find out what fascination a crass, difficult soldier had for me and I got burned.The answer seemed to mollify him. “That’s… Wow, you’re an amazing woman.But You’re not like the whores and bimbos around all the time. I had no intention of sharing you. Not with Ryan. Not with anyone. If I make you bad, how can your good rub off on me?”His tone was half-joking. Kimber wasn’t laughing. They really needed to get past this Virgin Mary image he had of her.“Thanks for not wanting to share me with Ryan.”Jesse leaned over, pulled her close.
“That’s it?”“Um, I’m sure it’ll be great.” Was he put out because she wasn’t jumping up and down to find out about the secret?“I hope you think so.” He stared, those piercing dark eyes looking anxious and confused.She sighed. “What’s wrong?”“Nothing.”A denial, pure and simple. Damn, the man was so moody. From highs to lows, from mischief to pensive, all in a snap. Everyone always just adapted, Kimber noticed. Jesse was so used to the world revolving around him. It was so unlike her father and brothers, who only had three modes: work, laughter, and anger—in that order. Jesse was all over the emotional map.“What happened to the you I used to know?” The question was out before she could stop it.Jesse’s gaze snapped back to her. “What do you mean?” Kimber fought the urge to fidget and looked away. But they hadn’t had an honest conversation in the last week. Passing and superficial, yes. He’d asked about her family, her schooling, scraped a bit of the surface about her wishes for th
Hell no!But that was reality, and it shredded his guts like a thousand dull razors. McCall had proposed, and she’d said yes. Jesse was happy, if his smile in the picture was anything to go by. Kimber’s picture was in profile, but she had to be happy. This was the realization of her little white lace, virgin-girl dream. While he… Hell, he’d been a fucking pissed-off wreck ever since she’d left, wrenching his heart out with her tears.“She wasn’t ours,” he managed to croak out. “This just proves it.”“Kimber might have stayed if you’d been decent to her. She offered you her—”“I wasn’t taking her virginity. It didn’t belong to me, just like she didn’t!” The fact that the girl and her virginity belonged to the smiling crooner in the picture didn’t exactly thrill him. Correction: it made him want to tear McCall apart slowly, with his bare hands, and inflict maximum pain.Lord knew the army had trained him to do it.Luc pointed an accusing finger in his face. “You made her believe she did