CHAPTER 74

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.