Total pages in book: 102
Estimated words: 103413 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 517(@200wpm)___ 414(@250wpm)___ 345(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 103413 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 517(@200wpm)___ 414(@250wpm)___ 345(@300wpm)
“You like it? Him hurting you?”
Liam shared a look with Nico. They’d need to tread carefully. Lottie had known pain and force. While she hadn’t been raped, that asshole who’d taken her had touched her, terrified her.
Liam didn’t ever want her to look at him as though she thought he might harm her.
“I like to be dominated, Lottie.”
“Do you ever swap roles?” she asked.
“No,” Liam told her. “I’m not a switch.”
“Liam is my Dom. He’s also my husband, and I love him. Everything that happens between us is something I want. He knows that I like a bit of pain with my pleasure. That I enjoy when he takes charge. I make him work for it because that turns us both on. I like to push and know that he can control me. I can’t do any of that without an emotional connection.”
She blushed red. “I don’t think I could ever do that. The thought of being tied up, of being hurt, it doesn’t make me feel good.”
“You make the rules here, baby,” Liam told her. “I don’t know exactly how much you know about BDSM . . . ”
“A little. I overheard Jardin and Maddox talking once a while ago. Maddox is my cousin. I got curious and read some books. I like reading about it, and maybe before I was kidnapped, I might have enjoyed it. But not now.”
“We get it,” Nico told her. “And nobody will force you into anything, but you shouldn’t let fear rob you of something you want.”
“But I don’t know if I would like it.”
“And you won’t know unless you try,” Liam said. “There’s no time frame, no pressure.”
“For any of this,” Nico added.
Liam frowned. Part of him wanted to demand that she be with them now. But he got that wasn’t what was best for her.
But once he’d realized she was fucking lost and needed him and Nico to show her the way, then his patience was gone.
“And if I couldn’t do any of that?”
“Then you wouldn’t have to,” Liam told her firmly. “If you’re not interested in BDSM, then you don’t have to be our sub.”
But he was certain that she would like it. Would come to crave it. That she was a sub. But they would never force her. Ever.
She sucked in a breath. “And you both want me?”
“Yes,” Nico told her. “We both want you.”
She looked to Liam for reassurance.
“We do.”
“It’s not weird that I dated your brother?”
“For three months,” Nico scoffed.
“We all know he didn’t deserve you. He left you with us while he flirted with that woman. And I no longer call him family. My family is the man holding you on his lap. And you.”
“You can’t claim me as family. We barely know each other. If you’d really wanted me . . .”
Liam swore under his breath. Fuck. He should have known she wouldn’t believe them. Because how could they have stayed away if they claimed to want her as much as they did.
“We were giving you time to heal,” Nico explained.
Liam clenched his jaw. “I didn’t think you’d want me. I’m rough, harsh, I have a lot of darkness inside me.”
Nico and Lottie gaped at him.
Standing, he started to pace. “You were hurt. You were terrorized. It takes time to get over shit like that. Thought I was all wrong for you. Told myself I’d give you time. Ended up giving you too much time and messing it all up. Now you’re hurting yourself. You still have panic attacks. Probably nightmares too. Staying away didn’t make things better, if anything it made things worse because you doubt it when we tell you we want you. That we want you no matter what. No matter if you can’t be our sub. No matter if you have issues. Issues that are not a fucking joking matter. So, this is what is going to happen.”
“Oh, hell,” Nico muttered.
“You disagree with me?” he barked at Nico.
Nico looked at him then down to Lottie. “Not the sentiment, but maybe the delivery.”
“Suck it up. This is how it’s got to be.” He stared down at Lottie. “We want you, Lottie. You’re ours. The only thing that’s going to stop us from claiming you is if you say you don’t want us. If you don’t feel attracted to us, then tell us now and we walk away.”
“And if I don’t tell you that. Then what?”
“Then we stay. Then we prove to you that this can work. I’m likely too rough and dark for you. Maybe you’d be better off with just Nico. But I’m not giving either of you up, so yeah, you’ve got to suck it up too.”
“She’s not hesitating because she only wants me,” Nico said.
Liam turned to her. Needing to hear it from her.
She was staring at him, her mouth slightly open.