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)
“Baby, this is me going slow. Once I’m in, I’m all in.”
“This is you going slow? Are you serious?”
Nico knew that he was. “Once Liam makes up his mind about something, that’s it. Even if everyone else around him is scrambling to keep up. See, you’ve been ours for a long time, you just didn’t know it.”
“She wasn’t ready then,” Liam said. “She’s ready now.”
“And how do you judge that?” she asked.
“I just know. In here.” Liam patted his chest.
“Just go with it,” Nico said to her. “It’s easier. So, in Liam’s mind you’re already his and if he wasn’t going slow, well . . . ”
“You’d already be under my roof, in my bed,” Liam told her.
A glimpse of panic filled her face and they both stiffened.
“But I am going slow, baby,” Liam reassured her. “So, you don’t have to worry. This goes at your pace. For now.”
“For now?” she asked.
“Well, when you’re ready we’ll move it forward.”
“And you’ll just know when that’s right?”
“Yep.” Liam grinned.
“Not arrogant at all, is he?” she said to Nico.
“Who, Liam? No, not at all. Not our lord and master,” Nico replied sarcastically.
“Anyone would think you didn’t want to come for the next week,” Liam drawled.
Nico sat up straight. “Wait, no, what? I didn’t mean it, your hotness. You’re the epitome of arrogance, so full of ego that it sweats out of your pores.”
Lottie started giggling and Nico gave Liam a smart-assed smirk.
Liam just stared back at him darkly, making him shiver. Oh, yeah, he was going to pay for that.
Nico licked his lips in anticipation.
“But even if this craziness does work, I won’t actually be a Carmichael, will I?”
“What makes you say that?” Liam looked like a giant, lazy cat, leaning back into the corner of the sofa, but Nico sensed the energy amassing inside him. Wanting a way out.
Yep, his ass was in definite trouble later.
“Well, you’re already married.”
She looked between them both, chewing at her lip.
“Is it a problem?” Nico asked nervously. She could ask Liam to divorce him and marry her. Nico didn’t want her to feel left out. But it might just break his heart.
“A problem? Why would it be a problem?” Lottie asked.
Liam was watching him with a narrowed gaze.
“Are you going to want Liam to marry you?” he blurted out.
Both of them gaped at him.
“What?” Lottie asked.
“Nico, what are you talking about?” Liam asked, leaning forward. “Are you saying you want a divorce?”
Nico jumped to his feet, unable to stay still. His emotions “What? No! I don’t want a divorce. But what about Lottie? She would be the smarter one to marry. And she should have your name. She needs your protection more. I’m no one, but Lottie she’s—”
“You’re no one?” Lottie yelled.
Nico froze, staring down at her.
“I’m sorry for yelling,” she said, but then her face filled with ire. “But that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard. Are you serious? You really think that Liam would divorce you to marry me? And then what? We’d live happy ever after? The two of us, with you in the background because you’re no one after all.”
His mouth opened. Shut.
She turned to Liam. “I think maybe you should let him come, all his brains seem to have diverted from his brain to his cock.”
“Lottie!” he finally said, shocked. He’d never heard her say the word cock. It was sexy, but still surprising.
“You be quiet,” she told him fiercely. “You’re not to talk until you make sense.”
“But it’s true—”
“You should spank him too,” Lottie told Liam. “He spoke badly about himself, and that’s a rule, right?”
“Lottie is right, Nico, you’re not to put yourself down.”
Lottie gave him a triumphant look. He glared back. “You don’t top me, brat. If Liam isn’t here, then I top you.”
“What? Who decided that?”
“We did,” Liam told her. “Nico is a switch, and if I’m not around, he’s responsible for your safety. So, you’ll obey him if I’m not here.”
“Not if he’s gonna be an idiot and call himself a no one.”
“I didn’t call myself a no one,” he muttered.
“That’s exactly what you did,” Liam growled at him. “Come here.”
Nico moved over to him as Liam sat up and parted his legs. “Kneel.”
He knelt between the other man’s thighs, staring up at him. Liam reached down to cup his face between his hands. “You’re a fucking idiot.”
“But—”
“Quiet,” Liam commanded.
He closed his mouth.
“I would never set you aside.”
His words filled the part of him that was always uncertain of his place. That needy spot inside of him he wished didn’t exist but he seemed unable to eradicate.
“You are mine.”
“I didn’t mean you’d set me aside—”
“Do I need to gag you?” Liam asked.
Nico shook his head.
“Because it might be good for you to be gagged and bound, dick in a cock cage while I torture you. Would that help you to remember that you are not a no one to me?”