Page 112 of Royally Tempted

“Just sex” wouldn’t have been so worried about me being okay with everything afterwards. Just sex wouldn’t have told me to take all the time I needed, and to let them know if I needed anything.

And the funny part is, it wasn’t just sex to me either.

I’d felt something with the three of them that I’d never felt before. I’d feltsafe, and protected, but also part of something that was more than me. It was like somehow, I’d had this insane connection with all three of the guys, and again, on way more than just a sexual level.

I just needed to figure out what that was and what it all meant.

I was sitting on Sasha’s back deck drinking a glass of wine after a long hot bath when she got back home that night.

“What's eating you?”

“Hmm? Nothing.”

She eyed me, and then the glass of wine in my hand hungrily before sighing and cracking her lemon-lime soda water and slumping down into the chair next to mine.

“Rough day at the office?”

“Yeah,” she sighed, wincing and reaching down to rub her calves.

“It’s a whole company, and I usually have Jordan and Luke to help.”

“Right, and you’re pregnant.”

She laughed. “Right, that.”

“When do they get back again?”

“A few days,” she grumbled.

“Good thing you’re a superwoman who can handle anything then, right?”

She rolled her eyes. “Hey, nice dodge by the way.”

“What?”

“I asked what was up with you, and you totally just put it on me instead.”

I grinned.

“I’m wise to you, Holloway. So how was the first day? Those guys turn out okay?”

“They…yeah.” I quickly hid my face in my glass of wine to hide the red bloom.

“They’re young!”

I looked up sharply.

“I did some poking around since Camelot Holdings is so damn secretive.” She shrugged before winking at me.

“Young andhot.”

“Hey, you are atakenwoman, lady,” I teased. “Bytwoadoring men, I might add! How many do you need?”

Sasha laughed along with me, but deep down, all I could think was one thing: How many didIneed?

“Doesn’t mean I don’t have eyes.” She stuck her tongue out at me. “So how was your first day working for those three hunks?”

I turned scarlet before I could hide my face again.

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