“And you used it…with something?” Aiden lowered his voice and let out a whistle. “Shit.”
Something in me snapped and I accepted my life was over and I’d have to move to Siberia to escape my shame after this. If I had to do that, I might as well spell everything out for them. “I have a dildo glued inside me and I can’t get it out!”
The room was utterly silent for what felt like five minutes but was probably only seconds. The CD player started the next song and my shame doubled when the lyrics filled the room. Pony by Genuine wasn’t exactly the mood I was trying to set while being assessed by three paramedics who happened to be my hotter than sin neighbors, but there was nothing I could do.
Tate finally broke the silence. “Is this a weird time to say it’s nice to finally meet you?”
CHAPTER 3
Eve
I laughed because there was nothing else to do. The laughter made my lower muscles clench, though, and that ended in discomfort. I winced and blew out a deep breath. “Are there any female paramedics on their way?”
“Nope. You’re stuck with us.” Tate cleared his throat, as if he was getting serious finally. “Okay. We’re going to need to see the situation, a’am.”
I groaned. “My name is Eve. Please stop calling me ma’am. I can’t be a ma’am in the situation I’m in right now.”
Someone muffled a laugh and then grunted like they’d been punched. I kept my eyes squeezed shut and my arm over my face, just in case. I didn’t want to see their faces when they saw what I’d done. I just had to open my legs and show them. That was all. It wasn’t a big deal. They were professionals. It didn’t matter at all I’d watched them chop wood, and mow, and workout while shirtless.
“Alright. You need to let us see.” Nash’s low voice felt more like a whisper and an even hotter blush stole across my entire body.
“Yep!” I shouted the word and then cleared my throat and tried again. “Yep. I’m opening my legs now.”
I cringed at myself and decided if I didn’t die from shame, I was joining the Sisterhood. I’d give up men completely, even seeing them.
“Hey, Eve?” Aiden sounded like he was smiling and it made me want to kick him. “Your legs are squeezed together so tightly right now that even the jaws of life wouldn’t get them open.”
I groaned. “Not funny.”
A rough, warm hand landed on my knee and my eyes flew open and met Tate’s. He gently squeezed my knee and smiled. “We can’t help if we can’t see, Eve. We’ll be professional about this.”
I pressed my head back into the bed and forced my legs to part. Barely inch by inch I cracked them open until I knew they could see every part of me. I waited for some sign they were looking but the room was silent except for Genuine singing about riding his pony. I didn’t dare look up at them so I just remained perfectly still and waited.
Finally, after what felt like a lifetime, Aiden cleared his throat. “Yep. That’s a neon green dildo.”
I groaned even louder and tried to close my legs but another hand landed on my inner thigh and stopped me. I struggled against it, though. “Just forget it. I’ll live with it like this until it comes out. It’s fine.”
The hand on my inner thigh didn’t budge. “We can’t let you do that. I’m pretty sure that’s a bad idea.”
I finally lifted my head and looked at Nash. “The bad idea was the one I had an hour ago to use this devil contraption!”
He rolled his lips into his mouth and blew out a big sigh through his nose. “Let’s just get this thing out before it hurts you.”
“Too late.”
His eyes moved back to the situation and I watched the muscles in his jaw flex. “We’re going to have to touch you to figure this out. I’ll apologize now for how invasive this has to be.”
I pulled the pillow over my face and screamed into it. Mid-scream, I felt the hand on my inner thigh shift lower and my throat clamped shut. I pulled the pillow down enough to watch them. Aiden and Tate’s eyes were glued to my middle, where Nash’s hand was hovering just over the dildo. Nash’s eyes flicked up to mine as he gripped the base of the evil thing. There was a split second in time when I looked at him and he looked back at me and it didn’t feel like he was responding to a medical call.
He looked away before I did and I was left staring back up at the ceiling, wondering what my life had become. Just a little over a year earlier, I’d been happily dating a guy I thought I’d marry, I had an apartment in the city I loved, and I was even thinking about getting a cat.
I could feel the weight of Nash’s hand on the dildo and stiffened. I braced for the pain but none came. I glanced up to see all three of them watching me. “It hurt when I tried to pull it out. I’m just…scared.”
“I’m going to sit on the other side of you, okay?” Tate waited for me to nod before he climbed onto my bed and sat between me and the wall. The space wasn’t large so I was practically in his lap. “I know this isn’t easy but you’re going to need to stay relaxed for us, Eve. I don’t think you clamping down on it is going to help anything.”
I made a sound that was half whine, half growl. “I’m not trying to clamp down on anything.”
He lightly stroked the inside of my knee. “Nash is going to gently move it to get an idea of how stuck it is and then we’ll figure out what to do.”