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“I told him to go on tour. Magenta Castle was starting to get national attention when I discovered I was pregnant with you.” She implored Ruby with a pleading look. “I loved you from the first moment I realized I was pregnant, but I didn’t want a baby to slow us both down.”
Jewel stared at the hands she had folded in her lap and didn’t speak. The only sound in the room was the clock ticking away the seconds.
Luke placed his right hand over both Jewel’s much smaller ones and continued the story, “When I came back for our first tour, I found out about you and how your mother had been living since her parents found out. I kept in contact with her through letters. We didn’t have cellphones back then. Imagine my surprise to find her in an attic above the salon with a five-month-old baby.”
Ruby struggled to catchup with the information. “Okay,” she stretched the word, because nothing was right for her, “that explains why you didn’t stay and marry her like you should have.”
His face contorted in pain. “I wanted to, believe me.”
“Honey,” Jewel’s voice was surprisingly strong, “he proposed and not just then, but several times over the years. But understand, a wife and a kid just would have slowed him down.”
“So, you let him jump in and out of our lives, whenever he wanted?” Ruby swallowed back bitter tears.
“I did and it was wrong of me to do so. Can you forgive me?” Jewel’s voice didn’t waver, but the first tears dripped from her eyes.
Tenderly, Luke used his thumb to wipe them away before he looked at Ruby. His emotions clear on his face. “Maybe I lied,” he admitted. “There’s another woman in my heart.” He swallowed and held out his hand toward his daughter.
Chapter Ten
Naked as the day she was born, Ruby reclined on the large bed in Club Indigo that took almost the entire room. Both dressed in leather pants, Will and Nathan looked sumptuous, and Ruby was ready to get down and dirty with them. But did they oblige? No-oh.
Ruby scowled at the men surrounding her. Nathan and Will had been fighting less, and it almost convinced her it would all work out. They weren’t in a relationship, but she told herself over and over it was fine. I don’t want more, right?
She did however want the demon Doms to continue and stop torturing her with the promise of fun times and not going further. She squinted between Nathan on her left and Will on her right. The last was most likely to be coerced. Ruby pushed up on one elbow and stroked the bulge behind Will’s leathers.
In a move so sudden it shocked her, Will grabbed and straddled her. He closed his callused fists over her wrists and pinned her arms to the bed next to her head. “Where did we tell you to put your hands?”
“Sir.” Half out of her mind in a haze of sexual need, she tried to wiggle and earned herself a pinch on her hip from Nathan.
“Obey us.” Nathan rumbled in his low voice.
Will moved her hands above her head and transferred the hold on her arms to one palm, his long fingers easily spanning both her wrists. With his now free hand, he positioned her face to his liking and leaned in to stroke her lips with his sensual mouth—once, twice. When he pulled away before taking the kiss any deeper, she tried to follow him, only to be halted by his shackling hold.
“Now tell us, baby.” Nathan squatted beside the bed, bringing their eyes level. “Remember our discussion of double penetration?”
She scoffed. “How could I forget that!” Then what he was hinting at dawned on her. “You both want to have sex with me at the same time? Now?” Both men were huge. Although the thought excited her when they talked about it, the deed scared her, in equal matters.
