Page 27 of Tangled Passion

Madelyn tried to pull away, but he just tightened his grip. “Tell me.”

“It’s just that last night … you know, the things we did?”

He nodded and bit the inside of his cheek to keep from grinning. How could a forty-nine-year-old still be so innocent? Her husband must have been a damn idiot.

“It’s just that … I’m not like that.”

He cupped the side of her face. “Everything we did last night was perfect. We loved being able to touch you and give you pleasure. There’s nothing wrong with that. We all care for each other, right?”

Madelyn nodded.

He was pleased she hadn’t hesitated to affirm her feelings for them.

“Why can’t we be affectionate with you when we want? It doesn’t mean you’re slutty or anything. We both know how innocent you are, and you’ve had next to no experience, and we want to teach you everything. We’re excited and honored that you trust us enough to let us close. Especially after the way you and I started off.”

Garrett waited for a minute to let her think and exhaled when she nodded. God, he’d wait to fuck her if he had to, but his palms were itching to touch her whole body, his mouth to taste her again, and his cock to be buried as far in her as he could go. He didn’t care if it was her mouth, cunt, or ass.

“Be ready in two hours. One of us will come and get you,” he told her.

“I can just meet you.”

Garrett shook his head. “No, you’ll let us take care of you.”

Madelyn nodded one more time.

He placed a quick kiss on her lips. “We’ll see you soon.”

He waited until she shut her door to go back out and help with the camping gear and horses.

“How’s she doing?” Trey asked as he brushed down a horse.

“Good. Sore and tired but happy.”

Trey nodded. “Good. In the beginning, it’s going to take time to win her trust, but we must be patient, or we will lose her before we’ve ever had her.” Trey stopped brushing and leaned against the horse to look at him. “That thought will keep me up at night.”

Garrett nodded. “Yeah. Me, too. Let me help with the chores. I told her one of us would come to her room to get her in about two hours.”

“Then we better get to work,” Trey said before he turned back to the horse.

Garrett finished his work, showered, and was ready to get Madelyn but waited on his brother.

He frowned when he saw Trey. “What took you so long?”

“A problem with the young filly we got. The one I’m going to have Madelyn help with training. She got a cut on her right front ankle, and I wanted to make sure it was taken care of.”

Garrett nodded and followed his brother. They turned down one hallway and then another before they were in front of her door. His brother knocked and waited.

When Madelyn opened the door, the emotion that bombarded him at that moment felt like it constricted his heart. He’d never felt so much love for a person besides his family. It was great but also unnerving.

He’d feel better when they got her into their place and under them, by then she’d know where she belonged and neverleave.

He and his brother would do anything to keep her with them. They wanted to make a life with her, take care of her, and show her all the special places they had on their land. She’d only seen a fraction of it because she’d just been on the trails, but they knew every inch of the place. Besides that, they’d show her how much passion they could give her. There were so many things they could teach her and a few they had never tried before.

He’d take things minute by minute and remind himself there was still a chance they could lose her, and that wasn’t an option.

Chapter Seventeen

Madelyn swallowed nervously as the two men stood in front of her, staring at her and not smiling. She glanced down. She put on a long feminine skirt with a short-sleeved blouse and sandals on her feet. Now, she was debating if she’d chosen the wrong outfit. “Is this okay?”

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