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I don’t know if I should be impressed or annoyed that he kind of knew me so well. I thought about walking around, but the wind had a bite to it, which meant that I did not want to walk around in it. I grabbed the amber liquid, contemplating if I needed something a little stronger. Romeo raised a brow at my choice, and I drank all of it at once. My body stilled, waiting for the expected burn, but it never came. It was smooth and smoky, telling me it should have been sipped and not taken like a shot.

“That was sexy, Val,” Romeo said, grabbing the margarita, holding out the wine for Hunter.

He took it, ushered me to the couch with his hand at the small of my back and I could feel his heat through a couple of layers.

“Let me take your coat,” he said, pulling it off me along with my scarf and Yeti beanie.

Even though I had on jeans with a long-sleeve shirt, I felt naked. Dammit, I should have kept the drink so I would have had something to hold. When I got nervous, I tended to fidget and just as I was going to sit down, I decided against it. I looked out the window, seeing the beautiful snow capped mountains as clouds were rolling in.

“I have the contract here,” Hunter said, pulling my attention to him and Romeo who were standing behind me. “We can go through it, clause by clause, or if you’d like, you can look at it on your own and come back to us with any changes.”

He held out a small packet of papers making this even more real.

“Wait, before I look over this, I want to know your usernames on the site,” I blurted out because I had been dying to know.

“I like you not knowing,” Hunter smirked.

“GoRigger96,” Romeo said.

“I knew that was one of you,” I grinned. “Come on Hunter, tell me, please.”

“SwitchRus,” Romeo said with a smirk.

“Dammit, I was going to make her work for it,” Hunter scowled.

“Thanks, Ro,” I said, blowing him a kiss.

Hunter rolled his eyes. “Can we get back to the contract?”

“Is this a good time to tell you I’ve never been in a contract,” I said, walking to the sofa needing to sit down. “I kind of dated a man who was a dom, but we never had anything like this in an official capacity. We met at the local club and then went our separate ways.”

“He never made you sign anything?” Hunter scowled.

I shook my head.

“He never asked you about your wants and needs?” He seemed angrier.

“Did you go over what you were willing to do and not do?” Romeo also looked mad. “Your hard and soft limits?”

“No, we just played and if there was something I wasn’t liking I would say red, but sometimes we did it again to make sure that?—”

“He made you do what you didn’t like to do again?” Hunter growled.

“Uh, yes,” I said, feeling embarrassed. “He said to make sure it wasn’t a one-time thing.”

Their anger made me feel stupid. I knew something wasn’t right with the arrangement, but I wanted the attention from the hot older man. Saying no meant he would leave me and younger me thought I could handle it.

“What did he make you do again?” Hunter clipped.

“Uh….” My mind went completely blank as I started to panic, wondering what they would say when they found out what I let happen.

Romeo hit Hunter in the abs walking up to me. “You don’t always have to have a contract, but it’s valuable information forboth parties. It protects you, but it seems he skipped over it because he was a fucking asshole.”

I knew he wasn’t a good guy, but I liked that an older man had wanted me and most of the time I had fun. Mostly.

“Why did it end?” Hunter composed himself a little more and didn’t sound so angry.

I pursed my lips, not wanting to say, but I knew I needed to because I knew they wouldn’t let it go that easily.

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