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“Are you sure you want to continue?” Alex kept his voice as calm and neutral as he could, yet somewhere deep inside him was confusion and anger at her reaction. Again, just as briefly as the emotion came, it was gone.

“Why?” Her voice was small and she didn’t look nearly as confident as she had a few moments ago. “Why are you doing this?”

“Because you have to know the kinds of things I want. Did you think that just because a few years had passed, I’d have changed? If you can’t give me what I want, I suggest you save us both the pain and aggravation and tell me now.”

“You’re a bastard, Alex.” Her voice was a bit shaky, and he suspected she was near tears, but she held back. Her fists were clenched, and the muscles in her arms and abdomen stood out in stark relief under the delicately freckled cream of her skin. “If you don’t want me, say so. I’m sure Bakac will be happy to keep me for himself.”

Bakac! He had been so intent on scaring Doriena into admitting she wasn’t ready for this, he had been oblivious to the other man’s presence. Turning to face him now, Alex had never seen the man look so furious.

“I saw her memory, Alex. You deliberately made her remember something that terrified her. Besides that, I never knew you were such a sickbakkara.”

Alex couldn’t disagree with him. Even though the woman at the time had asked -- begged -- for what he did to her, the memory was disturbing. She had been very into pain and had asked to be flogged, had asked to bleed under his lashes. He had complied, but it wasn’t something he had ever done again or had ever wanted to do. Bondage and spankings were one thing. Hard core BDSM was something else.

The problem was, Doriena had accidentally walked in on the worst of it at the tender age of thirteen. Even before she had seen the mess he’d made, she had an anxious look on her face. She had been clutching the bear Alex himself had clutched as a child. When she saw what he was doing, she had backed away, a look of horror on her face. She had dropped the bear and run out of the room. Unfortunately, she had also run away from him, both literally and figuratively. He hadn’t seen her for weeks after that and when he finally cornered her one evening in her own bedroom, she hadn’t spoken to him nor did she accept Buggly Bear from him. It was almost a year before she did speak to him, and their relationship had never been the same. They had managed to establish an uneasy peace after that, but neither had spoken of that incident in the six years since it had happened.

“It wasn’t me, Bakac. You’ve been in situations where women wanted something you didn’t.”

“I’m not talking about what you did back then. I’m talking about you dredging up a memory like that for her. You’re just trying to make yourself feel better. Forcing her to make the decision about whether or not you get to fuck her. It’s an act of a coward!” Bakac shoved Alex from his place standing between Doriena’s legs. “I never thought of you as a coward, Alex. Besides, she’s made her decision or she wouldn’t be here, and you’re a damned fool for making her doubt her decision.”

The other man dismissed Alex then. His attention focused totally on Doriena. She looked at him with need, a need for him to take her demons away.

Bakac petted her tense thighs, and gradually, her breathing settled and her face relaxed. She no longer looked upset but he’d be damned if he knew what she actually felt.

“Don’t worry, my lovely,” Bakac soothed. “I can still take you on a journey into forbidden passion.” He dipped his head to Doriena’s cunt and made one long swipe. She tensed again, but this time in anticipation.

Alex watched, fascinated. He knew he had no right to stay, but he couldn’t make himself leave. The growing sexual desire within Doriena called to him as nothing else could. She was his soul’s mate. He couldn’t leave her. Not now.

Not ever.

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Doriena was hurt and confused by Alex’s strong desire to be rid of her. She couldn’t believe he had made her relive that incident on this day of all days. This was supposed to be a special time. Yes, she knew from the beginning he would try to push her away, but she had never guessed he’d wanted it that much. Perhaps he truly didn’t want her.

Bakac’s soothing touches, however, were a balm to her bruised feelings. He looked at her like she was the only woman in the world, like he found her beautiful and always would. When he licked her pussy with one hot, wet stroke of his tongue, she resolved to put Alex out of her mind. If he didn’t want to share his life with her, so be it.

But the more Bakac worked her, the more she saw how her wetness coated his mouth and chin when he stopped to look at her with a heated gaze, the more she wanted to include Alex. Perhaps it was her link with him as her soul’s mate. It just didn’t seem right.

She turned her head slightly and looked at Alex. At first, he was intent on Bakac and what he was doing to her pussy, but it wasn’t long before she caught Alex’s attention. She licked her lips.

“Are you sure you don’t want to help, Alex? Are you so intent on scaring me away that you won’t be here to help me through this?”

“You have Bakac,” he said dryly, looking to the other man, who was again feasting on her cunt. “Why would you need me?”

“Because you’re my rock, Alex. Even when things became strained between us, you were still there for me, and I still looked up to you. I needed you, even if it was just to pick a fight with you. I needed to know you’d always be there. I still need it.”

She felt him hesitate, then reach for her with everything in his being. He took a step, two, then knelt and fused his mouth to hers.

“‘Bout damned time.” Bakac lifted his head long enough to mutter the words before settling into her cunt in earnest.

Had she not been bombarded with not only her own lust filled emotions, but the lust filled emotions of the two men, Doriena would have laughed out loud. As it was, she tried to reach out to Alex, only to be reminded abruptly that she was restrained effectively. She knew she couldn’t move, but she pulled with her arms all the same.

“Alex,” she panted when he left her mouth to suck and nibble at her jaw and neck, “get me out of this so I can touch you.” She glanced between her legs. “Both of you.”

Alex ignored her and continued to torment her flesh. When he reached the opening at her cleavage, he simply tucked his fingers under the material and ripped. Her nipples, now exposed to his gaze and the cool air, hardened in response. She wasn’t sure which had the greater power over her.

When he sucked one nipple into his mouth, she cried out as she arched her back, thrusting her chest into him. Bakac still sucked and lapped her clit and pussy, and the sensations were almost overwhelming. Two men whom she loved beyond reason pleasured her beyond reason.

Love.

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