Page 128 of Tempted By her Daddies

Another light slap to her thigh. “What did I say about staying still?” Salem grumbled. But his touch was gentle as he tilted her head forward slightly so he could braid her hair.

“Oops, sorry,” she said. “I still want to read the book.”

“She’s tired,” Salem warned. “Even though she brightened up when you came in.”

She tensed slightly. Was he jealous? Upset?

Oh God.

What about Roman and Alexei? Would they be upset with what she and Salem had just done?

She hadn’t even thought about that. Why hadn’t she thought about that? What if they were upset? Was she a bad girlfriend? But how did that sort of thing work? They wouldn’t be together all of the time so sometimes there would be some one-on-one.

In fact, she didn’t think she was up to anything more than one-on-one at the moment.

But that didn’t mean that she shouldn’t have asked them first.

Did it?

She didn’t know what she was supposed to do!

“Hey, what’s wrong?” Salem asked.

“Wrong?” she managed to say through the panic clogging her throat.

“Yes. Why did you get all tense?” Salem asked.

“I just . . . um . . . I . . .” She glanced up at Roman and then away, feeling ashamed.

“What is it, Tamsyn?” Roman sat on the bed in front of her.

“I don’t want to tell you in case you’re upset with me.”

“Upset with you? Why would I be upset with you?”

“Tamsyn?” Salem prompted when she didn’t say anything.

Suddenly, Salem lifted her into his lap so she was sitting with her back against his front.

“Darling girl, I could never be upset with you,” Roman told her.

“But you don’t know what we did,” she whispered.

“So tell us.”

She glanced up at the voice coming from the doorway. Alexei leaned against the door jam. She couldn’t decipher the look on his face. He appeared closed off and cold, though.

“Well we, uh . . .” Shoot. Why couldn’t she just spit it out?

“I made Tamsyn come in the bath,” Salem said calmly. “With my fingers. And I think she’s now worried about how the two of you might react. Which is a failing on our part, because we should have made certain that she knew that any jealousy we might feel is on us. And that the three of us will work it out together so that she doesn’t even have to worry or feel stressed.”

Um. What?

She glanced up and looked around at Alexei and Roman. Alexei appeared less cold and more thoughtful now. Which she guessed was a good thing.

Roman was blushing and glancing down at his lap.

“Shouldn’t I be a part of any of those conversations?” she asked.

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