Page 366 of Tempted By her Daddies

Riordan sighed. “You’re not going to let me do the fatherly thing and warn them that if they hurt you, they’re dead men.”

She giggled. “I can’t let you hurt them. Not when I love them.”

“That kind of takes the fun out of it.”

“Areyou excited about going to Escana for the first time?” Erica asked her as they all started boarding the private plane that the princes had sent for them.

“Um. Yes. Of course.”

Tamsyn felt Alexei come up behind her as Erica walked off.

Uh oh.

“You just lied, didn’t you, Bunny?”

She winced. The four of them had had a long talk about her lies. They understood why she couldn’t tell them the truth and they forgave her.

But they’d also made her promise that she would never lie to them in the future.

Was she in trouble now?

Tamsyn glanced back at Alexei. He had his eyebrow raised and was giving her a stern look. Her shoulders slumped.

Great.

She was going to spend her first ever holiday getting her butt spanked every day.

“It wasn’t to you, though,” she pointed out.

“Hmm. That’s true. Lucky save.”

She breathed out a sigh of relief as they reached the stairs leading up to the plane.

Salem stopped in front of her and held out his hand. She slid her hand into his with a smile. “Can you believe we’re going on holiday? My very first. That I can remember, anyway.”

Salem’s smile slid off his face. Shoot. She shouldn’t have said that. It always made them sad when she mentioned things about her childhood.

Well, her non-existent childhood.

She’d spent hours and hours telling them about her life and she knew it hadn’t been easy for them to hear it. But they’d insisted.

Alexei had had to leave several times to work out his anger on his boxing bag, while Roman had sat on his laptop and researched how to help someone with childhood trauma.

Like they didn’t all have that, anyway.

Well, except for Salem.

His family was amazing, and they were all here on the plane. Even his mum and dad. Salem had finally convinced his mum that nothing bad would happen to her if they left the UK.

She hoped that was true.

She settled into the private plane next to Roman, who smiled over at her. Then he set his phone down so he could do up her belt.

“Make sure you check her belt,” Alexei bossed as he sat facing her. Salem was next to him. “Bunny, don’t take that off unless you need to use the bathroom. And then one of us will take you.”

“David, how come you never check if my belt is secure?” Charlene complained as Roman checked Tamsyn’s belt.

David sighed. “Because I’m not as perfect as Alexei, Roman, or Salem.”

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