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She doesn’t respond. Instead, she looks at Landon and tears well in her eyes.

I’m eager to do anything it takes to make that look go away. “Here,” I shove the glass of water in her hands. “Drink this.”

Nicole doesn’t obey me.

“Drink it,” Landon says in a calmer tone. “You’ll feel better.”

She still doesn’t listen.

“Duchess, so help me god, I’ll pry your mouth open and pour it in if I have to.”

“Landon!” Mason barks.

But she takes the glass and drains half of it before handing it back to me.

“Good girl,” Landon and I say at the same time.

Memories of our one night together bang on the door of my mind, but I don’t open it. I refuse to revisit the best night of my life. Not now. Not when she’s looking so rough and beat down.

“Give me a minute.” She pushes her way through the barrier Landon and I have made withour bodies.

Leah helps Nicole into the bathroom and talks in a voice too quiet for us to make out what she’s saying.

Mason drops onto the couch and scrubs his face. “I should have known this would happen.”

“The fuck does that mean?” Landon asks with a possessive edge to his voice.

“Ever since the night of the gala,” Mason says, “she’s been running herself into the ground. Looks like things have finally caught up with her.”

Nicole works for her family’s company. They take over businesses that are floundering or close to bankruptcy and figure out if they’re worth saving or will buy them out and basically tear the corporation down. In her “spare time”, if you can actually call it that, she does heavy philanthropy work around the world.

“Why didn’t you say something about this sooner?” Landon asks, angrily.

“Why would I?” he counters. “It’s not like you can do anything for her.”

I think Landon and I both feel the stab from that remark.

“Besides,” Mason continues. “I’ve been trying to help her as much as possible, especially since that blow up at the gala was all my fault, but she won’t listen to reason. She fucking blocked me on everything.”

She blocked him, but not us? She justignores us. I can’t tell if that’s better or worse.

Landon frowns. “Why would she be so stubborn?”

“Because that’s all that woman is,” Mason grumbles. “She doesn’t listen for shit. No one can tell her what to do.”

That’s… not the experience we’ve had with her. Our girl listens extremely well when you use the right incentives. Suddenly, the door in my mind rips off the hinges and the memories of our night together come flooding in…

“Take his cock in your mouth, Duchess.”

Nicole drops to her knees and looks up at Landon with her pretty lips parting as she does as I command. The minute her lips wrap around his dick, Landon’s head tips back and he lets out this beautiful groan.

“That’s it. Suck him off. Look how good you make him feel.”

He threads his fingers in her thick blonde hair and looks down at her again. “Such a good girl.” His hips pump faster until she’s slurping and gagging. “Listen to those noises, Kerr. Our girl enjoys teasing us.”

She gets even louder.

“Want us to fuck you, Duchess?” Landon slows his thrusts. “One hole for me, one hole for Kerrington. We can fill you up, baby. Is that what you want?”

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