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“Lucy.”She raised her face to Sebastian.“Heavens, woman, that’s nothing to be ashamed about!”

“I thought I was different,” she whispered, feeling tears prickling at the back of her eyelids again.“I did date a man who gave me no choice the one time we had sex and I enjoyed it.We went out for a few weeks, but then I dropped my own life to care for my mother.”She snuffled.“I honestly thought I was weird.”

“Sweetheart, you are so far from weird!”

“Amen!”Jack concurred.

Sebastian passed his mug to Jack, who placed it with the other two on the floor near the fire’s hearth.He put one hand on each shoulder and pulled Lucy around to face him.“Time to tell us if you’re willing to take a chance.We can just be friends, or we can see if things progress further.Either way is fine with us.Like we said at the beginning, we both would love to learn about Lucy.It doesn’t bother us if you just want to be friends.You seem interesting, and I think you’d like us once you got to know us.”He gave a laugh.“And we really are nice men.But then maybe you’d prefer us to leave you alone.Your decision, not ours.”

Lucy searched his handsome face.Those full lips tempted her each time she looked at them.His dark brown eyes seemed almost black.They were like pools of deep, still velvet water on a starless night.She could drown in them.She wanted to run her hands through his messy, wild hair.More than that, she wanted him naked in front of her so she could explore every part of his body.

Turning her head, she looked at Jack.They were such opposites in looks.

Jack’s lovely grey eyes twinkled with merriment.The man was handsome.She couldn’t describe him in any other way.Sebastian was a hunk, but Jack was drop-dead gorgeous.Everything about him pressed all her buttons from his sexy, longish hair to those amazing muscles.On top of that, he and Sebastian both oozed sex appeal.She knew from the moment she’d seen them that she was attracted to them.Now they were offering her something she’d always craved—someone to control her.On top of that there were two hotties, not just one.

But could she even imagine being with two men?

ChapterEighteen

Hell yes!

For the past year and a half—no, make that eight years—her life, her wants and needs, had been pushed aside.Even before then she’d concentrated on raising her daughter alone.These last eighteen months had been building her life and her confidence back up after spending so many years unable to leave the house while caring for her mother.Now, she was happy within herself, and her self-esteem soared, thanks to these two.Lucy could take what they offered or else go back to living alone.Of course, she could also simply have two very attractive men as just friends.

She looked at Sebastian again.There was no way she wanted this to be a non-physical thing.She wanted more.She wanted to taste those lips, wanted to know what it would feel like to have him kiss her with passion like he’d done to Jack.

And Jack?

It wasn’t surprising she was attracted to him just as much as Sebastian.It wasn’t the fact that she desired him, but the fact that she wanted them both as much as the other that surprised her.She understood this was a unique situation, and Lucy’s excitement rose.Those romance books, the ones that told of ménages, they had thrilled her more than those filled with the usual sweet male-female romance.

A laugh bubbled its way to the surface.She could have her cake and eat it, too.She could have two men!She could have one to control her and two to love.

Sebastian looked surprised and maybe a little puzzled when she chuckled.

The laugh burst from her lips and echoed in the room as she made her decision.The laugh set her free.It gave her permission to do whatever she wanted with her life.

She reached down blindly with one hand and found Jack’s.Leaning forward and feeling extremely bold, she kissed Sebastian lightly on those lips that had been silently beckoning her.

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