“Right,” she said.“Right.”She had fucked things up between her and Nash by making those vows, and saying no suddenly seemed more likely to cause a detonation than accepting what she wanted.What they all wanted.
 
 “Okay,” she agreed.
 
 “Good girl.That’s my good girl.Now quit stalling and take your top off, so that he can admire what I’m loaning him.”
 
 Was he this directive when he was watching Balin?Something to ask him later.She’d kind of assumed he sat back and watched, as he’d been doing the first time she’d become aware of his habit, but maybe that wasn’t the case.Maybe he was more involved than that and was merrily dishing out instructions to Balin and whoever he was with, while he rubbed himself off.That possibility further stirred the pit of unease in her belly but also cemented her resolve.
 
 “Need some help to get you started?”Nash’s lips tickled as they brushed against the side of her neck.He sucked hard.Too hard.No doubt leaving her with a mark.Paul’s gaze fastened upon them.Torment flickered in his pupils, and his mouth became all grim and tight.While Nash might be happy to watch her with someone else, she was damn sure Paul didn’t want to watch Nash maul her.
 
 Sorry.She wanted to say.I’m sorry.I’m so sorry.I wish you hadn’t said anything.I wish you hadn’t planted this idea in his head.
 
 Paul returned her gaze.I’m not sorry, his expression told her.I’m not sorry.It might not be what I want, but I’ll take the sliver that’s on offer.Anything, if it gets me you.
 
 Nash ringed a hand around her right breast and started plucking on her nipple.Paul’s hand jumped from where it rested against his thigh, then formed a fist.She watched his knuckles whiten as Nash’s exploration of her body continued, dropping lower to her arse, and then between her legs.
 
 When Nash squeezed her pussy, she swore she heard Paul’s knuckles pop.
 
 Jodi wriggled out of Nash’s hold and peeled off her top.The move had the desired effect of getting Nash to retreat and loosening some of the tension in Rock Giant’s jaw.Thankfully she was wearing a blue butterfly-embroidered silk bra rather than her faded to grey comfy one.“You like?”she asked, attempting to sound sexy, and probably failing.She bit on her little fingernail.
 
 Paul made a growling sound.“Oh, I like.I’d like to see more.”
 
 “Take it off,” Nash said from behind her.“Let him see your naked tits.In fact, just get undressed.Both of you get undressed.If you’re going to fuck, you need to be naked.I want to see naked fucking.”
 
 CHAPTER 31
 
 Paul “Rock Giant” Reed
 
 If he could’ve chosen the way in which he got Jodi back in his arms again, then this wasn’t it.Hell, nope.Paul would have picked somewhere infinitely cosier, having first witnessed Curtis Nash being eaten by a land shark, or jettisoned into another universe never to be seen or heard from again.
 
 Alas, sometimes you just had to roll with what you got.
 
 And there were definitely good things ahead of him.His wife for starters.She was seriously hot stuff.All glorious curves, and exactly the right degree of nervousness and sass to get him going.Paul had seen more than his fair share of tits in his time, it came with the territory, but none of them as perfect as hers.None attached to someone who made him want to bury his head in her cleavage and lose himself there for days.
 
 He didn’t doubt Jodi would claim she was over-endowed.She was mistaken.Her breasts were the most perfect thing he’d ever seen, and so was the rest of her.
 
 “Come here, goddess,” he mouthed, which sawed off some of her nervousness.He couldn’t quite tell if she was nervous about being with him, or the fact her dumbnut fiancé was watching them from the adjacent bed.He had a few reservations about that himself, and this wasn’t the first time he’d been offered the opportunity to shag someone else’s partner.
 
 This wasn’t like the time with Spook and Alle, though.
 
 He’d understoodallthe rules of that game.Had known exactly what was expected of him.On a surface level what was expected of him now was clear enough.Fuck Jodi so that Nash could get his rocks off watching them.It was the deeper stuff he wasn’t so certain of.
 
 Actually, scratch that.Nash wasn’t that fucking deep.His motivations were obvious.He was playing at being a beneficent overlord, while actually being a controlling arse.Doling out boons according to his whims.
 
 Yeah, I’ll let you have a taste of her, but make no mistake, she’s mine, and she does what I say.
 
 Fucking fool.
 
 Yeah, this wasn’t like with Spook and Alle.It wasn’t like that at all.
 
 For starters, he’d had no stake in that game, whereas he had a major one in this.
 
 “Do I get to see now?”Jodi gave him a cheekily closed-mouthed grin, while her gaze raked over his upper body, then dropped to where his joggers were pulled taut over his erection.
 
 The only part of that he didn’t like was when her gaze shot over to Nash to check in with him that she was still making him happy and hadn’t crossed any invisible boundaries.Why the hell she put up with fuckface and his irritating gob was beyond him.He was awful, but she didn’t seem to see it.
 
 Paul hooked a finger in one side of the elastic waistband and tugged it down a little.That got her attention back where it belonged.On him.He gave her a sultry look from under his eyelashes.In return her lips pursed.
 
 Tease, said her gaze.Tease...tease...big fat fucking tease.