The Lady Makes Three by Morgan Ashbury

Author:Morgan Ashbury
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: Book/Menage
ISBN: 9781606014660
Published: 2009-05-18T04:00:00+00:00

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Maddy had lain awake most of the night.

In the aftermath of their fight, on the heels of her tears, came a waspish anger she’d never known before. How dare they make her feel guilty for wanting to keep some things to herself? Did Chase and Luc think they could just snap their fingers and she would jump through hoops for them? Or did they figure that poor little female Maddy needed the big brave men and take care of her? Fight her battles for her? As if she was too vapid to take care of herself, fight for herself.

Well, so what if she didn’t know what to do about Kevin just yet?

She’d been doing for herself since she’d been a teenager, since her father’s first stroke. If she’d waited for someone to take care of her back then, she’d still be waiting. Life had taught her that she had two strong arms to carry her own load; and in her hands, the ball would be far less likely to get dropped. Her mother had left when she’d been barely five, and in all the years since there had never been anyone she could trust to be there for her.

But then as the hours of the night had crept passed, she recalled how she’d felt, thinking that something had upset Lucas and Chase.

And she remembered that fierce need—the need to take care of them, to fix whatever was wrong, because she loved them.

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Wasn’t that what Lucas had meant when he’d said that everything about her was their business? She had been ready to do battle to pull the secrets out of her lovers, to solve any problem, right any wrong.

She wanted that, and yet had no doubt they could solve their own problems and fight their own battles. Wanting to do it for them, take care of them, didn’t mean she wanted to diminish them. So then, how could she resent the same desire in them?

Did it mean they loved her? If they did, how could she love them and yet resent their loving her in return?

Now as dawn dusted the horizon, the depth of the chasm yawning between herself and her lovers seemed daunting. Lucas had said that she knew where she could find them when she figured it out. But as she began to feel the full weight of what her mulish pride had done to her relationship with both men, she wondered.

What if the chasm was too wide, too deep to breach? What if she’d already done too much damage to the relationship they’d been building together to mend the rift?

She still hadn’t come up with a solution to her own pressing dilemma. No way in hell she would marry Kevin. Did she doubt he would carry through with his threat?

There was a chance he wouldn’t, but she couldn’t be sure. She’d known the little bastard most of her life. He was a worm, in every respect. Completely selfish, he owned not one scruple when it came to doing someone dirt if it could get him ahead.

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