Scorching Desire by Lila Dubois & Mari Carr

Author:Lila Dubois & Mari Carr [Dubois, Lila & Carr, Mari]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781941641026
Google: cgF8oAEACAAJ
Amazon: 1941641024
Publisher: Farm Boy Press
Published: 2014-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Nine

Tasha couldn’t help but be relieved when they followed her into the house. She wasn’t giving them a reason to stay, yet they were. It was hard not to read into that, not to get her hopes up.

Tasha still couldn’t believe that Damon would have let her shoot him—bean-bag rounds hurt. More than that, she couldn’t believe Marco would have let her do it. She’d seen the way the other man tensed and moved towards Damon, as if to protect him.

They were a unit, a pair. The fact that their friendship had just been turned into a marriage only strengthened that bond. Tasha could imagine that a different woman would hate the situation—would fear being left out of that relationship. But not Tasha.

On the bus ride here she’d realized that their relationship did what she’d wanted when she’d requested she be matched with a man and a woman. All her life she’d learned to quickly form and then dissolve relationships of all kinds. She had no idea what a real one looked or felt like—her parents certainly weren’t good role models—and she’d been terrified of having to try to create that. With these two she didn’t have to. They already loved each other.

Maybe it didn’t matter that they’d never love her.

Shaking her head, she opened the gun cabinet—the visible one where she kept legally purchased firearms—and put the bean-bag gun in there.

“Tasha,” Marco said. “Just because we know each other, and yes, we love each other, doesn’t have any effect on our trinity. Damon and I have to have a new kind of relationship, one that includes you—just because we know each other doesn’t mean we’re not going to love you.”

“That’s not what I’m worried about,” she said, ignoring the way the word love made her heart race.

“Then why did you say no?”

“What I said in the ceremony room was true. Marrying me would be a punishment. It would mean your careers wouldn’t advance the way you were promised when you joined.”

“We’re not talking about that.” Damon loosened his tie and rolled up his sleeves, looking very much like the hard-working lawyer, while Marco was all casual dark elegance.

“I am,” she said.

“Tasha.” Damon stuffed his hands in his pockets. “If you don’t want to be with us because of what we’ve done in our pasts then please just tell us. If that’s the case we won’t fight with you about this.”

“What do you mean?” she asked, confused.

“You know we’re not exactly choir boys. We haven’t always been the most respectful towards women—the orgies maybe weren’t our finest hour.”

“Speak for yourself,” Marco muttered.

“You think…” Tasha raised her eyebrows. It was too absurd. She went into the kitchen, took three mismatched glasses from a cupboard and poured them all water. “You think I’m fabricating reasons for saying I won’t marry you as a way to cover the fact that I don’t want to be with the two of you?”

“Yeah, I do,” Damon said.

Looking between the two undeniably handsome, sexy men, Tasha could only shake her head.

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