Was he angry over her hesitation? If he was, she got it. She should just trust them. Without trust it wouldn’t work.
“Are you upset with me? I know we talked about it. I’m just . . . I’m scared.”
Kellan kneeled in front of her while Eli took her hand in his and squeezed it. She immediately felt grounded.
Why was she hesitating?
These guys were amazing.
Sure . . . she’d only known them a few weeks, but it wasn’t like they were asking her to marry them.
They said they would go slow.
But maybe it was best for Jake to remain her guardian for a while? Although she hated the fact that she was in trouble with him. It felt weird. Strange.
“No one is upset at you,” Eli told her. “But you shouldn’t feel scared. What you need to realize is that we will do anything to keep you safe. And that we would never harm you. If we did, you can punish us.”
“Me punish you guys?” she asked. That seemed ridiculous. Look at the size of them! Although she guessed not all punishment had to be physical.
“Although nothing you could do to us would be as bad as what we would do to ourselves if we harmed you,” Eli added.
She sucked in a breath. She’d never encountered anyone like the two of them.
Protective, possessive, careful with her safety and health.
Bossy, ridiculously so.
But no one had ever put her best interests first. Maybe Pop-Pop but she’d taken care of him more than the other way around.
Was that why she was hesitating? Because she hadn’t experienced this before?
Because she couldn’t believe that someone might feel like this about her?
Yeah, her self-esteem was in the toilet. And she had to do something to bring it back up.
She also had to realize that maybe Laken and Shaw were right.
She deserved to be happy.
“It might seem like we have all the power,” Kellan whispered to her. “But you are the center of everything. We’re the ones orbiting you. You are the focus. Everything we do will be with you in mind.”
“Even when we spank your ass for breaking the rules.” Eli gave her a serious look.
“What if I don’t want to be spanked?”
“Like we said before, that’s not the only punishment that we can come up with,” Kellan told her. “There are other things.”
“Although I personally think that spanking works the best and you can’t knock it until you’ve tried it,” Eli said.
“Have you tried it?” she asked Eli.
“Yep. I didn’t care for it.” He grinned as she gaped at him.
“Someone spanked you?”
“It was part of our training for a club we’re members of in Houston,” Eli explained. “We don’t go there much anymore, though.”
“So you were spanked too?” she asked Kellan.
