“I guess we won’t know until we try,” North said.
Whenever she’d read a spanking scene in a romance book, well, it had turned her on.
It wasn’t anything that Fergus had ever done to her . . . so maybe it would be okay?
Maybe you’d even like it.
She’d never thought she might like some pain. Fucking Fergus. He’d taken so much from her and now she needed to claw some of who she was back.
Who would she have been if he hadn’t been in her life?
Was she someone who would just jump into bed with two guys without all this bargaining and talking about limits?
Probably.
“If we do anything that scares you or makes you uncomfortable or causes too much pain, say your safeword,” Jared said. “We will always honor a safeword.”
She swallowed heavily. “I don’t have one, though.”
“Make one up. Or use Red,” North suggested.
“Is that what you use?” she asked him.
“No. I don’t have one.”
“You don’t?” She glanced between them both. “Why don’t you have one?”
North shrugged. “I don’t need it. I trust Jared not to go too far.”
“Because he knows that my limits would kick in before his,” Jared told her. “There is little that North wouldn’t let me do. Some things would be too far for me and he knows it.”
“There’s also little you could do to me that I couldn’t fight my way free of,” North told him.
He looked so unassuming. Like he should be working in a library or an office with his button-up shirt and pressed pants.
But underneath all of that he was dangerous and scary. A panther or leopard.
Stalking their prey.
Just watching and waiting.
A shiver ran through her.
“But that won’t be the same with you,” Jared told her firmly. “You’ll use the word Red if you need us to stop.”
She nodded.
“So have you thought of anything else?” North asked.
“I don’t want to be restrained.”
“Understood,” Jared said.
“Don’t slap my face or restrict my breathing or punch me or kick or pinch or burn my skin. And no belts or any kind of implement. Don’t make me bleed or scar me. And don’t tell me that I’m a slut or a bitch. Or humiliate me.”
Those came out so fast that she was shocked for a moment. She hadn’t realized she’d be able to come up with her limits so easily.
Wow.
