“You’re staying here with us. Because we want you. Both of us.” He turned back to look at North who was staring down at her.
Was he going to say anything? Her stomach tightened into a knot.
North nodded. “Yes.”
“Good,” Jared said. “And we all need to remember that communication is important in a relationship. Especially one like this. So you will both talk, understand? If something feels wrong or uncomfortable or there’s something you need to get off your chest, talk. I will not accept anything else.”
“Yes, Your Lordship.” She saluted him.
He raised his eyebrow and looked at her arrogantly. Then he turned to North.
“There are some things we can’t talk about,” North said.
Jared nodded. “Of course. But anything we can talk about that might affect our relationship should be discussed.”
Shoot.
That probably meant she should tell them about her orgasm issue. Because that could affect their relationship.
She was hoping that it would all be solved by having someone else touch her.
But she didn’t even know how that would go. Jared had touched her breasts last night and that had been hot.
However, she’d also run from them. Twice.
So, yeah . . . she wasn’t in the most stable frame of mind. Should she tell them about the scars, too?
Urgh.
This was going to suck.
How should she tell them? Could she say it without saying it?
“I can’t orgasm.”
Yeah, or blunt and to the point would work.
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Did she just say what he thought she said?
North studied her. Was it a medical thing? Or something else?
“Because of my father?” Jared whispered coldly.
She nodded. “He . . . sometimes when he . . . he would make me come and he’d . . . oh God. He’d tell me that I must like what he was doing But I didn’t . . . I didn’t like it . . .” She started to break.
And North wasn’t sure he could handle it.
That. Fucking. Bastard.
Fuck . . . during this last week he’d wanted to kill that man over and over again.
In every gruesome way possible.
Jared moved so he was sitting back against the headboard, then he lifted her onto his lap, rocking her slowly back and forth.
North stayed where he was at the foot of the bed, unable to move closer.
