Page 23 of Wrangle Me, Cowboys

I remembered their words to me before. We share everything. Hadn’t they all said that to me now, at one point or another.

“Share…me?” I asked, just to make sure.

“Exactly,” Sawyer said.

I’d thought about it. Of course I had. I’d fantasized about it. They’d even hinted at it before. But now that it was all out in the open, staring me in the face, I didn’t know. A fantasy was one thing. Reality was another. How was I, a senator’s virginal daughter, going to handle three big burly cowboys? How could I keep them satisfied? I’d never even seen a real life penis, let alone had three of them stuffed inside me at once.

“How would it work?” I asked at last, after a long silence.

“However you want it to work,” Holden said, taking my hand again. “You’re in complete control. You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do, ever. We’ll respect your boundaries.”

“Do we need, like, a schedule? A safe word?”

“No schedule,” Holden said. “Just whatever you’re in the mood for.”

Sawyer grinned. “And you don’t need a safe word. Just tell us what you want and don’t want. We’re not planning on tying you up and gagging you. Unless, of course, you’re into that.”

“I might be,” I said, giving him my most charming grin. But of course I was faking. I was full of shit. I had no idea what I was into.

Waylon cleared his throat and shifted in his armchair. Of course it was Waylon who saw through me. “You told our mother you were a virgin,” he reminded me.

“Okay, so I may not have had an actual penis inside me, but I’m quite adept with a vibrator,” I offered.

“Christ.” He leaned his head back and closed his eyes like I was trying his patience.

“Well, it’s not like I meant to be a virgin,” I said. “I had a boyfriend for a long time, but he said he was celibate. He was basically a human chastity belt. Hell, for all I know, my parents hired him to be my boyfriend so I wouldn’t run around sleeping with anyone they didn’t pre-approve. And then I found him getting busy with two other girls, and I threw soup on him, and eggs, and he called the cops on me. And that’s how I got arrested and ended up here.”

There was a long moment of silence. “That’s why you got arrested?” Holden asked.

I nodded, my throat suddenly tight. I didn’t want to think about that asshole cheating on me, about how much I’d trusted him and what a sucker I’d been. It wasn’t fair for Waylon to blame me for that. Suddenly, I had the horrifying realization that I was about to burst into tears.

“Who is this guy?” Sawyer said. “I think he needs a taste of Wyoming justice.”

“No, it’s fine,” I said, taking a shaky breath. “I’m over it. I just want to get on with my life. That’s part of why I came out here. To get away from that whole mess.”

“You should have told us,” Holden said quietly. “We wouldn’t be putting this on you if we knew that’s what you just went through.”

His kindness just made me want to cry more. But I wasn’t going to cry on them about Charlie. He didn’t deserve my tears, and these guys deserved much more.

“I don’t want to be treated with kid gloves,” I said. “I’m not broken. And I’m tired of being treated like a fragile artifact kept behind bulletproof glass. I don’t want to be seen and not touched.”

“Oh, we won’t put you on a shelf,” Waylon said, lifting his head. “If we do this, if you want a relationship with all three of us, we’ll do more than touch you.”

I shivered at the thought.

He sat forward, his hands knotting between his knees. “Don’t get me wrong. We’ll admire you. But it won’t be from afar. We’re going to fuck you, Amber. All of us.”

God, all three of them! What if it was too many?

“But if you’re that inexperienced…we’re going to have to get you ready for it before we go there. Train you a little.”

“Train me?” I asked, anger erasing my urge to cry. “I’m not a dog.”

“No,” he said. “You’re a virgin. And a virgin can’t handle what we’re going to do to you.”

“Oh,” I said, swallowing past the anticipation building inside me. “What exactly does that entail?”

“Oh, you’ll see,” Waylon said. “We might even give you a taste of it tonight.”