Total pages in book: 68
Estimated words: 63970 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 320(@200wpm)___ 256(@250wpm)___ 213(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 63970 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 320(@200wpm)___ 256(@250wpm)___ 213(@300wpm)
They’d been attractive, seemingly nice, but not a one of them had moved her, and she’d started to wonder if it had been the fact that the whole evening had been so different that made it seem like she’d been moved. Or she was overly emotional and looking for anything to cling to. That could be it.
“Is this seat taken?”
She opened her eyes and wished she’d kept them closed. Jared was standing there, looming over her like a gorgeous statue. Except no statue had his ridiculously sunny smile or those green eyes that seemed to warm the world around her. “There’s a whole park. You should be able to find somewhere to sit.”
His smile dimmed and he stepped back. He wore athletic pants and a T-shirt that hid what she knew was the singular most spectacular chest ever created by body building and the careful avoidance of carbs. He wore sneakers on his feet and a Seattle Seahawks cap on his head. He was scruffy and gorgeous and perfect. “Sorry. Kori said she and Kai would be with you. I’ll find another place.”
She was such a bitch. He was here to see his brother, who happened to be married to her best friend. She was the one who should end up alone. He was blood. She didn’t have any of that in this world. “No, you should hang with Kai. It’s fine. I’m sorry. I didn’t think I would see you until tomorrow.”
“And you didn’t want to.”
Oh, she wanted to see him. If he knew how many times she had watched his TV show, he would think she was a pathetic little fangirl. “I think it’s safer that I don’t see you, but I didn’t realize you were coming today. I won’t make you go and sit by yourself.”
The truth was if she wanted to stay friends with Kori, it looked like she would have to deal with Jared from time to time.
It would have been so much easier if she’d never answered his call. She’d picked up because he’d stopped calling months before and she worried something had happened to Kai. He’d merely gotten lonely and tried again. She should have hung up. Instead she’d spent hours talking to him. The next time, they’d gotten on the computer and it was a little like they’d been together. She’d started to think they could work.
“I don’t want to hurt you.”
The man could give her the most soulful looks. It was why he’d been so successful at acting. Looking at him made her heart ache, but she simply smiled. “It’s fine. Are Kai and Kori on their way?”
“Kai is talking to some guy with a ponytail very similar to his own. It’s kind of like he’s talking to himself,” Jared said, his hands on his hips. “Kori’s talking to the guy’s wife, who I think might be cheating on him because she was macking down with another dude. Or they have a very open marriage.”
Ah, so he’d met the other side. “That’s Leo Meyer. He’s The Club’s version of Kai. The woman’s name is Shelley and she’s married to Leo and his brother, Wolf. Not legally, though. I don’t think they can do that. But those Club people tend to view their world as kind of a country in and of itself. Julian Lodge is their leader and if he said kinky three-ways should be turned into a monogamous thing, then they respect it. Is it monogamy? Polygamy? I don’t know. I just know Shelley Meyer probably does a shit ton of laundry.”
Jared lowered himself down, keeping her fully packed picnic basket in between them. “So they’re both married to her, like Jake and Adam are married to Serena?”
“Yes.” She wondered how long Kori was going to take. Simply sitting with the man was making all thoughts of her lovely Sir fly straight out of her head. Jared was overpowering to her every sense. “It’s a thing at The Club. Like we’ve got one threesome at Sanctum. They’ve got one couple. Big Tag says it’s because they’ve got way smaller penises than the guys at Sanctum and it takes two to please a woman, but I happen to know that most of those threesomes are super kinky and everyone is fucking, if you know what I mean. Like Julian does both his subs. But not the brothers. I’m sure they’re very respectful of each other’s personal space when they have sex with their wife.”
“Do Adam and Jake?” Jared’s voice had gone low, conspiratorial.
She shook her head. “No. Not that I’ve heard. They’re pretty loud when they’re in a scene, and they are careful about the penises not touching.”
“That’s a different world,” Jared said with a shake of his head as though he couldn’t even fathom the thought of sharing a woman with his brother.