purring noise
for a moment, but it was gone before she could identify the source.
Perhaps it had been a fragment of memory from her earlier delusions.
Jake and Gary smiled at her, seeming to share delight in
something she didn’t understand. She eyed them both suspiciously,
but Jake just leaned over, dropped a soft kiss on her lips, and
whispered, “I’ll just grab you some food and be right back.”
She nodded, licking her lips unconsciously before noticing Gary’s
interested gaze. She tried to smile, but on this angle with her ass
nestled against a rock-hard cock that she kept telling herself not to notice, it was kind of hard to look friendly without coming off as a bit of a slut. Gary seemed to read all of her emotions easily because he Edwina and the Seven Snowed-in Scientists
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moved closer and touched her face softly. “Don’t be embarrassed,” he
said, “it’s okay to be attracted to more than one man.”
Whoa!
Absolutely freaking not!
She was not attracted to more than one man.
Just because she’d kissed both Kieran and Jake and wanted to kiss
the guy in front of her—the one she’d only just met—did not mean
that she was panting to fall into bed with all of them. Well okay, she might’ve been panting over them, but she sure as hell wasn’t going to actually do it. Images of what the three well-built, athletic men could get up to in bed with her played in her head like an erotic romance
novel. She could feel her clit throb and her thighs become slippery
with her excitement. She closed her eyes, feeling completely
mortified.
Embarrassed by her sudden arousal, she tried to lever herself out
of Kieran’s arms, but he refused to let go. The more she wriggled, the tighter he held her. Panic was starting to blur her thought processes when she realized just how vulnerable she really was in this situation.
Hell, she was at the ass-end of the world, in the middle of freaking nowhere, dependent on them for her very survival, and nobody knew
she was even alive.
It didn’t matter that she was actually attracted to the brothers.
“Please don’t,” she said quietly.
Both men reacted like they’d been punched. Kieran’s hold on her
released immediately, and Gary backed away a few steps.
“What the hell?” Jake asked as he came through the door. She
looked at him, feeling guilty for her overreaction but unable to hide her growing fears. Jake looked like he wanted to pull her into his
embrace, but instead he stepped away also.
Kieran’s voice had the chill of an Antarctic wind. “Edwina
believes we saved her, so we could use her as a sex slave. Isn’t that right, princess?”
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“N–No,” she managed to stutter unconvincingly. It didn’t help
that thoughts of being their sex slave for the next seven or eight
months were kind of enticing. She’d read books about women who’d
willingly become sex slaves and had often wondered if it was as
freeing as it seemed. Three men breathed deeply almost as if they
could smell her arousal. Oh crap. That would be really embarrassing.
She closed her eyes and concentrated until she finally located the
biting sarcasm she was well known for. She managed to firm up her
voice and turn to the man behind her. Not exactly an easy task
considering she was still tangled in a blanket.
“Bite me, asshole,” she managed to say with a good dose of
disdain. “My father would pay a much higher ransom if I was
completely undamaged, and you know it.”
“Ransom?” Gary asked, sounding like he had no idea what she
was talking about. Yeah right…
“Oh, yes. We forgot to tell you that part,” Kieran said with a snarl
in his voice. “Edwina believes we are the ones responsible for the
helicopter crash and are just waiting for a big reward from her daddy.
He’s rich you know.”
Gary laughed, gave his brother a questioning look, and stepped
forward to help her into a sitting position. “Edwina, do you
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