paint and most of the furnishings but did not tell her why. Truth was, they had wanted to claim her the minute she turned twenty-one except for the promise Mrs. Stone had extracted from them to give her another four years.
Seeing her look around the room they had put together just for her made the wait worthwhile. He wondered how long it would be until she preferred sleeping with them to sleeping in here.
“You want me to sleep in here?” she asked as she looked past him to Roman, who stood in the doorway.
Gage turned as well to look toward the man he loved more than anything. The man who ruled his life with a velvet-covered iron fist.
Roman smiled gently at them. “Daria, we would love to have you in our bed tonight and every night, but we are not going to push anything on you. You’ve had a hell of a day and night and if you would prefer to sleep in here alone, we will abide by your decision. But if you wish to join us in our room, you are more than welcome.”
Gage watched Daria out of the corner of his eye. He had to swallow hard to keep from groaning in need when she licked at her lips with her pink tongue. He had to look away when she bit her bottom lip as she considered the situation.
“I’d like to sleep with you, please,” she said.
Roman nodded with a smile. “We’d like that, sweetheart. But just so you know, we have a rule about no clothes in bed. Why don’t you go ahead and get ready for bed? We’ll meet you in there, okay?”
Before Daria could turn away, Gage wrapped an arm around her and brushed a kiss over her hair. “Take your time. We’ll wait.”
He followed Roman across the landing and into their room.
He waited until the water in the guest bathroom began to run. “Why didn’t you tell her the rest? She needs to know.”
Roman gave him the look that said he was dancing on the edge of insubordination. In this room more than anywhere else in the house, Gage submitted totally to his master, but at this moment, he needed to understand.
“I think we’ve overwhelmed her enough for one night. Especially after the fire and everything else that she went through today. We’ll tell her in a day or two, once she’s found her feet. By then she’ll probably have figured it out. She’s known for some time that I’m the boss in this relationship. She just doesn’t know how much of a boss I am,” Roman said.
He took off his own clothes and tossed them on the bed before going into the bathroom they’d built out of the bedroom that had been between their room and Daria’s. Gage stripped down and put his clothes and Roman’s in the clothes hamper.
When Roman emerged, Gage went in for a super-quick shower. After brushing his teeth, he tidied the room before turning off the light and returning to the bedroom. Daria was in the bed alone with the covers pulled to her neck. She looked scared.
Daria looked in his face then her eyes dropped slowly down his body. He felt the brush of her gaze like a hand gently stroking his skin. He felt his cock twitch and begin to stiffen. He saw her swallow hard as she watched his erection come to life until it was pointing straight out in front of him, long and strong.
He turned around slowly then grinned when he once again faced her and met her wide-eyed gaze. “Like what you see?”
She slowly nodded her head up and down.
“Do I get to see you?”
Daria dropped her face until her chin rested on her chest. Then her head moved slowly from side to side one time.
“Daria? Can’t we see your beautiful body?” Roman asked from the doorway to the landing.
Looking past the man, Gage deduced that he had gone back downstairs to lock the doors and turn out the lights. Which was why he’d put his boxer shorts back on, which he now peeled off and hung on the doorknob. When he straightened, Gage had to swallow at the sight of his man naked and as aroused as he was.
Daria looked at Roman for a long, long moment before she lowered the blanket to her waist.