sylphs and the adopted sons of Santa, and all that ridiculous crap about the North Pole. Heaven help me, I’m being kidnapped by two gorgeous mad men.
The possibilities of what could happen made her nipples pebble until they hurt.
Chapter Three
They must have passed two dozen businesses and high-rise buildings, but Nick still tromped doggedly through the snow with Lilly swung over his shoulder. Kris’s coat covered everything except her legs. Her open-toed platform heels kicked in the air. She was drunk with arousal, already wet and needy, and yet she wasn’t going to give up and be carried around like a sack of potatoes. She wasn’t going to degrade herself by letting him know the effect he had on her when all he was doing was manhandling her. She struggled some more in his arms. “Put me down. I told you, I don’t appreciate the caveman act!”
“Neither do I. You’re the one playing cave girl if your plan is to be a tough guy and go back in there. Those girls broke your nose, for Christ’s sake. I’ve got you outmuscled, so deal with it.”
“They can’t have broken my nose. It doesn’t even hurt now.” She glanced over at Kris. “Can you get your idiotic boyfriend to put me down?”
Kris just grinned at her and shook his head, obviously amused by the whole situation. “I might not agree with his methods, but I’m all for getting you out of the cold.”
Hell, maybe I should stop struggling; maybe he’ll put me in a nice warm car.
“I think it’s finally time you knew the truth about us.” Nick relaxed his grip on her. “If we’d been honest with you in the first place, maybe we wouldn’t have lost you. Maybe you wouldn’t have given up on us.”
Her heart rate kicked up a notch.
What does he mean? I already know the truth about them.
They hadn’t been honest with her at all; they’d both deceived her and she’d found out the truth in the most painful way possible.
Lilly managed to wriggle around enough so her head was no longer pressed against Nick’s back. Now she caught the odd glimpse of the jewel-bright Christmas decorations that adorned trees, shops and buildings as they passed. The low evergreens were frosted with white. Some of them sparkled with colored lights of red, green and gold. A few dancing flakes swirled in the dull glow of the street lamps.
But despite the beautiful winter sights, Lilly’s mind drifted back to the hot August day, ten years ago, when her view of life changed forever.
She’d skipped her History of Music lecture that afternoon, and let herself into Kris’s dorm room. All she’d wanted was to surprise her best friend Kris on his birthday.
Hiding in his closet, she’d waited for him to come home, but when he’d returned, he’d been with Nick. Through the slats in the closet door, she’d watched the two of them undress.
Why were they undressing together in their dorm room? Were they going to take showers? But the shower room was communal and down the hall. Were they going to walk down the hallway in just their towels?
Her confusion faded to awe as soon as they took off their shirts. She’d seen both their gorgeous chests before, but their beauty never ceased to amaze her.
Her ex-boyfriend Nick’s sculpted chest and long, muscular legs made him the epitome of a dream hunk. The day was humid, and a thin sheen of sweat coated his broad shoulders and washboard abs.
When he slipped his jeans down to reveal the firm, muscular cheeks of his ass, something pinged deep inside Lilly’s womb.
The sight of Kris in his naked glory was just as stunning. She’d never in her life seen beauty to match these two men. Muscle defined every lean inch of Kris’s golden body. His deep tan offset his fair hair, and his body was pure masculine perfection.
She was obviously not the only person in the room turned on by Kris. Nick’s eyes filled with dark lust. He seemed totally focused on the blond man. Her heart began to thud, the answering echo a
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