COME WHEN CALLED #6, The Punishment (Billionaire & Biker MMF Menage Romance Serial) Read Free

something to that? Has it occurred to you maybe he’s trying to push you away a little too hard?”
    She shook her head, mussing her hair against the pillow. “Don’t do that. Don’t encourage stupid ideas. And besides, what about you? If that was the case, why would he push you and me together? Maybe he’s hoping you and I will just run away together so he can be alone and miserable like he wants.”
    “I don’t believe that.” But Charley’s body had stiffened and Evie could feel the anxiety prickling off him. “I don’t think you should either.”
    “No?” Evie pulled away and propped her head on her hand, her elbow on the pillow. “Charley, he’s on a date tonight. He left you and me together with instructions to fuck while he’s on a date with another woman. How stupid do we have to be to think there would ever be any chance for…for… What? What is there? All three of us? Together? What is that? Pinning down Ford is one thing, but calling the three of us some kind of relationship is another. There are just too many impossible hurdles that no sane person would take on.”
    The usual light in his warm brown eyes dimmed and Evie’s gut clenched again. It was one thing for her to be hard and cynical. It was another thing for her to take hope away from this wonderful, loving man in front of her. “Charley, I’m sorry. That doesn’t mean there’s no chance for you and him.”
    “No. I think I’m the only one here who sees what’s happening. There really is no chance for Ford and me. There never was.”
    “Charley, that’s not tr—”
    “Until you came along.”
    She shut her mouth. Opened it. Couldn’t think of the right words and so just went with, “Huh?”
    He wrapped his arms around her again and pulled her to him, his body radiating heat like an electric blanket. She felt she could stay in his arms and just let the world go by forever. Instead of answering, he kissed her, slowly at first, his lips soft and caressing. She was reluctant to kiss back, feeling she didn’t deserve his kisses for hurting him, for diminishing his optimism about true love. But soon, she opened for him and their tongues slipped to find each other. Her body and her emotions responded in unified pleasure and joy at Charley’s body heat and his sexy affection.
    When he broke the kiss, leaving her breathless, he whispered, “Evie, you’re not the only one who discovered what you were missing.” She searched his eyes, trying not to interpret his words. She was in too deep already and her self-preservation instincts were screaming at her to not hear what he was saying. “I think Ford does love me, and I think he wants to be with me, but up until now it’s been impossible. I can’t ever be everything he wants, because Ford needs a woman he can dominate. He needs that sexually. It’s in his bones. But the right woman. A rare kind of woman he could actually love. I think that’s the only way Ford will ever, ever open himself to feeling love—if it’s even possible.” He grew quiet for a moment and neither of them spoke. Finally Charley added, “I was sure that woman didn’t exist because Ford never likes anyone. Ever. Until you.”
    Evie chewed on the inside of her cheek. “So what were you missing that you found?” she heard herself ask, dreading the answer for the hope it might bring. Hope she couldn’t afford to have for an entire year, only to have it destroy her.
    “I found you.” He smiled and kissed her softly. He spoke in between kisses. “I didn’t even realize how incredibly lonely I was trying to love that man by myself until you came along. You’re funny and brave and crazy and smart. And you have tits, which I love.” He laughed, brushing her nipple with his thumb. “And you accept me straight-up, which feels like a miracle to me. I didn’t know there was such a thing as someone like you. I didn’t even know I needed you until Ford forced you into my life. Now I don’t want to live