“Do I stay in this room while you have your meeting with the Pres?”she asked between bites.“If you’re going to tie me up, could it be to the bed?”
Crash dropped his fork onto his plate with a clatter.“What the fuck?Hell no, we aren’t tying you up!”
Burn looked furious.“Willow, you’re free to move about the room as you please, and if you want to go out into the clubhouse, maybe sit at the bar, you just let one of us know.Until Blitz makes up his mind about you, you can’t have complete free reign, but no one is going to tie you up.Not now, not ever again.”
She felt her cheeks warm with embarrassment.“I didn’t mean to offend you.I just…don’t know what to expect.My life has always been one particular way, then suddenly I was the property of the Double Deuces and treated more like a dog.And now…I’m owned by yet another M.C.”
“No, honey,” Crash said, setting his plate aside.He cupped her cheek with his hand.“You aren’t owned anymore.Blitz may not let you leave the club, but you are no one’s property.”
“Not yet,” Burn muttered then cleared his throat.“You know about old ladies, right?”
“I was kept away from the few the clubs had.I was considered beneath them.”
“If you agree to be our old lady, our mate, then you’ll receive a cut or jacket with a property patch on the back.It will sayProperty of Crash and Burn.In a sense, I guess we’ll own you, but not like what you’re used to.It means we’ll be responsible for you, and your actions will reflect on us.If you screw up, the Pres is going to have our asses, not yours.Understand?”
“I think so.”
“Sweetheart, do you understand what it means to be our mate?”Crash asked.
“It’s like a wife, right?”
“It’s more than that.When a shifter takes a mate, he never wants another woman.Ever.We’ll be faithful to you, and you’ll become our entire world.You’ll never want for anything, and you’ll have more freedom than ever before.We’ll even buy a house so we don’t have to live in this room.You can help pick it out.”Crash tugged on a lock of her hair.“Just say the word and we’ll give you the world, angel.We’re dying to make you ours, but we also want to give you whatever space you need.”
“Within reason,” Burn said.“Blitz won’t wait forever.And neither will we.”
“I understand,” she said.“And I appreciate that you’re willing to give me some time to process everything; I promise not to take too long.I’m honored that you want me as your mate, but it’s a little…frightening.All of this is almost too much at once after having nothing for so long.”
“We want to spoil you, if you’ll let us,” Burn said.
“While you’re in your meeting, may I watch TV?”
Burn’s eyebrows rose.“Of course.Watch whatever you want.We even get a few movie channels.”
“Thank you,” she said softly.Willow handed her empty plate to Crash, then settled back against the headboard again.Everything was so surreal.Willow was almost afraid to believe this was her new life and terrified that it would be snatched away when she least expected it.They were offering her everything she’d always wanted, and shedidwant it, she was just afraid to reach for it.
The guys finished their breakfast and took their showers.Once they were dressed, they each kissed her on the cheek and left, closing the door behind them.Curiosity got the better of her and she rummaged through the sacks, checking out her new things, and then dressed quickly.It took her a moment to figure out how to work the TV, but when she mastered it, she selected a movie and stretched out across the bed with her head propped on her hand.
Freedom was a strange concept to Willow.Oh, it wasn’t complete freedom, but it was far more than she’d ever experienced before.The brothers trusted her, and she would never betray their trust.But while they had explained the mate thing to her, she still wasn’t entirely certain what they wanted from her.Obviously, sex would be part of the deal, and that made her stomach flip and flop.She’d never so much as kissed anyone before, much less donethat.Yes, she’d read romances and had seen her fair share of men screwing women up against a wall, but something told her the experience with the twins would be different from her books or what she’d observed.
“I want them,” she admitted to herself.But admitting it, while in a room by herself was one thing, admitting in front of them was another matter.
The question was, what was she willing to do to make them hers?Being mated for life scared her.Not because she thought they would treat her badly, but because she worried she would be a bad mate.What did she know about relationships?Going from never having a boyfriend to having two husbands was a bit daunting, but she wasn’t going to say it was completely out of the realm of possibility.
Maybe they’d take things slowly?A kiss would be a good place to start, wouldn’t it?And then if something more happened, it would be because she desired them, andwantedsomething more to happen.Would they take her at the same time, like some of the books she’d read?Or would they take turns?
Her face flamed as she thought about them naked.She felt like a school girl with a crush, and she supposed that wasn't far off the mark.They’d rescued her.Crash had literally leapt through a window, into a burning inferno, and pulled her out to safety.She owed him her life, and it was a debt she wasn’t sure would ever be repaid.But she didn’t want to mate with them out of some misplaced need to repay their kindness.She was genuinely curious about the twins and what it would be like to belong to them.
“Only one way to find out.”She’d spend as much time with them as possible today, and if they went out somewhere, she’d treat it like a date.A smile blossomed across her face at the thought of going on a date.Most women her age had been on quite a few, but she’d been denied that pleasure.
If they were intent on giving her things she’d never had, then she would accept their kindness.And maybe they would give her the most important “first” on her list—a kiss.
Chapter Four
CrashandBurntooktheir seats around the table.They’d no sooner stepped out of their room than Blitz had called Church.As everyone filed in, Crash took a moment to study their Pres.The man looked a little pissed off and a whole lot stressed.It didn’t bode well for their day with Willow.He had hoped the Pres would take a few days to figure out what to do about the Double Deuces who had escaped, but that didn’t seem likely now.
Blitz banged his gavel.“Let this meeting come to order.”
The room slowly quieted.
