Page 88 of New Nebraska Heat

His answering look dragged along her body like he was imagining slowly slipping off her clothes. “I liked telling them what to do. I like being in charge.”

Color bloomed in Serenity’s cheek, but her eyes looked hungry. “What was your favorite thing you made them do?”

“Well, they were bad girls. They’d lied to me. They were mostly into each other. I was kind of just a sideshow. So, I made them bend over the bed while I spanked them.”

Serenity’s next breath was audible—a faint, rippling almost-moan that grew my cock. She crooked her finger at him. “Take your victory leap, Detective.”

Dagger’s jaguar voiced his triumph as he jumped to the finish line, landing with the toes of his socks touching Serenity’s. He took her chin in two fingers and drew her in for a kiss.

“Ready for your dare?” he asked when he pulled back.

She nodded up at him. “What is it?”

“Well, since you’re so interested in threesomes…”

A low, animalistic growl slipped through Hunter’s teeth, and I tensed, but Dagger plowed right on.

“… or fivesomes, even, I dare you to let us all kiss you in a place of our choice at the same time.” He caressed her hair. “Within the rules of course.”

Serenity leaned against his chest. “I like it.”

She really had tamed a wild jaguar. I’d never have guessed a dare so innocent would come from Dagger. One glance at Hunter’s slightly open mouth confirmed he felt the same.

“You heard her.” Dagger waved the rest of us forward. “Bryce, you pick your place first, so we can all keep our distance.”

We surrounded Serenity again, and I had to remind myself to breathe as I stepped to her right side and dropped to one knee. “Can I pull down your waistband just a little?” I asked her, a finger curling under the hem of her skirt, waiting. “Your hips drive me crazy.”

“Mm-hmm.”

I slid down the soft cotton to reveal her hip bone. “Ready,” I said, voice scratchy.

Hunter went next, standing right in front of her, a finger caressing the line of her V-neck down to the swell of her breasts. Seb went on her left side and sank low, caressing her thigh. So, Dagger went behind her.

“Can you lean your head back on my shoulder?” he asked her, voice so gentle I wouldn’t have believed it was him if I didn’t see his lips move.

She obliged, face upturned to him.

“Ready?” Dagger asked.

We all nodded.

“Go.”

I pressed my lips to her warm hip bone, right above the hem of her panties, and let my tongue taste her skin with the barest touch. She smelled like lavender and tasted like heaven, and I needed more.

She sighed, and her hand curled in my hair, sending tingles of ecstasy down my spine. I leaned into her touch as I tasted her with another kiss.

When I looked up at her in delight, I saw, to my absolute shock, that Dagger had kissed her cheek. With eyes closed, he breathed her in, his cradling her head, keeping her close.

Hunter always expected the worst from Dagger, but here was proof that when it counted most, he tried to do what was best for people he cared most about. Or he was just as determined to take this as slow as our girl needed, happy to just be a part of her little pack.

Serenity

The mens’ kisses left me quaking with the need to wrap myself around someone.

But I wasn’t ready for that, yet.

I couldn’t. I needed to go slower… I needed someone who would understand.