Page 16 of Secret Pleasure (Bound Hearts 13)

“You two are impossible.” She rolled her eyes before standing, grabbing the bag, and walking past them. “I’ll put them with the rest of the toys.” She paused and glanced back. “Mind you, I love presents. But the next time you get in a buying mood, I think I might deserve something a bit more traditional for putting up with your weird-assed sense of humor.” Turning back, she carried her “gifts” to the bedroom, found an empty drawer, and pushed them all the way to the back before closing it.

Lord help her. She needed another glass of wine.

Returning to the kitchen, she found both of them still where she’d left them. They looked a bit disconcerted perhaps.

“Did I offend you?” She hadn’t considered that. Maybe they thought the present was a good one. What the hell did she know? She’d never had a steady date, let alone a lover. She didn’t dare introduce a guy she was interested in to Margot. It would be a disaster.

“Uh, no.” Shane shook his head frowning before glancing at Sebastian. “We need to go, though.”He still had that confused look on his face.

“What did I do?” Crossing her arms over her breasts, she glared at both of them. “Come on, spit it out. Did I miss something?”

“No. No.” Shane rubbed at the back of his neck, still frowning. “We just need to go now.”

A hard shake of his head and he just left.

Sebastian followed, though he shot her a quizzical look through the glass door as he closed it behind him.

She obviously had missed something.

Shrugging, she filled her wineglass before plopping back into the chair she’d vacated moments before. She had a feeling she was going to end up drinking a lot of wine this summer.

*

Shane managed to drive halfway to the De Loren property before Sebastian actually spoke.

“I told you to get one smaller than we were,” he reminded his cousin with a glower. “What did you do? Buy one that looked like a baseball bat or something?”

Shane was in shock. He knew he was. He frowned at the road as he drove, wondering if there was some way he’d misunderstood her. Surely he had.

“Shane?” Sebastian snapped.

“Huh?” he answered a bit absently. “Hey, ’Bastian?”

“What? How did you fuck that up?”

“Did she say she was a virgin?” Shane asked. “I had to have heard her wrong. I did, right?” He had to be sure.

Sebastian went dead silent for a full moment. “You heard that too?” There was an edge of disbelief in his cousin’s voice. “I thought I misheard.”

“Fuck!” The word exploded from their lips at the same time.

“I thought our sisters were the only virgins left in the world,” Sebastian finally ventured.

Shane shook his head. “We heard wrong.”

“How big was the fucking dildo, Shane?” Sebastian snapped then. “What did you buy?”

Shane wiped his hand down his face. “Well, that’s the thing,” he sighed. “It’s actually probably much smaller than we are.” He glanced at Sebastian. “I don’t think we heard wrong, ’Bastian.”

Sebastian didn’t speak. He stared straight ahead, just as Shane did.

Hell, a virgin.

He was so damned hard his dick was like iron, blood rushing through his body in excitement while pure shock held him a bit mesmerized, Shane thought.

A complete innocent.

Hell, they’d known she was inexperienced. Very inexperienced. But by eighteen, most young women had at least had one sexual encounter that included penetration. That, neither of them had expected. The fact that no other man, young, mature or otherwise, had taken her, was blowing their minds.