Page 38 of Sold to the Single Daddies (Southern Heat Reverse Harems #4)

Reagan

Harley gave me a ride back to the ranch after we spent far too long eating Maxie’s baked goods and gossiping.

She wanted to see Lucky so she was going to spend the night and I was beyond happy to spend some time with her.

There was something going on with her and I wanted to get to the bottom of it.

“Stop staring at me like that, Rea.” She rolled down the windows and immediately had about a hundred strands of hair in her mouth. Same as me.

“You think force feeding me my own hair is going to stop me from asking you what’s going on?” I spit out a few more strands and tried to hold my hair down.

“What? Sorry! I can’t hear you!” She punched the old radio until it came on, so loud that we both jumped.

Unfortunately for Harley, I knew her car was a piece of shit and that the last guy who’d worked on it had done some incredibly weird things to it.

I reached over and hit the button to turn on the hazard lights and the whole car turned off.

As we slowed to a stop in the sudden silence I smirked at her.

“Fuck you.” There was no heat to the words as she dropped her head back and groaned. “I’ll tell you. You can’t say anything to me, though. I mean, you can and you should. I’ll need you to. Just be nice and don’t judge too harshly, okay?”

I frowned. “Did you murder someone?”

“No!” She looked at me like I was crazy.

“And if I did, I wouldn’t tell you! First of all, it’s when killers talk that they get caught.

Second of all, it would be so messed up of me to make you an accessory after the fact.

Third of all, you’re just crazy enough to try to help me hide a body and you don’t need that energy in your life right now. ”

I grabbed her hand.

“As much as I love your numbered lists, I need you to stop stalling and tell me what happened.”

“I got invited to another auction.”

“I’m not going for you again!”

“I’m not asking you to!” She dropped her head forward on the steering wheel and instead of honking, the car started.

We both lunged to turn off the radio before we were deafened.

After the small panic, Harley word vomited it all up.

“I didn’t want to go to the auction as a virgin, Rea.

I’ve heard of some of the kinky shit that happens and I didn’t want to lose my virginity to some rich guy in his eighties. ”

I gaped at her. “You’re a virgin?”

“Not anymore.”

I screamed. “Harley!”

“I know! I have this guy friend who deals drugs and—”

“You screwed him?”

“No! I lost my mind, Rea. I bought ecstasy from him. I thought it would help make me relax enough to just do it, you know?”

“You took ecstasy and lost your virginity?!”

“No! Well, sort of. Oh, my god, Reagan. Just let me get it all out.” She watched me pretend to zip my lips before continuing.

“I bought one pill and then I went to this house party in a rich neighborhood. I even safety pinned a condom to my shirt so I didn’t forget to use one.

Not through the condom, of course. Just the wrapper.

And I’m on birth control. I’m not a complete idiot.

I went to the party and I was about to take the pill when the cops showed up! ”

I gasped. “No!”

“Yeah! I can’t go to prison for drug possession, Reagan.

So, I freaked out and ran. I dove over a fence and then I thought I needed to take the pill so that if I got caught, the cops wouldn’t find the drugs.

So, I took it. And then I jumped another fence and ended up at this fancy party.

It was crazy, Rea. It was a sex party. I slipped upstairs to hide and wait it out and I ran into these guys… ”

I couldn’t stay silent. “What the fuck?! And then what?!”

“I don’t know, Rea. The drugs hit and these guys were so hot. They were in masks, though, I think. I don’t…I don’t remember much of it. Just that it was way better than how I thought losing my virginity would go.”

My mouth was hanging open and I was pretty sure I’d never be able to shut it again.

Of all the things I could’ve ever imagined Harley saying, that would’ve been the last of them.

I stared at her and blinked. She’d taken drugs, accidentally attended a sex party, and lost her virginity to “ These guys ?”

She chewed at her cuticle and nodded.

“Three. I think you spoke too highly of your night of sex and I just…went with it.”

“I… Wow.”

“I woke up the next morning and fled the scene of the crime while they were still sleeping. Now I have the auction coming up and I’m no less scared.

” Turning to face me completely, Harley grabbed my hands and frowned.

“I have to do it. I need the money. I can’t put it off any longer.

Talk me through everything again? From the moment you arrived, to the moment you left.

I need to know every little thing there is to know. ”

I nodded.

“I can do that. I also have a little money saved up that you can have, Harley.”

“No. Never.” She blew out a deep breath and squared her shoulders. “I’ll take money from men like the ones at that club but I would never take money from you. You actually deserve the money you’ve earned.”

“Come on. Drive us to the ranch and I’ll make you a drink so you can relax while I tell you everything.”