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“I need to know what’s going on in that head of yours. Tell me.”
Maggie licked her lips. “This is a lot to think about.”
“I know. And you don’t have to decide what you want do about us right now. All you need to concentrate on is eating and sleeping and healing. Understand? That is all that matters right now. Your care.”
Dear Lord, the things he was saying . . . they were making her head swim.
“Come on. Let’s get you sitting.” He helped her sit up. His touch was careful so he didn’t hurt her bruised ribs. “You need to eat. From now on, every time you miss a meal, it’s going into your naughty girl book.”
“You . . . are you a Daddy Dom?” she asked instead of protesting his bossiness.
Truth is . . . she kind of needed it right now.
“I was once,” he told her. “I’m still going to note any naughtiness down in your book for Ian and Jack.”
“They won’t spank me.”
“There are other sorts of punishments. Have you ever been denied an orgasm?”
She gaped at him. He held up the sandwich, cocking an eyebrow. She reluctantly took a bite.
“Good girl. I’m worried about you. We all are. Ian and Jack love you, you know?”
What?
“And they don’t want to lose you.Wedon’t want to lose you.”
“I’m fine.” They loved her?
“Precious girl, you’re getting weaker by the day, you’re sinking more and more into that head of yours. Do not let those assholes win. Hear me?”
It became too much for her. That barrier started to crack.
“I’m scared.”
His head shot up, his eyes meeting hers. And his face softened. “Of what, precious girl? That they’ll grab you again?”
She nodded. “I thought I was going to die. They were barely feeding me. I had hardly any water. And they let me see their faces. They were going to kill me. Whenever I close my eyes, I can seeherface. Nureel. The way she looked at me, it was like I was nothing.”
A sob escaped her.
“You are not nothing. Do you hear me?” he said fiercely. “You are beautiful, perfect, lovely, kind. And you are so fucking loved.”
She stared at him in shock.
He ran his hand over his face and she saw it was trembling. “I thought we’d lost you . . . that I had lost you and I never even got a chance to tell you how I feel about you. How much I care about you. I couldn’t sleep from worrying about you. Whether you were all right, if you were scared, or sick, or in pain. If you were needing us. And Ian and Jack were the same. They were lost, shells of themselves without you. They can’t function without you, precious girl. And now . . . I’m not going to let you just fade away. Even if I need to be the bad guy.”
His words broke through her shield and she let out a bigger sob that shook her entire body. Tears slid down her face. “I’m sorry. I’m s-sorry.”
For a moment, he looked devastated. Then he leaned in close, hugging her.
“It’s all right. Everything will be all right.”
Where was he going? Was he horrified by her display of emotion?
“Ian,” he called out.
Then Ian was there, pulling her onto his lap, holding her close. And she completely lost it.
