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Holy. Shit.
“Only with partners who are consenting and want to receive pain,” Mia said quickly.
“I don’t think that I could ever . . . not that it matters. We’re not together.”
All three of them gave her varying looks of disbelief.
“Are you in trouble, Thea?” Mia asked. “We can help you. Jardin can help you. He’s a good guy.”
She shook her head. “I’m fine. I don’t need any help. If you’ll excuse me, I have to pick my brothers up from their friends house.”
It wasn’t until after she’d fled that she realized she hadn’t asked the diner owner about her apartment.
“Where the hell could she have gone?”
Carrick watched as Jardin paced back and forth across the office. They were at the Malone family home. If you could call it a home. The place was enormous. And old. It was gorgeous, but it wasn’t exactly homey. Mostly, Carrick was scared to touch anything in case he broke it.
Then Gerald, the butler, would have his ass.
Jardin’s oldest brother, Regent, watched him with cool, dark eyes. Regent was scary as shit. If Jardin could be arrogant and cold, then Regent was ice. Pure, chilling ice. The only time he ever saw him warm up was around their sister, Lottie.
“She hasn’t used her accounts. We found her phone in the mall. We know she took an Uber from the school to the mall, but we lost her after that,” Maxim, the youngest Malone brother said.
Regent was the oldest then it was Jardin, Victor then Maxim. Lottie was the baby. And the only girl. Protected and coddled, especially after all that she’d been through.
“What are we going to do?” Jardin said.
“We’ll find her,” Maxim reassured him. “She’ll make a mistake and we’ll get her.”
“Course, once you find her you actually have to keep her,” Regent drawled. “Shall I have Gerald prepare the safe room?”
Both Jardin and Carrick glared at him.
“We’re not locking her up,” Carrick protested.
“No? Hmm. Letting her roam around on her own hasn’t worked out so well.”
“This isn’t the eighteenth century, Regent. We can’t just kidnap her and lock her up until she’s pregnant with our child,” Jardin said with frustration.
Regent sighed, looking disappointed in them both.
“There was just a misunderstanding,” Carrick said.
“What?” Victor mocked. He’d been silent up until then, sitting in a chair in the corner, sipping his scotch. “She didn’t realize she was yours?”
Jardin and Carrick shared a glance.
“We were easing her into it,” Carrick explained.
Regent shook his head. “Easing her into it,” he repeated. “Ridiculous.”
Jardin made a noise of frustration. “Debating what we should have done isn’t helping to find her any quicker.
“She’d have to enroll her brothers in school, right? Maybe I can use that to find her,” Maxim mused.
“Why did she run in the first place?” Victor asked. “I assume it wasn’t just because the two of you wanted to tag team her.”
“Victor!” Jardin barked as Carrick scowled.
