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“Shut up, you have hot cowboys traipsing around naked in your house.”

“Who I can’t have,” I reminded her.

“I’ll take them,” she said. “All three of them.”

“Preferably at once,” I said with a shiver.

“Amber,” she said, sounding scandalized. “You’re supposed to be in Wyoming to get your ducks in a row, not to get your dicks in a row.”

“Oh, I don’t want them in a row,” I said, rolling onto my back and pulling the blankets up over me. “I want them in a circle.”

21

Waylon

The table was silent as we all sat down to eat breakfast. Finally, I couldn’t take it. That bastard was holding out on us.

“You gonna make me ask?” I growled at my brother.

Sawyer smiled, finishing his mouthful of eggs before answering. “Nah,” he said. “Not that. Just trying to put off the inevitable because I know you’re going to be pissed.”

“Did something happen?” Holden asked, not looking up from his plate.

I watched him as Sawyer spoke, though. When that cheating bitch had run off on me, I’d been fine. Holden had taken it hardest. He was the reason I’d shot down the women they’d brought home since then. But it was harder now. I couldn’t simply find a reason to send Amber home, though God knew she had made enough messes. I had blown off other women for far less legitimate reasons. But despite Amber’s mishaps, I couldn’t send her packing. She was here for two and a half more months, like it or not.

“I told her about Maria,” Sawyer said. “I didn’t mean to, not really. We got to talking, and she’s easy to talk to.”

“Dangerously easy,” Holden said. “You’re going to scare her off.”

“It doesn’t matter,” I reminded them. “She’s not a woman.”

“She sure looks like a woman to me,” Holden said.

A picture of her bending over with her ass in the air flashed through my mind, and my cock throbbed painfully hard. It did not agree with my brain on this one.

“I like her,” Sawyer said. “I think we should feel her out.”

“She’s our sister,” I reminded him.

“We’re all adults, and our parents happened to get married,” Sawyer said. “She’s not our sister.”

“I like her, too,” Holden said quietly. “And there’s nothing sisterly about her. I say yes.”

I’d been afraid of that.

“We all know we need a woman around,” Sawyer said. “And she’s already here. She seems to like us all, right? This is what we need. Someone who won’t come between us because we’re all there for her. She doesn’t have to hide it or run off with one of us. She gets all of us. And we get her.”

“That all sounds good to me,” Holden said. “Who cares what anyone else thinks? This is between us and her. No one else needs to know.”

“And if they find out, fuck them,” Sawyer said. “The only thing that matters is that she’s happy with it.”

“No,” I said firmly. “I like her as much as you do. Trust me, I do. But regardless of what we need, we have to put what she needs first. And the last thing she needs is more scandal. She came here to get away from that.”

“If we keep it quiet, there won’t be a scandal,” Sawyer said.

“But they will find out,” I said. “You saw how easy it was last night. You know what they’d say about her if they got wind of it. The senator’s daughter is living in sin with three men? Not to mention, her own stepbrothers?”

“You’re right,” Holden said. “They’d crucify her. The gossip about her arrest would be nothing compared to this.”