I want to drag her down onto the bed and kiss that lying mouth. “It won’t make you uncomfortable? You know I’m not quiet.”

She’s blushing so hard, she’s practically purple. “Why would it make me uncomfortable? I don’t see Broderick like that.”

Yes, she does. She really, really does. “You see me like that.”

Shiloh clears her throat. “Yeah, I guess I do.”

I grab her hand and tug her closer to the bed. She comes without hesitation, and I waste no time leaning forward and nuzzling her breasts. “Shiloh?”

“Yes?”

“Promise me something.”

“What?” She looks like she’s staring down a tiger, but she digs her hands into my hair and arches her back a little, guiding my mouth to one nipple. Her bra is so thin, it’s nothing at all to nip and suck her until first one nipple and then the other are hard points against the fabric.

I palm her pussy through her jeans. “Promise me that if you feel even the tiniest bit turned on, you’ll take care of your pretty pussy the way I would. Properly. Until you come enough times that you’re sated.”

She’s breathing hard and rocking her hips against my palm, ever so slightly. “That won’t be a problem. I’m not going to be turned on if you have sex with Broderick while I’m in the room.”

Liar. “Then you should have no issue promising me.”

Another hesitation, longer this time. “I promise.”

I pull her down to straddle me and speak the next words against her lips. “I take my promises very seriously, love. You can lie as much as you like about other things, but not about this. Got it?”

“Yes.” And then she’s kissing me, bearing me down to the bed and taking my mouth as if she’ll find her next breath on the other side. I could pretend this lust is all for me, but I know better. There’s nothing that burns as hot as thwarted desire, and both Shiloh and Broderick have that in spades. As much as I want to roll her over and play with her until she comes half a dozen times, I don’t want her the least bit sated before we turn off the lights and do things in the dark.

Better to focus on getting both Broderick and Shiloh into my bed than the alternative.

I’ll have to deal with all of it soon—Abel’s threat, my mother’s distance, the future that used to feel so concrete but has somehow gone liquid in the last few weeks. But not tonight.

Tonight, I’m going to start the next stage of my seduction.

Chapter 16

Shiloh

Making that promise to Monroe seemed like the simplest thing in the world. Of course I don’t desire Broderick. That would be ridiculous…

I’m a fucking liar.