“Gabe, aren’t you a little frustrated by how fast she makes you need to come?”

“No,” he denies too quickly.

My pulse starts to pound so loud, I can barely hear what’s going on. Moisture rushes between my legs and at the same time, Banks tears down my leggings and panties, baring my backside for all three of them to look at. I’m turned on beyond measure by them staring at me, yes, but this idea that Gabe might be harboring some anger toward me, my body, for getting him too horny…it’s an unexpected blast of endorphins I never saw coming. Is this a kink? What is this and how the holy hell did Tobias recognize it before me?

“Gabe, be honest. Does this brat make you so hard you can’t stand it?”

His swallow is audible, like an anchor sinking into water. “Yes,” he admits quietly.

Hoarsely.

I whimper, the desire in my stomach doubling me over, but somehow I stabilize myself with a shoulder wedged up against Tobias’s abdomen, my cheek pressed to his ribcage. He strokes my hair like a wise master of hidden kinks. “Better spank her for it, Gabe.”

“Elise?” Banks questions me, urgently.

“I’m good,” I say, reaching blindly for his hand, grasping it. “I want it.”

“Do you want to be spanked as a consequence for trying to run away from us? Or for making Gabe need to fuck his hand all goddamn day and night?

“Both,” I heave, moisture starting to leak from my eyes, my voice pulled taut like a string. Who am I? Part of me can’t believe I’m giving these men so much power over me, but the other part is in control and it wants to be dragged kicking and screaming into oblivion where I don’t have to think or worry. All I have to do is trust.

“Gabe, it’s okay to show her your frustration.” Tobias uses a foot to kick my legs farther apart, stretching the leggings around my trembling knees. “She likes it.”

The foreman groans and I sense him stumbling closer. He grips my ass in both hands and kneads my cheeks roughly, then he strikes me with the flat of his palm on my right buttock, shooting off a flare inside of me that carries me up, up into the night sky and drops me toward earth. The only thing that propels me back upward is another sharp slap. And now all three of them are laboring to breathe, Banks stroking his hands up and down my back, my thighs, soothingly, muttering praise. Tobias cups my face in his hand, then begins sliding his thumb in and out of my mouth.

Every time Gabe spanks me, Tobias pushes that digit all the way in and holds it for me to moan around, to bite down on, whatever I want.

I have no idea where this leads, my body on the verge of implosion while something in my chest shifts, transforms. It’s so intense. Physical buildup, sensory overload and an emotional hurricane all at once. I scream something unintelligible and all three of them seem to interpret what even I can’t—and I’m suddenly being carried down a hallway, three sets of determined and purposeful footsteps echoing in my ears along with my heartbeat.