The Dom's Patience is Rewarded [Unchained Love 4] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) Read Online Free Page A

Then I’ll see if we can use Carey’s apartment as our pied- à -terre until we can build a house of our own. It’s very small, and you’ll both need to put most of your things in storage, but hopefully it won’t be for too long. At least we’ll be able to spend the nights together there,” said Oliver.
    “Most of my possessions are already in storage anyway. I only have a bedroom in the main house. Besides, being together just the three of us will be nice,” said Leticia, happiness bubbling under her skin. Tomorrow night. They would be handfasted to each other tomorrow night. Oliver was a Dom. Would he introduce her to BDSM sex straight away? She’d listened with great interest to the things Jubilee had said about BDSM. She rather liked the idea of trying some of them out. Or would they begin with ordinary sex? Ordinary sex, that was a joke. One woman and two men together was not exactly the definition of ordinary sex.
     
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    William paced around the parking lot as he thought about what had just happened. He was so confused. On the one hand, he loved Leticia with all his heart and it had almost killed him when her own father hurt her not once but twice. Her father’s actions didn’t fit into any stereotype of domestic violence he’d studied in nursing school, but it sure seemed like domestic violence to him. First, the old man basically kept her totally locked up and away from everyone she cared about, then he shot her, and finally he tried to kidnap her when she complained about his treatment of her.
    On the one hand, marrying her, making her his to love and to cherish ’til death parted them, was his dearest wish come true. He loved her so much. The hours he’d spent when he was off-duty at the hospital, sitting beside her bed, watching her sleep, or, even better, talking to her as he guarded her from rogue panthers and anyone else who may wish to hurt her, had been the best time of his life until now.
    But on the other hand was Oliver. William was a realist. Oliver had been in Leticia’s life long before William had even met her and fallen in love with her. Oliver was not only a panther, like Leticia, but also a Dom, and William didn’t have a Dom bone in his body. He couldn’t even argue back like Tor did when some idiot of a doctor mistook which patient was which in his ward at the hospital.
    William acknowledged that Oliver had waited patiently until the time was appropriate to ask Leticia to marry him. And not only that, but Oliver had included him as well in the deal, which proved he was an honorable man. In fact Oliver had done everything as well as he could have done it himself. Likely even better.
    Oliver never pushed William aside or talked over him when they were all together. But then, they weren’t all together very often.
    William thought he could trust Oliver to be fair to Leticia. Certainly he’d never hurt Leticia like her crazy father had. But where did it leave him? Human not panther, sub not Dom. Would he only get the scraps of Leticia’s attention when she wasn’t fully occupied with Oliver? Would Oliver even acknowledge his existence once the mating took place?
    Even the scraps of her attention, the unused corners of her life, would be better than not having her at all.
    Exactly. I want her and this way I get her, even if it’s only a bit of her. Besides, I’ll make certain I’m always there for her, I’ll work in the garden with her, and I’ll figure out a way to prevent Oliver wiping me out of their lives if I have to. By the time the trial three months are up I’ll make sure she can’t bear to part with me, that I’m an integral part of the relationship!
    William sat in his car and grinned at the mess on the backseat. He had a one-room apartment near the hospital. For years it’d been perfect. He was too bound up in caring for patients to want anything more. He hadn’t wanted a yard with a lawn to cut, garden beds to weed, and trees to prune, but now he was