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moment, blushing as they both took her in.
    Hatch moved in close, tracing fingertips over the vines of deep green ink circling from her thighs up her belly, under her breasts, up her chest and around her back.
    “Wow.”
    Hatch stepped even closer, the scent of her skin hardening his cock to the point of pain. The Summer he’d loved before was soft and sweet. Laughed and smiled all the time. She was open and utterly without guile.
    This Summer was harder even as she was vulnerable and it tore him up even as he vowed to prove himself to her. To earn the love and trust of this all-grown-up Summer.
    “How long did this take?” Hatch circled her.
    “A little over a year.”
    There were thorns here and there, inked as if they’d pricked her flesh, drops of blood glistened on the tips. And yet it was beautiful. There was an intimacy to the work that stole his breath.
    “He loved you.” Hatch faced her again.
    She bit her bottom lip a moment. “He thought so.”
    “What happened to him?”
    It was clear she knew he meant the man who’d done her ink.
    “He’s here in Paradise.”
    Hatch didn’t like the way that felt in his belly. “Did you love him?”
    She shook her head. “I enjoyed him. We had great sex. He’s creative and brilliant and he treated me well. He took something, an idea I had, and he made something beautiful on my skin.”
    “He understood you.”
    She nodded. “Partly anyway.”
    Hatch ran his palms from her hips to cup her breasts, pinching her nipples until she had to close her eyes a moment. “Why didn’t you stay with him?”
    “I liked him. A lot. Like I said we had great chemistry and the sex was good. He was in a triad and they wanted me to be part of a quad and it was all too much for me. Their female partner was okay at first, but it just wasn’t…balanced. They had too many problems and my being involved with him only made it worse because they expected me to just hop into bed with everyone immediately and I just didn’t feel it with the other male.”
    “And you never…did anything with them as a group?”
    “With Jemmy it was always just the two of us. His partners watched us a few times but never touched.”
    She reached out and unzipped Charlie’s pants.
    “Well. Do you have plans, Summer?”
    “I’m naked. You two aren’t. Unless you want to talk more about the people I fucked in the four years since you left, Hatch? I didn’t have any threesomes but I do love cock.”
    She said it like a challenge and he locked gazes with her. He’d been with other women. Hell, he was in a relationship—in love—with the man standing next to him but the idea of her loving anyone else wasn’t one he liked much. The other women he’d been with were fun, but nothing to him. Not in the way this woman was. Had always been.
    For years he’d pretended it away, but now that she was back in his life there was no denying what she meant to him. How she made him yearn to make things better so she’d look at him without the open trust in her gaze held back.
    He wanted her to be able to count on him.
    He pulled his shirt up and tossed it away and she smiled. “As it happens I really don’t want to hear about other men you’ve been with.”
    She raised a brow at him and he found himself liking this spitfire Summer a whole lot.
    “I believe I was interrupted before.” Charlie shouldered next to Hatch and Summer laughed.
    “By all means, get back to it.” She motioned back to her left. “Bedroom if you’re so inclined.”
    Getting out of the rest of his clothes, Charlie winked at Hatch as he pulled Summer to her bedroom. “Since this is your first threesome I suppose Hatch and I need to make it extra memorable.”
    “I think we could endeavor to make it memorable all the time.”
    “You two talk a lot.”
    Surprised, Hatch turned his attention to her as Charlie settled her on her bed and lay with her.
    “Maybe we’re nervous too.” He’d meant it to be a tease but realized it