Chapter 140

• But her need for answers overrode her fear. She steeled herself and looked at the screen, at the cartoon still going on. “Was it fun teasing me?” I frowned at them. “Did you enjoy making me feel like a fool, knowing I enjoyed everything? Was this just your way of playing with me? To get a rise from me??!”
• “Relax.” Fred placed a kiss on my forehead. “We only did what you wanted as good mates should. You don't know how difficult it was for me to keep up the lie. Seeing you coming undone while he touched you, but doing nothing, was the damned hardest thing I'd ever done," he confessed, his gaze holding on to mine.
• “Really?” I perked up at that, smiling at him. Somehow, knowing he endured so much to fulfil my wish made me want to rise from the bed and climb him like a damned tree.