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Laird couldn’t get her off his mind

It wasn’t his usual style to get hung up on a wo about the poor, fragile thing that plucked at some latent sense of chivalry that he’d never known existed inside him and fuck, if he knehat to do with it

Lana Winters…beautiful, broken Lana So as he supposed to do with this newfound obsession? She wasn’t the kind of woet — she was the kind of wo and real emotion and that was out of the question Laird Tiechert wasn’t the kind of guy who settled down and played house, nothe woman was

A figure stirred beside hihed with irritation A slim hand reached across his chest to pull hie to push away the wo And yet, lately, they just felt, well, soulless Normally that was the part he enjoyed It was all her fault She was all he could think about, all day, every day It was getting daently lifted the wo nude to his bathrooet that woirls, whichas many dicks as possible but this one, see He shouldn’t have fucked her but he’d been horny and bored and the coainst his better judgment

Well, now, you have this to deal with

It’d been several ured that once he’d washed his hands of her, he’d forget about her Not so Not even a little bit He wondered how she was doing, if she was being taken care of, who she was around…what a pain in the ass His own thoughts were badgering him to the point of lunacy

Da thisa crisis but he’d never experienced so like this Particularly for a woman he’d never slept with!

Quick backstory, as the story goes, alh spot at the sex club, Malvagio, when a wo her way into the club ended up gettingVince, whose first thought had been to protect the club, put the wos, went and fell in love with her Laird never could’ve seen that co Vince Buchanan,to an end? Surely that was a sign of the co apocalypse But, no, the man was happily devoted to his neife, Eio, the club that he and his twin brother, Nolan, founded for the overprivileged perverted ere perennially bored with the round of perverted pleasures We’re talking threeso you could possibly ith the express exclusivity of an Eyes Wide Shut secret society Who wouldn’t want to be part of that guest list, right? Crazy stuff So yeah, good tiled her way past security and found herself, wide-eyed and vulnerable, a perfect target for ain their shadowy halls

Lana had been hurt — no joke — and that wasn’t what Malvagio was about Yes, there was plenty of pain happening in the private dungeons, but hell, Malvagio’s etting their ass caned, it was because they craved it, not because they were genuinely being tortured The things that Lana endured…it made him a bit sick to think of it because the woman, plainly, had been out of her depth when she’d found her way into the club, and no one deserved the things that were done to her

Was that why he was so hung up on the wo to that idea but even as self-deluded as he could be on his best day, he knew that wasn’t the answer He wasn’t overly burdened with a sense of empathy but that’s why the situation with Lana baffled him

Back to the beginning…while Vince had been sorting things out with E care of her sister, Lana, who had unfortunately kicked off this whole series of events by sneaking into Malvagio in the first place and o- tore her up and nearly killed the poor wo for so he totally understood why Vince had made the decision he had But to ask Laird to care for Lana while Vince cared for Eiver? Not natural He was a spoiled shit, ether back in the day but also because Laird didn’t do fragile In his clu that was already cracked So when Laird reluctantly agreed to take on babysitting Lana…hell, he couldn’t have seen as co

So after everything had gone down, suddenly Vince was per la vida loca, he’d relinquished his care of Lana and figured that would be the end of it Hell, it should have been the end of it But here he was, many months later still thin

king of the wo about! There were plenty of beautiful woe – they could spend his ti on a wo but blue balls!

Maybe this was dengue fever Maybe a parasite was eating his brain Maybe when Vince had asked for this particular favor he should’ve been a dick and said no fucking way But as done was done, right? It wasn’t as if he could take it back Too bad he couldn’t stop thinking about her!

The bathroom door opened and a slim blonde walked in with a sleepy ss were made to wrap around thethat she was aher up with soain in the shower but the prospect gave him little in the way of excitement It was almost a chore But he supposed he had a reputation to protect

“I woke up alone,” she purred as she wrapped her arainst his “I had fun last night How about an encore?”

He smiled and allowed his hands to slide down to her ass “I was just about to invite you to join me,” he lied “I’m ready if you are”

The wolanced down at his semi-flaccid cock “Are you sure? Little Laird doesn’t look ready to play”

“He just needs a little encouragement So out of his ly went to her knees He smiled as she took his cock into her ue always a nice one “That’s a girl” And then he closed his eyes and pictured so and yet couldn’t stop thinking about in some fashion or another

When he finally came, the name in his head sounded a lot like…Lana

Lana Winters, aka, the broken girl, couldn’t quite get her thoughts organized So much had happened in the last ten months that she couldn’t quite fathoed At one time she’d been so different Crazy, ood tiio

She’d heard about the secret club through the gossip chain, whispered in hushed tones about the sinful things that happened there and, of course, she’d been wildly curious It was an exclusive club, one where you had to be invited to becoet in She couldn’t even re about that night was a blur But even though she ht, she had the scars both physical and s had happened that night She’d almost died there, and because of that incident, her sister Eio down, but, as things turned out, she fell in love with one of the owners, Vince Buchanan So, now one of the co-owners of the club she despised, was her brother-in-law

Yes, let that sink in for abrother-in-law

Sometimes it was more than her brain could possibly handle and she spent a lot of time in her apartio incident, the Buchanans had paid her off to keep her quiet so she had a lu in various trusts and investments, which helped insulate her frorateful Unless, Eed her out and forced her to be social, which was still difficult for her She didn’t kno to trust her instincts anymore