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business.”
“Noah, I really want to see you again. I’ve missed you.”
“I’ve missed you, too. So much.” She could feel his sincerity through the phone.
“But you should know that I want to get to know Adison again as well.”
“I know you do.”
“I wish we could talk about this in person. Phones aren’t adequate for conversations like this.”
“Kari, we will. But for now I want you to know I’m not upset or anything. It’s not like I have a claim on you.”
“Thank you, Noah.”
“I’m going to be at Maddox’s tomorrow night.”
A shiver ran through Kari at the sound of his voice. It had the same low, sexy tone to it she’d heard on Saturday. “I’m glad, Noah. I want you to be there.”
“I’ll see you tomorrow then.”
* * * *
Noah barely managed to leave Chicago by three in the afternoon on Friday. His boss had hinted all morning that they might have to stay until after five to get through their agenda, and it was all Noah could do not to fake coming down with something and say he had to leave early. But Noah didn’t want to do that because Tim Johnson was a regular as Maddox’s club, and Noah would be caught in a lie if Tim were there tonight.
He raced down Interstate 65 toward home, his mind on Kari. He hadn’t been able to think of anything else all week. How could he have failed all those years to see the intelligent, fun person she was, living right next door to her? Granted, she’d hidden it quite well when she was a teen, but now that he looked back, it had always been there, underneath the giggling with friends and haughty mask she wore while walking through the halls at school.
He’d simply chosen to ignore it, because it was easier for him back then to label everyone and fit them neatly into the little mental slots he’d created. It gave order and structure to a life that was anything but behind the closed doors of his home. His mental filing cabinet had been one of the few things in Noah’s life back then that had made sense.
Buddy and Margo Tye had no secrets in Racy, unlike his parents. Everyone knew them, and everyone liked them. They’d raised five kids, and only Kari had left town. The others still lived within five miles of their parents’ home.
But now she was back, and Noah didn’t think people would find it that much of a stretch to discover she’d opened a sex shop—the town’s first, in fact. Kari always had gone her own way. But people had always liked her, and that hadn’t changed simply because she’d chosen to live in New York City for a while.
As Noah exited the freeway, he tried to recall some hint of Kari’s kinky side in high school but came up blank. She’d buried it, until Adison had peeled back the layers and exposed it. By the time Adison and Kari had become an item, Noah was hanging out with a rough older crowd from Indy, and he was lucky he’d never landed his ass in jail. Joining the Army was supposed to be his chance to make something of his life, but he’d fucked that up as well.
A country song on the radio about a woman in love with two men snapped his thoughts back to Kari’s confession that she’d fantasized about a ménage. He’d barely been able to form cohesive thoughts since hearing that. The images that had assaulted his mind were so sexy he’d begun to dream about them. Noah only wished it didn’t have to be Adison on the other end of that threesome.
Adison represented to Noah everything that was wrong with being introduced to BDSM at too young an age to understand it, combined with an already inflated ego because you’d grown up with good looks and confidence.
Noah had accidentally overheard a conversation years ago between Maddox and his uncle Russ. Russ was Ellis’s father, and Maddox and that particular cousin shared a birthday, so they’d grown up more like brothers. During the conversation Noah had overheard, Maddox and Russ had mentioned the time Russ had taken Maddox, Ellis, and Adison
“Noah, I really want to see you again. I’ve missed you.”
“I’ve missed you, too. So much.” She could feel his sincerity through the phone.
“But you should know that I want to get to know Adison again as well.”
“I know you do.”
“I wish we could talk about this in person. Phones aren’t adequate for conversations like this.”
“Kari, we will. But for now I want you to know I’m not upset or anything. It’s not like I have a claim on you.”
“Thank you, Noah.”
“I’m going to be at Maddox’s tomorrow night.”
A shiver ran through Kari at the sound of his voice. It had the same low, sexy tone to it she’d heard on Saturday. “I’m glad, Noah. I want you to be there.”
“I’ll see you tomorrow then.”
* * * *
Noah barely managed to leave Chicago by three in the afternoon on Friday. His boss had hinted all morning that they might have to stay until after five to get through their agenda, and it was all Noah could do not to fake coming down with something and say he had to leave early. But Noah didn’t want to do that because Tim Johnson was a regular as Maddox’s club, and Noah would be caught in a lie if Tim were there tonight.
He raced down Interstate 65 toward home, his mind on Kari. He hadn’t been able to think of anything else all week. How could he have failed all those years to see the intelligent, fun person she was, living right next door to her? Granted, she’d hidden it quite well when she was a teen, but now that he looked back, it had always been there, underneath the giggling with friends and haughty mask she wore while walking through the halls at school.
He’d simply chosen to ignore it, because it was easier for him back then to label everyone and fit them neatly into the little mental slots he’d created. It gave order and structure to a life that was anything but behind the closed doors of his home. His mental filing cabinet had been one of the few things in Noah’s life back then that had made sense.
Buddy and Margo Tye had no secrets in Racy, unlike his parents. Everyone knew them, and everyone liked them. They’d raised five kids, and only Kari had left town. The others still lived within five miles of their parents’ home.
But now she was back, and Noah didn’t think people would find it that much of a stretch to discover she’d opened a sex shop—the town’s first, in fact. Kari always had gone her own way. But people had always liked her, and that hadn’t changed simply because she’d chosen to live in New York City for a while.
As Noah exited the freeway, he tried to recall some hint of Kari’s kinky side in high school but came up blank. She’d buried it, until Adison had peeled back the layers and exposed it. By the time Adison and Kari had become an item, Noah was hanging out with a rough older crowd from Indy, and he was lucky he’d never landed his ass in jail. Joining the Army was supposed to be his chance to make something of his life, but he’d fucked that up as well.
A country song on the radio about a woman in love with two men snapped his thoughts back to Kari’s confession that she’d fantasized about a ménage. He’d barely been able to form cohesive thoughts since hearing that. The images that had assaulted his mind were so sexy he’d begun to dream about them. Noah only wished it didn’t have to be Adison on the other end of that threesome.
Adison represented to Noah everything that was wrong with being introduced to BDSM at too young an age to understand it, combined with an already inflated ego because you’d grown up with good looks and confidence.
Noah had accidentally overheard a conversation years ago between Maddox and his uncle Russ. Russ was Ellis’s father, and Maddox and that particular cousin shared a birthday, so they’d grown up more like brothers. During the conversation Noah had overheard, Maddox and Russ had mentioned the time Russ had taken Maddox, Ellis, and Adison
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