I didn’t realize I was squeezing my phone with white-knuckled force until Heath tried to grab it from me. I was shaking with rage as I looked up into those emerald eyes. He looked at me with such sympathy that it enraged me further.
I jerked away from him and made for the front door. I wanted to be alone in my own apartment. I needed to know I still had some form of freedom.
I got all of three steps before Reid was hauling me around getting in my face.
“And just where do you think you are going?” he demanded with a scowl. I tried to push against him, but it was like pushing against a wall.
“Dammit, Reid! Let me go, I am going home.” I pushed against him again, but he wasn’t budging.
He twisted me around and held my hands behind my back, causing me to thrust my breasts out. I knew my anger was misplaced, but it felt good to lash out as I tried to kick behind me.
He easily dodged my kick and pulled me closer to him, biting down on my ear. I bit back my yelp, not wanting to give him the satisfaction.
“I know that you’re pissed off right now and you want to take it out on someone. But if you try that again, I will have you over my knee, and I will take my anger out on your ass,” he bit out between clenched teeth. A bit of lust broke through the haze of my rage at his promise.
Heath came to my front and ran his thumb along my cheek, gathering a tear I hadn’t known I’d shed. “I know you’re scared right now, but fighting us is the last thing you need to do. We’ve already decided you aren’t going anywhere, so why don’t you calm down and come talk to us? Let us take care of you, sweetheart,” Heath said softly.
I could deal with the fact that Reid was just as angry as I was, but for some reason, the way Heath always kept his calm rubbed me wrong at that moment. I knew I was being irrationally angry, but I just needed to take it out on someone. On any normal day, when Heath was so sweet with me, I would melt for him, but not today.
On some level, I knew I was trying to push them away for their own good when I said, “Fuck you! Why don’t you and Reid sit and talk it out by yourselves? You two seem to know what’s best for me. I didn’t ask for you to take care of me and I don’t want it. I don’t need another man in my life trying to control everything that I do!”
I saw the hurt flash in Heath’s eyes before it disappeared, and his lips thinned in a passive expression. At that moment, I didn’t care if I hurt them both.
“All I have ever wanted for myself is the freedom to make my own decisions. After alongshitty marriage, I finally got it. I was finally free…” My voice broke as I held back more tears. “But now, Tom has taken it away, again! And you two are just helping him at this point. Let me go, I don’t want this anymore. I don’t belong to you.” I tried to jerk away from Reid again, but he held on tight.
When I looked back up, I saw a darkness pass over Heath’s eyes that had me backing into Reid. I felt Reid chuckle behind me.
“Oh, now you’ve done it,” he said against my ear.
Chapter Nineteen
I tried to swallow past the lump in my throat as Heath stared daggers at me. “You don’t belong to us?” he asked with an edge to his voice.
His smile was humorless as he cupped my out-thrust breast through my shirt. He pinched down on my nipple, hard, extracting a small scream from me at the pain that followed. Soon the pain turned into that sweet heat that I’d learned to crave.
When I refocused on Heath, he looked mighty angry now. “I understand what you’re saying, Kate. The last thing we want is for you to feel trapped in another relationship where you have no freedom. But the fact remains that it’s not safe for you to be without us right now.”
He turned around, and I almost whimpered, I wanted him to stay here and fight me. I opened my mouth to yell at him but stopped as he turned and sat on the couch. Lounging back and spreading his legs, making a show of readjusting himself. I licked my lips as I got an eyeful of his bulge.
My body couldn’t decide if it wanted to fight or fuck. There was definitely something wrong with me.
“Reid, bring her here for me. Strip her and lay her across my lap. I think it’s time she learns just who exactly she belongs to,” Heath said with that dangerous edge to his voice.
Reid released me long enough to strip Heath’s shirt off me and throw it behind him. He then hauled me up, and my world was upside down as he slung me over his shoulder.
I squealed as he dropped me back down, draping me over Heath’s lap like I had been across his earlier that day. I tried to scramble up but was caught when Heath trapped my legs under one of his, and he smacked my ass hard enough to make me yelp.
“That fucking hurt!” I screamed at him but made no more attempts to get away.
He smacked again, and I bit my lip to squelch the noise coming up my throat.
“Yeah, it got your attention though, didn’t it? This is how this is going to go.” He paused to smack me on the meaty part of my thigh, holding his hand there letting the heat sink in.
I bit back a moan, not wanting to let him on to how much I enjoyed it. Reid sat down next to him and cradled my upper torso and head in his lap. He grabbed both my wrists and held them above my head with one hand, seizing me for their punishment. My heart squeezed a little when he pushed my hair out of my face and turned my head so I wouldn’t get a crick in my neck. Even angry, they cared about my comfort.
Heath brought my attention back to him with another sharp slap to the opposite cheek he struck before. “You obviously need a release, and if you can’t sit and talk to me, this is what you are going to get. I’m going to spank this beautiful ass until you let out that anger you’re holding on to. Once you have calmed down, we can talk. If you thought I was a nice soft lover, you are about to learn otherwise right now. I might prefer to be gentle with you, but I am not soft.” He emphasized his point by grinding his erection against me.
He ran his hand up my spine before digging his fingers into my hair and pulling. My breath hitched, and I arched into him, silently begging for more. “You say stop if it becomes too much, and I’ll stop,” he said calmly before returning his hand to the curve of my ass.