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of modesty to her appearance.
    But Ryan wouldn’t let her get away that easily. He pulled her to his large frame and kissed her, hard. “Pay him no attention. He’s pissed because he wants very much to be on the other side of you.”
    “True,” Adam said with a shrug. “Soon enough. She’ll be ours.”
    “Want breakfast?” Ryan asked as he motioned to the door.
    “You go first,” she said nervously. The idea of passing by Adam was enough to make her knees turn to jelly. She much preferred the protection Ryan’s body offered as a buffer between her and Adam.
    Ryan’s eyes glittered with unspent need as he tucked her hand into his. He pulled her along with him as he walked by Adam. She was almost out of the bedroom when Adam snaked an arm out and caught her.
    To her dismay, Ryan let her hand fall from his and ambled on toward the kitchen. She found herself hauled up against Adam’s rock-hard chest and staring into his green eyes.
    “You have no reason to be afraid of me,” he said seriously. “There’s no need to hide behind Ethan and Ryan every time I say something to you. I’m very glad you feel safe with my brothers, but they don’t have to protect you from me.”
    She bit her lip nervously. “It’s just that you’re so…”
    “So…what?” he prompted.
    “So big,” she blurted out.
    He arched an eyebrow. “And Ethan and Ryan aren’t?”
    She flushed. “No, yes, I mean yes, they’re big but I don’t think they’d hurt me.”
    His lips tightened. “And you think I would?”
    “Not intentionally,” she said lamely. “M-Mason is nothing compared to you and yet…” She broke off, not wanting to blurt out all of what Mason had done. “If he could do so much, what could you do?”
    “Is that the bastard’s name?” Adam demanded.
    She pressed her lips together, refusing to say any more.
    Adam sighed and dragged a hand through his hair. “Come here, baby.” He pulled her over to the bed and sat down, settling her on his lap. “I don’t know what all this Mason bastard has done to you, though I fully intend to find out, but it’s obvious he’s destroyed any trust you might’ve had. I can accept that. What I can’t accept is the fear in your eyes every time I look at you.”
    Her heart thudded painfully. Adam looked earnest. Hard, but earnest. She felt silly over the fear that nagged her when he was focused on her, but she knew without a doubt she would never be the same after meeting this man. And maybe that was what she was most afraid of.
    “I have been very honest with you,” he continued on. “I want you. More than any other woman. Ever. I won’t be satisfied until you’re in my bed. In our bed. Bound to us. Pregnant with our children. Belonging to us, heart and soul, forever. I can’t put it any straighter than that. I won’t let you go without a fight, that’s for damn sure, but I sure as hell won’t ever hurt you, and I’ll move heaven and earth to make sure no one else does either.”
    She felt his speech to the very depths of her soul. How could she not? No one had ever spoken so honestly with her or with such conviction.
    “Give us a chance, Holly. It’s all I ask.”
    Not examining the voice inside her that warned her to run far, far away, she slowly nodded.
    A triumphant smile spread across his face. “Now, let’s go eat that breakfast.”
     

Chapter Five
     
    Holly sat at the bar between Adam and Ryan as Ethan served up plates of bacon, eggs and toast. She glanced between them often, gauging their mood, their reaction to her, but they seemed unruffled.
    It was as if they made such proclamations every day. She shook her head and speared another piece of egg with her fork. How could such a relationship work? Jealousy would be inevitable. And things would be much more difficult for her than for any of them. They would only have one “spouse” to contend with while she would have three.
    Three men to please, put up with, all different. The mere idea of the