The Seduction of Jac Frost (by Tatienne Richard) novel Chapter 114

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“What was it about?” Wilder snuggled backwards into Bar’s

arms.

“My cock isn’t hard because I was dreaming of gardening, Wilder.” Bar’s laugh was low.

Jacqueline’s mind was running a mile a minute as she lay in their arms and then she blurted out, “Wilder, Bar, have you ever kissed another man? Like tongue and stuff?”

“Nope.”

“No.”

Rafferty squeezed her as he tried not to laugh, “me either

but I also have no desire to.”

“I don’t want to open mouth kiss Bar, Jacqueline,” Wilder opened one eye and reached a hand up and tweaked her nose. “I like how warm and snuggly he is, and I like the safe feeling I have because often Rafferty and I are the bigger guys in the room and he’s bigger than us. However, I stand very firmly behind my stance I don’t want to have intercourse. with Bar. I accept the intimacy of our relationship without the penetration.”

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She made a disappointed face, “how do you know if you

haven’t tried it?”

Bar laughed, “how about you come over here and kiss me

instead? You kiss me and then kiss Wilder and then kiss

Rafferty and then start over and it’ll be like all of us kissing.”

She pouted and Wilder laughed.

“Jacqueline, would you ask me and Rafferty to kiss?”

“No but you’re biologically related. You’re not related to Bar.”

Bar suddenly sniffed the air and then growled, “you’ve got to be kidding me!”

“What?”

A tentative knock on the door made them look at it with

irritation.

“Who is?” she whispered at Bar.

“Bjorn. You can’t smell his stench?” Bar rolled out of the bed ignoring Wilder’s whining about being cold. Yanking the door open he stared at his brother angrily, “why are you here?” 3/12

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Bjorn looked his brother up and down with wide eyes, “holy

shit is that thing real?”

“Bjorn! Why are you interrupting us in the morning?” Bar ignored the question and moved to grab the pants he’d kicked off the night before. He looked over his shoulder at Jacqueline, “I might need to go back and dip into the spring. I might kill him for barging in again. He ruined our date night last night and now he’s ruining our mood this morning.”

“What can we do for you Bjorn?” Jacqueline sat up in the bed with the blankets pooling around her waist, grateful she’d slept in Bar’s shirt the night before.

“I’m sorry to interrupt but I didn’t know where else to go,” he flung himself dejectedly into a chair near the desk in the suite. He covered his face with his hands, “she hates me.”

Bar threw his head back and barked out a loud laugh, “ha!

That’s awesome.”

“Bar!” Jacqueline bit her lip to stop from laughing as she

ogled the man who was standing in jeans with the fly

unbuttoned and bare chested. “Be nice.”

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“If he was Jacinta?”

“I’d laugh,” she agreed and then looked at Bjorn, “sorry dude but you deserve his laugh.”

“I didn’t want her to find out anything about me I hadn’t already shared. I told her everything.”

Bar looked at his brother in surprise. “Everything?”

Bjorn nodded solemnly, “everything. I told her all of it. I didn’t want to go into my mate bond with lies or hidden agenda. I am trying to turn over a new leaf, Bar. I’m trying to make things right and I can’t do that if I’m hiding my mistakes. So yeah, I told her what I did.”

“Did you give her the bullshit of,” Bar made a high–pitched whiny voice mocking his brother, “it’s not my fault? I didn’t tell her to triple her meds. I didn’t scare her intentionally. It’s not my fault she presumed since I have a crown, was twice her size and demanded she do what she was told that she

needed to double down on her dosing!”

“I don’t sound like that!” Bar snapped.

“You kind of do,” Wilder snickered as he kissed Jacqueline’s

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forehead before rolling off the bed. “Well? Did you? Did you tell her it wasn’t your fault that you exerted dominance and power over a woman who was fearful of you, and she went overboard on your directives?”

“No.” Bjorn looked at the floor frustratedly as he clenched his fists over his knees where he sat. “I told her,” he cleared his throat, “that I was angry that you were planning your family and that I went to her sister who was the palace nurse and told her to switch out fertility pills for birth control pills.”

“What did she say?” Jacqueline asked.

“She punched me in the cock.”

“What?” Bar turned back to his brother slowly as a smile

spread across his face. “Can you repeat that?”

“She punched me in the balls, Bar. She called me a fucking

coward and said she couldn’t see herself being tied to a

selfish prick like me for all of eternity.”

“Yes!” Bar punched the air excitedly. He folded his hands as if in prayer and looked to the ceiling, “thank you Queen

Mother!”

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“This isn’t her doing,” Jacqueline rolled her eyes.

“She didn’t give my brother a mate who would make him work for it. No?” Bar asked sarcastically. “I think she did,

Jacqueline.” He rubbed his abdomen with a smirk, “it’s a good

day!”

“Bar, please,” Bjorn whimpered. “Help me. How do I make her

see I’m not a villain?”

“You’re asking me, the guy who truly believes you’re the villain in his story, to help you?”

“I’m begging.”

“No, you’re not,” Bar sneered at him, “you’re sitting in a chair

acting like you’re the one who was wronged and asking, not

begging. I see no begging behavior on display.” He looked at his mates, “do you see a beast begging?”

“This is not what I would consider begging,” Rafferty offered his opinion. “This is barely asking. He does look quite sorry for himself doesn’t he?”

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“How do you deal with all of that?”

“What?”

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“That,” he waved at the trio of men with the chests bare and

cocky smirks. “They’re one microgram of testosterone from chest pounding and primal yells. Doesn’t it get old, fast?”

“My brother is a lover not a fighter,” Bar made fun of him. “He used to tell people he was cerebral.”

“That’s what a runt would say,” Wilder scoffed, “and

considering how fucking smart you are, Bar, it makes sense he would say such things to try to puff himself up a bit. He’s kind of small for a bear prince, isn’t he?”

“Fuck you,” Bjorn lifted his middle finger at Wilder. “I might not be the size of a science experiment gone wrong but I’m

still six–foot three.”

“Six–two you liar,” Bar snapped back and sighed, “I don’t want to help you. I don’t even know how I could if I did want to. Your problems with your mate and her hating you are

yours to deal with.”

“What do you want? Name your price.”

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“You’re barking up the wrong tree here, Bjorn. I just said there isn’t anything I could do. Can you leave so I can go back to bed with my mate? I like the way she’s staring at the three of us right now and she smells fucking good.” He winked at Jacqueline in the bed, “you like the sight of your strong mates, don’t you sweetheart?”

She nodded and wiped imaginary drool off her chin, “Bjorn you need to go.”

“Please?” he said quietly. A single tear edged his eye and looked away from the group and exhaled shakily, “I don’t

know what to do. I’ve never been in a situation where I don’t know how to navigate or work it. I can usually talk my way through anything. Now I’m facing the possibility of losing someone important to me for the second time in my life and I’m scared to death. I lost my brother. My hubris, my ego, cost me my brother and I know that. I’d give anything to fix it, but you’ve made it clear my sins are unforgiveable. Now, my mistakes, my fuckups are costing me the second person in my life I don’t want to lose. You know her. You’ve been around her family for years. Do I go back and beg? Do I give her space? Do I kidnap her and force her to listen to me? I spent the last two hours walking up and down the streets of this town with a hundred different ideas in my head and all I

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know is none of them make sense because I want her to want

me.”

“Ugh,” Jacqueline grabbed a pillow and held it to her stomach, “what did she say when you told her you were a bear shifter?”

“She said she and her parents guessed a long time ago that Bar was the bear who wandered in the woods. Apparently most of the town thinks the same thing. Everyone has some kind of theory or story about Bar the Bear and they’re

protective of you.” He made a face, “they all think you’re a mythological beast.”

“I am.” He retorted smugly.

“Can you talk to her? It’s clear she respects you, Bar, and she

told me she really likes you Jacqueline. Can you talk to her

and tell her how special the mate bond is? Right now, she

thinks I’m the asshole who selfishly broke his own brother’s

heart.”

“You are,” Rafferty cut him off.

“I am but I can be better. I want to be better. For her. Please.”

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“If I agree to talk to her, can you leave so I can be with my

mates?”

“Yes! I promise.”

“I will talk to her, but I won’t be sugarcoating anything about our relationship, Bjorn. I’ll talk to her about the mate bond and how special it is and how she needs to form her own opinions based on who you are as a person and not on the non–existent relationship we have. Family is important to her Bjorn. You’re fighting an uphill battle given how much you would fuck over your own family for a title that nobody was

challenging.”

“I get it,” he said sounding small, “but thank you. I owe you.”

“You owe me,” Bar made a noise from the back of his throat, “you already fucking owed me, idiot. Now leave so I can spend time with my mates.”

“He’s saying he wants to get laid, Bjorn,” Wilder smirked.

Bjor got up from the chair and pulled open the door and then froze at the giant–sized man on the other side of it.

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Bar’s groan of frustration at the sight of the King of the Northern Realm highlighted the group’s feelings.

Nobody was getting laid this morning.

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