“You’re cuffed to the bed,” she said, then flushed at how obvious the statement was.
The corner of his mouth lifted. “That a request to join me, pet?”
Darby ignored his comment and instead asked, “Did Edmund do this?”
Maybe mentioning Edmund was a mistake. Something dark fluttered behind the hazel eyes, and the mocking set of his lips softened. “No,” Mathias murmured. “I did it for him, except…he wasn’t interested.”
But Edmund had known. And Edmund had left him like this, deliberately, it would seem. For her to find? She sincerely doubted it. He didn’t like the pair of them mixing, and frankly, neither did she. Being around Mathias still made her head spin, and it was only worse having him naked in front of her. Rather than spoil the mystery of what he hid, seeing him with all his musc
