“Roxie?” Her cheeks burned. Her heart beat fast. The air in the apartment felt too warm. She met Lucas’s expectant gaze, Mitch’s patient one, and Alaric’s. The latter looked on the brink of snapping. She really couldn’t blame him. Not when she hadn’t allowed things to go further last night, and then waking up to this. Of course, she did want them in that way. All of them, without exception. Yet for some reason, she’d hesitated last night because in an odd twisted way, it had felt like too much of a leap without the others, and she couldn’t help remembering that the relationship was more than just the two of them. Roxie hadn’t told Alaric this, of course, and Alaric, as usual, had been a total gentleman about it. Now she saw how desperately the man wanted to hear her answer, although sh

