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  Club Libertine 4

  Cin's Secret

  Cindy McNeil has always run away from her problems. But she's grown up a lot in the last few years. Now she's ready to stop running and she's back in Seattle to reconcile with her sister and confess the terrible thing she did. She will take whatever consequences that Lindy decides are fair, even if it means that she wants Cindy to leave Seattle forever.

  But Cindy didn't expect to meet Connor and Liam O'Hara, twin Doms who've been looking for love. She's immediately attracted to the blond hotties, but she knows her secret may tear them apart if Lindy sends her away. So she decides to have one night of passion with the brothers before she runs from them too.

  But Lindy's terms of forgiveness aren't what she expected. Cindy's got to stay and face the people she hurt. No more running away. Can she do it? Or will she run out on love again?

  Note: There is no sexual relationship or touching for titillation between or among siblings.

  Genre: BDSM, Contemporary, Ménage a Trois/Quatre

  Length: 28,114 words

  CIN’S SECRET

  Club Libertine 4

  Diane Leyne

  MENAGE EVERLASTING

  Siren Publishing, Inc.

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  CIN’S SECRET

  Club Libertine 4

  DIANE LEYNE

  Copyright © 2013

  Chapter One

  Cindy knocked on the door. She had almost backed out a hundred times, turned, and headed back to the airport. She hadn’t seen her sister in almost three years and wasn’t sure about her reception. She’d been almost disappointed when she saw the lights on. Lindy was a librarian and sometimes had to work evenings, but no, she was home, and Cindy was going to do this.

  She had been an entitled bitch growing up, the beloved baby of the family, and she had been a terrible sister. But now she had finally grown up, and she wanted to reconnect with her sister.

  The door was flung open, but the woman standing there definitely wasn’t her sister.

  “Oh, I thought you were Zack.” The woman was young, early twenties, probably, with lush red hair and an infectious grin, wearing a stunning teal minidress with high heels. Cindy found herself smiling back almost involuntarily.

  “And I thought you were my sister Lindy.”

  “Oh my god, you must be Cindy. There’s a picture of you two on the wall. You’ve changed, of course. Your hair is shorter and darker, but I should have recognized you.” She looked down at the bags. “Oh, have you come for the party? I guess someone’s wires got crossed because no one told me you were staying here. But not a problem. I’ve moved my stuff into the master, but there’s a nice single bed in the guest room. I hope that’s okay. And you are going to have to get a move on to get ready. Zack should be here any minute, and he’s definitely not the patient type. But he’s trying to learn. He’s going to be training at the family business starting next week. Or he’ll be doing it part time, anyway, while he’s in school. And I’m in school, too, grad school and U of W. And I needed a place to stay, and with Lindy moving in with Jake, she offered me this place at a really reasonable rate.” She finally paused for breath.

  “Zack. Can you help Cindy with her bags? Cindy, your room is back there. Hurry up and change.”

  Cindy let herself be swept along. So Lindy was living with someone named Jake and everyone was going to be at a party so special that Serena automatically assumed that Cindy had flown in just to be there. Zack dropped her bags in the bedroom and pointedly looked at his watch when he left. He really was super cute, although a bit on the young side for her. He was like a young Thor, all blond hair and bulging biceps. And he only had eyes for Serena, even if she hadn’t realized it yet.

  Cindy looked into the mirror. She’d always been thin, although contrary to what she let everyone believe, she worked damned hard to maintain her size two figure. But now she was probably closer to a size zero, if not a bit below. She had huge dark circles under her eyes that she had to hide, and her cheekbones were sharp enough to cut glass. And her new pixie cut did nothing to soften them. She’d have to color her hair again soon. When she was young, she’d had hair the color of young Zack, but it had darkened as she aged, and she’d started coloring her hair in her late teens. But there hadn’t been any salons where she had been, so she let it grow out and then hacked it off with some nail scissors.

  She didn’t have many clothes to choose from. Most of her stuff was still in storage, but the classic “little black dress” never went out of style. She had a jersey one that was virtually indestructible. It hung a little loose, and the low-cut neckline showed of
f her boney clavicles, but she’d dress it up with some earrings, and it would have to do.

  * * * *

  Liam O’Hara stood with his brother Connor, sipping a beer and watching from a corner of the living room where he could see but not easily be seen as the guests started to arrive. The thirty-year-old identical twins were both dressed in black jeans with blue shirts and black jackets. Their shirts brought out color in their eyes and the black set off the startling blond of their hair. They were just under six feet tall with broad shoulders and impressive six-packs that they showed off at work, but tonight they were dressed for a party.

  And speaking of parties, this one was supposed to be thrown by five of the six partners in Club Libertine for the sixth, Jake, to celebrate his engagement, but other than the twins, the others, including the guest of honor, were nowhere around.

  Jake and Lindy had sloped off to a bedroom somewhere, as had Duncan and Andie. Of course, the house, or rather, mansion was owned by Mac Whelan, so there were dozens of bedrooms to choose from. And speaking of Mac, he and Sean were upstairs as well, waiting for Michelle to get off her conference call with China and fool around with them.

  There was some motion, and in rushed Michelle with Mac and Sean trailing behind her, tucking their shirts in, and they hurried to keep up with her. She immediately went into hostess mode, sending her dominant men scurrying to follow her hastily thrown-out instructions. A few minute later, Duncan and Andie, her cheeks pink with embarrassment, came down the stairs at a more leisurely pace. They could see that Andie wanted to hurry, but Duncan kept her firmly at his side. Duncan and Andie had only been together a few weeks, and Andie was still slightly uncomfortable with everyone knowing they snuck out of a party they were co-hosting in order to have sex. It was kind of sweet really.

  “You ever think we’d be the last two single Doms standing?”

  “Are you kidding, Con? This time last year, the six of us were carefree bachelors. And now four are taken. I’m almost ready to give up on finding a woman who’ll take us both on. I mean when Mac and Sean met Michelle, I had hope. Now, sometimes I think I’d be happy just to find a woman who can tell us apart.”

  “Seriously, Connor?” asked Sean, coming up from behind them, joining the brothers. He grinned as Connor jumped, too intent on his thoughts to notice Sean’s quiet approach. “I mean, once we start talking, I can tell you apart.”

  “Yeah, but you’ve known us since we were kids. And even you have to use verbal clues.” He sighed. “Even our parents can have trouble telling me and Liam apart.”

  “So, no one at all?”

  “Well.” Liam laughed. “There is one person who has never ever had a problem, not even when we deliberately try to switch.”

  “What’s the problem?”

  “Well,” responded Connor, dryly, “Jake’s a six-foot-five-inch Dom. And he’s got a dick. Not really our type.”

  “Besides, Lindy would castrate you both,” Sean said with a chuckle.

  “You are not kidding,” replied Liam and Sean simultaneously.

  They all laughed, but the brothers turned serious once Sean walked away.

  “I’m not kidding, Liam. If we ever find a woman between the age of twenty-one and forty who can tell us apart, I think we have to go for it.”

  “What if she’s not interested in taking on two Doms?”

  “We’ll just have to be our charming selves, and if that doesn’t work, we just tie her up and spank her until she submits.” He laughed. “And I’m not entirely joking. It’s time we settled down. There has to be someone out there for us. Maybe we are just looking in the wrong place?”

  “You mean in a BDSM club?”

  “Yeah, maybe we have to get out more, maybe take some kind of class where women congregate.”

  “Like what? Knitting?”

  Connor hit his brother in the shoulder.

  “Yeah, that kind of attitude will draw in all kinds of women our way. No, idiot, I mean like a yoga or vegan cooking class or something. I don’t know. Maybe it’s a stupid idea, but right now all we seem to do is work out in one of those grungy gyms that no woman would ever enter or work at the club and watch over other Doms playing with their subs. We have to expand our horizons.”

  “Still no guarantees, Con. What if we can’t find someone to take us both on? What woman wants two Doms? Most don’t even want a single Dom.”

  “If Michelle can take on Mac and Sean, surely there’s someone out there for us. Don’t give up, brother. I can feel it in my bones. I think our perfect sub is out there somewhere. We just have to look around and be open to meeting her. Maybe she’ll even be at the party tonight.” He looked around expectantly as if he expected this mythical woman to walk through the door and introduce herself to them then and there. There were actually quite a few people milling around but they already knew most of them. Quite a few were couples or even triads like Mac, Sean, and Michelle. There weren’t many single folks, and those that were, were friends and coworkers of Jake and Lindy’s from outside the lifestyle.

  For a second Liam found himself caught up in his brother’s optimism, but only for a second before he got himself under control again. Unfounded hope could only lead to disappointment. Liam looked at his brother. Connor was always the optimist. Liam would try to think positively, but did Connor seriously expect the perfect woman to just walk up to them and introduce herself?

  “You are an idiot.” Liam shook his head and was about to berate his brother some more when he heard the front door open. “So, Connor what do you think? Could this be her?”

  “You are such a cynic, Liam. You have to have faith. You never know when opportunity will knock. You always have to be ready for it.” He turned toward the door to see who was arriving. Even if it wasn’t the woman they were waiting for, it might be a guest and they were currently on greeting duty.

  Liam sighed and turned to see who it was. For a second, he felt a surge of, could it be, hope? But then it was just his baby brother Zack and his friend Serena. Liam felt his body sag with disappointment. Damn Connor for working him up like that. He was just about to turn back to his brother to berate him some more when he realized that there was someone else at the door.

  From his angle, he couldn’t see her face at first, but he could see long blonde hair and hear her musical laugh. He felt his dick stand to attention. He was such an idiot. He couldn’t even see what she looked like or how old she was. Maybe she was Serena’s grandmother. Maybe she was someone’s wife. She turned around and for the first time he got a good look at her. Maybe Connor was right and she was the woman they’d been waiting for.

  He turned to say something to his brother but Connor was already on the move. Liam went to follow, but one of the caterers grabbed him by the arm with an urgent request.

  Chapter Two

  “Holy crap!” exclaimed Cindy. She was trying to be cool. She’d been quiet the whole drive, and eventually Serena had stopped trying to include her in the conversation as she sat huddled in the backseat, and Serena and Zak just spoke to each other.

  But when she saw the house they were driving up to, she couldn’t help it. It was huge. And she should probably call it a mansion rather than a house. They were about an hour outside the city, and the house, scratch that, mansion sat on at least five acres of land. And that was just the manicured lawn and gardens around the house.

  Zack pulled up in front of the house and helped the women exit the car. Cindy found herself gawking as the uniformed valets took Zack’s keys and drove the car away. She’d never seen anything like it in a private home.

  With a woman on each arm, Zack led them to the door which was, of course, opened without them having to knock as a uniformed butler greeted them and indicated the way to the great room where the guests were gathering.

  Cindy felt like a bumpkin. Maybe she’d been out of the country too long, but all she could do was gawk. Zack and Serena watched her, amused.

  “Did they rent this for the par
ty?”

  “Yeah, it’s pretty nice, isn’t it? They didn’t rent it. Mac Whelan owns it. He’s hosting the party.”

  “Double holy crap. Even I’ve heard of Mac Whelan, multi, multimillionaire and engineering genius. How do you and Lindy know him?”

  “You really have been away. Lindy’s dating one of his best friends and business partners. The six guys were friends growing up and reconnected about a half a dozen years ago and started Club Libertine.”

  “Should I ask?”

  She could see Serena and Zack exchange glances. She couldn’t read their expressions.

  “Maybe I should let Lindy tell you all about that.”

  She was about to ask a follow-up question when she realized Zack was looking over her shoulder. She turned around abruptly, thinking it might be Lindy, but it was a man, one who was clearly related to Zack, and if it wasn’t for the fact that her glass was empty, she would have dumped her drink all over him, which always made for a great first impression.

  “Guys, apparently Lindy and Jake have finished having their pre-celebration celebration and should be down shortly for the official announcement. Time for everyone to gather in the dining room.” He smiled down at Cindy. “I don’t believe we’ve met. I’m Connor. Zack’s brother.” He smiled and reached out his hand. Automatically she took it. She pulled her arm back quickly. It felt like a bolt of lightning shooting through her where they touched. It was a combination of static electricity and pure lust. He was one of the most beautiful, sexy men she had ever seen outside of a magazine.