Ollie Morgan [Seven Brothers for McBride 3] (Siren Publishing Everlasting Classic ManLove) Read Online Free

thoughts?”
    “Foolish, I know, but I thought if I could write about you, I could distance myself from my inappropriate lust. I knew it was wrong to even have the feelings toward you, much less write them down and acknowledge them in any way, but I simply couldn’t help myself.” Jonas met Ollie’s gaze. “I swear, I did everything I could to stop myself from going any further than the wayward longings in my mind.”
    “I know you did. I’m not angry with you.”
    “I took advantage of you.”
    “No.” Ollie cupped his chin and turned his face so they were again eye to eye. “It was I who couldn’t resist you, not the other way around.”
    “I should have stopped you!” Jonas tried to stand, but Ollie held him back.
    “Finish this tale before we argue that one.” Ollie tried to sound comforting, but he wasn’t so sure he had made the situation any easier for his true love by making him dredge up painful memories. As cruel as it seemed, Ollie wanted to know. They had to clear the air between them before they lost everything in their effort to be together.
    “He read how I felt about you.”
    “Your neighbor?”
    “Yes. He was careful to tuck the journal back so I didn’t know what he was doing for the longest time. But eventually I did because he knew exactly how I felt about you. That vulgar man described back to me in detail all the things that I longed to have you do to me. The games I wished to play.”
    “Oh, Jonas.” Ollie held him, determined to protect him even though the danger was long past.
    “He threatened to tell the authorities.”
    “But you and I hadn’t done anything.”
    “He said he would say that he caught us in the act. Since I had imagined it so vividly, I knew I wouldn’t be able to pass a truth test. In my mind, I had been with you. The fact that I had yet to do so in reality was meaningless.” Jonas took a deep breath. “I was terrified of what would happen if my truth were exposed. I didn’t care about losing all my possessions since those things never matter much to me, but just the thought of losing you made me positively ill. I couldn’t bear the idea of them taking you away.”
    “So you paid the neighbor off?”
    “At first he just wanted a few of the finer things in my home, things that I had no attachment to. As long as I had you, I didn’t care about anything else.” And now Ollie understood the mystery of why the household items had been disappearing. It was Gannon who was obsessed with the case, not Ollie, but he realized he could never tell Gannon. In so doing, Ollie would reveal the truth of Jonas’s secret love for him. “But then those things no longer satisfied him.”
    “No?”
    “No.” Jonas drew a deep breath and slowly let it out. “He demanded that I act out my lusts for him.”
    “He made you perform perversions for his titillation?”
    “I resisted, but he had the journal.”
    “I thought he was just reading it?”
    “By that time he had taken it.”
    “Oh, Jonas.” Ollie wrapped his arm around him, holding him tightly. “I’m so sorry.”
    “I was foolish for writing it down and leaving it in a place where it could be found. It simply never occurred to me that anyone would care what I thought.”
    “And given how trusting you are, you didn’t think a neighbor would violate your privacy so thoroughly.”
    “It was still idiotic.” Jonas looked through the doorway. His eyes weren’t focused on the here and now, but almost as if he were looking back at that sequence of events. “Repeatedly, he had the mechanical man assault me in the parlor while he watched. He had me bent over the desk, then up against the wall, and then—”
    “Please, those are the details I do not need.” Even though the man was a robot, he still didn’t like the idea of his mate with anyone but him.
    “But I need to speak of them because I enjoyed it.” Jonas winced. “I’m sorry to be so blunt, but it’s probably best to get this all out