Free Monroe, Marla - The Hired Hands' Dilemma [The Men of Space Station One #3] (Siren Publishing Ménage Everlasting) by Marla Monroe

and signed her out, and then Keeton swung her up in his arms and carried her to the transport. She fussed all the way, but he didn’t want her walking on her leg. The doctor had said for her to keep off it.
    Once inside the transport, he left Boyd to settle her in.
    Keeton pulled the transport up in front of the library and carried her inside.
    “I’m going to go get some things, and I’ll be right back.” Boyd left Keeton with Ashley in the library.
    “Where do you want to go? I’ll carry you there,” Keeton insisted.
    She sighed. “Okay. I want to go over to the gardening section.”
    Keeton carried her to that section, then pulled up a chair and sat her on it.
    “I’m going to go look at the buildings area to see how best to set up the fence. If you need to move, call me. I mean it.” He waggled a finger at her.
    Ashley made as if to bite it, but he pulled it back with a grin. He liked seeing her feisty and playful. He hoped he could keep his foot out of his mouth and keep her that way.
    A little while later, Ashley called out to him. “I need to move when you have time.”
    He carried the book he was looking at with him and picked her up with hers.
    “Where to?”
    “The sex section.”
    Keeton almost dropped her. “The what? Do they even have one of those?”
    “Yes, it’s right next to the animal husbandry section.”
    “How do you even know where anything is in here anyway?”
    “They had a drawing of it in the shuttle library so we could find our way around in it.”
    “Well, you don’t need any sex books. We’ll teach you anything you need to know.”
    “Maybe I want to know what my options are,” she said, crossing her arms around the books. “There may be something in here not in my other book.”
    Keeton sighed and carried her to where she wanted to go. He pulled up a chair and sat with her on his lap.
    “Now show me what you’re looking for,” he said.
    Ashley frowned at him but lifted her chin and pulled out a book on ménage loving. She flipped through it then sat it on her pile to pull out another one on S&M relationships.
    “Whoa there. You definitely don’t need that. Where did you get the idea you wanted to explore S&M?” He was horrified that she would even consider it.
    “I thought that was what you were into. I want to know what I need to do.”
    “Well, that is not what you need to be studying.”
    “But you used to do it when you were on Earth. I overheard you talking to Boyd about your past relationships the other day.” Ashley’s lower lip began to tremble.
    “That was the past, Ashley. I’m not living that way anymore.”
    “But you won’t be happy, and I want you to be happy with me, Keeton.”
    “Aw, baby. I’m happy with you. I’m just really intense when it comes to sex. I don’t enjoy whipping people. I do like to spank, but we can work around that if you don’t like it.”
    “With your hand?” she asked with wide eyes.
    “Yes, with my hand.” He sighed. “Put away the other book, baby. You don’t need it.” He took the book from her and replaced it. “Keep the ménage book. You probably need to know about that sort of relationship. I don’t know about Boyd, but I’m a lousy teacher when it comes to the everyday part of it,” Keeton said.
    “You’re more into the kinky side of it.” Ashley grinned up at him.
    It was an engaging smile. He couldn’t help but return it. He picked her up with her load of books and took her to the checkout desk. They took her general information and signed the books out to her.
    “When do we need to have them back?” he asked the clerk.
    “Oh, a few months,” she said.
    “Great.”
    They left the library and ran into Boyd coming in. He didn’t have anything in his arms, so Keeton figured he had already stowed his purchases in the transport. They loaded up with Ashley between them. She pulled out one of her books to read, and Keeton cringed. It was the ménage one. Boyd looked amused more than anything