His hips flexed within me as a teasing smirk lifted a corner of his mouth. A strangled gasp fell from me as Gabe answered, “Not quite. Do you want to join?”
Instantly the door opened and the large angel filled the frame as he leaned against it. His eyes swept over us as Gabe continued to thrust into me. Between the molten desire in Steele’s eyes and the feeling of Gabe within me, my body was already surging toward another orgasm.
“Kieran. Gabriel,” he rumbled, crossing his arms against his chest.
Stars, I hoped he wasn’t annoyed by seeing us together, because everything in me was screaming for him to join us.
Could he take that step?
6
STEELE
Of course Nizhadn’t warned me what was happening up here when he pointed me in the direction of where to find them. I should have fucking known by that cheeky little smirk he struggled to suppress, though.
The sound of soft gasps, breathy and uneven on the other side of the door, almost caused me to turn away when I first approached.
Almost.
Admittedly, my tone had been a bit snarky when asking if they were done yet. However, the moment Gabe asked if I wanted to join, all the jagged feelings of insecurity and annoyance fled my body.
Could it be that simple? Could I just…join?
Staring at Gabe’s body pressed over hers now–both of them flushed and trembling–with Kieran’s golden hair spread out like a halo across the sheets…Everything I wanted was staring back at me. She didn’t flinch or hide as my gaze drank her in. She simply looked at me, open and steady, as if the choice had always been there for me to make.
Every instinct screamed to move, to close the door, to give them privacy and keep what was left of my composure. ButI couldn’t. Not when the woman who bled for this world was silently asking me to stop fighting the thing I’d been denying since the day she crashed into my life.
He was my brother and his heart beat for hers, but so did mine.
I’d spent years drawing firm lines as the commander of the fallen army—what was allowed, what wasn’t, and what I could stomach losing. Sharing her had always been the boundary I refused to cross. I could fight beside Gabe, bleed beside him, call him my brother in every sense that mattered, but this always felt like an insurmountable battle.
And yet, watching her beneath him…alive and breathing once again, with those hazel eyes pleading for me to stay—I felt the resistance inside me crack. My hand found the doorframe, fingers biting into the wood hard enough to splinter.
I’d thought love was supposed to be simple. One person. One promise. But nothing about Kieran had ever been simple, and neither was the way I’d fallen in love with her. Ever since she crashed into the rebel camp with a fire within her that refused to be put out, I was enamored by her. Everything in me fought the magnetic draw and failed time and time again.
I could never resist her, not truly. Even when we clashed, I burned for her.
It had always been her.
Either I accepted what stood before me, or I walked away from both of them for good.
For the first time in my life, walking away from her and this situation felt like the coward’s choice. As if I would be admitting that I wasn’t good enough. That everyone else was better for her. And fuck me for not caring if that was true. I didn’t have it in me to give a shit anymore. I wanted her and she wanted me and I’d take whatever bit of her I could claim. I didn’t care if someoneelse was better for her. If she was willing to have me, I’d fall to my knees for her once and for all.
“Kieran.”
Her name left my mouth before I could stop it, my tone dipping to one of warning and pleading all in one.
Did she truly understand what they were offering me?
I watched her lips part as her chest rose with uneven breaths. The look in her eyes damn near undid me on the spot
“Come here, Steele.”
Three simple words, yet my heart needed to hear them from her lips.
That she wanted me. That I could exist next to her and be included, even if there was someone else. That I wasn’t beneath any of the other guys in her heart.
My pulse roared in my ears as I asked, “Are you sure?”
