I rest my cheek against Luke’s broad chest and sigh a contented sound. My lips tug up when I think of how just a few months ago I was preparing for my own wedding with hardly a single smile. So much has changed in such a short time and the only thing that steals my smile now is when I think of my dad and wish so desperately that he could be here to see how I’ve changed my life and who I am as a person. I think he would be proud of me.
Luke shifts me in the dance and I look over the linen-covered tables with their centerpiece baskets of marigolds, sunflowers, and orange roses surrounded by flickering electric tea lights. Like magnets my eyes go straight to the table Chase and Rex sit at and find both staring back at me. I can’t read the look in Chase’s eyes but Rex looks like he’s minutes away from snatching me out of Luke’s arms and peeling this dress right off me. Heat blooms in my cheeks and I press a little closer to Luke as I remember dropping to my knees and taking Rex’s cock into my mouth a few nights ago when he came up to my place after the bar closed to say goodnight.
Luke’s thumb sweeps across my back, tracing lines on the bare skin between the crisscrossed straps of my dress and I shiver at the heat of it. He tips my head back with a finger under my chin and I feel guilty for a beat for thinking about Rex when I’m in his arms.
His low, husky voice steals that thought right from my head when he says, “Rex and I were wanting to stay at your place tonight after the wedding…if you’re open to that.”
Immediately images of being pressed between the two of them come to mind and I have to press my thighs together and bite back a moan as I tremble. A slow smile works its way across Luke’s face as he picks up on my reaction.
“How much longer do you think we have to stay?” He asks, causing me to grin sheepishly and duck my head against his chest to hide my flaming cheeks.
“Can I cut in?”
I lift my head and meet Chase’s eyes before glancing back at Luke. At his nod, I transfer my hand to Chase’s and let him lead me up the stairs to the bandstand.
I lift my hand for him to take it at shoulder height but instead he slides it around his neck so we’re pressed closer. I lift my other and place it on his chest as his goes around my back. I close my eyes briefly as I take in his warm spice-filled scent. More than anything I want to place my cheek against his chest like I did with Luke. Being this close to him brings back so many memories and my heart aches from missing him. His face turns and brushes into my hair and I feel the tension run out of him as we melt closer to each other.
“Do you remember our wedding day?” He whispers and my lips pull up into a soft smile.
“How can I forget? Two of my grooms came to blows as soon as our vows were said over who would get to kiss the bride first. While you and Rex were rolling around in the dirt, Luke snuck in and beat you both to it. That was my first kiss too. I’ll never forget it.”
And I mean it. I will always cherish that memory. Ten years old and we had just been to a distant cousin’s wedding the day before. The next day Chase declared to all of us that he was going to marry me and the other two jumped right on the idea. So with a pillowcase stuck on my hair with a headband and a clutched fist full of wilting wildflowers, we declared our vows in the south pasture.
The song changes but his arms stay tight around me. When the lyrics of ‘Bound to You’ by Jocelyn Alice ring out, I feel the rumble of quiet laughter in his chest so I look up into his eyes. They drop to my mouth and his hand flexes against my back.
“Appropriate, isn’t it? I’ll never be quit of you, Rain. I’ll be bound to you until I take my last breath but it was never going to be just me – it was always going to be the four of us, wasn’t it?”
My brows lower as I try and make out if he’s upset. I used to know exactly what he was thinking by every little twitch of his expression but now he’s so hard to read.
“Will you come out to the farm tomorrow? Come out and go for a ride with me? I know Maple would love to see you again.” I search his face trying to get a read on him and his eyes soften. “There are things I need to tell you, say to you. They’re a weight on me that makes it hard to breathe, Rain. Please?”
I nod because even when I’m furious with him, I could never not try and soothe him too. His hand comes up and his fingers brush against my cheek and then he lets me go and leaves me there. Within seconds, Hetter is there pulling me into a two-step as the music changes again to an upbeat country song and I’m laughing at his jokes but in the back of my mind, I’m braced, braced for whatever Chase needs to say to me because I think it might be goodbye.
Rex
Isit at the table next to Luke and soak in Rain’s happiness even after it dims when she dances with my brother. Of all my addictions, she’s the one I’ll never be able to shake. I’ll do anything to keep her because like Luke said, she doesn’t have to choose as long as we choose her. A long sober night thinking hard on it had me instigating a less awkward than I thought it would be conversation with Luke this morning.
I gripped the back of my neck, struggling to find the right approach to what I want to ask when I found him in the barn. I finally said fuck it and blurted out, “Reverse harem…can you…tell me more about that?”
He stopped shoveling out the stall and propped his arms across the handle of the shovel he had been using.
“It basically comes down to this. Do you care more about her happiness and fulfillment than your ego? Can you put her first over your jealousy? Can you share her with others that love her just as much as you do?”
My brows tangle. “Others or you and Chase? I don’t think I could do it if it was some other guy…or guys.”
Luke gives me a “be serious”’ look. “I’d snap any other man’s neck that touched her but that’s not a concern. It’s always been the four of us, no amount of time will change that. She only wants us, Rex.”
I blow out a breath and nod. “Yeah, yeah, I know that, okay. So do we like, make a schedule of who’s with her when? How the fuck does this work, man? Help me out here.”
Luke scans me up and down. “I’ve seen your dick plenty over the years and you’ve seen mine. That going to be a problem in the future for you?”
My brows shoot up. “Fuck - together?” I run my tongue over my teeth and bite down on my lip as I picture it and I can’t help the grin that takes over my face. “That’s…that’s filthy and hot as fuck. Yeah, I’m not gonna have a problem with your dick as long as we aren’t crossing lightsabers during.”
He nods with a smirk. “The lady doesn’t want to choose so we don’t make her. We give her everything.”
I nod in agreement and then catch a shadow move at the door but when I step out there’s no one there.
I shift in my seat to ease the pressure of the half-hard dick in my dress pants. Luke said Rain was open to both of us staying at her place tonight and I haven’t been able to think of anything else since. She and I have done some things together since the pool table incident but it’s been mostly heavy make-out sessions and a few instances of oral, both ways. It’s been amazing and I feel like a fucking teenager around her most days but tonight… tonight I’m going to feel that perfect pussy squeeze and milk my cock as I…we, make her come.
