Nolan grinned. “So, no, I don’t want to move into the bunkhouse. I want to wake up next to you every morning and lay my head down next to yours every night.”
“And take my cock.”
“That’s one of the perks.” Nolan’s grin disappeared again. “What about Hope?”
“What about her?” Did Nolan want to cut her out and keep their relationship between the two of them? If so, that might be a problem.
“Do you agree what’s going on between the three of us has gone beyond sex?”
Cam stared at the man he loved. “Are you asking if Hope feels the same about us as we feel about each other?”
Nolan shrugged. “Do you think it’s possible?”
“I don’t know. Maybe we simply need to ask her.”
“I think we should, but I also don’t want to force her hand,” Nolan murmured.
“But do we feel the same way about her as we do each other? We need to address that first before asking her how she feels.”
“She’s an integral part of our relationship and it would suck if, in a few days, weeks, or even months, she decided she no longer wants to be involved with us. I don’t want to lose her, Cam.”
“I don’t want to, either. I agree. Without her, we wouldn’t be the same. Yes, you and I would still love each other, but the dynamics of what we have…” It was difficult to think about Hope not being in their lives. She really was an integral part.
“Right. It would change. I’ll admit it right now, Cam, that I do love her. I hope you don’t have a problem with that.”
Cam looked deep inside himself. He had feelings for Hope, sure. But was it love? And was that love as strong as what he felt for Nolan?
It was.
Damn.
Yes, they needed to let her know. Then she could decide what to do with that information. “How about this? We can tell her how we feel with the caveat that she doesn’t need to feel the same. We’ll continue to welcome her into our bed however long she wants to join us.”
“You love her, too?”
“What’s not to love? You asked earlier if what we have—all three of us—has gone beyond sex. In my eyes, it definitely has. But if she doesn’t love us the same way, then we need to respect that.”
“I don’t disagree.” Nolan blew out a breath. “I hope she does. But if not, what would that mean for us?”
“We’d have to have that discussion with her first. We need to keep the communication open.”
“We haven’t done a great job of that if we both waited until now to declare our love to each other.”
He was so right. “I’ll admit we failed on that front. We need to do better in the future.”
“I figured the reason we didn’t bring it up with each other was so that Hope wouldn’t feel alienated. We didn’t want her feeling like a third wheel.”
“She’s definitely not a third wheel. If anything, we’re a three-spoked wheel and her voice is as important as ours so our wheel remains balanced.”
Nolan’s eyebrows rose but his lips twitched at the corners. “That’s actually really fitting, Cam. I’m impressed.”
Cam chuckled. “I sometimes have intelligent thoughts.”
“But if she doesn’t love us the same way, my concern isshe might start feeling like one if she knows how much we love each other. I want to avoid that.”
“I never said how much I loved you, only that I did.”
Nolan poked him in the gut. “Ha ha. Funny.”
