“He’s still on the mend,” Aspen said.
Rowen glanced up.
Vail took Rowen’s other hand and smiled at me.
I let out a shaky breath. “Yeah, but I’ve been with you and Vail.” I glanced at Rowen—he’d been nicer to me lately—and held my breath.
“Aye, and I doubt Cillian will be back down here before morning,” Rowen murmured, then bared his teeth in a wince. “He won’t take lettin’ down the boss gracefully.”
Vail still seemed down, and he already wasn’t getting what he’d asked for this morning with Cillian in his room stewing. I peeked at Rowen. He was handsome. His shoulders were sturdy, and his chest narrowed to his hips in a way that had me looking more often than not when he was in his workout gear. I bit the inside of my cheek. His red hair was a nice touch, too, different enough that I sometimes stared too long.
“I’m not sure how I feel about it.” I searched out Aspen, and he hooked one hand under Vail’s elbow and held out the other one for me. The four of us awkwardly stood, and Vail snickered, which had Rowen smiling. My gaze clashed with his and my cheeks flushed hot. Aspen squeezed my hand.What is he thinking?As usual, he didn’t volunteer anything.
“Let’s see how we all feel once we’re in bed,” I said, not ready to commit to anything specific. Vail’s face lit up again, and he let out a happy whoop and tossed his suit coat so it went sailing over the banister to the hallway below. He somehow squeezed past me and Rowen to shoot up the stairs.
“He’s been talkin’ to me about this,” Rowen said, and there was a touch of guilt in his tone. “He wants to see what it’s like bein’ on the other side of the glass, if ye catch me drift.”
Aspen snorted and sent a small, fond smile after Vail as his shirt came flying out of Rowen’s doorway to land in the hallway. “Come on!” he shouted, and there was a warm edge to his tone that let me know he was probably already hard just from our conversation. I loved that about him. He was always ready for anything and everything.
Rowen took my hand and squeezed it. “Ye know Vail, he wouldn’t want ye to be uncomfortable. His mind takes him where it takes him. If ye don’t wanna be close to me that way, I won’t be the one to push.”
It wasn’t lost on me that Rowen was treating me a bit like he did Vail, and that made me feel... weird. Like maybe I should be trying to man up or something. But I didn’t want him to be mean to me, either. What was the right play here? Aspen squeezed my other hand, and I glanced up into his eyes. If it wasn’t for one of Vail’s suggestions, we might never have taken the plunge together, and now I looked forward to time with Aspen as much as I did with Vail. I sucked in a deep breath.
“Sex is sex, right?” I said, shrugging and rolling my shoulders.
Something crossed Rowen’s face and I couldn’t read the expression, but he gave my hand another soft squeeze. “Aye, it can be, if that’s what ye’d like. I’m with Vail, and I love Vail.” He darted a glance toward the door to his bedroom. “I have to feel like I can... have something with a man to want to shove me cock in ’im, unlike some of us.” He shot a dirty look in the direction of the stairs at the end of the hall that led to Cillian’s room.
“And you would agree to do this?” I felt like I was missing something. “You’re saying... wait. You’re saying....” I let out a whoop, and Rowen groaned. I spun and pointed at Aspen and Rowen. “You fuckers think I’m sexy! I knew it!”
Rowen tilted his head back and huffed, but all three of us stilled when Vail leaned a shoulder in the doorway of the bedroom. He was naked and the light from behind made his skin glow beautifully. He had his hand on his dick and it gleamed like maybe it was already covered in lube, and when he let go of his shaft it sprang up and pointed at the ceiling. He bounced on his toes and gave me the sort of excited smile that had me shoving my boxer briefs down where I stood. Rowen sucked in a breath, Aspen hummed, and I could feel all three sets of eyes burning into me as I followed Vail into the bedroom.
Vail scrambled onto Rowen’s bed, which was huge, and flopped in the middle of the red blanket with a happy sigh. By the time I had a knee on the bed to join him he’d already rearranged himself and bounced onto his knees. I moaned as he wrapped his arms around me, and we laughed together while he tipped us to the side. Apparently he’d already had a plan because he was fast to wrap one leg around my waist. I didn’t care, I needed this—him and Aspen, and fuck it, even Rowen. Why not? I wanted to forget about all the dangerous bullshit that had happened today.
I wanted to forget how I’d felt like I was going to piss myself when Sloan Killough was glaring as if he wanted to shoot us all dead.
Shuddering against Vail, I struggled to focus on him and the way he wrapped his lube-slicked hand around my dick and held it. He planted his lips on mine, giving my shaft sweet little squeezes whenever our tongues brushed. The next thing I knew a familiar warm, muscular chest pushed against my back, and I sank into the feeling of Aspen’s power and Vail’s sweetness. Skin on skin. I was in the best spot on the planet, and everything was warm and safe and good. I bucked my hips. Vail’s breath stuttered and I could feel it in my own lungs as we shared air.
This wasn’t the first time I’d had Aspen at my back while I kissed Vail—he liked to watch us make out while he drilled me, and I got the appeal because I liked to see Vail kissing the others, too—but there was something more in the air tonight. Aspen didn’t slick up and immediately fuck me like I’d thought he might. Rowen was still wearing a pair of blue briefs when he slid up and plastered his chest against Vail’s back, and no one seemed to be in a huge hurry.
My eyes slipped closed for a while, and every now and then Vail would tease a small sound out of me that I usually tried to bite back when I wasn’t alone with him or Aspen... but Rowen wasn’t that bad anymore. He probably wouldn’t make fun of me. I sank into what we were doing without worrying about what anyone might think.
Aspen ran one of his big hands along my side and back and over the curve of my ass, and I shivered when he slid his fingers into my crack and teased my hole. His scalding, soft lips landed on my neck, and I was surprised when another hand scratched my scalp. I melted into a strangely relaxed puddle with a hand on my dick, one in my hair, and Aspen toying with my ass.
“Oh, I knew it would be good,” Vail said with a sigh against my lips.
I forced my eyes open to look at him. “Wuh?”
He snickered, and I arched up as Rowen scratched his fingernails lightly against my head. “Don’t stop,” I sighed out, and Aspen nibbled on my earlobe.
“You like that?” Aspen asked, and his breath made me shiver. Vail slid down the bed, and I thought he was going for my dick, but Aspen tugged me back so I was half lying on his chest. Vail hummed happily as he went to his knees between my legs. I wasn’t sure what he was doing as Rowen slid closer to take up the place directly at my side where Vail had been.
“Your thighs are so solid with muscle. I love them. And your abs.” Vail leaned up to kiss along my belly.
“Roses are red, and so are your lips,” I said with a snicker. “You should get between my legs and wiggle those—”
“That’s the worst one ye’ve ever spouted,” Rowen said, digging his nails in harder on my head, but I loved the feeling and moaned. “No more of that rubbish, ye wanker.” He shook his head, but his mouth was twisted up in one corner. He shot a fond glance at Vail, and I rubbed at my chest when it landed on me, too. “Ye flirt too much. No one would ever believe ye, if ye actually did like ’em.” His eyelids lowered as he pursed his pink lips, and his beard made them look more touchable. I jolted with the realization that I might like his mouth all over me.
I shrugged. “Their loss.” I gave him a big wink, and he groaned, but at that same moment Vail swiped his tongue along my asscrack. The firm, wet pressure on the least touched part of my body had my mind fritzing for a hot minute.
