“I think she’s going to explode, and not in the fun way.” Nico chuckles from the back seat. He’s not far off. I don’t even know what to say.
Caden turns off the car.
“If you can take my cock, a baby won’t be that much harder.” He smirks.
“Are you fucking kidding me right now?” I throw my hands up in the air and push out of the car. My chest is tight and my breathing comes in bursts. “Ten kids. Like that will fucking happen. What would my mother think of me with five guys? And who knows how we’ll keep track of who is whose kid and what if you guys leave me? With ten kids? I am not a breeding cow.”
Caden puts his hand on my shoulder and turns me toward the door. “All I’m saying is that at the end of the year, if everyone decides to keep you, I’m okay with it. I don’t mind sharing you as long as I get a little alone time with you.”
I have nothing to say to the crazy man. I walk out of the garage toward the back of the house, to the door Eli took me in the other day.
“Hey, are you okay?” Nico catches up with me.
“I don’t even know. I mean, what the hell?” I jerk to a stop and point back at Caden. “Like this arrangement with the six of us would survive the real world? We haven’t even had sex yet. I don’t even know if I like some of these guys. I was worried about having a connection for sex, but I wasn’t talking love and all the fuckery that comes with that word.”
My voice keeps getting progressively higher. “And keeping me? What? Are we going to go to the same college? If we’re planning on ten kids, do I need to get knocked up now or am I going to be in my forties and still pushing out kids? Ten?”
I think my brain glitches on that, because I can’t even draw in a breath now. What the hell is Caden thinking? It would be different if he had five women and wanted ten kids. “I don’t even know if I want kids.”
Nico pulls me into his chest and runs his hand over my back. “Like you said, we don’t have to worry about any of that. We just need to worry about graduating high school. Before that, we have to worry about winning the championship. Before that, we need to worry about what’s going to happen next week during senior week. And before that, we need to worry about tonight, and how you’ll keep your five men pleased so you don’t have to call in reinforcements.”
When I lift my head to glare at him, he smirks.
“And if you end up with ten kids, I’m not going anywhere but by your side.” Nico grins. “Just so you know, I’m willing to wait for you as long as you need, sunshine. I’m here for you. Not just sex. If it takes all year or even to the next, I’ll still be here.”
My eyes meet Nico’s deep brown ones, and I feel that connection we had as kids. When we daydreamed about growing up and what it would be like. He’s right, all this can wait. Caden isn’t serious. I just let myself get caught up in it.
“Next year?!” Caden tugs me from Nico’s arms. He shoves Nico back and draws me into him. His arms drape loosely around my waist. “I’m willing to wait too, little nympho. Not a fucking year though. Tomorrow? Is tomorrow good for you?”
I laugh and punch Caden in the gut lightly. He covers his stomach like I hurt him, but smiles and gives me a wink. His green eyes sparkle in the dim light.
“Not today or tomorrow. Maybe never. You guys took me from untouched to a technical virgin in like a week.”
“Yeah, but you liked it.” Caden grabs my hips and pulls me in against him.
“Like it or not, I need time to adjust to the new status quo.” I tug on his dark hair, and he gives me a sly grin.
The rumble of a car makes us turn to see Eli’s car coming up the drive. Caden bends his head toward me as he looks at the guys parking.
“I wouldn’t mention the kids just yet. Don’t want to scare off your crew.”
“I’m not going to have a crew or ten kids, Caden.” I thwack his chest with the back of my hand.
“You’re going to love sex so much, little nympho, that I’ll have you knocked up every chance I get.” Caden captures my mouth as I try to tell him off.
Instead, I fall into his kiss like I always do and feel that little lift in my stomach at his words. Sure, they’re insane words, but the fact he wants to keep me, at least right now, feels awesome. Maybe there is something here we can grow.
“Stop hogging our girl,” Eli punches Caden in the arm.
“Little nympho punches harder than you,” Caden says.
Eli tugs me into him and kisses me. I realize I haven’t played at all with Eli tonight. His kiss is dark and thorough. Everyone tells me he likes it rough, but besides biting my lip, Eli has played fairly nice with me.
Of course, he also ate my ass yesterday. My cheeks burn at the memory. So there is that.
“Let’s get inside before you start the orgy.” Jack’s words make me pull my mouth away from Eli.
Eli’s dark eyes are almost black with the low light. “Come on, kitten. It’s time I played with you.”
