Daisy let out a little gasp.
“Now tell me again that we’re just biding our time so we can fuck you.”
Daisy’s eyes were wide as I pulled back enough so she could look me in the eye. “Then wh… what do you want?”
I looked at Sage, who was watching Daisy with a mix of fear and want that mirrored my own. I set her on her feet. “Sage, tell Daisy what we want,” I said as I pulled her flush against my body.
Sage cleared the distance between us in a few big steps and pressed up against her back. He used his hand to pull her hair back and skimmed a kiss over her neck before settling his mouth against her ear.
“Don’t you know, Daisy? Haven’t we been clear enough?” he asked, a tinge of hurt in his voice.
She shook her head, but I wasn’t sure if it was because she truly didn’t know or she was trying to deny what was so clear in Sage’s voice.
“We want to love you, Daisy. We do love you.”
She shook her head again. “No,” she said. “No, you don’t. You can’t.”
“Why not?” I asked.
“Because what you have is already perfect. How can I bring anything to that? How could you ever love me like you love each other?” She shook her head violently. “I can’t settle. I won’t! My mother did that – I watched her turn into someone I didn’t even know anymore because she was so desperate for someone to love her. I’d rather not have it at all,” she bit out as she tried to break free of our hold.
“Do you want to know what you bring to us, Daisy?” Sage asked, his voice gentle. He turned her so she was facing him. She’d stopped struggling, but she was drawn up tight like a rubber band that had been stretched too far. If we said even one wrong thing to her, she’d snap and we’d never get her back.
“For me, you’re like the sun. You warm everything up and you add enough light so I can finally see things more clearly. Cash is like the earth under me – solid and strong and always there, whether I’m taking steps forward, looking over my shoulder at the past, or dropping to my knees in surrender. I’d survive without all those things, but all those steps forward, getting up off my knees, not looking behind me… you and Cash together are what make it bearable. But if that isn’t enough for you—”
“No, it is,” she said with a shake of her head.
Sage kissed her softly. “You said I bring light to Cash’s darkness… that I share it with him, do you remember?”
Daisy nodded. She was fisting Sage’s shirt, like she was afraid to let go and afraid to pull him closer at the same time.
“You’re the soft place that he sometimes needs to land, Daisy,” Sage said softly as his eyes met mine over Daisy’s lowered head. “He’s the ground beneath my feet, but you’re the rain that feeds him, lets him grow, helps him to always be strong for me.” He heldmy gaze for a beat, then dropped his eyes to Daisy and forced her to look at him by tipping her chin up.
“The question isn’t whether we love you enough, Daisy. It’s whether you love us enough… whether you want to be so many things to each of us. We’re not the easy choice. But we’ll spend the rest of our lives making sure you know you didn’t settle.”
I wrapped my arm around Daisy’s upper body so it was resting right above her heart. “Areweenough for you, sweetheart?”
She let out a sob and nodded her head. “You’re everything,” she croaked. She dropped her forehead to Sage’s chest and lifted her hand to reach behind her so she could sift her fingers through my hair and draw me forward so we were completely surrounding her. “I love you both so much.”
“Love you,” I whispered in her ear. She began to cry as soon as Sage said the same thing. We held her for the longest time and kissed the parts of her we could reach. We kissed each other too. When she’d calmed, I eased her around and wiped at her tears.
“Why don’t we eat this dinner you’ve made for us and then we can talk some more,” I suggested.
I took a step toward the stove to get it going again, but she grabbed my wrist. “Nuh-uh,” she said with a shake of her head. “You guys have been teasing me for weeks. It’s time to pay up,” she added, then she pulled my head down for a kiss that left me vibrating with need. She did the same to Sage. By the time they came up for air, I was practically humping Daisy’s backside.
“Bedroom,” Sage snarled.
I snagged his arm before he could steal her away. “Right here is fine,” I bit out as I lifted Daisy and carried her to the table. “For starters,” I added, then I closed my mouth over hers.
Chapter 13
Sage
I could have satdown at that table and watched them all night. A part of me actually wanted Cash to order me to do just that. Then I’d be able to feast on the sight of Cash’s big body moving expertly over Daisy’s. But my cock wasn’t having any of it. I’d be lucky if I didn’t come before I even laid a hand on the beautiful woman sprawled out on our kitchen table.
She loved us.
Us.
