Vertigo. Being with them feels like stepping off the roller coaster, finding the ground a little different under your feet. It’s a deluge of pleasure, the sense that each of them just wants to watchmecome undone.
As Nico continues lapping at me, fucking me with his fingers, Dane wraps his other hand in my hair and tugs my head closer to him, so he can whisper,what a good girl,andspread those legs, sweetheart, andyou’re going to look so pretty with my cock inside you again.
And when my orgasm comes, it’s in slow, languid waves, starting where Dane tugs on my hair, traveling down to Cole’s cock against my hip, and ending where Nico’s fingers thrust inside me.
Dane and Cole come, spilling cum over my hips and belly, gasping and shuddering, their bodies curling in the way mine is unraveling, sending me arching the other way. Nico grabs his cock and comes almost immediately.
As I writhe under them, feeling more pleasure than I have in my entire life, sucked under the endless waves of my orgasm, I’mstruck with the feeling that this is the start of something, an open door into a room that I can’t wait to explore.
And as I come down, the men spent and breathing hard around me, I can’t stop myself from wondering what comes next.
Chapter 29
Cole
After, Nico disappears and returns with the bottle of fancy limoncello. Dane turns on the fireplace and grabs several bottles of water from the fridge, a plate of neatly sliced fruits for Lucy. We sit in the bed together and watch her pop bright orange slivers of cantaloupe between her lips.
“When I was a kid, I’d tag along with my mom to go grocery shopping for the lunch that came with it,” Lucy is saying, enjoying her fruit. Maybe she’s aware of the fact that we’re all hanging on her every word, or maybe not. “Usually, it was like a six-inch at Subway. But sometimes I’d get lucky, and she’d take me to the Chinese buffet in town. I think it was called Red Panda Buffet or something like that. I loved that place—there was a koi pond in the front. Anyway, most of the time I’d have two bites of sesame chicken, then I’d fill my plate with cantaloupe and go back to the buffet over and over again. Ilovedit. Mom never bought it for the house because it was such a pain to cut up, she said it wasn’t worth the expense…”
Lucy pops another piece in her mouth, then looks up at all of us, a dash of pink appearing over her cheeks. “Sorry,” she says around the bite, before swallowing. “I’m rambling.”
She’s not. But I would listen even if she was.
“I’m in,” I say, capping my bottle of water. My two best friends and the woman I’m falling in love with turn to look at me.
Nico raises an eyebrow, glances at Lucy, and jokes, “Doesn’t look like it, buddy.”
Lucy’s blush deepens. I’m grateful that we’re taking it slow. From what I understand, her first time was with Dane just a few weeks ago. Going from nothing to three people at once feels like a big jump.
Plus, waiting makes it better.
Rolling my eyes at Nico, I say, “I’ve thought about nothing but work for the past thirty years or so.” Since we found the cure for the condition that killed Claire, that is. “Now, I’m thinking about something else. It feels good. So I’m in if you guys are.”
“Cole,” Dane says, his voice with less of an edge now. I like seeing him like this, less hard on others and on himself. “What are you talking about?”
It occurs to me, for the first time, that perhaps they aren’t thinking about this like I am. I let out a quick, frustrated breath. It seems like the most obvious answer, but it’s not like I’m not in the habit of having to explain the things in my head to other people.
“Lucy,” I say, addressing her instead of them. “I like you as a person. I enjoy having sex with you, all of us together.” She blinks rapidly, that blush compounding and spreading down her neck and to her chest. For some reason, the sight of it makes my cock twitch, like it’s waking up and noticing her again. I’m not used to this kind of desire interfering with my ability to think straight.
It feels, against all odds, good.
“I liked it, too,” she says, her voice soft. I could tell her that much was obvious, from the way she whined and moaned, from the little noises that bubbled out of her.
“I’d like to spend more time with you. All of us. Having sex but also doing other things. If you’re open to it, I don’t see why we shouldn’t all date you.”
Lucy’s mouth opens, and her eyes widen. A piece of cantaloupe hovers inches from her lips. Nico reaches out and plucks it from her fingers, popping it into his own mouth.
“Fuck, the fruit here is so good,” he says, licking his fingers and reaching for a slice of pineapple. Shrugging, like it’s nothing, he adds, “And I’m in too. I think we could show Lucy a good time, in more ways than one.”
Dane’s voice is dark, “Fine. But she’ll usemycard for what she needs.”
“I can’t believe you just…” Lucy brings her hand to her collarbone, rubbing a gentle circle. “Said it. Like that.”
Nico lets out a bark of laughter, “Hey, Lucy, let me introduce you. This is Cole, and he?—”
Lucy punches him in the shoulder. Something sparks in my chest, bright and brilliant, like the touch of a torch to a piece of metal. It takes me a moment to recognize it as joy.
Joy. Sitting in this bed with the woman I love. With the men I love, in a different way.
