Mati smiled. “I haven’t. I’d like that, too.”
“I used to travel all the time. Before.”
Before he’d stopped leaving the house, let alone the country. She’d seen some of the pictures, the ones he had framed around the house. They often included Rupert at Reese’s side, and always featured an iconic landmark or building in the background. London, Venice, Cape Town. Reese used to travel the world. She’d always been curious, but any time she’d caught Reese looking at the pictures, he’d appeared sad, so she’d never asked.
She brushed her fingertips down his cheek, enjoying the drag of stubble as she got nearer his jawline. She lovedbeing able to touch him like this, watching his eyelids flutter. “You can do it again, now. Travel the world, if you want.”
Eyes closed, he smiled. “Only if you come with me.”
Her hand hovered, her heart in her throat. “As your employee?”
Piercing green eyes blinked open. “No.” He sighed and sat back. “I swore this would never happen.”
Mati let her hand drop. “What do you mean?”
Reese gestured between them. “You.Us.” He sighed again. “I never wanted to be that boss, to have you worry I would ever do anything to make you uncomfortable.”
“You haven’t. Not once.”
“Well, then I kissed you.”
“Actually, I kissed you. With your permission, I think. You said whatever I want.”
Reese smiled. “I meant that.”
Mati leaned forward, and Reese met her halfway for a long, sweet kiss. Reese curled his hand around the back of her neck, his fingers slipping into her hair, his lips gentle and warm. It felt like nothing else was happening in the entire world except this.
Thiswas what she wanted.
She hadn’t been paying attention to the low drone of David’s conversation, but she noticed when it stopped. She and Reese parted and turned their heads to see David in the kitchen, the phone to his ear, watching them with a little smile on his face.
Reese caught her eye, both of them achingly aware of their audience when they kissed again. She pressed a thumb to his jaw and traced the seam of his lips with her tongue.
Electricity sizzled down her spine when he opened to her and their tongues met and tangled. She tilted her head to get closer, to getmore.A note of joy escaped her throat.
A choking sound came from the kitchen.
They broke apart to look.
David jerked and said, “What? Oh, yeah, sorry. Got distracted,” into the phone, casting them a baleful look before turning his back.
She’d never seen this particular smile on Reese. It was a little bit shy, a little bit proud, and one hundred percent dead-sexy.
“So…” she said, trying to figure out where to start a conversation that was, at its heart, a discussion of whether they should begin a relationship by inviting another man into bed with them.
“Yeah,” Reese said.
“We should talk about this. The three of us.”
“The three of us.That’s not a sentence I ever thought I’d say, to be honest.”
“No adolescent fantasies of having two women to fawn over you?”
“What? No, I—”
The redder he turned, the harder she giggled.
He glared at her. “I’m not answering that,” he said with as much dignity as he could muster. “And I certainly never thought I’d find myself in this position. There’s never been a man, Mati. Not ever.”
