“Why not?”
He shrugged. “I’ve never been attracted before.”
David should be flattered. Though, if Reese was going to start somewhere…
“But you are now?” she asked, just to be sure.
“Definitely,” Reese confirmed.
“In a slightly more than friendly way? Or a curious, experimental way? Or a know for certain you want to get naked and lick every inch of his body way?”
Reese’s cheeks warmed again. “That last one.”
“Okay, that’s…that’s good,” she said, then took a deep breath and forced all those images right back out of her head. “So, on a scale of one-to-ten, how freaked out are you about that?”
Reese rolled his head side-to-side. “A seven?”
“That’s pretty good. I’m easily a five at the idea ofyouwanting me.”
“I have. For a long time. I don’t want you to think my attraction to David changes anything about that.”
She squeezed his hand. “Same.”
“So…now what?” he asked.
“I don’t know. I guess we take it slow. Try things. Say what we like. What we don’t like.” She pointed at him. “That goes especially for you, since there’s going to be some new stuff.”
“More than just some,” he muttered.
Mati’s mouth dropped open in shock.
Reese rolled his eyes. “I’m not a virgin, for Christ’s sake. Stop making that face.”
Mati laughed at his indignance. She tried to kiss the scowl off his face, but he kept his lips pursed instead of kissing her back, feigning offense. She could feel how he fought a smile, so she climbed to her knees and planted loud smacking kisses all over his face until he was batting her away and making disgusted noises through his laughter.
David came around the couch. She hadn’t heard him end his call.
“What are you two doing?” he asked, sounding amused.
Reese gasped with laughter. “Help! David, you have to save me.”
A strong arm hooked around Mati’s hips, lifting her off Reese and into the air until her back hit David’s chest. He sat facing Reese, leaving her sprawled in his lap, her legs on either side of Reese, her butt cradled in his enormous thighs.
She laughed breathlessly and tried not to squirm—yet.
David stretched his arm along the back of the couch and brushed his hand over Reese’s shoulder.
The laughter in Reese’s eyes gave way to something hotter.
“You two want to tell me what you’ve been giggling about over here?” David asked, his fingers tracing the seam of Reese’s shirt. His other hand dropped from Mati’s stomach to rest on top of her thigh.
“Just some things we’re working on,” Reese said smoothly.
“Is there anything I can do to help?” David asked.
Reese smiled—a slow sexy smirk that made Mati squirm after all.
“Believe me, you’ll be the first to know.”
