Page 95 of Harmless Scandals

“Serenity,” Adam started.

“Hmm?” she asked absentmindedly. She was leaning back in her chair and her eyes were closed.

“Mick and I wanted to have a talk with you.”

She slowly opened her eyes. Wariness filled her expression. He gave Mick a dirty look.

“Don’t look like that, please,” Adam said.

“Like what?”

Her posture and tone said it all. She was rigid. Ready to fight. He took her hand and gave it a squeeze. It took another second or two, but she relaxed.

“Sorry.”

“No. We’re sorry. We should have talked about this before, but everything happened so fast,” Adam said.

“We wanted to make sure we were far enough away from the bed when we talked about it. We want you to know we’re serious.”

She sat back and looked from one to the other. “Serious about what?”

“You. And us,” Adam said. “We want to make this official.”

“In a ceremony?”

“That can come later,” Mick said. “But, I guess we want you to know that we are cool with being your men. As in, a serious relationship.”

“So, like we’re going steady?”

Adam chuckled. “I guess you could call it that. We don’t go for labels. We just wanted you to know that we see ourselves as a threesome now.”

She didn’t say anything for a long time. Then, her mouth curved and soon she was grinning. “I like the sound of that. But I have something to tell you.”

“Is it worse than the tabloid crap?” Adam asked.

She shook her head. “That first time you guys had sex.”

“With you?”

“No, in the house.”

He looked at Mick, who was frowning at him. Then they both looked at her.

“Yeah?”

“I accidentally saw you.”

There was a beat of silence. “Oh, so you’re a voyeur?” Mick asked with a laugh.

“No,” she said, her face turning pink. “It’s just that I was taking pics and turned in your direction and accidentally saw you.”

“And just kept looking?” Adam asked, laughing.

“No. Well, yes. I couldn’t help it. You were both so…well, sexy. I couldn’t help but look.”

“We forgive you,” Adam said.

She rolled her eyes. “I just wanted you to know. I’ve felt guilty all this time.”

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