Page 34 of Sloane

I've gotten more accustomed to the new rules after a few more days. Okay, so maybe not more accustomed, but Jovi and I have learned plenty of loopholes we like to exploit.

"Do you want me to have something made for you when you get out of the shower?" Jovi asks as I turn the water on.

He pops his head into the bathroom, his eyes roaming over my still-naked body like he's ready to go again. I'd offer it if the new rules didn't specify a cooling-off period. I don't need a cooling-off period. I need Jovi on his back again, but I agreed to these dumb rules. The least I can do is hold up my end of them.

Jovi and I are already blurring the lines by him being in the bathroom with me, but I have the pendant turned off and told him we're just friends now. Our friendship has grown to the point where we're always naked around one another. It's just normal best friend stuff; nothing sexual about it at all. Except, of course, how hot and bothered it gets us both.

"Maybe some of that chicken stuff from Holoth's planet?" I say, not remembering the name he gave it when he had me try it two nights ago. It's not even chicken, but I'm pretty sure Jovi knows what I mean.

Jovi thinks for a moment, and then he nods. "I'll go get it started."

I hear him shuffling around in my room, getting dressed. By the time I get in the shower, he's left. Alik always waits outside my room when Jovi and I have relations, whether it's to take his turn after or to make sure Jovi sticks to the rules. Alik went before Jovi today, and so he's out there, ready to scold him for being in here for too long.

After finding out that their semen gets me all kinds of fucked up in a good way, they've been very purposeful about only coming in my pussy or on my body and then either cleaning me themselves or not leaving until I start a shower. I've been good and not even pretended to stuff it in my mouth.

Well, only the one time when Alik was being extra distant to me after we were together. Coating my fingers in his release and bringing it to my lips had him snapping his teeth in my face and pinning my hands over my head. He then carried me to the shower, rinsed me off like a dirty animal, and stalked out of the room in a huff, but I did get a reaction out of him, so that was fun.

That's one of the easier-to-handle rules, even though I really kind of want to get on my knees and blow them sometimes. One, because I'm great at it, and two, because I also want to know what kinds of things they'd make me feel while I'm high on them. Pretty sure we'd all have a really good time if they gave in.

The new rules are easy enough to handle. The pendant goes green at least once a day, sometimes more than once if I'm feeling generous, which I am most of the time.

The only really sucky rule is the timer. I'm supposed to set one for ten minutes for each of them, but ten minutes is not enough time for both of us to get off. I've been fingering myself beforehand, sometimes in front of Jovi if he's around, which, again, is fairly often. Then, after I come, I'll switch the pendant to green.

Jovi doesn't look at the timer at all when he's with me. He keeps his sole focus on me, getting as much of me as he can before the beeping of the timer tells him he needs to come.

Alik's a completely different story. He's never around until the pendant goes green. Not since the night of never have I ever. Now, when he's with me, his focus is on the timer way too much. He watches the seconds tick by with every thrust until he comes, wipes me off, and leaves with a cold, dead look in his eyes and a tense body like he didn't just orgasm.

I've stopped taking Alik's reactions to heart because I'm almost certain he's being so weird because he really, really likes me.

Jovi might've let it slip that Alik's struggling with keeping himself in control when he's with me. I was feeling really down about myself and needed some reassurance, and Jovi knew exactly what to say. Ever since he told me that, I've been trying to find ways to make Alik lose himself like he used to before the new rules.

I want that harshness, the version of him that tells me what to do and say. I want to know how badly he wants me and how feral he'll get to have me. So far, I've been unsuccessful.

I blame the rules saying no roleplaying me being pregnant or getting to call him mate. Those are two things he had me do when he lost control of himself. I'm sure it would do it to him again, but I agreed to follow their rules, so I will.

I shower, dress, and then head to the kitchen, where Jovi should already have food made for me. I'm surprised when I stepinto the kitchen and am met with both males I've been sharing a bed with standing in the kitchen whispering with one another.

They couldn't be any more different in how they respond to my presence. Alik's body stiffens when I step inside. Jovi relaxes, and a smile pulls at his lips. They don't continue whatever they were talking about, and I wonder if it was about me.

"Should I go?" I ask, trying to chuckle to ease some of the tension in the air. "I didn't mean to interrupt."

"No," they both say at the same time, causing my heart to flutter with how quick they are in the objection.

Alik reaches out and grabs my forearm as if he thinks I might flee if he doesn't keep me there. I step closer to him, hoping he'll keep touching me if I don't make any move to get away from him. Of course, it doesn't work that way, and he drops my arm just as fast. Jovi's quick about taking his place, though, one of his lower arms wrapping around my waist and pulling me close to him.

"We're discussing where we're going to have you stay once we get to the rendezvous spot," Jovi says as he places a kiss on the crown of my head.

I smile as I lean back against his chest, noticing the way Alik looks anywhere but at us. I also don't miss how he keeps balling and flexing his hands like he's keeping himself from doing something he wants to do but doesn't want to allow himself to do. A terrible part of me wants to know if I can get him to do it anyway.

Before I can think of a way to make Alik lose it a little bit, he's blowing out a long breath of air and talking. "We'll be there in a few hours, which means the smugglers could contact us in a few hours, or we could be waiting for them for weeks. Either way, we don't want you just out and about if they decide to do a scan of the ship. We need you somewhere where we might keep a human pet."

I snort at the idea and then end up laughing at the absurdity. "Pet?" When neither one of them responds, I realize they're being serious. "What, you want to put a collar on me and have me crawl around on my hands and knees naked for you?"

That gets the reaction I was hoping for. Alik's eyes harden, the cold depth flickering for just a moment before he pulls himself back together and turns his back to us. Jovi at least laughs either at my question or Alik's reaction, maybe both.

"We'll get you a nice collar at the next station if that's what you want, Sloane." Jovi trails his finger over my shoulder until he wraps his fingers around my throat, tracing my pulse up and down, never squeezing.

"We will do no such thing," Alik snaps, turning fully. His lips pull back in a snarl as he steps closer to us, his eyes pinning Jovi where he's at. "You would cover my mark?"

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