Page 120 of The Heart

I study it, suddenly worried. “I’m afraid I won’t be able to sit through a tattoo. How much does it hurt, actually?” I ask.

“It depends on where you put it, sweetheart. But you already took a bullet. I think you can handle it,” Sebastian says encouragingly.

“Do you want to feel it? I can do a small one?” Colton offers.

“Right now?” My eyes go wide with panic, but he just smiles. He’s serious. “But what would I get?” I look between the three of them, my fingers still lingering on Luke’s skin, even after Colton’s fall away.

“Whatever you like,” Luke says with a smile, reaching up to take my hand in his.

I think for a minute.

I take in Sebastian’s loving gaze, Luke’s hand in mine and feel Colton’s fingers trailing over my skin under my waistband.

I think about those first moments alone with him at the cabin. And suddenly, my mind is made up.

I look up at Colton, he watches me curiously.

“How about a heart?” I say.

I watch the slow smile spread across his beautiful face, see his jaw tightening with emotion. Becausethe heartis what he told me I am, and my whole heart is what I’ve given to them.All of them.

“I can do that,” he whispers. And I can’t hold back from kissing this man any longer.

I slide my hands up his body and around the back of his neck. When my lips find his, and his arms wrap around me, we lose ourselves in this moment. His body softens with the understanding that this kiss isn’t about attraction, or lust, it’s about how much I care about him. How grateful I am that he’s in my life now too.

The kiss is slow, and when we finally part, his green eyes meet mine for a long moment.

I’ve only kissed Colton in front of Sebastian and Luke a couple times, but I suddenly realize this kiss was different. I turn to them, needing to know their reaction, but any worries I have are immediately dissolved when I see the way they are watching us. How Sebastian’s hand is over Luke’s, holding it on the table between them.

I smile.

“But you guys pick where it goes.Noton my face.” I chuckle.

“Hm, I can’t reallyseeany good places.Can you, Lu?” Sebastian asks, crossing his arms over his bare chest and leaning against the table to study me.

“No, I definitely can’t see any good place to put it either.”

Colton smirks at them, clearly picking up on their little game. He steps behind me, his gloved fingers whispering over my neck, making me shiver, then to my first button. Slowly, he works his way down, then spreads open my blouse. His breath hitches when he looks at me, and I can feel my cheeks reddening. Not in embarrassment, but because I want him to touch me there.

But he doesn’t.

He slowly slides my shirt off my shoulders, removing it completely, and I’m left standing half naked in front of all three of them. I take in a breath when I feel the air across my skin.

“Keep going. I haven’t decided yet,” Sebastian grits out, and my eyes flash to him. We stare at each other, the anticipation of the moment suspended between us.

Colton places his gloved hands on the bare skin above my leggings, then slides them down my body, taking the fabric with them before I step out of them and he stands behind me. His fingers and lips brush over my exposed skin.

“Shoulder blade,” Sebastian states.

“I agree,” Luke adds.

I narrow my eyes at them. “And you needed mypantsoff to decide that?” I stare between them.

“Yup.” Sebastian smiles, his eyes raking over me appreciatively.

Then I hear Colton’s voice. Not his normal voice, that deep, dominant tone that would have me soaking wet if I wasn’t already.

“In the chair. Now,” he growls. I turn to look at him, finding his fists clenched at his sides, his breathing heavy and his obvious arousal outlined by the fabric of his gray sweatpants. The ones he stole from Luke’s bag before I could.Damn him.

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