Page 150 of Study Buddies

“Just think about it. Three men. Six hands. Thirty fingers. Three rock-hard?—”

A whimper of longing escaped my mouth, and I blushed, burying my face in his chest, embarrassed.

Jayden laughed, patting my back. “I love the little sounds you make. So hot and needy.”

“Pretend you didn’t hear that one.” My voice was muffled against his chest.

“You can think about it for a while. Or you could say no right now, and that’s perfectly fine.” He continued stroking my back soothingly. “But I think you might like it. You seemed to like sleeping between me and Lucas after the storm. And that time in the back of the library with Kyle and I both kissing you… you liked that, right?”

“That was really hot.” It was easier to be honest when I wasn’t looking him in the eye. In fact, the only thing I could see right now was the smooth skin over his pecs. “Do you think, though, it would bother Lucas? Or it wouldn’t be very much fun if they started fighting in the middle of it.”

“Things have been a little better between them lately,” Jayden said. Lucas had told him what Kyle had said about how things had ended between Lucas and Natalie. Then Jayden told me. It was a relief because while I knew that Kyle was no angel, it had always bothered me to think that he’d slept with Lucas’s girlfriend. To me, it hadn‘t seemed like something he would do, and now I knew he hadn’t.

Jayden kissed the top of my head. “I don’t think they’ll fight because they’d both be focused on you. All three of us would be. On you, and your needs, and your pleasure.”

My thighs clenched as my pulse spiked. “I have to admit, I like the sound of that. Does that make me greedy?”

“I don’t know. Does it make me greedy that I want you even though my two friends do, too?”

“Maybe,” I said, and he laughed. But then I took a deep breath. “So my answer is yes. I would like to go a bit further with the three of you.”

“Tonight?”

His question took my breath away. Tonight as in ten hours from now? “But what about our date?”

“We can have our date here, with some friends.”

“But—”

“If you don’t want that, that’s perfectly fine, Tori. But don’t turn it down because of me. You live here now. You’re paying rent and everything. We’ll have plenty of time to do things one-on-one and also… more on one.”

That made me smile. “Nicely phrased.”

“That means a lot coming from a future English teacher. So, are we on for tonight?”

After a deep breath, I let myself answer the way I wanted to, not the way I probably should have. “Yes. I’d like that.”

“Good. Then I’ve been deputized to pass along a request.”

“You were?” The idea that the three of them might have talked about this made me squirm, and only partly in embarrassment.

“Yes. The Council of Roommates has requested that you wear that dress that you bought at that thrift store in Atlanta.”

And just like that, all the good feelings inside me vanished. “I would, but… I think it would remind me too much of the wedding.” I’d only talked to my mom once since then, and things had been tense.

“Not that dress. The other one.”

Oh. He meant the one I wore on the date with Kyle. “Yeah, I can do that.”

“How is it that Kyle and Lucas have seen you in it, but not me?” he asked. “Again. That’s what happened with that green dress you wore to the movie night, too.”

“How about the next time I have something new and sexy to wear, I show you first?” I slid my leg over his. “In a private showing.”

“I like the sound of that.” He reached over to the nightstand and picked up his phone.

“What are you doing?”

“Ordering you some new and sexy lingerie.”

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