“And if I don’t have any?”
An involuntary grunt escaped me at the idea. Katie, naked, screaming over and over as we forced her to take more and more pleasure. I pressed my forehead against her shoulder and then let out a shuddering breath.
“Everyone does.” No, not now, I wanted to say. “And that’s healthy.”
“Don’t be afraid of asking for what you want,” Rhett said. “Or telling us what you don’t want. Like I’m pretty sure Garrett wants you in his room right now, spread out on his bed.”
“Naked,” I prompted. “I want to stare at every damn inch of you…”
And that’s when she stiffened.
“That.” Rhett stood taller. “That’s a boundary. You don’t want that?”
“I do.” She couldn’t have sounded less convincing. That small voice made clear the same confident woman of moments before was not with us now. “I…” Her huff of frustration made clear what was happening. “I’m just a little gun shy, y’know?’
“So we’ll go to the kitchen.” My eyes closed as I struggled to master myself. “I’ll make you some tea and?—”
“Why?” Rhett was too damn blunt sometimes and now was one of them. I shot him a meaningful look over Katie’s shoulder, but his focus was trained entirely on her. “Why are you gun shy? If you don’t want us?—”
“Not the problem,” she admitted in a tight voice. I watched her hands rise and fall. “It’s just… history. I haven’t… done anything since… since…” My hands went to her shoulders, rubbing the muscles there, trying to relax them. “Since the moment Dave told me that he preferred Millie over me.”
When his hand slapped down on the wall above her head, Katie jumped, but right as I went to intervene, he leant in.
“Dave’s a fucking idiot. He was before and he is even more so now. Millie’s a nice girl.”
Jesus, shut the fuck up about her, I thought furiously.
“But I would walk past a million Millie’s to get to you, Katie.” Shit. It wasn’t just the smoke inhalation that had destroyed his voice. Rhett sounded broken. “I don’t know how to prove it to you, but?—”
She silenced him with a kiss and I watched them move. His hands surging around her, dragging her close until she could feel the truth of his words.
Our words.
I pulled her hair away from her neck, balling it as I claimed her skin anew. Wanted, needed more. We were a messy mass of limbs, kissing, touching, stroking, until finally we all broke apart.
“I…” We both hung on her words. “It’s been a while and watching Garrett sport a massive boner during yoga was both really, really funny and…” Her eyes trailed down. “Really, really hot at the same time. Can we just?—?”
I had her scooped up into my arms and was carrying her down the hallway, the sounds of her shrieking music to my ears. She bounced on the bed when I tossed her down, then I went to wrench my t-shirt up and over my head.
Only to find her there to do it for me.
Her eyes met mine, staring as she smoothed it up. I worked damn hard on my physique, but right then, every painful recovery day was worth it as she took me in.
“Oh, that’s…” She pointed at my abs. “And they…”
“Speechless?” Rhett strolled in, yanking his shirt off and then our girl didn’t know where to look.
“You’re like a kid at Christmas,” I said. “Like you don’t know which present to open first.”
“Both of them.” Katie met my eyes then Rhett’s as she smoothed her hands across both of our chests. “I want both of you.”
“Good, because I don’t think I could lie in bed hearing the two of you going at it without butting in,” Rhett told her. “Just because Dave was too stupid to treat you right doesn’t mean we will make the same mistake. Tell me you want this, Katie.”
I’m willing to bet her dickhead ex didn’t hang on her every word like we did right then.
“Yes.” I loved that determined, that devilish, look in her eyes. “The answer is yes.”
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