Page 118 of Follow Your Instincts

Maggie

“Ithink we should talk,” Lachlan said, and my heart jumped. We had been having a lovely, relaxing time watching a movie on the couch with me curled up between him and Ben, and now I was panicking.

“You are the absolute worst at this,” Ben mumbled.

“Sure,” I said, trying to sound calm and not like my heart was going to beat out of my chest.

It had been three days since I’d been kidnapped, witnessed a murder, and almost died myself. I was pretty sure Iwasn’tgoing to have a breakdown, but this was not helping my mental state.

Lachlan paused the movie and turned towards me. “So… Ben and I… you know, when… We…” He swallowed.

I laughed despite my nerves. He looked so completely lost, and I thought I knew where this was going. “Is this about you and Ben being, like, together now?” I looked behind me at Ben, who was watching Lachlan with a mischievous glint in his eyes.

Lachlan looked like a drowning man being offered a lifeline.

“Yeah, yes, I think we should talk about it… Right?” Lachlan said.

“If you want to,” I said. “But just so we’re all clear, I havezero issues with the two of you being together. If it makes you happy, it makes me happy,” I said. It also made me incredibly horny, but this didn’t seem like the appropriate time to mention it.

“This doesn’t change anything at all about how I feel for you,” Ben said, tugging me into his lap.

Lachlan nodded seriously.

I laughed again. It had never occurred to me to worry about that. I had no doubts about how the guys felt about me anymore. So I threw caution to the wind.

“I love you. Both of you,” I said, looking between them. “Like, a lot. So much that it’s kind of scary because I don’t know-”

“I love you, too,” Ben interrupted, nuzzling into my neck. His watermelon scent washed over me. “Sorry to jump in, I just wanted to say it back first.”

Lachlan rolled his eyes, then smiled at me. “And I love you,” he said, tucking a curl of hair behind my ear. I caught his hand and pressed my nose to his wrist, inhaling his warm whiskey scent. It curled low in my belly.

Ben gathered the rest of my curls off my neck and kissed me against my pulse point. I tipped my head back and sighed happily. I felt him stiffening beneath me, and I squirmed in his lap.

“Maggie,” he groaned and scraped his teeth across my neck. I gasped at the molten heat that coursed through me.

Then Lachlan was leaning over me. He kissed me gently, barely brushing his lips over mine. Between his teasing kisses and Ben’s sensual assault on my neck, tension built until I moaned in frustration.

“Wait,” I said, breaking off the kiss. Both Alphas immediately stilled. “I have a whole plan, and you’re both distracting me.”

“A plan?” Ben asked, laughing. “For what?”

I hopped out of Ben’s lap. “Just… where are Soren and Lucas?”

“Right here,” Soren said, and I jumped. He was sitting inone of the armchairs, smirking. He’d let his beard grow a little longer and it was really working for me.

“How long have you been there?” I yelped.

Soren got up from the chair and grabbed my hips to pull me in for a kiss. “Long enough,” he said.

“You need to stop it, too,” I said. I danced back out of his grip. “Lucas!” I called.

“Present,” he said, popping his head around the corner from the kitchen before strolling in. “What did I miss?”

“Other than our declarations of undying love? Maggie here apparently has a plan,” Ben said, smiling. He was leaning into Lachlan’s chest, and Lachlan was drawing circles on his hip and upper thigh, his hand inching closer and closer to where I knew Ben was already hard from where I’d been pressed against him…

“Uhhh,” I said, my brain shorting out. I would have blamed the concussion, but I knew it was just my horny inner Omega. What had we been talking about? “Right. The plan. Okay, I’m going upstairs. Give me like five minutes, and then you can come up to the suite,” I said.

I lurched out of the room and beelined straight up to my room. We’d hired movers to get my stuff from the apartment rather than going back ourselves, and boxes were stacked around the couches on the side of the room.

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