Page 85 of Hate the Game
I leaned forward and gripped her knee. “Everything between us was real. Including our feelings.”
She looked between the three of us and sucked in a sharp breath. “You want me?”
Ryder growled. “Woman, we want you. We’ve been fucking awful without you around.”
“H-how? What is this? All three of you a-and…me?” She stood up then and paced behind the couch. “This is nuts. If you expect me to be able to pick between the three of you, you’re insane. I can’t. I won’t. Maybe talk amongst yourselves and figure out a way to determine who comes out on top, or something. That is, if you even mean that you want me that way. Oh, god. Do you? This is humiliating. This is why I’ve been hiding. Are you sure you meant the things we did together? I wasn’t even angry when I found out everything from Cass. Just heartbroken. I don’t want to feel that way again. Ever.
“I mean, I was thinking crazy things, like maybe I’d fallen for y’all. If you don’t mean you want me like I need to be wanted I need you to tell me and let me go.”
I stood up and pulled her into my chest, holding her tight. “Of course, we want you, Savannah. Have you missed all of this? I’m fucking obsessed with you. We got Marla here today to try to fix that problem first and then we were going to figure out a way to get past my sister to get to you.”
She started to soften and then froze. “Wait. Did someone mention hacking my email earlier?!”
Cole stood up and pressed into her back. “Let’s worry about the details later.”
Her breathing grew quicker. “What does this mean?”
Ryder stood next to us and cupped her cheek in his hand to turn her face towards his. He rubbed his thumb over her bottom lip and slowly brought his mouth down to hers. There was a moment when none of us breathed. We’d talked about being with Savannah together but seeing it for the first time would make or break everything.
I glanced over Savannah at Cole and he took the same deep inhale I took as we both looked back and watched Ryderkiss Savannah. Her hands gripped my t-shirt and there was something in that movement that brought me a sense of peace. She was kissing him but she was reaching for me.
Ryder pulled back slightly and we all collectively exhaled. “It means we all want you. We don’t want you to choose.”
***Savannah***
“You don’t want me to choose?” I was pretty sure I’d fallen and cracked my head somewhere on the way to Coach Carrington’s office because nothing made sense. No way in hell was I lucky enough for everything to fall into line on the same day. Marla wanted a good article? The guys were confessing their feelings for me? I’d definitely hit my head.
Cole peppered kisses along the back of my neck that made me shiver. “No. None of us would be able to back down to let anyone else have you. We’re willing to try this if you are, Sav.”
Ryder’s hand trailed down to my throat and he gently turned my face back to Jax. “We all want you bad enough to share you. Between us. Anyone else gets their teeth knocked out.”
Jax took his sweet time lowering his mouth to mine. His eyes searched my face, burning me up with how intense they were. With his lips just over mine he paused. “It only happens if you’re okay with it, Sav.”
I wasn’t sure I quite understood what I was supposed to be okay with. I didn’t know what the hell was happening. Ryder had just kissed me in front of Cole and Jax and Jax’s response wasto kiss me, too? My body was connecting the dots faster than my brain. It was reacting hard and fast. Then Jax kissed me and I felt just as light-headed as when Ryder did it.
He slid his tongue over my lips and gripped my hips with Ryder’s hand still on my throat. My knees were weak but with Cole pressed into my back I wasn’t going anywhere. As Jax kissed me Cole slid his tongue over my neck and Ryder pressed his lips to my ear.
“Figure this out with us, Savannah. We don’t know what we’re doing but we’ve already agreed that we’ll try anything to make this work with you.”
As soon as Jax pulled back Ryder was right there, kissing me again. Jax kissed down my throat and it all suddenly hit me at once. I pulled back from Ryder and broke into a fit of giggles. They wanted toshareme.
“What?” Ryder’s face took on a stern look, one I knew from our night together.
I continued to giggle and shook my head. “Y-y’all want toshareme? At the same time?”
Cole twisted me around to face him. “Do you trust us, Sav?”
His curls were too alluring for me to keep my hands off of them. I lightly stroked them while thinking about it. Maybe I was insane but I did. I trusted them. “Yes.”
“This thing between us… You’re in control. If it’s too much we can stop. If you don’t want everyone to know about us, we’ll figure something out. To be clear, we want everyone to know you’re ours.” He dipped his head and kissed me. “Like Ryder said, we’ll figure it out together.”
“I’m just having a hard time. I’m not convinced I’m not asleep and dreaming. You all want to be with me. And tell people about us. And…do…sex things together?”
Cole choked on a laugh. “Not all together. Falling for you didn’t make us any less straight than when we started. The threeof us want to fuck you, Sav. You and you alone. Sometimes at the same time. Sometimes alone.”
“Fuck you and date you and everything else that there is to do together.” Jax ran his hands down my sides and cupped my ass. “You’d be our girlfriend and we’d be your boyfriends.”
I hiccupped from nervousness and sucked in a deep breath. There was that boyfriend word again. “You’re serious? This isn’t just to make sure I write a good article about y’all? Because I promise I made that decision weeks ago. Even after what Cass said I’d decided that the article was going to be good. Becausey’allare good. So if this is just an attempt to win me over, you really-”
