“I surprised myself as well. I guess the thought of you guys getting hurt really had me digging deep into skills and powers I didn’t even know I had,” I said.
Each of the men held up their wine glasses. I followed suit.
In unison, they said, “To Emily.”
Bret added, “The biggest badass around.”
I laughed and then took a sip of the wine. “Thank you so much. You all certainly know how to make a girl feel truly special.”
“Good, because we want to ask you something,” Marcus said.
“I’m listening,” I replied.
“We know that you had the intention of only staying here temporarily,” he started, “But we were hoping you would consider staying longer.”
“How much longer?” I asked.
Jax said, “How about forever?”
I blushed. “I don’t know.”
“Before you answer, I think it’s important for you to know that what these two hardheads haven’t said is we want you to be our woman. Stay with us. Be with us,” Bret added.
“Like date the three of you at the same time?” I asked.
“Isn’t that what we’ve been doing this entire time?” Marcus asked.
I shrugged, unsure if that was what we were doing or not. I never looked close enough to make that determination. “I guess I never saw it that way.”
“So, what will it be?” Bret asked.
“I have to think about it,” I said.
“What’s there to think about?” Jax asked. “The four of us make perfect sense.”
I pointed to Marcus. “Didn’t you say you refused to share me?”
“Let’s say that circumstances had changed for me, and leave it at that, okay?” He took another sip of his wine.
I sat back and thought about how the men made sense. We did make a perfect team. And I sort of already considered them my men. And the idea of living without them caused an ache in my chest that made it hard to breathe.
When I think of my future, it’s with them. All of them. I couldn’t think of a life where they weren’t in it. They were a part of me. A part of my heart. And though I wasn’t sure how we would work out the details of a relationship with the four of us, the idea felt right.
My heart skipped a beat. Excitement bubbled through me.
“We do make a great team,” I said through a smile.
“Is that a yes?” Jax asked.
I nodded.
“Then let’s make this thing official and consummate!” Bret stood from the island and swooped me up, tossing me over his shoulders. Marcus and Jax followed behind. Once we made it to my room, Bret tossed me on the bed and smiled at me.
I giggled. These men were too much.
They each did a striptease, removing their clothes and gazing at me with so much need in their eyes I instantly became aroused. Then they took turns taking off my clothes. And once I was naked, I moved to the center of the bed. My three men surrounded me, touching me in places and in ways that were highly erotic.
I sank into the mattress and sighed.