Page 104 of Seeking Two Lovers

“Go lose yourself in him,” I said with a soft laugh even while my eyes burned. “And think of me while you’re doing it.”

His promise to do so rang in my ears long after he hung up.

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BLAINE

Either Grey ignored my presence, or he had been too wrapped up in his conversation with Lily that he didn’t notice me standing in his home office’s open doorway.

He’d had her on speakerphone while he tipped back in his chair, hands clasped behind his head—facing the far wall.

And I’d heard every word.

I wanted what both of them did—my damn heart settled on it.

Quietly, I crept back upstairs to my bedroom, bypassing the bathroom I’d occupied up until ten minutes earlier.

I’d gone downstairs wrapped in my towel, needing food—and maybe a bit more.

Grey and I had slept most of the day, but he’d been up and out of the bed before I woke. We ate dinner together, no weirdness occurred between us except for a few heated glances. Unsure how to make a move or if he would even want a repeat of what we’d done earlier that morning, I’d escaped to my bathroom for a long, hot shower.

I hadn’t gotten myself off.

Just in case.

Then I’d set my mind on having him, gone looking, only to be blown away by his and Lily’s short conversation.

Sprawling on my back atop my mattress, every inch of my naked body lay in unrest. Itchy skin. Shivers and goosebumps.

Would he come to me like Lily told him to do? Love me like she suggested?

My dick strained, and I pulled down on my balls, needing to calm the fuck down.

Like my anchor had become a key, he’d locked up the darkness in a deep cave, one that couldn’t touch me when were together.

He’d been right about my thankfulness, my gratefulness for his life.

And Lily had been right too. In my mind, he hung the moon and stars, but they shone down on the precious garden she’d planted inside me.

I loved him—and was well on my way toward those feelings with her too.

I stared at my ceiling, my heart light, excitement for the future ready to whisk me away to another plane. Perhaps Grey’s arrival would take me there—

My cell rang, and I grabbed it off my bedside table, grinning at the fact she would want to hear my voice after speaking to Grey.

A number I didn’t recognize flashed at me—New Hampshire area code.

Adrenaline shot through me like a carefully aimed bullet, striking me directly in the heart.

All thoughts of Grey, of Lily, fled as my past crashed into me with the force of a tidal wave, jackknifing my heartbeat.

Stop ringing…stop ringing…

My cell went silent, and I sucked oxygen into my lungs I hadn’t realized I’d starved, my temples throbbing from my rapid pulse.

“Goddammnit.” I rubbed at my chest and gasped as my cell rang again.

Same. Fucking. Number.

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