Page 127 of Seeking Two Lovers

Content—for the time being.

Once I got Sarah safely in Blaine’s arms, all I had left was to watch Quell’s kingdom crumble to the ground.

Which I would do with the utmost satisfaction.

Lily called off work, and I had Meryl cancel all my meetings for the day. The three of us made breakfast together—pancakes, bacon, and home fries. Like the perfect picture of domesticity, we worked well together, only bumping into each other on occasion. I’d gotten a handful of Lily’s ass intentionally and caught Blaine doing the same out of the corner of my eye.

A few stolen kisses, brushes of hands, caresses on shoulders…were it not for the elephant in the room of our impending guest and the reasons behind it, I’d have been in heaven.

Between the meal and a few cups of coffee and tea, we didn’t much feel like moving after finishing. We left the dishes for later and curled up on the couch together, Blaine once more being loved on in the middle. His head lay on Lily’s thigh, his feet in my lap where I kneaded and rubbed the soles exactly as he liked.

The TV ran through the news—my decision—on the quiet side while I only paid attention to the stock market numbers scrolling by rather than the day’s headlines.

“Where is Sarah going to stay?” Blaine asked, taking the quiet haven we’d created around us to the situation I felt sure loomed in the back of their minds as well.

“Here.” There was no other answer as far as I was concerned.

“Do we have time to get furniture for the other bedroom upstairs?” Blaine asked me.

I paused in my massage of his feet and focused on his face. He peered at me while Lily ran her fingers through his hair. “She’ll stay in your room. You’re moving into mine.”

“I don’t want to impose.”

A soft snort escaped me. “I’ve finally gotten you into my bed, so don’t think for one minute I’m going to let you out.”

“Okay,” he murmured, his eyelids falling shut again.

Too exhausted to argue or perfectly content to let me lead?

Lily studied his face, and I wondered if she felt a little left out. I knew I would in her shoes. While I would have loved to tell her to look at me so I could demand she stay with us too, it was a bit soon considering we would have another house guest within a matter of hours. Blaine, I expected, was going to need some alone time with his sister anyway.

If that meant my desires taking a back seat for a short while, I would do it. Rest in my heart came easy knowing Blaine loved me, and a relieved and happy best friend meant I would feel the same.

I stretched one arm over the back of the couch, barely able to reach Lily’s hair that fell in tangled strands over her shoulder, but I needed the connection between the three of us. Perhaps it would better boost her spirits as well.

She and I would have to content ourselves with what little crumbs we could get. At least I would have him in bed with me every night.

“She’s going to need clothes. Toiletries,” Lily stated quietly, leaning into my hand, eyelids fluttering shut as I gave her what affection I could from the distance between us.

“We ought to buy everything before she gets here,” Blaine suggested without stirring or opening his eyes, but his ass was worn out from the emotional upheaval the phone call had brought on.

“Lily?” I asked.

She finally gave me her eyes, and while she tried to keep me shuttered out, she failed. A bit of fear, perhaps hesitancy, over the situation had definitely taken root in her mind, exactly as I’d expected even though we’d had mind-blowing sex the night before. “Are you up for a shopping spree?” I asked rather than opening a can of worms over our exhausted boy.

“I’ll do whatever Blaine needs me to do.”

I nodded and gave her a reassuring smile, her words just what I’d hoped to hear. “Let’s make this happen.”

38

LILY

Haley took the day off to accompany me on one hell of a shopping trip. Grey’s credit card in hand and his command to not worry about costs, we set out to get everything Sarah might need to begin her life over again.

At least my cousin seemed more settled, a little light in her eyes that had been missing since the weekend.

“So, I guess this means you won’t be leaving me anytime soon,” she said when I explained what had gone down since earlier that morning.

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