Page 12 of Sex, Lies, & Techy Guys (Love on the Sunshine Coast)

“You’re judging her. You’re judging that threesomes are wrong. Question the premise dude. Are threesomes wrong? Is there anything wrong with three people…three grown-ass adults having consensual sex?” Lance gets oddly quiet and stares at the door.

Is he asking himself the same question I am? Can I have a taste of Penny and walk away? Can I share Penny with him? Am I willing to risk our lifelong friendship and business relationship over a woman? Do I seriously believe she’s worth it?

He breaks into my string of unnerving questions. “And if it led to something more? Would that be so bad?”

Grasping my last shred of sanity, I barely remember to keep my voice down. “We’re working on our biggest case to date. Government jobs were great, a lot of stability, but we decided we wanted more than stability. We wanted to fucking make it big. And now all you’re thinking about is your goddamn dick.”

“We can’t be all work no play.”

“Can’t we? Should I call Tony and ask him if he’s fine with us getting most of the evidence against the hacker?”

Lance balls his fists and clenches his teeth. “Don’t be an ass. We’re not getting any younger. We’ve sat back and watched friends pull off relationships, even die-hard SEAL, Drake, although he was practically an old man in his forties before finding a woman.”

“He’s not quite forty.”

“Okay, fine. He’s pushing forty, totally dedicated to being a Navy SEAL, and even he found the time to date, and got an instant family since the chick was pregnant.”

I’m about to blow a gasket. “Kids! I’m nowhere near ready for that. And if we’re both sticking our dicks in her, does that double the chance of pregnancy? We wouldn’t even know whose kid it is.”

Lance angles his head to the side. “There are DNA tests if it comes to that.”

“That is not the point.” I grab a pencil off my desk and tap it against my leg to help pull my anger back. “The point is, we’re trying to grow our careers and if we don’t focus, that’s not going to happen. We still don’t have conclusive evidence that this chick defrauded our client. All signs point to her except the few that don’t.”

“Here’s the deal…I can’t fucking think straight when she’s in the room. If you’re not interested, I’m gonna go after her on my own.”

The threat almost breaks me. It’s not that I’m thinking any straighter than Lance, I’m just better at hiding it. I’m going to have to play hardball.

“Can’t think straight over a woman, really? You’re stooping to that level? We’re in our thirties. I thought we were past that.”

“We’re in our thirties and we’re single but we don’t get laid nearly enough since we’re always working. Now we’ve got a gorgeous, business owning woman wanting to have sex with both of us. Can you explain why we shouldn’t go for it?”

The pencil snaps in my fingers as I attempt to keep from throttling Lance.

He looks at the broken pencil. “Dude, you need this more than I do. I saw you popping a boner this afternoon when the wind lifted her skirt and it became apparent she was wearing a thong. You enjoyed seeing that ass cheek. You can touch it. I bet she’ll let you smack it.”

My balls are drawn up so tight, I’d blow if I got my hands on her gorgeous curves. I either have to move out or go through with this. “You’re not going to back down, are you?”

“I’m getting laid tonight one way or another, and I got you in on the deal.”

It’s been too long and we’re in a new city, only staying for a week. What the hell. “You promise that if anything at all goes wrong, we’ll back off and do our best to find somewhere else to stay?”

“What do you think is gonna go wrong? She already said yes.”

“It could get weird when we’re in it. Have you ever done this?”

He bows his head and shakes it. “Neither has she.”

“So, none of us know.”

“Fine, we’ll figure it out if anything gets weird.”

“But we’re still paying her for the nights we booked here. We’re not going to cost her income just because you can’t keep your dick in your pants. And we can’t let this affect us.”

“Deal.”

We shake on it. Having been friends virtually our entire lives, I never imagined we could surprise each other but this is uncharted territory.

I can’t imagine how to get things rolling, plus I like to shower before sex, so I offer an idea. “I’m going to clean up. Maybe it would be easier if the two of you got started without me. Let her know I’ll be in in a minute.”

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