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He’d thought we were already so much more that beingboyfriends would be an insult.

As everything snapped into place in my head, confusingmemories finally making sense, Gareth gave me another kiss as something softand feathery trailed over my chest. “I think we were waiting for Bates too. Weall fit together better than we would if we were just in pairs. I can’t imaginejust having him without you with us.”

It felt like I was sinking into the mattress but I managed anod I hoped they could both see. “We…we needed a push…confidence, maybe?”

I wasn’t explaining it right, but the cuffs had zapped mybrain.

Gareth didn’t mind doing the talking for us, though. “Yeah,he gives you the confidence to let your Dom side come out and he’s great atanswering my questions.”

I could hear movement and then the sounds of a kiss, withboth of them making soft moaning sounds before Gareth chuckled. “And let’s faceit, I don’t have enough dominance in me to have figured out how to make yousubmit or relax this much.”

Since the laughter in his voice said he didn’t have an issuewith that, I didn’t bother lying about it and neither did Bates. “But you knewwhat he needed and you made sure your special man got it.”

“You.” Gareth’s smile came through in his voice and I knewit would be just as sweet and innocent as I was imagining. “We both neededyou.”

It shouldn’t have been that simple, but somehow, it was.

Chapter 15

Bates

Gareth’s earnest belief that just being a boyfriend would’vebeen downgrading his relationship with Cashel said everything about him andwould’ve made me fall head over heels for him even if I hadn’t already been inlove with the cutie…and I knew from the smile on Cashel’s face that he felt thesame way.

Giving Gareth another kiss before leaning down and brushingmy lips against Cashel’s, I couldn’t help smiling. “And I needed my curious boyand my light.”

Cashel scrunched up his face and looked like he had toremind himself that he didn’t want to do anything risky like stick his tongueout at me. “Thank you, Sir.”

The most adorable way to call me a dick ever.

“You’re welcome.” He was so cute he deserved another kiss,so I took my time distracting him and helping him to sink back into the rightheadspace as Gareth trailed the soft ends of the flogger over Cashel’s chest.

When I finally pulled away, I ran one finger down his cheek.“You’re also feisty and funny and protective of the people closest to you.”

The people he loved.

Like me.

The way his lips barely turned up at the corners like he hada secret said he knew it too. “You always sound like you’ve known us for athousand years.”

Before I could give him a cheeky reply, Gareth was adorablysweet and kissed Cashel tenderly. “Maybe he has. Maybe we’ve been reincarnatedtogether over and over and that’s why he felt right the first time he came upto talk to us.”

I loved the way he saw the world and gave him another kissto make sure he knew it. “You were both always sexy and adorable, but I knewyou were both meant to be mine the first time you were standing in your livingroom looking so cute and confused.”

Gareth nodded, still looking sexy and adorable. “And some ofus still have lots of questions.”

Like Cashel and if he’d like pain.

“We have all the time in the world to answer every singleone of them.” Giving them both another kiss that was the perfect distractionfor Cashel, I took the flogger and gave his nipples a teasing flick for thefirst time.

Mouthing to Gareth that he needed to keep caressing Cashel,I brought the flogger down on the inside of his thigh. For the moment, it wasjust about the warmth and the newness of the sensations, and his quick inhalewas more about surprise than pain.

Gareth knew it too based on his wide grin, but the wayCashel’s dick was waving around trying to get everyone’s attention was probablya good clue. That didn’t mean he was going to reward its begging just yet.

No, as I let the flogger caress Cashel’s chest and down histhighs, Gareth kept his teasing caresses right around the base of Cashel’s sexyerection, never quite touching it. Just watching him do it was tormenting me,and it had Cashel letting out the neediest whine every time Gareth completedanother sexy pass of his body.

Cashel seemed to think his job was to be still, so it tookhim a while before his control broke and he started tugging on the cuffs,fighting the slow-building pleasure. “I…it’s…”

I wasn’t sure if he didn’t know what he wanted to say or ifgetting the words out was just too hard, but the rest of his body was doing itsbest to make his needs clear. He tugged at the restraints and moaned as I warmedthe underside of his arms, and as Gareth’s fingers gently caressed over thesensitive area where Cashel’s leg met his groin, Cashel’s hips thrust up and helet out the neediest sound as his dick jerked and silently begged.

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