Page 22 of Double Dirty

It was all I could do to pull out of her again. I would’ve stayed there forever, her tight seam so inviting, so perfect around me. She was wet, easing the way, and it was so incredibly hot to be inside of her without a condom. I was afraid for a minute that I’d romanticized it, or that she wouldn’t be willing to take it at the last second. But she hadbeen. I was seated deep inside of her, no regrets, no tears, A dance of her hips, a shift. I lifted her hips by one hand on her ass and thrust in and out again. That time, she keened. She gave a high shrill sound as I pumped rhythmically into her yielding body. The sounds she made were invoking heaven, not thanking him for sending her a man like me but begging like she was coming apart. Then she did. She clenched hard around me, her inner muscles seeming to strangle me as she clamped down on my cock. I spilled out into her then, hard pulses of thick fluid shooting into her body. I cradled her and kissed her then, my mouth in her hair. She wrapped her arms around my back and kissed me.

“Thank God,” she said. “You have me. I couldn’t have lived another day, not with just hugging and kissing you, not having you completely.”

“I’ve needed you like this for so long,” I said, feeling the closeness, the intimacy that she gave me.

“It was perfect,” she murmured.

“Was it the same as with Leo?” I asked, even though the answer could kill me. “It’s not even that I want a five-star review. I just want to know you’re taken care of always.”

“I know I am, Rafe. And no, it was nothing like Leo. We were intimate in a different way, kind of a sultry and affectionate way, but he’s not like you. You’re different. I don’t want you comparing yourselves or stressing out over who did what with me. Otherwise this isn’t going to work.”

“Then we’ll do what it takes to make it work because I know neither of us is willing to let you go.”

“Come here,” she said to me again. I shook my head and let her hands play in my hair, let her gather me to her. She was asleep in five minutes. I turned her over and spooned up behind her. She felt amazing in my arms, like her body was the thing I’d been missing every time I slept.

10

Leo

Iwasn’t surprised when I got home to find Rafe and Lexi giggling over breakfast in the kitchen. They leaned their heads together as Rafe kissed her cheek and fed her a bite of pancakes. I wasn’t jealous. I just felt left out perhaps. I came up and rubbed her shoulders. She turned around, happy to see me and hugged me.

“I missed you,” she said. “How was your shift?”

“Eh, we only went out on one call. I slept most of the night. How was your evening?”

She smiled, looked at Rafe and back again.

“I think we need to talk, you and me,” she said, taking my hand and leading me to her room.

I was a bit hesitant to follow, a sudden fear that she was going to tell me she really only wanted Rafe. But I let her lead me anyway.

“Here’s the thing,” she said. “I know you two said there wouldn’t be jealousy or competition or anything, but I think it’s still difficult for you. Even if you don’t resent it exactly, that I was with Rafe last night, you probably feel left out or like we shared something you can’t be part of. I told him I’mfalling for him. But I want you to know for certain that I’m falling for you too Leo. You are just as special to me as he is. Never doubt that.”

My heart almost burst out of my chest as I hauled her against me, kissing her.

“I wasn’t jealous, but it damn near killed me to know he was with you last night, and I had to stay at work. I could’ve—”

“Been with us. I know. That’s what I want, but I need to know if you’re okay with it.”

“I’m not screwing Rafe. Ever,” I said, a smile on my lips.

“I know that,” she laughed, kissing me again. “I just want to be with both of you, and not have you trying to be so polite and give me space and time with him and vice versa. If you don’t think it would bother you to see me with him then I want to try it.”

“I don’t think bother is the right word. I had to count backward from a thousand last night to keep from having to go jerk off at work, just thinking of the two of you together. It was like a porn reel in my mind.”

“Okay. So you’re not threatened by the idea?”

“I’m thinking we should all call in sick today so I can show you how unthreatened I am,” I said, my mouth on her neck. I felt the satisfying shiver of her body as her fingers caught the front of my shirt.

“I have to work today.”

“Tonight then?”

“We’ll talk to Rafe and see if he’s up for it. If so, then tonight. We lock the door and make our own rules.”

I heard Rafe call out from the kitchen and the door slammed.

“I’m going to go finish my makeup. I have to get to work myself,” Lexi said.