Page 78 of Hate the Game (Playing Dirty #1)

***Savannah***

“You don’t want me to choose?” I was pretty sure I’d fallen and cracked my head somewhere on the way to Coach Carrington’s office because nothing made sense.

No way in hell was I lucky enough for everything to fall into line on the same day.

Marla wanted a good article? The guys were confessing their feelings for me? I’d definitely hit my head.

Cole peppered kisses along the back of my neck that made me shiver. “No. None of us would be able to back down to let anyone else have you. We’re willing to try this if you are, Sav.”

Ryder’s hand trailed down to my throat and he gently turned my face back to Jax. “We all want you bad enough to share you. Between us. Anyone else gets their teeth knocked out.”

Jax took his sweet time lowering his mouth to mine. His eyes searched my face, burning me up with how intense they were. With his lips just over mine he paused. “It only happens if you’re okay with it, Sav.”

I wasn’t sure I quite understood what I was supposed to be okay with.

I didn’t know what the hell was happening.

Ryder had just kissed me in front of Cole and Jax and Jax’s response was to kiss me, too?

My body was connecting the dots faster than my brain.

It was reacting hard and fast. Then Jax kissed me and I felt just as light-headed as when Ryder did it.

He slid his tongue over my lips and gripped my hips with Ryder’s hand still on my throat. My knees were weak but with Cole pressed into my back I wasn’t going anywhere. As Jax kissed me Cole slid his tongue over my neck and Ryder pressed his lips to my ear.

“Figure this out with us, Savannah. We don’t know what we’re doing but we’ve already agreed that we’ll try anything to make this work with you.”

As soon as Jax pulled back Ryder was right there, kissing me again. Jax kissed down my throat and it all suddenly hit me at once. I pulled back from Ryder and broke into a fit of giggles. They wanted to share me.

“What?” Ryder’s face took on a stern look, one I knew from our night together.

I continued to giggle and shook my head. “Y-y’all want to share me? At the same time?”

Cole twisted me around to face him. “Do you trust us, Sav?”

His curls were too alluring for me to keep my hands off of them. I lightly stroked them while thinking about it. Maybe I was insane but I did. I trusted them. “Yes.”

“This thing between us… You’re in control. If it’s too much we can stop. If you don’t want everyone to know about us, we’ll figure something out. To be clear, we want everyone to know you’re ours.” He dipped his head and kissed me. “Like Ryder said, we’ll figure it out together.”

“I’m just having a hard time. I’m not convinced I’m not asleep and dreaming. You all want to be with me. And tell people about us. And…do…sex things together?”

Cole choked on a laugh. “Not all together. Falling for you didn’t make us any less straight than when we started. The three of us want to fuck you, Sav. You and you alone. Sometimes at the same time. Sometimes alone.”

“Fuck you and date you and everything else that there is to do together.” Jax ran his hands down my sides and cupped my ass. “You’d be our girlfriend and we’d be your boyfriends.”

I hiccupped from nervousness and sucked in a deep breath.

There was that boyfriend word again. “You’re serious?

This isn’t just to make sure I write a good article about y’all?

Because I promise I made that decision weeks ago.

Even after what Cass said I’d decided that the article was going to be good.

Because y’all are good. So if this is just an attempt to win me over, you really-”

“Goddamn, woman, I love you.” Ryder sounded furious but his eyes were soft as he stared me down. “I’ve never said that to anyone but my mom and I feel a little like crawling into a hole and dying but I fucking love you.”

I gasped and forced them to let me go so I could wrap my arms around Ryder’s neck and hold him tight. “You love me?”

He groaned into my neck and wrapped his arms around me. “Yeah. Can we not make a big deal about it?”

“I love you, too, though. What if I want to make a big deal about it?” I smiled up at him when he straightened and raked my nails through his short hair. “You mean it?”

He nodded and smiled the most boyish smile I’d ever seen from him.

His face transformed into something happy and radiant, something that took my breath away and made me feel like the luckiest girl in the world to get to see it.

The kiss he planted on me was anything but boyish.

He slid his hands up to my head and held me close while he devoured me.

He didn’t slow down until I was whimpering and rocking my hips against his.

He didn’t pull back until we were both struggling for our next breath. “I fucking mean it.”

“Yeah…” I was a little dazed. “I’d say.”

Cole groaned and pulled me back to his chest. Arms wrapped tightly around me, he kissed me like he was in competition with Ryder.

His kiss was more of a dance than a conquering and he teased me more than Ryder had, daring me to kiss him back just as hungrily as he kissed me.

His hands roamed a lot more than Ryder’s, too.

He cupped my ass and flexed his fingers, spreading me and releasing, before sliding one hand around to cup my breast.

I was a puddle from both of them and from the situation as a whole. I was also loose-lipped when he kissed down my throat. “I love you, too, Cole.”

His kiss turned sharp against my collarbone. His tongue soothed the sting but his grip on my ass had turned fierce. “Say it again.”

“I love you, Cole.”

He stole one more kiss, that one as forceful as Ryder’s. When he pulled back his lips were red and swollen. “I love you, Sav. I keep waiting for the urge to sprint away to hit but it never has and I don’t think it ever will with you.”

I could only grin at him, my heart a balloon in a strong summer wind. It was soaring higher and higher with every moment. Jax had waited long enough, it seemed, because he pulled me around to face him and gripped my chin. I stared up at him, waiting to see what he’d do but he surprised me.

Jax gripped my hair in his other hand and tugged my head back in a move that set my core on fire. He nipped at my chin and then hovered with his mouth over mine, breathing my same air for seconds before flicking his tongue out and teasing me. “Tell me you love me.”

I tried to kiss him but his firm grip on my hair didn’t allow me to move much.

I groaned and tried to twist my hips to rub against his very hard dick but he blocked me.

It was torture but it also had my panties practically dripping.

I loved seeing the golden boy get a little rough with me.

I loved watching that control fracture when he touched me.

No one would look at the man holding me in a harsh grip, eyes narrowed in what might’ve looked like anger, and recognized the student government president with the shiny reputation and kind smile.

“I love you, Jax.” And because I saw a flicker of worry in those intense eyes, I gave him more. “You didn’t have to tell me to. It was already on the tip of my tongue because it’s true. I don’t know how I can love all three of you but I do.”

He growled and then kissed me like he hated me.

He kissed me so hard that I tasted blood but it was too good to care.

He crushed me to his body and then picked me up, using a firm grip on my ass to wrap my body around his.

“I love you, Savannah Lane Ford. And I think it’s time we figure out how this works. ”

A thought popped in my head just before Jax put me down on the couch. “The article!”

Cole groaned. “Later.”

“I can’t! I have a chance to have everything I want and I can’t mess up now. Not after y’all became computer hackers and had to see Coach doing that to Marla. We fought for this and I have to follow through.” I almost laughed at their expressions. “It’ll be good for y’all, too. I promise.”

Jax groaned unhappily. “How long?”

I hopped up and rushed to the door. “Um… To call Blaire and tell her everything and then write a decent first draft? Five hours?”

Ryder scowled. “You have three.”