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Escalation

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lessedly, the pool wasn’t populated by any other guests when they arrived. That didn’t stop them from collecting attention, both from certain staff members and visitors eating brunch at the adjacent restaurant. Still, Liam and the others were able to take their pick of the seating around the resort’s trapezoidal swimming pool. Naturally, they snatched an area with a good view and good sun.

After getting to apply sunscreen to four of the most beautiful women to have ever walked the Earth, Liam joined in on the relaxing effort. Contentment, like cuddling up to a favorite pillow and immediately falling asleep, mixed with the warmth that his body absorbed. Situated between Tess and Victoria, he shut his eyes and smiled for a long while. This was another form of bliss that he was becoming quite familiar with. The knowledge of what was, what had been, and what would be.

During the hour or so before Tess and Victoria headed off to their joint massage, he added a few slices of that other type of bliss. Admiring both older women, their long legs and unraveling curves made it impossible for Liam to think about much else. And they very much knew that. Even if their sunglasses kept him from knowing precisely where they were looking, he could tell something was going on between them.

Soon enough, he realized what it was. They were already engaged in another competition. One tennis match wasn’t enough, and they hadn’t played much chess together since the flight here. So, the pool was now their arena of choice.

A few movements here, a few gestures there, both women knew exactly what they were doing. They were making him wish he had two heads so that he could stare at them equally. For the first few minutes, it was subtle, more of a cold war than open conflict. Victoria would brush her hand up her side, drawing his gaze in, tethering it to her gorgeous figure. A short time later, Tess would respond by asking for a drink from the cooler, brushing her hand against his as he provided her with one. And so it went, with Liam a little slow in fully realizing that he was at the center of their next competition.

Avril wasn’t. He didn’t realize it at the time, but the greatest seductress of them all knew precisely what her professors were up to. That was why, after she convinced Anna to go swimming with her, her grin was especially dazzling. Always there to help escalate things, she did so this time simply by making space for Tess and Victoria. In another light, she was merely changing her position up so she could spectate the situation from a better angle—and maybe provide some whispered commentary to her best friend.

In retrospect, Tess started the “hot” part of the conflict. She did so by first confirming that the restaurant was empty. Brunch was over, and the lunch guests hadn’t yet arrived. For a short while, they hadn’t been alone at the pool—a few guests had gathered here not long ago, and they’d certainly spared more than a few glances toward the stunning women lying out. But they’d just been waiting for one more member of their party to show up, and then they’d headed up the shore, possibly heading for a boat to take them on a cave-diving experience like the one Liam and the others had enjoyed the day before.

Well, probably not exactly like the experience Liam and the others had enjoyed.

After seeing that the coast was currently clear, Tess stood up. But she didn’t go far. Instead, with the sun at her back, she stood over top of him, the shadow she cast cooling his face and chest.

Aware that she was staring right at him, he looked back inquisitively, opening his mouth to ask if she wanted to walk somewhere or get into the pool. He managed no more than a first syllable before Tess bent forward and kissed him.

Deeply.

Pressing her lips against his, her hand settling on his chest, she made out with him. In broad daylight. With her colleague and students all watching.

Liam was breathless when the kiss finally ended. Blinking owlishly, he swallowed and stared up at Tess. She wore a contented smile as she rubbed his chest.

“I needed that,” she said, then returned to her chair.

“After your defeat?” Victoria said, sitting up enough to look over his body and eye her colleague.

“We can say that, yes,” Tess said coyly.

Victoria considered her options for only a minute or two. And then she imitated precisely what Tess had done, though with a bit of added zest.

Rather than placing her hand on his chest, she brought his hand to hers. It hadn’t been that long since he’d last admired the perfect heft and size of her breasts, but Liam still leapt at the opportunity. As soon as the kiss began, Victoria pulled his hand up to her left breast. She let his libido do the rest.

He palmed her heavy breast through her bikini, which he’d picked out because of how much cleavage it exposed. So, there was plenty of actual skin to get his hand on, even if he didn’t move the fabric out of the way or slip his hand beneath it.

Victoria kept the kiss going for longer, made sure it was deeper, and with this escalation, ensured it was a little more memorable. Satisfaction curved her lips as she broke off the kiss. On the other side of Liam, Tess rolled her eyes and snorted.

“Imitation is the finest form of flattery,” the light-haired brunette said.

“I suppose it is,” Victoria said. She recollected Liam’s wrist, pulling his hand away from her breast. Bending down one final time, she kissed his knuckles.

Rather than returning to her chair, she headed for the pool. Ignoring the younger women, one of whom grinned, one of whom blushed and averted her eyes, she slipped her long, alluring legs into the warm water. Liam instinctively swallowed as she sat down on the edge, then intentionally gave himself a few seconds to admire her butt.

Tess huffed and got up, then stared directly at him.

“Come on,” she ordered.

The lounge chairs had apparently been an unsuitable location for the things both women had in mind. Too much space between each one, too much movement required to touch him—or be touched by him. The edge of the pool, however, didn’t have those issues.

Liam sat down beside Victoria, also dipping his feet and calves into the water. Tess sat down on his other side, becoming the imitator this time. There certainly wasn’t too much space between them now, with their thighs touching his. Liam had nowhere to put his hands, save for his lap. Or…

He tested what was allowed by sending a hand in either direction. Straight to the lower backs of the beautiful women flanking him. Neither did anything but let him do so.

Fiji, you magnificent place, Liam thought for the umpteenth time, practically beaming internally.

Both women brushed their shoulders against him. Locks of their hair traced against his skin, especially whenever they tilted their heads in his direction. His body must have been as hot now as theirs had been at the height of their tennis match. He felt ready to spontaneously combust, and he wondered how they bore the heat flooding out of his fingertips.

“We’ll need to get to our massage before too long,” Victoria said.

“I’m aware,” Tess said.

“I guess we won’t have lunch before it.”

“No,” Tess agreed.

“We really should replenish the calories we burned.”

“Probably.”

The conversation stopped there. All so something unexpected could happen.

The women picked up what they’d brought with them. He hadn’t even noticed that they’d both brought along their water bottles, too distracted by their fine figures. If he had, based on an experience from a few days ago, he might have expected what was next. Rather than coming to their lips, the end of their bottles, ice clinking about within the metal containers, tilted toward his shoulders.

Liam tensed as both women poured a small amount of water onto his skin. He could only look at one of them, and he picked Tess. She smiled and nodded in a “it’s all part of the plan” sort of way. Moving her hand up, with Victoria’s following a few seconds later, she began to spread the water on his shoulder and neck.

Cleansing the sunscreen away. Liam began to understand—he’d experienced this event already once before—so he bore the chilliness they applied a couple more times to his skin. His legs were warm and wet, yet his shoulders and neck were frigid and wet. It made for a strange contrast, but the expectation of what might be coming kept him a willing participant.

“Should be fine by now,” Tess said, lowering her water bottle to her side. Victoria nodded and did the same.

Removing their sunglasses, the peerless women flooded him with the mesmerizing appeal of their blue eyes. One pair was as dark as the ocean depths. The other was as bright as the glacier floating on top of it. Combined, brimming with dizzyingly seductive intent, and this close to him, his heart trembled.

Without a word, Tess and Victoria each claimed one side of his neck.

Their soft, warm lips stiffened every part of Liam. His cock throbbed as it fully stiffened, his fingers turned into stone, and his spine became iron. He barely breathed as the two sensual professors began to leave their mark on his skin. Claiming him, yes, but also sharing him.

Liam shivered as Victoria lowered her mouth to a place near the connecting tendons in his shoulder. She breathed pure heat against his skin, tracing her lips to the end of his shoulder.

“And here you’ll see two lust-filled professors, pining over the same college student,” Avril said in a tourist guide’s voice, beckoning toward them as she intentionally dragged Anna by. “Which one will get to mate with him? Time will tell, but it’s probably both. Could be that it happens at the same time.”

While Victoria didn’t even spare Avril a glance, Tess kicked her foot out, splashing the younger woman with water. Grinning, Avril blew them a kiss. Anna kept averting her eyes—mostly. She spared more than a few furtive glances at them, even once they were farther away. Was she wondering about tonight, when she’d take Tess’s place? Hopefully. Hopefully, she was looking forward to replacing her professor.

“Fuck,” Liam whispered, beset on both sides by sheer bliss.

Tess rubbed his knee, sending out an eye to ensure no one appeared in the visible area of the restaurant. Liam followed her gaze, gleeful that it remained empty. It meant this could continue. Two gorgeous women on his neck, not out on an isolated beach, but somewhere where discovery was a far higher risk.

His hands became the first part of him to remember that they could move. Next, they demanded he find something for them to do.

Wrapping his hands around a set of curvaceous waists, he pulled his professors—and they would hopefully be that in more ways than just one—even further into him. His hands explored their bodies. Tess’s moderately tanned skin and Victoria’s olive skin. Both were like ambrosia to him, absorbed by fingertips that craved every opportunity to measure their perfection.

He sent his hands up their sides, and they moved their arms so that he could palm their breasts. This time, he went beneath their bikinis. It was a little awkward to accomplish, and his elbows complained slightly during the minutes he spent fondling both women, but it was completely worth it. Even if he’d lost all feeling in his hands, it would have been worth it. Simply because this situation felt like a precursor to future ones. Ones where a great deal of escalation would be in order.

The next time we’re at a pool, it’ll be yours, Victoria, Liam thought, supercharged with lust. And you two won’t need these tops on.

His hands weren’t the only ones that craved action. Victoria palmed his cock through his swim trunks, in such a way that it caused Liam to think she might have forgotten that he was supposed to be saving up for tonight. His quiet quakes alerted her to how sensitive he’d become. She didn’t slow down.

She escalated.

“Everything looks clear to me,” she whispered.

Tess stopped sucking on his neck, looking around. “It seems that way.”

“I’ll get the shaft.”

“Very well. This time.”

“You two are so bad,” Liam whispered, swallowing dryly.

“Exactly as bad as you hope for us to be,” Victoria said in her usual cool way. It wasn’t a question.

“Yes,” he admitted, drawing in a sharp breath as Victoria and Tess maneuvered a hand each into his swim trunks. Even expected, their touch was like a jolt of electricity straight through him. Tess, who set her hands on his balls, Victoria, who wrapped her hand around his cock. And then there were Avril and Anna, still watching from only about fifteen feet away.

“We saw you out with the younger women,” Tess explained. “That day on the beach. You three were far out, but we could tell you were doing something.”

“Is this your chance, then?” Liam asked, trembling. “To put on a show?”

“To return things to balance,” Tess said, kissing his jawline. “They got the beach; we get the pool.”

Somehow, what had begun as a competition between professors had ended in an alliance against their younger counterparts. Without them even speaking a word about it, either. It had simply materialized. Liam was just fine with that. In fact, reacting in a way that would have surely made Avril proud, he stoked the flames.

“That was a pretty special moment. One of my favorites of the trip.”

“Are we being baited, Liam?” Tess asked, sounding amused. “Our hands are already down your shorts.”

Liam shrugged. Yeah, he hadn’t been very subtle about it, he supposed. “Just speaking the truth, that’s all. Good communication is the only way all this works, right?”

Tess lightly rolled her eyes. Both she and Victoria worked slowly. Slow motions, slow pumps of the hand, slow shifts of fingertips. It was almost aggravatingly slow, but the pleasure barely exceeded his impatience. He suspected they thought he deserved such treatment after his claim.

“What would we need to do to make this equally as special a moment?” Victoria asked. “Other than jerking you off in a public place, sucking on your neck, letting you fondle our bodies, and doing all this while your other two partners watch from nearby?”

Having the decency to blush, Liam stayed quiet for a few seconds. “Well, it’d help if I didn’t have to go back to our bure and grab a new set of swim trunks.”

Tess and Victoria shared a look.

“Have you tasted him yet?” Tess asked.

“Yes. I don’t mind doing it again.”

The older woman nodded, then focused on Liam. “Say when you’re about to cum. Victoria will handle the mess.”

“So long as it’s still safe to do so,” Victoria added.

Giddily, Liam nodded. The hands working beneath his trunks worked a little faster, a little more skillfully. He felt like he was melting, and he sort of was. Sweat stained his body; he’d been far too hot these past several minutes. He breathed heavily, excitedly, unraveling at a speed that left him dizzy.

He kissed Tess, drinking in the fervor she passed through their lips. Their tongues came together, and she worked his balls just a little faster. His toes curled in the water, and he passed a moan from his mouth to hers. She didn’t let him back away from the kiss, demanding everything he had.

He splintered apart, trembling wildly, shutting his eyes. He felt only the sensations of his body, and the bodies pressed against him. Victoria’s hand pumped his cock, and her lips found his neck. The masseuse who saw to him later today would find his neck covered in hickeys. At least they might assume he’d gotten them all from a single woman. One very lusty woman.

It was half of the truth. A fourth of it, actually, even if Avril and Anna hadn’t yet had a chance to claim any territory on his skin today. But their chance wasn’t too far off. After all, Tess and Victoria had somewhere else to be in a little while.

Not yet, though. Right now, working together, the two older women “balanced” the scales. By completely upending any sense of balance within Liam’s body.

“I’m going to cum,” he gasped raggedly.

Together, Tess and Victoria looked around. No one unwanted was around and watching. Hopefully, what was perceived was what was true.

Victoria assumed it was. She helped get his cock out, allowing it a single second of fresh air. Her hand kept pumping, even as she delivered her lips to the tip of his cock, then slipped a few inches inside her warm, wet mouth. Maybe she would have gone all the way down. But just that sensation, of her lips surrounding his cock so tightly, was too much. Liam burst.

“Ohhh!” he groaned, dipping his head back as his release slammed into him. In several powerful spurts, his cum splattered against the interior of Victoria’s mouth. Each one caused him to quake with pleasure, gasp for air tanged salty. His hips came up with each of the stronger spurts, and the sky looked muddled and hazy as he blinked blearily and tried to correct his vision.

Victoria kept his cock in his mouth until he finally seemed spent. Afterward, she pumped his cock a few more times, slow and controlled, to obtain everything else he had left to give. He shivered as she removed her lips; somehow, the air that met his cock felt cold. He breathed heavily, and he could only half-focus on Victoria as she swallowed his cum.

“There,” Tess said, kissing his cheek. “Now, you don’t need to go back and change. Special enough?”

Liam nodded immediately, still in the process of catching his breath. The former seemed to be a better answer than the latter, at least so far as the seductive professors flanking him were concerned, for both women shared a smile.

Out in the water, one of the women who’d been able to spectate the lurid affair leaned in and began whispering to her best friend. About escalation.