Page 24 of The Secret's Out

Billy walked into the kitchen with both our bags over his shoulders. “What?” he asked.

“Huh?”

“What in the fuck is up with that face?”

By that I knew he meant my clenched jaw, my fuckin’ wide eyes, but also the smile that was playin’ on my lips. “We’re stayin’.”

“Yeah, I guessed that. What in the fuck, Pick?” He threw the bags down and stood across from me with his hands balled into fists.

“Talon wants us to stay and attend to shit at the Caroline Springs charter when Josie’s shit is done.”

“All right, that’s cool, but...”

“He’s okay with us and Josie,” I blurted and then tried to control the laughter wanting to bubble forward like some kid on hooch because the look on Billy’s face was laughable.

“You sayin’ you told him our deal? You fuckin’ crazy?” he yelled. Yeah, obviously he’d been thinkin’ along the lines I had, that Talon would cut us up good and proper for even thinkin’ of sharing Josie.

Shaking my head, I said, “Nope.”

“Spit it the fuck out so we can get to Josie.”

“Apparently, everyone has seen the hard-on we had for Josie, but they also saw that Josie had feelings for the both of us. Long story short, he’s given us the go-ahead to be with Josie. He thinks she’ll find her home in us, like we have with her.”

“But she’s lookin’ at movin’ back to Ballarat and if we’re here...”

“Boss thinks she won’t go anywhere if we aren’t.”

“Holy motherfuckin’ shit.”

“My thoughts exactly when you walked in.”

“Holy shit.”

“I know, brother.”

“This crap just got real. Nothin’s holding us back from her now.”

“Nope, but we’re still bringin’ her into it slow.”

“Shit, yeah. Can’t scare her off, not when all this could work out for the three of us to be happy.”

“Damn right. Now let’s roll, go eat at our woman’s diner.”

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Billy

Things were finally lookin’ up. When Pick had come to me with the idea of sharin’ Josie, at first, I thought he was crazy. But really, it was the best fuckin’ idea he’d ever had. Now all we had to do was worry about Josie going for it as well. Damn, I hoped she did. Though it wouldn’t be for a while, she, our woman, needed to be handled with care. We all knew she’d had no one since that fuckface. And he wouldn’t have been good to her, so of course she was gonna be apprehensive when it came to things in the bedroom...or the kitchen, living room, over the Harley.

Fuck. Now I was hard from thinkin’ of all the places I wanted to take her.

Still, that wouldn’t be happenin’ for a while yet. We needed to give our woman time to get used to seein’ us every day, to get used to us being around her, wantin’ to touch her in innocent ways before it escalated into more.

I’d do anything for Josie and if that meant sharing her and waiting, then fuck yes, I would do it.

No matter the amount of blue balls I had to suffer through.

Lookin’ to Pick riding in front of me on his Harley, I thought, like him, he was the only brother that I’d be willing to share Josie with. What helped was the stuff we’d been through and the fact that Josie already had feelings for the both of us. Not saying it was gonna be easy watching them together or when they were having their own alone time. Still, it’d be easier knowing she was with a man who cared for her as much as I did. We both wanted the best for her and we both thought we could give her that.

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