Page 62 of The Triple Play

“Patience doesn’t exist when she’s sitting there lookingthatgood.” Colton’s hand wrapped around my out-turned thigh, his fingers and thumb digging in harshly, and my breath caught against Xavi’s mouth.

“Do that again,” Xavi murmured, parting from my lips for half of a second to glance at Colton. “She sounds so pretty when she’s gasping.”

Colton squeezed again, his hand sliding up my thigh a little more, his body shifting on the couch beside me until he was leaning close to me. On my other side, a heavy weight lowered onto cushions with a grunt, and I knew this was going exactly where I’d wanted it to.

A hand snuck around my waist from my left, and in less time than it took me to blink, I was being pulled away from Xavi and Colton, lifted, and lowered onto Cole’s lap, my bare chest pressed against his shirt, my knees on either side of him.

“Comeon, man!” Colton protested, his head falling back onto the cushion.

But Cole was already cupping my jaw and pulling my head toward his gently, his mouth meeting mine in a languid kiss that made me melt into him as if he could solve every problem I’d ever had. His other hand stayed around my back, his fingers splayed out across my skin, tracing soft little patterns over my flesh and making me shiver.

“Are we just going to pass her around, then?” Xavi sunk into the spot where I’d sat seconds ago. “How long do you think we can keep her from Colton?”

“Donoteven joke,” Colton said, a bite beneath his words that I wasn’t used to hearing from him. “Besides, she’ll run out of stamina if we all take her in turns.”

Cole kissed down the side of my neck, taking his time, making my head feel heavy and my eyes go unfocused, but I looked over at Xavi and Colton. “Rude. I have so much stamina.”

“Annie,baby, you could barely keep your eyes open by the end of it the last time we all took you.” Xavi’s little smirk as he reached out and brushed his thumb over my lips showed me he was perfectly at ease for once, and I almost felt a flicker ofpridein my chest that he was learning to share better than he had before. “Don’t think you could take the three of us back to back. You’d be comatose by the time Colton got to you.”

“Why am I last?”

Cole huffed a breathy chuckle against my throat, hot air fanning across my skin. “Then we take her together again,” he rasped, completely ignoring Colton, “since that’s clearly what she was hoping for.”

My cheeks heated. “Guilty as charged.”

Colton surged forward, his hands braced on his knees as he pushed himself up. “I’ll carry her to the bedroom?—”

Hands grasped me again, yanking me back toward Xavi butup, and before I could giggle at Colton getting shortedagain, Cole started full-belly laughing in a way that was so infectious I could barely keep my grin at bay. He helped Xavi gather my legs up, hooking them over his arm so Xav could carry me bridal style, and I looked over his shoulder at Colton’s reddened cheeks and furrowed brow.

“Seriously?” Colton muttered.

“Consider it payback for fucking her before I’d even had the chance to kiss her,” Xavi smirked, turning us around and starting to walk toward the master bedroom.

Cole shrugged. “I’m just doing it to rile you up. Plus, you had her last night.”

I wrapped my arms around Xavi’s neck, resting my chin on my arm, and grinned at Colton as he slowly stalked after us. “Someone getting jealous?”

Colton rolled his eyes, holding up his finger and his thumb so close together theyalmosttouched.Little bit, he mouthed, that dimple popping back out like it had a bone to pick.

Xavi kneed the door open to the master — the same room I’d shared with Colton last night — and carried me to the bed, setting me down gently as Cole and Colton came up on either side of him. He slotted himself between my thighs on the edge of the bed, pushing them back, and I placed a single hand on his bare chest between the two sides of his hoodie. “Wait,” I breathed.

The room seemed to hold its breath as Xavi paused.

“You’re the only one I haven’t… uh…” I racked my brain, trying to think of the best way to say it, “…sucked off.”

Xavi snorted. “Sucked off? Are we sixteen?”

“You know what I mean.”

“Right, right,” he chuckled, rolling his eyes as he backed off a little. “Heaven forbid I want to focus onyouand not me.”

“Me, then,” Cole grinned. He pulled off his shirt in one fell swoop and collapsed over the side of the bed, his head right near the edge, one hand reaching out for me and the other working at the button of his jeans. “Come here, darling.”

Darling.

I pushed up onto my hands, my eyes trained on him, the quiet bickering between Xavi and Colton as they undressed completely fading into the background. He was the only one who didn’t call me by some kind of pet name — just Annie or An or Ans.

He didn’t even look phased by the shift in the slightest.

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