Page 39 of Sweet Girl

Yeah. We’ll make this work.

CHAPTER26

emma

I sitacross from Lily at Bean Haven and take a sip of my much-needed vanilla latte, savoring the flavor and enjoying the caffeine spreading through my tired veins. She looks up at me with a knowing smile and I can’t help but roll my eyes.

“So, spill. How was your first Valentine’s Day with a boyfriend?”

Better just rip the Band-Aid off. Can’t be any worse than her shacking up with her ex-boyfriend’s daddy dearest.

“Well, I started the day with one and ended it with three.”

Lily’s coffee spurts from her mouth, dribbling down her chin as she coughs and heaves air into her coffee-filled lungs. I toss a napkin in her direction, smiling and waiting for her to compose herself.

“Bitch. What did you just say? Three? Wait. No . . .”

“Oh, yes. I knew I was spending the weekend at the house with Dom, but I assumed he was kicking the boys out. Nope,” I say, popping the “p” for good measure. “He shared me with Aidan and Cruz. But then, it got complicated. Or uncomplicated actually. There’s always been more there with each of them, and finally being together just kind of cemented it. They had the entire weekend planned ahead of time. We’re going to give this thing a real shot.”

She blinks at me blankly for a solid minute before talking.

“So, are you all . . . together, together?”

“Like do they fuck each other?”

“Yeah?”

“No, they’re not into each other sexually. Just obsessed with sharing me”

“Good god. But three dicks? How the hell do you handle it?”

I laugh out loud at her question.

“How do you handle being chased through the woods and hunted like prey?”

“Okay. That’s fair. But are you sore?”

Another loud laugh comes from me, and I slap my hand over my mouth as people start to look at us.

“Very sore. In the best of ways.”

“Well, cheers for being fucked three ways from Sunday!”

“While that part is mind-blowing. It’s honestly so much more than that. My connection with each of them is so different. Together they make up exactly what I need. Dom empowers me and gives me safety. Aidan comforts and cherishes me, while Cruz unleashes this wild, uninhibited, free side of me. Altogether it’s . . .”

“Perfect,” Lily finishes for me.

“Yeah. It’s perfect. And for the first time in my life, I feel whole. Fuck everything else, because all that matters is that I have the three of them.”

“Well, babe, I can’t say I’m not surprised. When you grow up the way we did, our parents should have expected us to go to the extreme with our adult choices after suffocating us for so long.”

“Cheers to freaking that. But, after everything we’ve been through, look at us now. Happy. Seen. Fulfilled.”

“So, what now?” she asks.

“Now, we just keep doing what we’re doing. Living. Everything else be damned.”

epilogue

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