Page 56 of Seven is Swell

He growls against her lips and doesn’t hesitate to lift her up, taking the moment for what it is.

I step back and give them a little space, but I’m unable to be too far away from her.

She meets my eyes over Ash’s shoulder as he reaches up and deftly removes her shirt, and I’m grateful for the way this balcony is private, so we don’t have to worry about any wandering eyes seeing what’s happening up here.

Delaney helps Ash out of his boxers and runs her hand all over his chest, all my blood rushing south at how much she’s already enjoying herself. She’s fucking beautiful as the moon rises, the quiet around us integrating into the landscape and making this ritual feel so intimate.

“Just let go and let me take care of you,” he whispers against her lips.

“Okay.”

I only watch them for a few minutes before I remember that this whole thing is about sharing. About proving jealousy has no room in this relationship, so while he lifts her up, I look for a place to wedge myself in.

Seeing as how her back is unoccupied, I try to pivot them so that her back is against the side of the building instead of the railing, keeping her hand on Leo’s foot as I give Ash the assist in holding her up.

He only spares me a quick spare glance, to which I simply tell him, “It will make the thrusting a hell of a lot easier, I promise. And please gods let there be thrusting because I’ve about had enough of you two not doing the thrusting.”

“Yes, I am also on team thrusting,” Delaney pants.

“Would it be too much to ask,” Ash asks me in the brief seconds he’s not sucking on her neck, “for you to remove my drawers?”

“Not too much trouble at all, as long as you promise to not continue to call them that. I know you’re older than us, but fuck, man.”

“Duly noted.”

I’ve never been in this position with anyone other than my brother, and I definitely feel his eyes on me as I help Ash out. It’s so fucking twisted to be imagining doing this with Jackson instead, pulling his underwear down while he takes Delaney, but it’s also so damn good.

The heat in my brother’s eyes definitely isn’t imagined, and I know he’s thinking the exact same thing I am.

“Single or double, pretty girl?” I ask, giving my full attention back to where it belongs.

“Single or doublewhat?” Ash asks, completely cute and innocent-like.

“Single at first. Then give me that double.”

Delaney wriggles herself into position and I do Ash another solid, reaching between them to help position him. He gives alittle start at my hand on him, but once he feels Delaney’s heat surrounding him, nothing else matters at all.

I feel flashes of relief through the bond, breathing deeply after feeling compelled to fully accept this bond with Ash in order to really feel that he was hers.

“We’re doing this every damn day,” he pants, pulling her legs wider so he can get deeper inside of her.

“I’d ask for that in writing, but I’m pretty sure your hands are full right now. I was too furious with you before to fully appreciate the way those barbs feel and how right you feel sliding inside of me. Fuck. You still feel like you should have waited to make a move? That we aren’t godsdamned perfect together?”

“Past me was a stupid fuck. Let’s ignore his existence and pretend this was me all along.”

Her head falls back onto my shoulder, her shoulders heaving and body bouncing from each impact, and I’m aching to slip inside that tight heat and feel it for myself.

“How’s that single doing, Delaney? I’m thinking you look a bit hungry.”

“Just fucking give it to me, August. You know I can’t turn you down.”

I notch myself at her entrance and once again, shock Ash into a bit of a jump when he feels me, and it’s clear he’s never done anything like this before, but he’s about to ask himself why that is.

“Surely you don’t mean…”

“Watch and learn, Ashy boy,” I say with an enormous grin on my face.

The next time he slips out of her, I wedge myself in farther, letting his next thrust pull me in with him. The groans coming out of that man’s throat are absolutely indicative of the lion riding inside his body, and then I have to hold Delaney up while making sure he’s not falling over because it’s complete overload for him.

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