Page 54 of Fearless
“Ow! First off, you two aren’t as quiet as you think you are. And secondly, you both keep touching me. It’s not like you’re whispering in another room.”
“Sneaky, smart-mouthed little…” Reaper tickled her aggressively, gritting his teeth, but smiling. He tried to pin her down and kiss her, but her squirming and flailing escaped his grip.
“Save me, Jandro!” she yelped, burrowing into my chest.
I wrapped her in a bear hug and flipped us over to the sound of her laughter. “Sorry,Mariposita.” I began my own tickle attack across her ribs. “You’re not safe anywhere.”
“Nooo!” she howled dramatically until she was breathless from laughter.
“Now this is not something I had considered,” Reaper mumbled behind me.
“What?”
“Having to stare at your ass instead of hers.”
“Better get used to it, buddy.” I wiggled my hips and backed up towards him. “You never know when we might end up spooning in the middle of the night.”
“Get that nasty thing away from me. I’ll shove my foot straight up there.”
I planted a final kiss on a giggling Mari before I stretched and crawled off the bed. “I’ll take that shower now. Thanks, Reap. I definitelywon’trub my dick and balls all over your nice tile work.”
His groan was the last thing I heard before I turned the water on.
When I got out,one of Reaper’s towels wrapped snugly around my waist, he had already left and Mari was reclining alone in the still unmade bed.
“What do you have going on today?” I sat on the edge and leaned over, resisting the urge to ditch the towel and make the most of our precious alone time.
“Not much,” she admitted, rolling onto her back to look at me upside down. “I’m getting low on medical supplies and already out of a lot of stuff, so I’ve been pushing back appointments with people.”
“I’ll make sure Gunner knows,” I promised her, noticing how her face changed when I said his name. “What did he do?”
“Nothing.”
“Mari,” I warned. “It’s obviouslynotnothing. What’s going on?”
She chewed her lip, scooting across the bed until her head rested in my lap. “We talked a little after you guys dropped him off last night. I pretty much confronted him on how he’s been acting.”
“And what did he have to say?”
“Essentially that he’s going to keep ignoring me because we can’t be just friends. And he doesn’t want to be a part of,” she drew a circle in the air with her finger, “you know, this.”
“That’s his fucking loss then.” I gripped her slender shoulder and started to rub. “If he can’t see that this is good and working for us, it’s his own damn fault.”
“It just…sucks,” she frowned. “I miss him. He was one of the first ones who made me feel welcome here, besides you. I understand if this isn’t his thing, but to not even be friendly with me? I feel like I did something wrong.”
A flash of anger hit me like a bolt of lightning. Fucking Gunner. “You didn’t do anything wrong,bonita. You followed your heart and trusted us. Don’t ever feel like being happy is wrong.”
“I pretty much told him that. I just wish I could make him understand. But then again,” she slid a hand up my abs toward my chest, “I didn’t really understand it until this morning.”
“Nothing like multiple orgasms from multiple dudes, huh?”
“Stop.” She smacked me playfully, returning my smile. “I mean, that’s kind of it, but it’s more than that. It’s hard to explain, other than it just feels right. I think you know what I mean.”
“I do.” I brought her palm to my lips and kissed it. “I was always fine with sharing in theory, but yeah. Like you, I didn’t really understand it until today.”
“Executions and threesomes,” Mari sighed. “So much excitement already.”
“You know the best part about this, though?” I leaned down to her, cradling her face.
