Page 21 of Everything Is Yours
Jack sat motionless and stared back at Rick. It was almost as if Rick hadn’t spoken at all. After a moment, Jack raised his eyebrow and asked Rick if his question was a particular fantasy he had been harbouring, just like the one Emma had about kissing the three of us. Rick threw his head back and started laughing then locked eyes with Jack again.
“Why are you holding back, Jack? You know you want to, dude. I just made your Christmas wish come true. No mistletoe necessary.”
I glanced at Lily out of the corner of my eye and could see she was hurt and anxious about the challenge set. I wondered if her anxiety was because she was expected to kiss Jack, or whether it was because she was expected to kiss him while I was there. Perhaps it was because she was uneasy at the current standoff between two men in her life that she held in high regard. Maybe it was a combination of all of those things. I hated Rick at that point for having the audacity to put Lily in that position and thought it absurd that he ask that with his niece, Jack’s partner present.
Turning back to Jack I was just in time to see him snigger at Rick. A slow smile spread on his lips. Lily and Jack both voiced a resounding, “No,” at the same time. Neither of them had looked at the other, and both were focused on Rick.
“Not for your pleasure. Not under any circumstances. Any kisses Lily and I share are purely affectionate, not sexual and definitely not to satisfy any sick, perverted notion you or anyone else has about Lily and me.” Jack turned to Lily, and she gave him a relieved smile, and at that moment his words warmed my heart and I realized how reassured I felt at by his response.
Chapter 11 Alcohol and Honesty
Emily leaned into Lily, her hand covering her mouth as she murmured something to her. Lily nodded and moved her foot from under her ass where she was sitting. She stood up. Emily wandered around the edge of the room and passed Lily a bottle of white wine, lifted another then began topping everyone’s glass.
Cody and Lennon declined the wine, and it was only then that I realized they had been sharing the bottle of twelve-year-old malt whiskey between them. It was almost gone. Jack shook his head when Lily gestured at him with the bottle of wine in her hand and made his way over to the table behind the large sofa. He swiped the bottle of Tequila from it placing the four fingers of his free hand into shot glasses.
“Shots anyone?”
Rick, Sam and I nodded, and Jack quickly poured them out.
“Bottoms up,” he said, holding his up in salute then added, “If you have a guard handy to restrain Rick that is.”
Rick chuckled in good humor and held his glass up but shot a quick remark back in Jack’s direction.
“Don’t flatter yourself, Jack. You seem the type that would come as soon as I topped you. I prefer more of a challenge myself.”
Jack spat out the drink he was in the process of throwing back then he shook his head grimacing at him, “Fuck, I think you’d split me in half, I can’t imagine you showing any finesse in the bedroom.”
Rick snorted loudly and leaned to where Jack was sitting, holding his shot glass between his spread knees as he chuckled at Jack’s banter.
“See, I just don’t see you grown up enough to have sex with, Jack. I’m really not into the pubescent boy look. If I’m going to fuck a man, I want to fuck him roughly. I figure if I did you, I’d have to keep checking if you were still alive.”
By that time, we were all laughing and although the conversation was somewhat surreal between the two of them, it was just what was needed to lighten the mood in the room. After another couple of shots each and a trip to the bathroom, we settled down again to finish the game. Jack knelt on the floor and grabbed the bottle and spun it with assertion. This time, it stopped squarely at Lily’s feet.
“Ohh, Lily!” Her friends said in a unified chorus.
Lily smirked trying to hide her nerves, and I could see she was a little embarrassed that Jack was the one to ask her the question, especially after what had just gone down between Rick and him on the turn before.
Jack made a show of asking her to choose from the options she had.
“Okay, Lily. No pressure. Take your time and think carefully. Which is it to be? Truth, Dare or Consequence.”
Lily’s eyes scanned the faces in the room before flicking her long dark hair over her shoulder and playing nervously with the large diamond earring in her left ear.
“Truth,” she said then exhaled a quick, heavy breath.
Her eyes sought me out, and she gave me a tight smile, then sat wringing her hands together waiting for Jack to deal her a question. I guessed she hoped whatever it was wouldn’t be anything too revealing.
“What has been your most memorable sexual experience to date?” Jack inquired, smirking wickedly at Lily.
He then wiggled his eyebrows in a tease that I felt was intended to make her feel uncomfortable. Her slow smile turned into a wide grin, and it was obvious when a memory came to mind. I could see the thought still affected her when she’d wriggled in her seat. She then glanced around at the other men the room who also seemed focused on her response.
“There are quite a few,” she disclosed and giggled nervously. “But if I have to choose only one it would have to be Alfie’s version of Vanilla Sex.”
When Lily’s eyes connected with mine for that moment, we were the only two people in the room. I’d be willing to bet we were having the same joint flashback of a long seductive night near the beginning of our relationship. We had a more casual arrangement at that time, but what we shared was different to anything I’d ever experienced with any woman before. I think it was that night that I realized just how special Lily had become to me. On that particular occasion, I teased her almost senseless with little more than a tub of vanilla ice cream and a bottle of Champagne.
Lily dragged me out of my reverie when I heard her release a long wistful sigh and Dave cleared his throat. My eyes broke our gaze and flitted to Dave, who looked a little uncomfortable when he flashed me a tight smile.
As soon as Lily had pulled herself together and was leaning down to spin the bottle, Rick stood up, stretching his arms in the air.
