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“And you like us?” Tomas asks.

“Very much so. You both make me feel safe and secure,” I tell Tomas, and he gives me a small nod.

“Would you like to see where things go between us?” Mateo asks.

“Like date the both of you?”

“Exactly like that.” Mateo grins.

“Mateo and I would date. You and I would be dating, and you and Mateo would be dating,” Tomas explains as he rests his arm on the back of my seat.

“Is that like a threesome?” They both nod in agreement. “How would that work? Are we only together as a threesome? Wouldn’t you both need alone time as you have been in a relationship the longest? I don’t want my presence to get in the way of that.”

Mateo chuckles. “Angel, it’s sweet that you worry about us, but we’ve thought about that.”

Oh.

“We want it to be natural, like earlier in the kitchen—I had you up on the island. All I wanted to do was feast on you for breakfast, but you said no.”

“Because Tomas wasn’t there, not because I didn’t want to,” I tell him as I look between the two of them.

“I want to be able to feast on you whenever I like. Just like I want to feast on Tomas when I want.”

“Me too,” Tomas says in agreement. “Then there will be times that we will all want to be together.”

Mateo laughs. “Let’s be serious, that’s going to be a lot of the time.”

I listen to what the boys are saying, and I guess it’s the natural flow of what has been happening between the three of us this past month.

“But there are a couple of other things,” Tomas continues. “We three are together, there is no one else.”

I nod. It’s not like I’m going anywhere to meet anyone and seriously, who could compete with these two anyway?

“And …” Tomas raises his brow at me. “I will need you to be my public girlfriend if you are okay with that,” Tomas adds quickly as if he is worried about that condition. “Mateo’s team would rather he remain single and not date anyone because of his fans and image,” Tomas says with a roll of his eyes.

Mateo holds his hands up in defense. “Not my fault.”

Tomas shakes his head. “I need a woman on my arm to fend off my family and the persistent rumors about my sexuality in the public domain. Well, our sexuality. Stories have been leaked about Mateo and me over the years, and the media attention is getting worse especially because we are never seen with a woman on our arms at events.”

“I don’t want to be publicly outed, not yet. I want to tell the world in my own time,” Mateo explains.

That’s fair enough. I place my hand in Mateo’s, giving it a squeeze. “You can trust me with your secret. I would be honored to be your beard.”

This makes Mateo break out in laughter.

Tomas frowns, then grabs me. He then kisses me, and wow, is it hot. “Does that feel like you are just a beard?”

I shake my head because it most certainly did not feel like that.

Tomas smiles. “Good, now can we get back to fucking?”

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MATEO

I’m the first one to wake after the night spent fucking. We devoured every inch of each other, and still I don’t think it’s enough. I look over and see Zoe squished between us, and it feels right. My chest aches a little seeing Tomas’s arms wrapped around her and hers laid across my stomach. Zoe was so unexpected. It’s crazy to think we found her almost dead at our front gate and that this strange woman somehow turned into something I never knew I needed or wanted, and I think the same could be said for Tomas too. In true Tomas style, he was cautious. He was unsure what this woman might bring to us, he probably never expected this. It’s like someone specifically sent her to us, she fits so perfectly.

Slowly, I move Zoe’s arm off me and make my way to the bathroom. After relieving myself, I wash my hands and splash my face with water. My heart is happy this morning, and I hope it continues like this. Then it hits me, a spot of inspiration. I grab my sweats, throw them on and head to the studio.

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