Page 71 of For Your Heart
The idea makes me grin though, and I kiss Sage’s palm. “Sage, I’ll never, ever let you think my brother is me. I promise.”
He takes a breath and nods, though his eyes flick to me nervously several times.
“To answer your first question, no, Declan has never been there physically when we’re together; but yes, he’s always in my head. Feeling exactly what I feel. Seeing what I see. In some ways, he experiences it the same way I do.”
Sage’s face turns bright red as his eyes turn to me in near horror. I laugh and reach for the back of his head, bringing his face toward mine. For just a second, I’m an extremely unsafe driver as I quickly kiss his lips.
“I feel like that’s something you should disclose to your hookups,” he says.
“Most people, though they like to marvel at the ‘freaky twin thing’ when we move and speak in unison, don’t believe in our hive mind or whatever else it is we have. It would be a wasted effortandprobably get in the way of hooking up. Also, because we experience it from each other too, it’s another reason that we’ve always hooked up at the same time, in the same place. There’s nothing more frustrating than feeling his orgasm when I’m in the middle of class.”
“That’s never happened!”
But, fuck, imagine if it did! Or when you’re meeting with one of the teams? Trying to massage a player’s muscle and I’m over here sticking it in Sage and you’re listening to him—
“All right, stop. I don’t need to be hardright now, either. I’m glad we’re cognizant enough never to do that to each other.”
There’s a slight threat in that. A warning. If I fuck with him during business hours, he sure as fuck will return the favor. It’s a fortunate thing that we’re close and don’t hate each other. Life could be fucking miserable for twins with this kind of thorough connection if they didn’t get along.
“Imagine twins separated at birth that have this connection! What a fucking wild ride!”
I shiver at the thought. I already have a hard time determining whose hunger pains I feel. What a goddamn mind fuck if I didn’t know I was a twin.
“He sees you tie me up?” Sage asks after a minute. “He sees that you don’t let me orgasm?”
Grinning, I nod. “Yep. And he feels how tight your perfect hole is around my cock. And how raw you make my throat when I swallow your dick.”
Sage’s face is bright red again, and he covers it with his other hand. “Oh, my gosh! I’m never going to be able to look at him again. Worse, I’m going to be picturing him when I picture you naked. OH MY GOSH, what if I don’t know I’m imagining him instead of you? OHHH! What if I see him and instantly get hard because he looks like you?!”
Declan’s laughter in my head makes me chuckle. My chest heats with warmth as I veer off the interstate and cruise to a red light. Stopping, I shift in my seat and take his face in my hands, bringing his mouth to mine. I kiss him slowly, deeply, claiming him with my tongue so he knows that he’s mine and not my brother’s.
I’m glad he’s not focusing on the fact that it goes the other way too. Declan might experience every little thing that I do with Sage, but I also feel everything he does with Zarek. Jesus, talk about a relationship that could cause a whole lot of jealousy that there’s nothing we can do about. Nothing at all.
I pull away when the car in front of me starts to roll forward. “I know that there’s going to be some growing pains and awkward moments for us,” I tell him, brushing my thumb over his slightly swollen bottom lip. Bringing my hands back to the wheel, I move along with traffic. “But like we talked about the other day, we’ll go slowly. Little doses at a time. All right?”
Sage nods. I can feel his nervous energy as it fills the car. He’s biting the inside of his lip, worrying about all of this. But I don’t know how to take it away.
“How about we start soon?” I suggest, and his focus turns to me. “We’ll go on a double date—the two of us with Declan and Zarek. Sound good?”
He takes a deep breath and nods. “Yeah, okay.”
“Tomorrow evening? Or do you want to wait until next weekend?” I ask.
Sage doesn’t answer for a while, but eventually he says, “Tomorrow works.”
I nod and Declan already knows the answer, so he follows up by asking Zarek if he’s interested. I can see the way Zarek looks at my brother. Like he hung the stars. He seriously sees no one but Declan.
My chest fills with warmth because that’s the only way my brother should be looked at. Nothing less. He’s the best thing in the world.
“Sappy psycho. Stop admiring my man. Focus on your puppy.”
His thoughts directly conflict with the way his chest tightens. I know he loves how I love him. How protective I am over him. It’s the same way I feel about his love and protectiveness for me.
We pull in and I park the car. Turning the engine off, I twist in my seat to pull Sage close again. “I’m really glad you want to meet my brother. You’re the only man I’ve ever brought home to him.”
His eyes light up. “I am?”
Chuckling, I kiss his lips. “Yeah, Sage. There’s only you.”
