Page 54 of Shared By the Highest Bidder

BERNADETTE

Ash’s phone rings just as we finish eating an delicious lunch of Greek food from a street cart.

“Dr. Ives,” he answers. “Okay. I’ll be right there.” He stands up and tosses his empty container in the trash. “I have a post-op patient asking for me. Bernadette, can I drop you off?”

“I’ll get her home,” Emery says, his hand wandering to the small of my back.

Ford stands up, too, and puts his shades on. He and Ash stare at each other, and I feel their need for a moment alone.

But I’m dying to watch this.

Isn’t that always the best part of the romance? When they get back together?

“I’ve lived here for more than a year now,” I remind them. “I managed to get to and from work every day, went shopping all by myself, and even socialized with friends.”

“I have to get downtown,” Ford says, his voice even. “Michael should be at the courthouse by now. I pulled some strings for a same-day visit.”

Apparently, lawyers don’thaveto go to Rikers. There’s a whole operation to bring prisoners to Criminal Court downtown to meet their lawyers.

Ford is getting hundreds of thousands of dollars, and Michael’s getting the top criminal defense attorney to dismiss a drug charge.

All while I have to be at two men’s beck and call. Maybe that’s why someone in my position is called a Call Girl.

But I doubt any ‘girl’ had two such gorgeous men to ‘call’ on. Three if you include Ford, who I’m feeling more and more wants in on sharing me.

“See you tomorrow night.” Ash pecks my cheek with a soft kiss. “I’ll pick you up at seven.”

“Thank you again for introducing me to Victoria.”

“Oh shit, the dress. I’ll pick it up and drop it off to you.” His eyes wander to Ford again. “If that’s all right, counselor? Or should I say, Alpha?”

Ford’s jaw jumps. It’s clear he’s the leader in our group.

“My apartment isn’t off limits to you.” He buttons his suit jacket.

I get tingly thinking of these two in the same room again just for that moment when the tension becomes too much and one of them grabs the other and plants a punishing kiss on waiting lips. Sounds so hot in books. I want to see it. Live.

Skip the bath, I’m getting popcorn and wine to watch those two make up and get busy.

“See you later, sugar.” Ford kisses my forehead and stalks off in one direction.

Ash heads in the other, but their stares linger until Ash turns a corner.

Victoria said Ford and Ash are bi and still date women. The smell of both men on my skin makes me wonder what it would feel like to be wedged between them during sex.

Stella hinted here and there how naughty it feels to be double penetrated by two of her three men.

Three!

She fell in love with three guys, and all of them fell for her right back.

Now they’re getting married, and she’s having a baby.

I took a chance on one man and look what happened to me?

The lingering scent of two different colognes and the heat of Emery’s body add up in my head.

Three.

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