Page 57 of Crave: A Reverse Harem Romance

“You’re wonderful, do you know that?” I asked her.

She grinned. “And so are you. All of you.” She looked around. “I can’t thank you enough for being open-minded about this for me.”

“It’s not just for you,” Axel said. “I’m doing it for me, too. I really wanted to be with you. I wasn’t sure that was going to happen. And even if it did, I thought it might ruin my relationship with Diesel and Ryker. Somehow this feels like the perfect arrangement, where I get the best of both worlds. I get to date you without anyone getting hurt.”

“Yeah,” Diesel added. “I really think that it’s going to work out. I just hope we can keep our personal lives and our professional lives separate.”

“I don’t think we’ll have any problem with that,” I answered. At least, I hoped we wouldn’t.

“Alright, I’ve got to go,” Harlow announced.

We all looked at her with confusion.

“What?” she asked.

“We’re not all gonna hang out some more?” I said.

She laughed. “You guys haven’t had enough of me yet?”

“No,” we all blurted out.

She rolled her eyes. “Well, sorry, boys, but you’re going to have to wait. I’ve got to get some writing done.”

“Does it have to be right now?” Diesel whined a bit.

“Yes, it absolutely does.” She smiled. “I’m inspired. I was just hit with a whole new direction for my story, and I absolutely have to get this all written down while I can.”

She stood straight up on the bed, towering over us as we were still lying down. She stepped over each one of us gently before hopping off the bed.

“I promise you’re all going to get a lot more time with me soon, okay?” she said as she began to get dressed. “Just let me work out this creative energy, and then I’ll be running back into all of your arms.”

I absolutely couldn’t wait.

Chapter 17 - Harlow

I took a deep breath as I finished reading the last chapter of my new novel, trying to find the courage to send it to my editor.

…and I had found it with them. Life had a new edge to it, a new lease. I had found love in a place I never expected to. Or should I say places I’d never expected to.

I once had a vision for my life that included my Prince Charming. Well, nowhere in the fairytales do they tell you that sometimes, there’s more than that one Prince Charming. Sometimes, you have three. And if you’re one of those lucky women who do, you just have to roll with it.

Sure, it was complicated. And yes, we had to work on it every day. But I was so happy to work on it with these wonderful men. Men who loved me so truly and deeply that they’d do anything to make me happy.

I was a lucky woman, and I was reminded of that every day. No matter who I woke up next to (sometimes it was all three of them), I woke up with a peace I’d never known. Before them, I don’t believe I was ever truly loved. If I added up the men I’d dated before, they couldn’t compete with one of these men. And I didn’t have just one, I had three!

Some days, I wondered how I got so lucky. Other days, I tried not to figure it out. Life had blessed me, and I was going to be thankful every day for that.

It was nothing like any book I’d ever written before. And I really wasn’t sure how it was going to be received.

After that day two months ago, when Ryker, Axel, Diesel, and I decided to embark on a relationship, I came home to my book and decided to scrap the whole damn thing. Everything I’d written hadn’t felt right anymore.

That book was a very traditional man meets woman and falls in love kind of book. And to continue writing it felt so disingenuous for some reason. It no longer felt like a story I could relate to.

I wanted to write my own story, one that connected to my life. One that did something different than your typical romance novel. I wanted to show people that there’s all different kinds of love, all types of relationships, and that sometimes the unconventional just… works.

After I’d come home that day, I went crazy with writing. I wrote basically the whole day away, not even realizing that the sun had gone down. I was inspired by my night with all three of them.

This book was really closer to non-fiction than it was to fiction. It was my life… with the names changed, of course, and a lot of the locations changed as well. But I certainly felt that my heroine was me, and that her three business mogul lovers were my three boys.

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