Well, he’s just too honest.
So he gives her that line about “balance” and I beg him psychically to just get out of here. Go make us a pitcher of Manhattans or something. He gets my drift and backs out immediately.
“Listen, Maddie,” I start, approaching her slowly. “I’m sorry, I was distracted. I didn’t really know what I was saying, I just wanted to get a piece of you.”
She lets me get my arms around her shoulders before she twists away.
“Is that really all I am?” she counters. “A piece? Am I just a piece, really?”
Instinctively, I have to come up behind her and get my arms around her again. If she’s going to act like a mouse, I am going to act like a cat. She edges away, and I have to pounce. That’s just nature.
But I know I have to be careful here, because I am not sure how much she is playing. We literally just talked about all this a week ago. About how we were friends with benefits to the max. Extra friends… Extra benefits. Her one request was that she be the only lady in the love triangle. Chance agreed right away. It took me a little longer, but what am I going to say?
She really is fucking hot.
“Just tell me what you want,” I murmur as I push her long hair away from the side of her neck, letting my breath trickle from her ear down to her shoulder. “You know that we want to give you everything you need.”
I feel her melting. She gets softer with every breath, more pliant. More willing.
“I just want this to be real,” she sighs softly, leaning back enough that her shoulders rest against my chest. I continue warming the skin of her neck with my breath as my hands begin to drift toward her slender waist.
“It’s real,” I reply, nudging my hard-on against the small of her back. “Can’t you feel how real that is?”
“I mean this,” she insists. “All this… Is it real?”
Her hips fit neatly against my palms as I guide them closer to me, pulsing against her ass crack, reminding her that this is pretty damn real.
“I just want to feel like we have a future,” she sighs as she lets me bend her over the back of the sofa, pulling her robe up over those round, perfect ass cheeks.
“Yeah, baby,” I reply. “We can be real for as long as you want.”
I open up her crack with my thumbs, feasting my eyes on that delicate dark diamond when she twists away again, her eyes flashing. I was just in there for a second, stunned, my cock poking out of the top of my jeans.
“Wait a second,” she snarls. “Wait… What does real mean to you? Tell me in words. Tell me explicitly. What does real mean?”
I shrug, my hands in the air. This is getting idiotic.
“Real means… It’s real? It’s really happening? If you would just come back over here I can show you something real hard, if that helps.”
“No, Jack,” she insists furiously. “Real means real! It means committed! It means we have a future!”
I wish I could say that her shitty temper tantrum is doing anything to make my erection subside, but that’s just not how my body works. I’m staring at her, and my cock is staring at her too.
“Maddie, what are you even talking about? You think we are going to get married? How do three people even do that? What we have here is a pretty sweet deal. Can you please just calm the fuck down and try to enjoy it?”
Her eyes widen dramatically. “Calm down?” she repeats. “Did you just fucking tell me to fucking calm down?”
“It’s up to you at this point,” I shrug, realizing that maybe I should have just let Chance handle this one.
“So you’re telling me this is it? This is… all there is?”
“All there is,” I repeat, incredulous, “is a whole fucking lot, Maddie! It’s a sports car and trips and a private jet and no bills or concerns in the entire world. Why don’t you think about that part for a hot minute, instead of talking to me about commitment, okay? Why don’t you think about that!”
Suddenly she stops, her eyes narrowing, her ankles shoulder-width apart. She looks like she is squaring off to kick a field goal.
“Maybe I have thought about it, Jack,” she says in a low voice. “And maybe I’ve decided it’s not nearly enough.”
“You’re crazy,” I announce, though it doesn’t seem to have any impact. I just don’t know what else to say at this point.