Kaige’s eyes widened, shock rippling through him. I winced inwardly with a pinch of regret. I’d said it totally out of the blue, and it probably wasn’t at all what he wanted to be thinking about right now. More words tumbled out of me as his grip on me loosened. “You don’t have to say anything right away. I don’t expect you to—”
“I love you too,” he said.
I stopped talking, not sure I’d heard him correctly. “You what?”
He grinned. “I love you, Mercy. Would have said it a lot sooner if I hadn’t been worried you’d sock me in the face.”
A giddy feeling rose in my stomach, and I couldn’t hold back a giggle. “Really?”
“You mean it hasn’t been obvious?”
I swatted him. “As far as I can tell, you go around charming the pants off all the ladies you meet. How was I supposed to know I’m so special?”
He pointed at himself. “What can I say? This thing, it’s a total machine. You can never turn it off.” Then he sobered a little. “It’s always been different with you. Felt like more with you from the very beginning. I’m all yours now, Mercy. Anyone else who wanted a piece of me is shit out of luck.”
I beamed back at him. “Mittens might have a few things to say about that.”
“Any other woman,” he amended with a wink. “Cats are another story.”
Kaige was back to his former flirty self. I was glad that I’d at least momentarily managed to distract him from his darker thoughts.
His hands circled my waist, and I looped my arms around his shoulders. As soon as I did, he jerked me to him so that the length of our bodies fused together. I could feel him harden almost instantaneously against my belly. “Now that we’ve gotten that all straightened out, maybe we should celebrate. We’re finally alone.”
He swiveled his hips, and I swallowed a gasp at the press of his cock. My eyes flicked to Gideon, who was standing near the door, tablet clutched in his hands, looking uncertain but not uncomfortable.
“We’re notcompletelyalone,” I pointed out.
Kaige followed my gaze. He paused for a second as if debating with himself and then shot a grin at his friend. “Is that a problem? It wasn’t before.” Heat flared in his eyes, and I knew he was thinking back to when all five of us had collided in spectacular fashion in the back of Gideon’s van. “Besides I think it’s a lot more fun for you with extra company, isn’t it, Mercy? The more the merrier?”
I couldn’t deny that. I wet my lips automatically as I nodded. “You won’t find me complaining.”
Kaige leaned over and caught my bottom lip with his mouth. He sucked on it for a second before pulling me into an open-mouthed kiss. It was messy and hot and made my panties dampen in an instant. His insistent cock resting against my hip only urged on the desire surging through me.
Kaige eased back an inch and raised his eyebrows at Gideon. “Care to join us?”
Gideon shifted on his feet, and then a sly smile crossed his lips. The same kind of spark came into his cool eyes as when he’d been hit by one of his brilliant inspirations. Without a word, he yanked the garage door closed, set his tablet down on the nearest crate and walked over to us. He slid his fingers along my jaw and tugged my face around so he could claim a kiss.
Kaige swore under his breath, sounding so turned on it only made me wetter. I kissed Gideon hard, drawing his tongue into my mouth, swaying as Kaige’s hands traveled over my body. Gideon caressed me too, cupping one hand over my breast and squeezing with just the right force to bring a moan to my lips.
Maybe we’d all needed this—a moment to let go, to get caught up in emotions we hadn’t been able to spare much time for in the past few days. To celebrate the joys we had.
When Gideon released my mouth, Kaige dove in again. His tongue tangled with mine. He grasped my hips and hefted me into the air, and all of a sudden I was flying—until he set me on top of one of the crates.
I hooked my knees around his thighs instinctively, grateful to have my weight off my wounded leg. He leaned even closer, capturing my lips again. As he fucked my mouth with his tongue, Gideon clambered onto the crate and sank down behind me. He teased his hands around my chest to play with both of my breasts, pinching and tugging the hardening nubs until I whimpered with need. The heat from both men’s bodies engulfed me with a heady sensation.
I trailed one hand down Gideon’s arm encouragingly while I tilted my head into Kaige’s kiss. Gideon nudged the hair away from my shoulder and pressed small kisses to my neck along the line of my shirt collar. His lip ring brushed my skin. I broke from Kaige’s mouth to tip my head against the man behind me, sinking into his skillful touch.
Kaige took the opportunity to unzip my jeans and yank them off my legs, careful around the bandage. I groped for his shirt and tugged it up, and he tossed it aside without a second’s hesitation. His eyes devoured me and Gideon’s hands on me. “So fucking sexy.”
Gideon took that remark as his cue to peel my shirt off me. Kaige moved in to make short work of my bra. He ducked his head and lapped my nipple into his scorching mouth, and I growled in encouragement as I arched to meet him.
We continued to make out like that, me pressed between their taut bodies, their hands and mouths roaming over every inch of my uncovered skin. Finally, Kaige’s fingers slipped between my thighs. He rubbed up and down my sopping wet slit before flicking his finger against the overly sensitive nub above it.
At my back, Gideon continued to explore my body, laying kisses where he knew I liked it the most. He sucked on the curve of my neck and squeezed my breasts before gliding his fingers down to spread my thighs to accommodate Kaige. His own rigid cock bumped against my back.
Kaige watched us while stroking his cock, which seemed to grow impossibly harder. While Gideon slipped his finger inside my pussy, Kaige tore open a foil packet and rolled the condom over him.
Gideon didn’t move away. Instead, he opened my pussy lips wide for Kaige who in turn started to rub his cock up and down the length of my slit. I moaned at the feel of him.