Total pages in book: 38
Estimated words: 35154 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 176(@200wpm)___ 141(@250wpm)___ 117(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 35154 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 176(@200wpm)___ 141(@250wpm)___ 117(@300wpm)
Taking her the way we had — shit, that’d been incredible. Better than incredible. Like I said, Austin and I shared damn near everything, but nothing had ever come remotely close to feeling like that. Watching him take her like that first, and then making her come again on my cock?
Damn.
Better than good. Better than anything.
She looked up, and when she caught me staring right at her, she grinned bashfully. I smiled back, handing her the flask and watching as she took a quick sip.
She passed it to my brother before she sighed deeply, looking up at the late afternoon sun.
“I have to go,” she said quietly.
“No.”
I growled it before I could stop myself, and immediately frowned. She raised a brow, and so did Austin.
“I mean,” I cleared my throat. “I mean you don’t have to go.”
“I do though.”
“Why?”
Fuck, I just wanted her to stay. I think all three of us saw this as the fun, casual wild time it was when we’d all stumbled into it. But something had happened when I’d kissed her, and I’d seen it in Austin’s eyes too when he had. Something had worked its way inside of us and held onto our hearts — something we’d never expected.
…It wasn’t casual fun anymore. It wasn’t some wild fling we could joke about later. Fuck that. I didn’t want her to be a story I told. I wanted her to be the woman I held, every fucking day.
But our mystery girl just smiled at each of us in that heart-melting way that left me speechless and aching for more.
“I just have to be somewhere,” she said quietly. “This was…” She blushed, looking so fucking adorable when she did it.
“This was a lot of fun.”
“Yeah,” I growled, leaning in and running my hand up her jaw to cup her face. “Yeah, it was.”
I kissed her slowly, letting it burn into her lips, never wanting her to pull away. But she did, turning to kiss Austin in the same slow, deep way, before she pulled away from him too. And just like me, I could see the anguish on his face.
She stood and dressed quickly, with both of us sitting there stewing and scowling the more clothes she put on.
“How do we see you again?”
Austin’s words cut through the silence, stopping her as she laced up a hiking boot. She smiled shyly.
“Maybe if we’re meant to, we will?”
“That sounds like bullshit,” I growled fiercely.
Our mystery girl — the one from our dreams who’d just shaken us to our cores just looked up at us again and smiled that killer smile that almost broke me.
And that was it, just a long, knowing smile. Then she leaned up, kissed Austin, and then me, and then turned away. She scooped up her hiking pack and slung it onto her shoulders before she turned back and let those big blue eyes burn right into us.
“Bye,” she said quietly.
And then she turned, and walked right out of our lives.
I knew I should’ve chased her. I knew letting her walk away from us would kill us inside, and tear us up.
But I did. I sat there, furious and fuming as the best thing I’d known in years walked right out of our grasp.
“Fuck,” I hissed under my breath after she’d gone.
“Yeah,” Austin muttered, his look echoing the one on my face and the pain in my heart.
“We can’t just let her walk away, man,” I spat.
“What are we going to do, fuckin’ chase her down and tackle her?” he shot back, his brow furrowing to a scowl.
“Yeah.”
He grinned, shaking his head. “You know we can’t do that. She walked away, no matter how much either of us want her to stay or want it to be more than it was.”
“You fucking felt it too.”
“Of course I did, Dallas,” my twin spat back, his eyes blazing. “But even if we’ve gone full fucking woodsman up on this mountain, you can’t just haul a girl over your shoulder and run off with her Tarzan style.”
“Fucking watch me,” I growled under my breath.
Austin grit his teeth, shaking his head as he looked away.
“We’ll find her,” he finally said, his voice edged.
“We’ll find her, and this time, we’ll show her exactly how ours she is.”
6
Stella
“Yay! You’re here!”
I’d been in a total funk every since I walked away from them. I’d spent the entire hike up the ridge to Katrina and Braun’s place hating myself for walking away from the two most amazing men I’d ever even dreamed about. I mean how fucking stupid was I?
I was scared is what I was. I was scared at how fucking real and natural being with them had been. I mean my God, I’d just had a threesome with two total strangers. And I’d had a few sips of whiskey, but it wasn’t like I’d been drunk or anything either. It should have been a little weird, and maybe a little scary or uncomfortable, even if a great story.