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“You had damn well better not be drinking to what occurred last night,” Jason

growled. “He doesn’t need that kind of encouragement, Derek.”

Derek pretended ignorance. “What happened last night?” he asked innocently.

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“Harold Middleton was found murdered this morning.” Jason looked at Daniel

accusingly. “You disappeared the other night right after you and Ian had that

mysterious, hushed conversation. A day later Middleton is dead.”

Daniel merely raised an eyebrow. “And you are suggesting…?”

Jason threw himself down in a chair at Daniel’s right. “God damn it, Daniel. That’s not who you are anymore. You are not that killer anymore.”

Daniel casually poured himself a drink. “I am what I am, Jason. You can’t erase the past. We are the sum total of our experiences. That said, I resent your assumption. I’m sure there are hundreds of people in London alone who wanted Middleton dead.” He smiled wickedly. “He was a dead bore already.”

Simon burst into laughter, again drawing Jason’s attention. “And did you have to drag Simon into it? He’s not like you.”

At the look on Daniel’s face, Derek intervened. “Shut up, Jason. This is none of your affair.” Jason looked as if he were going to argue. “I mean it, Jason. You and Tony wanted Robertson dead. Ian and I wanted Middleton dead. I’m not sorry he met with an unfortunate accident. If he hadn’t, I would have killed him. And that is the end of this discussion.”

Simon’s chair scraped back as he stood unsteadily. “And I resent the implication that I don’t have the brains to make my own decisions.” He turned slowly and walked over to pat Daniel’s shoulder. “I’m off to Mrs. Moffat’s. Care to join me?” At the mention of one of the most licentious brothels in London, Jason’s look grew darker.

Daniel slumped lower in his chair. “Not tonight, Simon. I’ve had a little too much to be any good to anyone.”

Simon chuckled. “I plan on letting someone else do all the work. As a matter of fact, I’m going to lie there and let several someones have a night to remember at my

expense.”

“Simon,” Tony sighed in resignation, “that is no way to live.”

“Tony,” Simon sighed mockingly, “not all of us have the good fortune to have two bloody wonderful fucks waiting at home.”

Jason’s chair fell over as he stood abruptly. Suddenly all five of them were standing, Jason and Tony looking thunderous, Simon unrepentant and Daniel amused. Derek just wanted to go home to Ian and Sophie.

“I have the good fortune to have two excellent fucks waiting at home, so everyone settle down. If I don’t leave this place able to fuck them both blind tonight, you will all pay, and I will make it extremely painful. Now sit down, all of you.” Derek made a great show of sitting back in his chair and Daniel followed suit. Jason and Tony reluctantly followed while the few other members of the club in the room glared at them. Simon remained standing.

“I wasn’t sitting to begin with, Derek, so fuck you and your wonderful new

domestic arrangements. I am still off to Mrs. Moffat’s, where I hope to be fucked blind 241

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as well. Good day, gentlemen.” Simon doffed an imaginary hat and sauntered a little unsteadily out the door.

“Well, you certainly pissed him off,” Daniel told Jason as he raised his glass for a sip.

Jason started to speak but Tony laid a hand on his arm and he sat back with a

frown.

“Daniel, we’re worried about you. What happened last night…you’ve worked so

hard, Daniel, to forget. We don’t want you to have to go through that again.” Tony spoke eloquently, his genuine concern obvious.

Daniel relaxed in his chair and looked at them affectionately. “You needn’t worry about me, Tony. I came to terms with myself a long time ago. That’s all you can do.

There is no forgetting. There’s just moving on.”

Derek’s heart lurched at Daniel’s words, at the truth of them. He stood up abruptly.

“I’m grateful, Daniel. I know how hard it must have been for you, and I appreciate what you did for us. We will never forget. If you ever need anything…” Derek pushed his chair back to the table and then looked hard at Daniel. “You’re right, there is no forgetting, and moving on is so bloody hard it’s almost as painful. But once you do move on… Daniel, you have to. I feel more alive today than I have since we came back.

I took the chance. Move on, Daniel. I appreciate what you did, but don’t fall back to it.

Move on.”

Daniel looked at him with haunted eyes. “Go home, Derek. Go home to Ian and to

Sophie. Help her move on too.” He poured another drink with an unsteady hand. “I did it for her, you know, not you or Ian. For Sophie.” He tilted his head back and threw the drink down his throat, then set the glass back on the table delicately. “If I have it in me, then I should use it for that, don’t you think? For the things that really matter.”

Derek walked over behind Daniel’s chair and squeezed his shoulder. “It matters, Daniel. It really matters.” He looked at Jason and Tony and knew that both men would stay with Daniel and make sure he was all right. Then he turned and headed home to Ian and Sophie and a new life.

* * * * *

Derek let his head fall back as he thrust deeply into Sophie’s incredibly tight ass one more time. He felt Ian pull out of her cunt at the same time, their two cocks rubbing and pressing against one another through the thin barrier inside Sophie as they passed. The dual sensations of Sophie’s tight heat and Ian’s large, hard cock made him shudder.

God, had it been this good with Dolores? Derek couldn’t remember, he could only live in this moment, in the wonder of loving these two people and letting them love him. He moved forward on his knees, spreading his legs a little wider to penetrate Sophie’s ass deeper as she rode Ian’s cock. The movement made Sophie moan and she rolled her head against Derek’s shoulder.

“Yes, Derek, more,” she told him with a sob. “God, darling, more.”

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Sophie was truly amazing. When they came to her tonight she’d been eager and

willing, pliant beneath their questing hands and mouths one moment and a tigress in her lust the next. She’d taken them both in her mouth, Derek while Ian stretched her ass for fucking and Ian when Derek first fucked into her ass. She’d loved every minute of it.

God, fucking into her ass while Ian watched had been so damn erotic Derek had

thought for a moment he might come then and there. Ian had gripped his wrist so hard it hurt and the pain brought him back from the edge. He’d bit his lip until it bled to keep from coming when he helped to lower Sophie onto Ian’s cock and felt that

sensuous caress inside her for the first time. Ian had pushed up on his hands and pulled Derek’s head down, licking the blood off his lip.

Sophie was moaning almost continuously, as if she couldn’t contain the pleasure.

She held both of Ian’s hands, using them for purchase as she thrust back and forward, fucking them both in a perfect rhythm. Derek could see his ring on her finger, next to Ian’s, the ring he’d been buying just that morning when Sophie had woken to find him gone. How she’d cried when he gave it to her tonight.

“That’s right, Sophie,” Ian softly encouraged her, “fuck us just like that. You are so good, Sophie, such a good fuck. I want to watch you come, Sophie. You have to come before Derek and I do. Come Sophie, come for us. Come around our cocks so deep

inside you, loving you.”

Sophie sobbed incoherently and pulled her hands from Ian’s grip. She raised her arms and reached back for Derek, wrapping her arms around his head where it rested, chin on her shoulder. The movement altered their penetration and her ass became even tighter, making Derek groan.

“Sophie, Sophie.” Derek heard the growl in his voice, recognized the animal she unleashed in him. He ran his hands up her stomach to her breasts and passed his palms tenderly over her aroused, sensitive nipples several times. She arched her back and then pulled her arms down and placed her hands on Ian’s stomach. She began a hard,

steady, fast rhythm, pressing her clitoris down on Ian with each thrust. Derek became fascinated with a freckle on her back and leaned down to suck on it. Sophie cried out his name with a tremulous sob. She had love bites all over from where he and Ian had feasted on her freckles. Christ, Christ he loved her. He loved them. His thrusts were hard and fast, matching Sophie’s rhythm, pacing Ian’s cock inside her.

Suddenly Sophie froze with a keening cry, Ian deep within her. She threw her head back, her mewl of pleasure endless.

“God, Sophie, yes!” Ian cried out. Derek gently pressed his cock all the way into her ass and he could feel the hot bursts of Ian’s ejaculation through the thin wall of Sophie’s cunt. The tight spasms of her muscles in climax wrung a cry from deep in Derek’s throat and then he was coming too, coming with Ian and Sophie in a haze of tight, wet heat and indescribable pleasure.

Sophie collapsed on top of Ian, both men still buried inside her. Derek curled over her but didn’t pull out. He and Ian stayed that way, stroking and kissing Sophie until 243

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they were both soft and sated and their cocks fell from her naturally. Then Derek lay down next to them on his side, facing them so he could still stroke and touch them both.

Sophie turned her face to him, her cheek pressed to Ian’s chest. “Didn’t we just do this? Only your positions are reversed.” Her voice was hoarse, overused as she’d let them know her pleasure while they’d fucked her. The sound was music to Derek, sweet, sensuous music.

“We’re going to do it again too,” Derek told her with a soft smile, and Sophie

smiled back.

“Oh good. Just give me a minute to rest,” she told him, closing her eyes.

Ian’s laugh rumbled over them. “I’m afraid I’ll need more than a minute,

sweetheart, but I’ll do my best.”

Derek snorted with gentle laughter. “You’ll probably need less time than I. You usually do.”

Ian turned his head on his pillow and looked at Derek heatedly. “You’ll be fine. You always get hard when I fuck you.”

Derek found his breathing growing ragged again. Yes, that’s what he wanted, Ian in his ass and his cock in Sophie. Derek wanted to be in between them, fucking and being fucked. He slowly leaned over and kissed Ian. Without words he let his lips and tongue tell Ian how much he wanted him, wanted that.

Sophie’s voice trembled between them. “Oh, we haven’t tried that yet. I want to do that. Can we do that?”

Derek pulled back from the kiss with another laugh. “Oh, yes, Sophie, we are going to try that, that and so much more.”

Sophie smiled enticingly. “Promises, promises.” She reached out and brushed a

lock of hair off Derek’s forehead. “Who says I’ll let you do more?”

“I do.” Ian’s voice was low and gravelly and both Derek and Sophie shivered at it.

“I started this, and, if you’ll remember correctly, I own you both.” He suddenly turned and the motion dumped Sophie onto Derek’s chest as he turned instinctively onto his back to give Ian more room. Ian snuggled in close against them both, his growing erection pressed to Derek’s hip as he kissed the edge of Sophie’s shoulder and then sank his teeth gently into it. Sophie shivered again and sucked in a little breath that for some reason was astoundingly arousing to Derek. Ian let go and licked the spot he’d bitten so lightly. “Now run and get a nice, warm cloth to clean us up, Derek, and let’s start all over again.”

Derek gently moved Sophie off him and rose from the bed with a smug grin. “As

always, Ian, your wish is my command.”

The End

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