Threes Company (14 page)

I stood up and put my plate in the sink, and the fun of the evening was over. As the three of us stood in the kitchen, none of us really knew what to say, or how to start.

My heart was in my throat.

Adam spoke first. His voice was low. "So the meeting went okay?"

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Simon nodded and shrugged one shoulder. "Um, can we talk about that later?" His entire demeanor had changed. He wasn't angry or distant anymore. He was quiet. Maybe even sorry.

"Oh, okay," Adam offered quietly. "Sure."

Simon looked directly at me. "I owe you big time."

I picked up Adam's plate and put it in the sink and looked at Simon. The fight had left me too, so my voice was low. "You don't owe me anything." Then I pointed a glance at Adam. "You owe Adam. Not me. You owe him an explanation and an apology."

Adam looked at me, wide-eyed and shocked. Simon looked at the floor and nodded. "You're right. I do." He swallowed thickly then looked at Adam. "Can we talk?

Please?"

"Of course we can," Adam said, quickly moving to slide his hand along Simon's jaw. "Of course we can."

I smiled at them, though they didn't see, and I walked toward the door. Simon's voice stopped me. "You too, Wil. You need to hear this."

I blinked in shock. "Oh, are you sure?"

Simon smiled sadly. "Only if you want to."

"Okay," I told him, still unsure of what he had to say that could possibly change anything.

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I unlocked the door to my room and walked in.

Adam followed me and Simon came in last. He seemed very nervous and both Adam and I watched him. And waited.

He bit his lip and his brow creased. It was then I realized how tired he looked too. He had darkened circles under his eyes, but it was more than that. He looked worried.

He licked his lips as though his mouth had gone dry, and spoke to Adam. "I'm sorry," he started, and it seemed the flood gates opened. "I'm so sorry. I freaked out, and I got scared. I didn't think it was a good idea to continue with Wil because I was worried I'd lose you, and I ended up pushing you away. I really fucked things up, and I'm sorry I hurt you. I love you, Adam, I really do and I don't want to lose you."

Adam cupped Simon's face. "Why would you lose me? Sy, you need to talk to me, not push me away."

Simon nodded, his head still in Adam's hands. "I know. I'm sorry."

Adam frowned. "Why didn't you think it was a good idea to keep seeing Wil?"

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Simon swallowed loudly. His eyes darted to mine, then back to Adam. "Because… because… it was supposed to be fun. It was supposed to be a threesome fling for a night or two then it was for a week. And then we spent all that time together, and the three of us really clicked."

Adam shook his head, confused. "What went wrong?"

Simon's face twisted and he frowned. But he looked at me, then at Adam, and then to the floor in front of him and shrugged. "I started to fall in love with him."

My lungs didn't work. My brain couldn't function.

But my heart beat double time, thumping hard against my ribs.

Simon quickly looked back to Adam. "I'm sorry. I never meant for it to happen. It doesn't mean I love you any less, Ad. I can't explain it… It's like… I don't know… It's like…"

Adam finished for him. "It's like you love two people exactly the same."

Simon nodded. "I'm sorry, baby. I just thought if I put some distance between us, if I waited until Wil went home, I'd be okay and you'd never know." Simon looked at me then. "But it was horrible, and I was an asshole, and I'm sorry. I didn't know what to do… I didn't know how to deal with it."

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Adam smiled. "You silly man, you should have told me. You should have told Wil."

I still don't think I'd blinked.

Simon seemed hopeful as he looked at a happy

Adam. "You're not mad?"

Adam laughed. "Why would I be mad? Sy, of course you have feelings for Wil." Adam looked at me and grinned. "He's gorgeous, smart, funny, and great in bed…"

I finally got my mouth to work. "Huh?"

Adam chuckled at me. "And apparently at a loss for words."

I stammered, "I, um, I'm not, um… I'm not sure I followed…" I shook my head and started again. "I'm not sure I understood."

Adam walked over to me, bringing Simon with him.

Adam traced his fingers along my jaw. "I'm pretty sure Sy wants you to kiss him."

Simon's eyes widened. I'm sure they matched mine.

And without a conscious decision to do so, my hand lifted to touch the side of his face. Simon leaned into the palm of my hand, and he sighed.

So I kissed him.

I touched my lips to his softly at first, pulling his bottom lip between mine then kissing him a little deeper.

And when my tongue touched his, he moaned and opened

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his mouth, letting me devour him.

So I did.

My body reacted to his taste, his touch, and the feel of him against me. It felt so right.

And then the kiss changed. Simon's hands held my face, then my hair. I could feel his fingers tighten as he kissed me harder. I could feel his urgency. I could feel the emotion. He'd never kissed me like that before.

Adam whimpered beside us. "You're so hot

together."

I couldn't help but smile against Simon's mouth, and I pulled away to breathe. But Adam's hand wrapped around my neck and pulled me in for a kiss. Slow and languid, his tongue pressed against mine, as though he was savoring the very taste of me.

It was a different kiss. He tasted different than Simon, he kissed differently. But no less perfectly. It felt right. It felt right with Simon, and it felt just as right with Adam.

I had one arm around Simon and the other around Adam, and they each had an arm around me. The three of us stood against one another, kissing and holding for all we were worth. We'd swap mouths, kiss down necks, hold a little tighter, and then kiss a little harder.

Kissing them together, being with them together,

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was right.

It felt natural, and real. And perfect.

And then it slowed down. The need and the urgency became tender and gentle, warm and lovely until our foreheads rested together and we caught our breaths.

Simon's eyes were closed, and he swayed, falling into us. Adam and I both steadied him, and his eyes opened wearily. "I'm so tired. There's so much I want to say," he murmured. Then he smirked. "So much I want I do with both of you. But I'm so tired."

Adam smiled. "Come on, baby," he said, pulling Simon over to the bed to undress him. "You're exhausted.

Did you sleep at all last night?"

Simon shook his head. "Mm-mm, no." He shucked out of his shirt and his pants fell to his feet. He sat down on the edge of the bed in his briefs and he looked up at Adam.

"I just watched you sleep. Wondered what you'd say, what you'd tell me, if you'd leave me…"

"Oh, Sy," Adam whispered, and knelt at his feet.

"Never, baby."

Adam started to undo Simon's shoes, peeling them off one at a time. Simon looked up at me, and his words were slurred. "Can we talk tomorrow?"

I really wanted to talk tonight. I still hadn't answered him. Not that I had any clue what to say. But I

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hadn't said anything. I looked at Simon as he sat there with Adam taking care of him. He was utterly and devastatingly beautiful. And almost asleep. "We'll talk in the morning," I offered.

Simon nodded. "Sorry, haven't slept. So tired." His blinks were getting longer, his head seemed too heavy and when Adam pulled back the covers, Simon simply curled up on the bed.

Adam smiled and hurried to get undressed, then scrambled onto the bed. In the middle. In his spot. He was grinning now and patted the bed beside him. "Come on, Wil."

I smiled at him, stripped down to my briefs and climbed onto the bed, so they were both facing me. Adam snuggled down with his back against Simon, who even with his eyes closed, nuzzled his nose behind Adam's ear.

Simon's arm quickly wrapped around Adam, but then his hand waved in the air, blindly looking for something.

So I gave him my hand.

And even with his eyes closed and on the verge of sleep, Simon threaded his fingers with mine. He was utterly exhausted. With the last two days, not sleeping at all the night before, the stress of the dinner meeting with his bosses, and the added worry of how Adam would react to learning he had feelings for me, it wasn't surprising that he

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was worn out. The stress and the guilt must have weighed a ton.

It was all so surreal. Simon… had feelings for me.

Adam sighed, making me look from Simon to him.

His eyes were closed, but he was smiling. He was so cute with his blond, scruffy hair and beautiful lips. He still looked tired, but lying between Simon and me, he looked happy. Then his eyes half opened, and he murmured, "He's falling in love with you."

I nodded, not really sure what to say.

I still hadn't said anything about it. Not to Simon when he said it, not to Adam. I'd never really had anyone declare feelings for me. Lord knows Rod never did, and there hadn't really ever been anyone else…

Adam smiled and closed his eyes, but his arm slid around my waist and he pulled me against him. He nestled himself into my neck, with mine and Simon's joined hands at his chest. He sighed contentedly against my skin. Then he whispered sleepily, "And Wil?"

"Yeah?"

"He's not the only one."

I sucked back a breath at Adam's words, but his arm tightened around me and he wriggled himself closer to me.

His breathing soon evened out and I knew he'd fallen asleep. I was too tired to try to make sense of it. It had been

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an emotionally draining two days, and I turned Simon's and now Adam's words over in my head.

I started falling in love with him…

He's not the only one…

I didn't want to think about the possibility that they could be falling in love with me or that I could be falling for them. Not one of them. Not just Adam, not just Simon.

But both of them.
Them.
I didn't want to think about how my heart thumped differently when I saw them, how my skin tingled when they were near, or how the very thought of them made me smile. How I'd never experienced anything like it before. So fast, so intense. So very real.

And the very likelihood I would never find it again.

I didn't want to think about what it meant. Because I was no longer counting down days until I went back to Alabama. I was counting down hours.

I closed my eyes, and instead of thinking about what anything meant, I savored the warmth of their bodies and listened to the sound of them breathing.

I slept like a baby.

* * * *

Simon didn't go running, and Adam didn't swim. It was as though we knew our time was running out, and as

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the sun came up, the three of us stayed in bed.

We still hadn't talked about what was said. Adam woke up firmly pressed between us and he soon had us too worked up to think about anything else. He was impossible to deny. But he didn't want to stay in the middle of us. Oh no, that's where he wanted me, he said.

In between them.

So that's where they put me.

Adam was on his back, with his knees up near his chest, and my hands were at the sides of his head, holding his legs back with my shoulders. I was buried inside him, as far as I could go, while Simon took me from behind.

We'd done that position before. Actually, the very first time we were together was like that, me fucking Adam while Simon fucked me.

But this was very different.

It was… intimate, and slow. It wasn't fucking at all.

Adam touched my face with one hand and held

Simon's hand with his other. Simon was leaning over me with his free arm wrapped around my waist, pushing so far inside me and rolling his hips like he was trying to crawl inside me, pushing me into Adam.

It was gentle and tender, grinding and pushing, and filling the room with low moans and whimpers.

I kissed Adam, his mouth and his jaw, while Simon

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kissed my shoulder and nipped at the back of my neck.

They locked eyes over my shoulder, and I could see it in Adam's eyes. So close, right in front of me, so full of emotion and wonder.

And then he looked at me the same. He thrust his thumb into my mouth, so without taking my eyes from his, I sucked and twirled my tongue around his thumb. And with every measured thrust, Simon kissed my neck.

"Oh, fuck," Adam moaned. "Both of you. Oh, my God."

"Yeah," Simon groaned, hot and rough in my ear.

"So good. Both of you." He thrust a little sharper, making me buck into Adam.

And it set him off. "Oh, yes! Right there!"

So Simon did it again. Again and again, until Adam arched underneath me. His ass clenched around me, his cock spilled between us, and Simon kept us thrusting into me, making me fuck Adam harder through his orgasm, drawing it out of him, making him groan.

He was spent, boneless, panting, chuckling, and moaning. Finally his legs splayed apart, sliding down my sides to the bed, and my cock slipped out of his ass. Simon pulled out of me and tapped the palm of his hand against my ass. "Roll over for me."