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to think logically. She breathed in and out to clear her head.

And hot, as his tongue pressed insistently between her lips, She could only imagine what she must look like: her hair a invading the recesses of her mouth to sweep against hers.

mess from his caresses, her lips swollen from his kiss.

Things like this didn’t happen to people like her.

Okay, time to get a grip. She glanced down, her gaze Mike was almost too much for her senses, and she was zeroing in on his magnificent cock outlined against his pants.

already on maximum overload just being held against him. To And holy Christ it was huge! So much for gaining control.

feel his hand threading through her hair, his mouth insistent

“Sorry. I was kind of lost there for a second, too.” She over hers, his tongue plunging in and out was like having her lifted her hand and tried to fix her hair.

mouth fucked, like a tease, a promise of great sex to come. It He reached out and smoothed it for her. “You look was a good thing he was holding her, because her limbs were beautiful.” He blew out a breath. “Goddamn, Abby, I want to trembling. When was the last time she was kissed like this?

fuck you.”

Hell, she’d
never
been kissed like this! It made her want to Her heart skipped a beat. How was she supposed to search out Chad and kick him for all he’d lacked. She grasped respond to that? Honestly, probably. Isn’t this what she Mike’s arms, felt his strength, his heat, and wanted to strip him wanted? She should tell Mike that’s exactly what she wanted, down right out here on the balcony, then explore every inch of because she did. Her pussy was wet and aching for his fingers, him with her tongue.

his mouth, his cock on her and in her.

When his other hand began to move along her leg,

“Hey, did you two start without me?”

sliding upward toward her thigh, inching inside the hem of her She whirled at the sound of Seth’s voice. He stepped dress, she shuddered. Her pussy quaked with need. Shock out onto the balcony with a waitress in tow. She carried a tray mixed with desire, and she didn’t know whether to stop him or of champagne glasses and a bottle. Seth picked up the bottle open her legs wider and beg him to fuck her right there.

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and three glasses, then winked at the waitress. “Close the door

“Now I feel like I caught up,” he said.

behind you, Cin.”

“You bet, Mr. Jacobs.”

“Oh, shit, I’m getting turned on just watching them.”

Seth turned to them. “So, what did I miss?” He poured Blair shifted in the corner and turned to Callie, who’s amber champagne and handed Abby a glass. She reached for it, her eyed gaze was wide with shock. They let the curtain drop.

hand shaking, and took a long swallow.

“Girl, you and me both. I’m going to need a double

“Not much,” Mike said. “Abby tastes good. At least her vibrator shot tonight. Is Abby the luckiest woman on earth or mouth does.”

what?”

Oh, God. She was going to go up in flames right here

“I want to know why she isn’t fucking them both right on the balcony. Would the people inside notice the bonfire now.”

through the sheer curtains?

Callie rolled her eyes. “Come on, Blair. That’s not

“Is that right?” Seth placed his glass on the ledge and Abby’s style, and you know it. She’s not into public sex.”

took Abby’s, handing it to Mike. He placed his palm on Callie shuddered, wishing it was her out there on the balcony Abby’s neck. “I think I need to taste, too. May I?”

with those two men. The idea of doing it in public view made Oh yeah. She was going to implode. Right now. But her so hot she could come right there in the ballroom.

first, she was going to kiss Seth. “Yes. Definitely yes.”

Blair pursed her lips. “Well, you’re right. But I’d say His kiss was softer than Mike’s. At least at first.

our girl is well on her way to some serious ménage action Tentative, he applied gentle pressure to her lips, then drew her tonight.” Blair sighed. “Oh, to be a fly on the wall and be able closer, his fingers encircling the back of her neck, his other arm to watch.”

wrapping around her waist to draw her against his muscled Callie felt the room close in around her, heat and her strength. She felt his cock, hard and insistent, rocking against libido firing her up to a near fevered pitch. “So, you like to her sex, touching her clit. Explosions went off inside her.

watch, do you?”

When his tongue hit hers, it was like a shock to her system. She Blair shrugged. “I can take it or leave it. But who whimpered against his mouth, then he groaned into hers, wouldn’t want to see a play-by-play of the kind of fun Abby’s licking at her tongue like he was starving. The sensuality in his going to have tonight?”

kiss was like water to a thirsty woman. She craved it like Callie would sell her soul to watch. Then again, it was a nothing ever before. Where Mike was abrupt fire and passion, voyeur’s favorite thing to do. And not even her two best friends Seth was coaxing and teasing, like climbing a slow stairway to knew her deep, dark secrets. There were some things a girl just ecstasy. These men were driving her crazy.

didn’t talk about, even with her friends. But she’d sure as hell When he stepped back and smiled, Abby held onto the fantasize about it tonight and put herself in place of Abby, ledge for support. Seth picked up her glass and handed it to her.

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standing there on that balcony. Only she wouldn’t stop at just a hoping for words that could express what she felt.

kiss.

Unfortunately, all she could do was revel in the sight of the two When it came time for fucking, Callie would do it out gorgeous men who’d just kissed her, who obviously both in full view. Because she didn’t just like to watch other people wanted her. And she had no clue what the next step should be.

having sex. She also got off on the thought of having other She thought of Blair and Callie, what they would advise people watch her.

her to do at this moment, and wished they’d rush out here and

“I can’t wait to get the report from Abby after this hold her hand. But they weren’t going to do that. It was time to weekend,” Blair said, picking up a piece of fruit from her plate.

stand on her own and go for what she wanted. She was an

“I wonder how kinky Mike and Seth are?”

adult, a woman, and she had needs. It was time to lay it out

“You mean, if they’re into bondage or spankings or there and see which way the wind would blow.

anything like that?”

“Why don’t you just tell us what you’d like to see Blair’s face colored a healthy blush. She shrugged.

happen next,” Seth suggested. “We can hang out here all night.

“Hey, you just never know about some people.”

Dance and party with everyone and have a great time.”

Callie smiled. And some people you instinctively knew

“Or we can slip away and have a private party,” Mike what turned them on. Like Blair. Who claimed to like being in suggested, leaning against the ledge, glancing at her out of the charge, who walked all over every man she’d ever been corner of his eye with a smoldering look that singed her involved with. But Callie would bet a million what Blair insides.

needed was the right man to spank the dominance right out of Seth cleared his throat. “With either one of us, or both her.

of us. Really Abby, the choice is yours.”

“No,” Callie mused. “You just never know about some

“I think she’s fully aware what her choices are,” Mike people.”

countered. “It’s up to Abby to decide what she wants. We’re all adults here, and both Seth and I can handle you making a

“So, should we toast to tonight?” Mike asked Abby, choice. If you want to be with only one of us, that’s fine. Hey, raising his glass.

if you don’t want either of us, that’s fine, too. So, Abby. What Toast? Oh yeah. She was toast all right. Burnt to a crisp do you want?”

already. “Uh, sure.”

She looked at both of them, so different in so many

“Here’s to whatever you want, Abby. However you ways, and knew she’d regret it the rest of her life if she didn’t want it,” Seth said.

take what they were offering. “I’m going to be honest here.

“I’ll drink to that,” Mike added.

I’ve never done anything like this before.” She looked down at

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tremble of nervousness shaking her from the inside out. If Seth watched Abby and her friends retreat to the ladies Chad saw her now, racked with indecision, he’d laugh at her.

room.

Fuck off, Chad
. Her head shot up, and she looked them

“They’re going to talk about us, you know,” Mike said.

both in the eye. “What I’d really like is to get out of here

“Of course they are.” He looked over at Mike. “You without too much commotion or attention and spend some time don’t think they’ll try to talk her out of it, do you?”

alone. With both of you. Whatever happens after that…well, Mike laughed. “I doubt it. I saw the grins on her we’ll just take it a moment at a time.”

friends’ faces when they were peeking through the drapes Mike lifted a brow and nodded. Seth smiled and said, while we were out on the balcony. I’d say they were

“Then that’s what we’ll do. Come on, let’s go back to the party instrumental in getting Abby to agree to this in the first place.”

for a bit, then we’ll slip out.”

“Ah. Well, that’s good.” He kept his eye trained on the She sighed in relief and followed them inside, spotted bathroom door as if he expected Abby to bolt out of there any Blair and Calli,e and excused herself while they dragged her second and head for the nearest exit. “How are we going to off to the ladies’ room.

handle this, anyway?”

“Well?” Blair asked as soon as she was sure they were

“Same way we’ve done any other woman we’ve shared alone in there.

before.”

“I told them I wanted to go off alone with them.” God, Seth frowned. “Abby’s not like any other woman we’ve she couldn’t believe she’d done it, but she had. She really was shared, Mike. You know that. She’s…different.”

going to have a three-way with Mike and Seth.

“You’ve got a thing for her, don’t you?”

Callie squealed. “You are going to have so much fun!

“A thing?”

And I can’t wait to hear every sordid detail!”

Mike grinned. “Yeah. A thing. And don’t pretend you

“Take notes if you have to. You want my pen and some don’t know what I’m talking about.”

paper?” Blair added.

“I don’t have a thing for her. I just don’t want to see her Abby rolled her eyes, grateful for her friends’ teasing to get hurt.”

diffuse some of the tension frying her nerves. “No thanks. I

“I hardly think Abby’s looking at this with any romance think I’ll have vivid enough memories to last a lifetime.” Her blooming in her eyes. She’s looking for some great sex, and smile died, and she grabbed their hands. “I can’t believe I’m that’s it. And she’s so damn tense I’ll bet she could use a doing this.
Can
I do this?” She felt queasy.

couple dozen orgasms. So we’ll give them to her.”

“Of course you can,” Blair said. “You need this, and Now, that thought made him grin. Seth was looking more importantly, honey, you deserve it. Now, go have some forward to making her come. Over and over again. “That we fun and fuck your brains out.”

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Mike clasped him on the upper shoulder. “So quit So maybe her moment of panic had been going on a worrying about it. We’ll be nice. And gentle. And let her lead.

little longer than just a moment.

And she’ll have a great time. And when it’s over, it’s over.”

Seth squeezed her hand, capturing her attention.

“You’re right. She knows what she’s doing.”

“The word
no
works really well on both Mike and me,

“Your place or mine?”

Abby. Use it whenever you want tonight, and everything

“I don’t care.” Women sure spent a lot of time in the stops.”

bathroom together. Were they creating a battle plan? He always She exhaled and nodded. “I’m sorry. Like I said before, wondered what they talked about.

I’ve never done this.”

“Seth. You paying attention?”

He leaned over and kissed her, stealing her breath in an

“Huh? Oh. I don’t care. Yours is fine.”

entirely different way. She relaxed against the seat back and

“Okay. I’m going to say my good-byes and head to the gave herself up to the sensations of his lips and his tongue house, get things set up. Why don’t you bring Abby?”

moving against hers, the way he cupped her neck and held her

“I’ll do that. See you in a bit.” He tore his gaze from the as if he were keeping her safe. Her tension melted.

women’s restroom door and stepped back to the party. God, he

“We’ll make it good for you, baby,” he murmured was practically stalking her. Pathetic.

against her lips.

The last thing he needed was involvement with Abby.

She shuddered, letting in all the feelings of desire, Mike was right. When the sex was over, they’d go their pushing away any of her second thoughts. She reached up and separate ways.

palmed his cheek, shuddering a sigh. “I know you will.”

It was better that way. She had her life and was just He came around and opened her door, helping her out starting out. He had his, and he wasn’t about to get involved of the car and escorting her to the front door, which was again.