Daye, Rainey - An Unconventional Love (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour) (10 page)

Both men looked away sheepishly as Alex said, “No, earlier was the two of us losing control.”

“We truly didn’t mean to go as far as we did,” Jesse apologized. “We’ve been trying our damnedest to get you hot for us, but we truly didn’t plan what happened earlier, I swear.”

“We just wanted you to want us as much as we want you. We thought it would be best if we slowly felt you out to see if you would be willing to become our girlfriend, so we decided we’d try to see if we could make you desire us first. Not that I had a plan when I started massaging your shoulders. I really was only trying to work the kinks out of your muscles. But then it dawned on me that it was the perfect opportunity to see if we could ignite your desire for us, and we got carried away. And so for that, we both offer you our sincerest apologies.”

Maggie contemplated their confessions for a long moment. “And when you told me your story in the living room that day? Was that part of all this?”

“Our seduction of you, you mean?” Jess asked, and Alex suddenly looked as if he wanted to strangle him as Maggie began to sputter.

“Uh, that’s what we’ve been calling it among ourselves,” Jess admitted sheepishly. “But by ‘seduction,’” he hastily said, using air quotes to emphasis the word, “we meant seducing you into becoming our girlfriend, not just into our bed.” And then he winced as he realized that he should have reworded that last statement.

Maggie tried her damnedest to be pragmatic about everything now that it was all coming out into the open. She weighed the pros and cons versus her own wants and desires and decided to ignore her knee-jerk reactions and instead approach what they were telling her they wanted in a cool and rational way.

“Clarify for me what a girlfriend means to you,” she finally spoke.

The men exchanged disbelieving looks before they both began talking at once.

“Someone to go on dates with…”

“Someone to take to a movie and make out with during most of it…”

“Someone to cuddle with on the couch at night while watching TV…”

“Someone to spend quiet, quality time with…”

“Pretty romantic view of a girlfriend you two have there,” Maggie interrupted. “But what about sex?”

“That goes without saying,” Jess said with a frown.

“No, I mean, how would sex work with two men sharing the same girlfriend? My room or yours? Alone or as a group? If I’m going to even consider this, then I need to know exactly what you two expect of me.”

“We’ve never had a threesome before,” Alex said thoughtfully.

“What are you talking about?” Jess demanded. “You had one with those two blondes you picked up at Smiley’s last spring.”

“I meant that I’ve never had a threesome with
you
,” Alex protested. “And stop telling Maggie about my past misdeeds, or she’ll start thinking I’m a pervert!”

And with that, Maggie burst into laughter, startling the two men who were oh-so-earnestly trying to woo her.

“If anyone’s adorable, it’s you two,” she said, repeating their words from earlier in the week to them.

“Does that mean you’re considering our offer?” Jess breathed.

“I don’t remember either of you actually making the offer to me.”

“Then we have been greatly remiss,” Alex said gravely, and turning her head to face him, he took her hand in his and pressed it against his chest. “Maggie Conner,” he breathed. “Will you be our girlfriend?”

Maggie swallowed the sudden lump in her throat and couldn’t believe that she was actually seriously considering their offer of a relationship with them. But they misconstrued her extended silence for dissent.

“Before you say no,” Jess hurriedly said, “let us reassure you that when it comes to sex, we’re okay if you want it to be strictly one-on-one, and wherever you prefer. Nor would we ever rush you into having sex with us, and we will never try to force or coerce you into doing anything you don’t want to. We can even draw up a schedule of date nights between us, and if you wanted to sleep alone, we would respect that, too. In fact, we’re even willing to go so far as to allow you to simply snap your fingers and demand that one of us service you right then and there, and the other will gladly leave the room.”

“Hey!” Alex snapped angrily. “Stop speaking for me, you boob!”

And Maggie found herself bursting into laughter again at Jess’s unconventional concessions and Alex’s anger over them.

“Let me try to salvage what little I can from what Jess just said, Maggie,” Alex said once her mirth was under control and Alex had stopped trying to murder Jesse with nothing but dirty looks. “We both care deeply for you, and it goes way beyond friendship or desire on our part. I would even call it love but don’t want to spook you any more than we already have. What we want is a girlfriend who knows the real us. Someone who will be faithful to us, just as we would be to her. Someone who understands us and respects our needs and desires. Who won’t be mad or offended if the two of us want to spend quality time alone together, just as we would both want to spend quality time alone with her.”

Taking a deep breath, Alex looked her seriously in the face before continuing. “I’m going to be blunt here so that there is no way you can misinterpret what I’m saying, so don’t be offended, okay?”

Truly curious, Maggie nodded.

“No, the two of us have never shared a woman before or had a three-way together. Yes, we are both open to the idea of doing that with you but only if you are comfortable with it, too. No, we would never try to force, coerce, or trick you into it if you weren’t comfortable with it. Yes, we would definitely expect to have sex with you, but only ‘straight’ sex, not anal. That’s not what we desire from our female lovers. Yes, there will be times when we will prefer cock over pussy and would expect you to be understanding about that. No, we would never cheat on you with another woman, just as we would expect you not to cheat on us with another man. And finally”—he took another deep breath before delivering the deal breaker to her— “Jess and I are a package deal. It’s either both of us or neither of us. You can’t choose or even prefer one of us over the other. We both expect to spend equal quality time with you, either in a group or by ourselves, just as we will want to spend quality time alone together. When all is said and done, Jess and I
are
fully committed to each other, and we will never allow anyone to come between us, even you. So if you can handle both of us loving you, admiring you, respecting you, and desiring you, then we would be honored to have you as our girlfriend.”

Chapter 7

“Well, I think that went really well, don’t you, Alex?” Jess asked as the two of them retired downstairs to give Maggie a chance to consider their offer.

“The fact that she didn’t even notice that she was topless the entire time we were in there with her and the fact that we were both able to control ourselves gives me hope,” Alex conceded.

“I was too concerned with winning her over to notice her breasts,” Jess admitted.

“Oh, I noticed them, but I was going to be damned if I made the mistake of pouncing on her again and spooking her any more than she already was.”

“So what do we do now?” Jess wanted to know as they walked into the gourmet kitchen to put together a pre-dinner snack.

“I think we should simply stand back and follow Maggie’s lead in this.”

“And if she won’t lead where we want to follow?”

“I no longer know at this point,” Alex admitted.

Gloomily, the two ate their sandwiches halfheartedly, lost in their own dark thoughts of worse-case scenarios and what they should have done differently with their impossible situation.

They finally rose from the round breakfast table at the back of the kitchen and took their plates to the sink where they rinsed them off and then left them for Maggie to wash. Since Maggie, in her own words, “could even burn water,” she had volunteered to always do the dishes as long as they kept her well fed and never lost patience with her as they unsuccessfully tried to teach her how to cook.

They exited through the formal dining room, which was usually used as a place to spread out their books and study, and entered the living room so that they could catch the news and continue to mope. But when they entered it, they found Maggie waiting for them. She had moved the coffee table to the side and had laid a beach towel on the hardwood floor in front of the couch. Next to it was the same massage oil that Alex had used on her earlier.

But what truly stopped them in their tracks was the sight of Maggie lying on the towel. She was propped up on her elbows with her chest thrust forward and one leg straight, with the other slightly bent and leaning inward, while wearing nothing but an emerald-green string bikini that exactly matched the color of her eyes.

Dumbfounded, neither man could move or speak at the sight of her lying there.

“I did some thinking,” Maggie said, filling the silence. “And I finally came to the conclusion that I really wish you had finished my massage. I have also realized that surely anyone with your knowledge of massage techniques must be wholly familiar with the erotic variety as well, and I would really like to experience one of those at least once in my life.”

“What are you saying, Maggie?” Alex croaked.

“I thought I was being perfectly clear,” she replied.

“An erotic massage usually winds up with the recipient naked. Are you okay with that?”

“I wouldn’t be lying here if I weren’t” was her answer.

“An erotic massage usually leads to other things as well, if it’s done right.” Alex felt the need to clarify.

“I’m fully aware of that fact.”

“So, I’ll just leave you two to get to it then,” Jess said, obviously trying to disguise the wounded tone in his voice as he took a step backward out of the room.

“Oh, no. You’re not getting off that easily, Jesse,” Maggie scolded him. “I’m sure Alex here taught you all he knows about massages and, knowing you the way I do, I’m sure you made a further study of it on your own. Besides, judging by how well you were working my arms and hands, I would say you are probably every bit as talented as Alex is, and I would like to put that to the test. I’ll even go so far as to let you two decide who gets my front and who gets my back,” she added magnanimously.

“I think we need to clarify what exactly is going on here and what might happen if we proceed,” Alex said hesitantly.

Jess smacked him hard on his chest, causing Alex to rub the sore spot there. “Are you out of your fucking mind? Stop being so analytical for once. Can you not grasp the fact that Maggie is laid out before us like a banquet and has invited us to dine?”

“Yeah, Alex,” Maggie gently chided him. “Why are you hesitating now after that heartfelt plea earlier?”

“Because it truly was from the heart, Mags,” he said as he knelt down beside her. “We decided that the two of us need to woo and court you first before tumbling into the sack with you.”

“You’ve been wooing and courting me for the past six months,” she said softly.

“Really?”

“Really, but neither of you realized it,” she said as she sat up and cupped his face in her hands and kissed him for the very first time.

Alex’s head spun as she licked the crease of his lips, requesting entrance so that she could stroke his tongue with her own. Growling, he deepened the kiss and buried his fingers in her soft curls while blood rushed to his groin. Maggie groaned in bliss and let her head fall back when Alex left her lips to trail his mouth along her throat.

He caught sight of Jess in his peripheral vision when Jess knelt on her other side and cupped her cheek in his hand so that he could turn her face to his and claim his own first kiss with Maggie.

“Damn, you’re a great kisser,” he heard Jess breath reverently and felt Maggie’s answering chuckle where he was nibbling on her throat.