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“Adar,” he said, his voice soft but with a definite warning edge.
“It doesn’t,” Adar insisted. “I won’t deny I liked it, but it’s not crucially important to me.”
Maybe not crucially, but it mattered, and Oliver got it now. “Do you prefer topping or bottoming?” he asked Delton.
“What? That’s… What does that have to do with anything?”
Adar was frowning again as well. “Yeah, why are you asking?”
“Because if you like topping, the solution is easy. When you two are doing the impact play, add sex.”
Delton’s mouth dropped open.
“Wait, angel, do you mean Delton fucking me?” Adar scratched his beard.
“Yeah. It would be the perfect solution, right?”
“B-but it would be cheating,” Adar said. “I’d be cheating on you.”
Oliver waved his words away. “Of course not. Not when he’s…”
Oh fuck.
In his eagerness to solve this problem and give Adar and Delton another opportunity to bond, he’d forgotten one tiny little detail.
“Oliver,” Delton grunted, looking aghast.
“You’ve lost me. How is this not cheating?” Adar asked. “I don’t want to have sex with anyone else but you. You’re my mate.”
Was there a way to walk this back? He had to at least try. “Forget I said anything. I wasn’t thinking.”
Adar leaned back, crossing his arms. He’d never looked so perturbed with Oliver. “I’m sorry, but it’s kinda hard to forget when my mate suggests I cheat on him. Why on earth would you say that?”
Oliver glanced at Delton, who seemed to be trying to disappear, his posture slumped. He’d hurt him. By not thinking about what this implied, Oliver had set Delton up for heartbreak, and the thought brought tears to his eyes. He’d never meant for that to happen. In his mind, it had been the perfect solution and a great way for Adar and Delton to bond, but he’d never considered Adar would perceive it as cheating. He wasn’t wrong, though. If Oliver hadn’t become convinced Delton was their third, it would have been a betrayal of the connection between Adar and him.
“I didn’t mean to do this,” Oliver whispered to Delton. “I’m so sorry.”
“I know you didn’t do it on purpose, but I really wish you had respected my wishes when I said I didn’t want you to tell him.”
“Tell me what?” Adar looked from Oliver to Delton and back. “Can one of you please explain? Because I’m missing something and…”
He narrowed his eyes, and Oliver could all but see him adding two and two and figuring it out. He’d better tell him instead of letting Adar interpret all this as Oliver keeping a secret from him. Which he had, come to think of it. Crap. “I think Delton is our third mate,” he said. “I’m convinced you and I are mates, but I feel like he’s our third, that we’re a triad and not a couple.”
Chapter Thirty
Delton felt like he was teetering on the edge of a cliff. His hands were clammy, his heart was racing, and his stomach churned as if he were about to throw up. How would Adar react?
Dammit, Oliver should never have told him. Delton hadn’t been happy about Oliver’s matchmaking schemes, which had already been way too obvious to him, but to his luck, Adar hadn’t picked up on it so far. But this harebrained idea of them having sex? What on earth had gotten into Oliver that he would propose that?
“I’m sorry, what?” Adar said. “I don’t think I heard you correctly.”
“You did.” Oliver raised his chin. “I think Delton belongs with us. As our third.”
Adar swallowed. “But I don’t… No offense, Delton, but I don’t see you that way.”
How many times could a heart break? It seemed Delton was destined to have his smashed to pieces again and again. “I know,” he mumbled.
“What makes you think this?” Adar asked.
