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I nodded slowly. “Yeah. But I’m still gonna miss it.”
She bumped me playfully. “Don’t frown that it’s over—“
“Smile because it happened?”
“Exactly,” she grinned. “Now get to smiling, and let’s get the hell out of here.”
We stood together, and for the next five minutes I cleaned up and shut the place down. With a mesh bag full of pucks slung over my shoulder, I flipped all but one breaker to the off position, and led the way toward the door.
“By the way,” I said, in the relative darkness. “If you think this place has been the only thing on my mind, you’re dead wrong.”
“Oh no?” Ari chuckled.
She bumped into me from behind. Whether intentional or on purpose, it didn’t matter. I turned around and my hands found her waist. I let them slide backward a little, until they settled right above the curve of her perfectly rounded bubble-butt.
“Where are we going anyway?” I asked, not moving an inch.
“Back to the loft,” she said. “Zane and Tyler are already there.”
She leaned into me, just enough to bring us together. The electricity was palpable as our bodies touched.
“There are still a few things I need to go over with you boys,” she murmured, delivering a soft, sensual, open-mouthed kiss. “If I’m actually going to be your girlfriend.”
~ 39 ~
ARIANA
“So first, how exactly would this work? Tell me everything.”
I poured the wine with a trembling hand, so fast that I almost spilled it. Watching it nearly slosh over the side of the glass seemed symbolic of something, although I didn’t know what.
“It would work exactly as any other relationship you’ve ever been in,” said Tyler. “Except that instead of having one boyfriend, you’d have three.”
“And the three of you would only have one girlfriend,” I said pointedly. “Me.”
“Yes.”
“Exclusively,” I reiterated, looking them in the eye one by one.
“Of course.”
I still couldn’t believe it. It didn’t seem possible.
“And you…” I said, turning to face Axel. “You’re okay with that? Giving up all your groupies, all your puck-bunnies? All those women who—”
“Yes.”
Axel flexed his big arms by leaning back against the kitchen counter. His skin was still flush from a shower that had seemed to take an eternity as we waited for him to finish. But if we were going to do this, I needed us all to be on the same page.
“Ariana, I’ve dated a lot of women,” he went on. “And yeah, some were wild. Some crazy. But you know me well enough to know that pretty much everything’s been physical and superficial.” He shrugged. “The connections might be hot at first, sure. But when the heat dissipates, I’m left with nothing.”
In my heart I knew my friend was being genuine. After all, I’d had a front row seat to his relationships for our entire dating lives.
“And you’re sure there wouldn’t be any jealousy?” I asked, my heartbeat picking up speed. “It’s not like we’d have a set schedule where one of you would get me one day, and the other the next, or—“
“Fuck no,” Zane jumped in. “That’s not what we want.”
“No, not even close,” agreed Tyler.
