It isn’t until I realise that I never finished checking over the plans for the dinner that I jolt upright.
North’s hand clamps around the back of my neck, gently—but firmly—forcing my head back to the pillow. I try to ghost out of his arms, but Lambert is still pressed against my back, making it impossible.
I’m naked, and I don’t remember how I got this way, but I’m keenly aware of it now as North drags me against him and our bare skin meets.
“I have to?—”
“Sleep,” he grumbles. “Or I’ll spank your ass.”
Lambert cuddles closer against my back as I open my mouth to respond, only to close it again.
A devious gleam enters North’s eyes, a silent dare, and I bite my lip in response.
“Be a good brat, and in two hours, Lambert and I will reward you.”
“And if I don’t?”
He raises one brow. “You really want to risk missing out on what we have planned?”
As if to punctuate his point, Lambert grinds his semi-hard-on into my ass, pressing a kiss to my shoulder.
Leo’s accusatory glare when he discovered Dakari and me up here earlier flashes across my mind. Am I doing it again? Falling into them to avoid my problems? Shouldn’t I be working right now?
North silences those thoughts with a kiss.
“Wherever your mind just went, you’re wrong. Now go to sleep.”
“But we’re all awake,” Lambert protests. “It’s technically daylight. Can’t we get started on the surprise?”
North rolls his eyes, shifting so I’m sprawled over his chest. “Two. Hours. Go to sleep, both of you.”
Decree given, he closes his eyes, and I turn my head, meeting Lambert’s mischievous gaze with curiosity.
“Better do as he says, boss.” He throws an arm across his face, muffling his next words. “Wouldn’t want to miss out on your first-ever threesome.”
With that last tease, he drops effortlessly back into slumber, leaving me to gape at him in stupefaction. North’s fingers tangle in my hair, stroking through it in a gentle rhythm. I don’t mean to yawn, I really don’t, but it’s like he’s found the off switchfor my brain.
“You better not be teasing me,” I mumble, then let the soothing motion pull me back under.
Forty
Kyrith
Something jostles me. My arms shift, only…I can’t lower them.
My eyes snap open as I tug, only to find North above me, my head in his lap. Both of my wrists are clasped solidly against his chest in one of his hands. The other is stroking lightly down my arm, heading for my bare breast.
My nipple beads as my other leg is moved, making space for…Lambert, who settles himself over me to claim a kiss.
“Good morning,” he mumbles against my lips before diving in for another taste.
At the same time, North reaches my nipple. He rolls it between his forefinger and thumb, the touch deceptively gentle.
“We’ve had a nice long chat about how this is going to work,” North informs me. “And we’ve established some ground rules.”
“I’ve magnanimously decided to allow both of you to be in charge,” Lambert explains, dropping his head to suck lightlyat my pulse. “As long as North keeps his hands on you and not me.”
“In that case—ohh.” I arch between them as North’s touch goes from gentle to punishing in the space of half a second. “What was that for?”
