“Carrie?”
“Oh, hi. Good morning.”
“Morning. What are you doing?”
“Looking at the pool. Gage has a company that takes care of them. She was going to tell me some of the things she has to do to keep them running. She’s just grabbing us breakfast.”
“I know. I ran into her in there. She mentioned that she would like to spend tonight with you as well, so I wanted to confirm that with you.”
Carrie smiled and gave her a sure nod.
“I’d like that, too.”
“I will make the arrangements, then.”
“Thank you,” Carrie replied.
“Hey, Nia?”
Nia turned to see Becky and Helena standing in the open back door, looking like they might want to discuss something with her.
“Can we borrow you?” Becky asked.
Nia looked at Carrie to check if she was good, and when Carrie nodded, confirming that she didn’t need anything else from her, Nia walked back into the house and found that Helena was no longer at Becky’s side.
“She went to get us coffee. Can I talk to you?”
“Is everything okay?”
“It’s fine. Good, actually. Really good,” Becky told her and sat down on the sofa. “Can you sit?”
“What’s going on?”
Nia sat down next to Becky and stared at her, wondering where this was going because Becky looked nervous, and Nia had initially expected her to ask if she and Helena could just leave to be at home alone together instead of at the event where they had to participate.
“Helena and I are on the same page about something.”
“I hope you’re on the same page abouta lotof things.”
Becky laughed nervously and said, “Yes. But one thing specifically is why I’m here now. We’re both on the same page about the threesome.”
“Okay. Well, that’s good. I know you’ve been interested in that.”
“There’s more. And you can totally say no. I don’t want this to get in the way of our friendship. We’ve been there before, you and me, and it was really good, but we reconnected, and we’re friends now, so I don’t want to do anything to risk that. I know we don’t see each other that often because you travel, but–”
“You can just say it, Becky,” Nia encouraged, knowing where this was going now.
“We want it to be with you,” Becky revealed. “The threesome. Here. With you. Tonight, maybe. If you don’t want to, just say so, and we’ll pretend this chat never happened.”
Nia smiled, took a sip of her coffee, and said, “Helena knows about our history?”
“I told her last night.”
“She’s not worried about anything with you and me?”
“No. I told her why we would never work as a couple.” Becky leaned in then. “Plus, I’m in love with her,” she added in whisper. “Neither of us wants a third in our relationship or anything. It would just be sex and one night.”
“And she wantsmeto be that third person?”
