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“I—” I could do this, tell him. Tell them. Both were watching me with open and nonjudgemental looks. Just waiting. Patiently. “It’s—” I motioned between the two of them. “You guys. Both of you.”

They shared a look. Cassian’s eyebrows dipped down, but he popped another cookie into his mouth.

“Us two…?” Lee prompted, softly.

“You’re close.” I remembered how close and felt my face warm up. “You’re like, really close.”

“Yep.” Cassian came over to slide onto the stool beside me, bumping his shoulder and arm into me as he grinned happily. He dropped the bag of gingersnap cookies on the counter and opened the chips, offering it to me first.

I shook my head.

He started to turn the bag over, but Lee made a disgruntled sound and quickly slid a napkin underneath so the chips hit the napkin and not the counter. Cassian’s mouth curved down momentarily. He ducked his head a little. “Sorry, man.”

Lee threw him a distracted nod, returning to the fridge and grabbing two pizzas. He put them on pans, setting on top of the oven, then moved so he was closer to the counter, closer to us. He asked me, “Is that okay with you? That Cass and I are close?”

An image of the three of us flashed in my head, as I was on the couch, as Lee was over me and how it was Cassian who tore his shirt off him. “No. I—what we did, I liked it.”

Lee’s eyes heated.

Cassian stilled, leaning toward me.

“I liked it too.” Lee’s voice was soft.

Cassian shifted on his stool, adjusting himself. “I already told you both I am down for that again. In fact, the more times, the happier I’d be.”

Lee studied me a moment before cutting his gaze to Cassian. “But not with others. Right?”

Cassian paused, his hand full of chips halfway to his mouth. “Huh?”

Lee was so intent right now. “You. Me. Her. Only us.” His eyes slid my way. “Is that what you’d like?”

Tingles shot through me, heating my entire body. I went from being happy, excited, to woosh. Fully turned on. I had to take a moment, swallow a knot in my throat. “Like dating?”

Cassian’s eyebrows both shot up. “We’re dating? All of us?”

“No.” Lee shot him a dark look. “But you’re down for doing this again. I know I am. You?” His question went to me.

My mouth was so dry, but those flutters just got a shot of adrenaline. “Yeah. I’m down.” It clicked why he was saying just us three. “You’re talking like we’ll do physical stuff, but only us three.”

Lee’s face smoothed out. “Yeah. Hooking up is one thing, but the three of us hooking up, if we’re doing it again, I don’t want us hooking up with anyone else. I think it’d make it too confusing.”

The oven beeped. It was ready for the pizzas.

As Lee put them in, Cassian mused, “Plus, there’s the whole thing where Cole can talk to ghosts. And speaking of that, can we cycle back to the fact that it was Noah who told you the two of us have shared girls before?”

Lee went absolutely still.

Cassian added, his voice rising, “And an FYI, we’ve done this one other time.”

Lee’s gaze jerked to him.

Cassian had been reaching for more chips but paused. “Uh. Twice. You’re the third girl, but the first one was just something that happened. She was hot for two hockey players. The second was her friend. She got jealous of her friend bragging about bagging us both so she wanted to do it too.” His hand went inside the bag as he shrugged. “Both of them were last year. There’s not been anyone since, and you know, I didn’t see God when we were doing that with them. Not like with you. I saw God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost. The whole fucking Trinity thingamajig.”

Lee’s shoulders relaxed. An easy grin too. The look he gave Cassian could only be viewed as fond, and Cassian had no clue. Lee didn’t notice I caught the look too. His gaze grew thoughtful. He looked my way. “I didn’t know Noah was around for that last year.”

Cassian froze, his mouth falling open. “Uh. Say what again? You say that like you totally knew Noah was around and was a ghost? Let’s circle to this instead. What the fuck, Lee?”

Lee bristled before forcing his jaw to unclench. “It’s Noah, Cass. I—I’ve known he’s been around. I can feel him.” A stricken expression crossed his face, briefly.