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“Right now, I’m the mood to catch my breath.” She rolled her eyes. “Sorry if that’ll slow you down, stud.”
Cale’s lips twisted up. “Watching doesn’t take much energy, now does it? Come on, let’s get some drinks.”
Tony and Marcia followed him downstairs to the bar. “What’s his deal?” Marcia whispered to Tony.
“Your guess is as good as mine.”
“Let me get you a drink,” Cale said to Marcia, ordering her a shot of raspberry vodka before she had a chance to reply.
“Hey, you didn’t let me decide what I want.”
“Think I can handle ordering.” The hard kiss Cale gave Marcia baffled Tony more than it annoyed him.
Cale had been fine upstairs. At first anyway. But as their play had continued, he’d become progressively rougher and more aggressive. Was it the atmosphere or what?
“Didn’t doubt it, but I can order my own drink fine, thanks.” Marcia’s irritation rang out loud and clear.
“Wasn’t asking.”
Marcia frowned. “What’s your problem?”
Tony wondered that too but when Cale met Tony’s gaze, his expression held a clear message. Play along.
“No problem, just establishing some guidelines. We’re capable of taking care of you the way you need.”
“I’ve already been taken care of in case you’ve forgotten.”
“Yeah, well, we say when that care ends, Blondie.” Cale’s dismissive look at Marcia made her hackles rise so visibly that Tony nearly grinned. Shit, his best friend was about to lose an arm if he kept it up.
“We? Since when? Last I knew I was Tony’s girlfriend, not yours.”
“When you’re here with us, you’re ours to be shared equally. Isn’t that what we agreed?”
Though Cale’s voice never lifted over his usual measured tones, Tony didn’t miss the steel beneath the question.
Cale had dabbled in some things that bordered on the darker edges of sex, at least by his own relatively vanilla standards, but Tony didn’t know if that had anything to do with Cale’s sudden behavior change. Was he trying to show Marcia a different side to him and his sexuality? Or was something else going on?
“Yeah, we agreed. But we also agreed you were both mine as well. I didn’t sign on for some submissive gig—”
Cale silenced her with one fingertip on her chin. “You signed on for whatever we want unless you’ve decided to call things off. These aren’t your rules. It’s either all the way or no way.”
Indignance flared in Marcia’s wide eyes. “So I have no choice?”
“You just got your choices. So choose. And if you choose not to agree, then this stops here and now.”
Tony started to speak but Cale’s quick, almost imperceptible headshake cut him off. Above all else he trusted his best friend. This threesome would’ve never happened otherwise. Whatever Cale was up to, it wasn’t just some kinky sex game.
Marcia glanced at Tony. “Well?” she demanded, lifting her voice above the laughter and noise of the crowd. “Is he speaking for you now as well?”
Tony jerked a shoulder, caught between the proverbial best friend rock and possibly-couch-sleeping hard place. “You heard the guy. Sounds like a hard limit to me.”
“Oh really. What if I call a halt to everything with both of you? How about that?”
“No,” Cale snapped. “This is my limit, not Tony’s. You want out, you’re out.” Still using that single fingertip, he lightly pushed her face away and stepped back to motion to the bartender. After ordering a neat whiskey, he aimed one last meaningful look at Tony and stalked away from the bar, then headed upstairs as if he knew exactly where he was going.
He probably did. They’d been there the night before and checked out things pretty thoroughly. But Cale’s purposeful gait indicated so much more than just that he had a particular location in mind.
He wanted them to follow.
