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Aurelius swallowed hard. His body stiffened as he placed his hands on my shoulders and spun me around again. Maybe because he couldn’t face me.
“Dakota, listen, we can’t do this with you. And the reason we can’t do this with you is because Jace, Merrick and I…”
His jaw went tight. In the vast abyss of the full length mirror, his eyes somehow found mine again.
“We like to share.”
My eyebrows knitted together. I wasn’t sure I’d heard him right.
“Share?”
“Yes.”
I cocked my head. “You mean…”
He didn’t say a word. He only nodded in the reflection, looking back at me stoically.
“Oh.”
His hands were still on my shoulders. They felt like they weighed a thousand pounds each.
“Oh, wow.”
“Yeah.”
The room was twenty degrees hotter all of a sudden. Like I’d just walked into a sauna.
“I should probably get you back already,” Aurelius said abruptly. “If you’re even a second late for this thing, Jace is going to—”
“H—How long has it been like this?” I stammered. All of a sudden I had a million questions. “And… all three of you? Jace too?”
Aurelius merely shrugged. “I know it sounds crazy, but it’s a part of who we are. We’re extremely tight-knit. Partners in everything. And the three of us have shared before. We’ve shared before and we liked it.”
“The same woman?”
“Yes.”
The lump forming in my throat felt like a bowling ball. I found just enough oxygen to keep breathing.
“Look, it’s not something we broadcast,” Aurelius went on. “But we’ve had relationships like this in the past. We’ve shared girlfriends during deployment, and we found that it suited us.”
He paused, and I saw the hint of a smile curling its way upward at the very corners of his mouth.
“The women didn’t seem to mind it either, to be honest.”
Shared.I repeated the word over and over in my mind, almost until it lost its meaning.
“So you only date women together?”
Aurelius’s hands slid downward casually, like they’d somehow done it before. They settled on my hips.
“Well, no,” he admitted. “I mean, we each haveneedstoo. It’s not like we don’t satisfy those needs when we want to, but those one-on-one relationships are purely sexual. We consider them placeholder relationships, until we find the one.”
“Theone?”
“The woman we all fall in love with. Someone strong and fierce and open-minded, who can accept three husbands instead of one.”
“So basically you’re looking for a unicorn,” I couldn’t help but chuckle. “At the end of a rainbow.”
