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I stroke my fingers along her thighs, watching her face as she bites her lip. Her legs fall open and I can see her pussy lips, pink and swollen from the shenanigans she had last night with Noah. Damn, I’m a bellend of the first order for missing that.
I bend down and brush my lips against the inside of her thigh, just touching her skin. I breathe in her scent – peaches and coconut and wild, pure Claudia – and lose myself in the utter perfection of her. She is my queen, and it’s an honor to kneel for her, to worship her.
I stroke my fingers across her skin, circling nearer but never touching, until she’s trembling and bucking her hips. “Gabe…” she growls in frustration.
I chuckle as I kiss along her inner thigh, pausing at her cleft to blow air across her clit. She smells amazing, so I take a moment to breathe her in. It’s too much for my queen – she grabs my hair and tries to force my head down, and a string of profanity falls from her pretty lips.
“Now, now, that’s no way for a queen to speak.”
I stretch out my tongue to taste her, and she tastes like flowers. I pull her clit into my mouth, sucking the delicate bud as she gasps and squirms again. I have to hold her thighs down as I lap at her, reveling in the gorgeous groans of pleasure she makes.
I sense movement and remember Noah’s still here. He sets three coffee cups on the table and climbs up behind Claudia. His eyes meet mine, and he lifts an eyebrow. I nod. He slides in behind her, pulling her body onto his and bending over to kiss her neck.
Claudia whimpers as I increase my pace, arching her back to face Noah, who claims her lips in his. I remember the pair of us dancing with her sandwiched between us, and how good it felt to see how happy we made her. Noah reaches under her t-shirt to circle her nipple with his fingers. I thrust a finger inside her, loving how wet and wanting she is. I stroke her G-spot as I circle her clit with my tongue.
Her ass jerks off the sofa and she gasps into Noah’s mouth as the orgasm rocks her body. I sit back on my knees, letting my smile dance on my lips. Even hungover as fuck, I’ve still got it.
Her eyes flick from me to Noah and back again. Noah’s hand slips out of her shirt as he meets my eyes and I read his expression. This is not how I do things. He slides his legs out from beneath her and goes to stand up. Being here with Claudia, with me, is blowing his perfectly ordered Noah world wide open.
Claudia grips Noah’s hand so he can’t leave. “I don’t want to choose,” she whispers.
“So don’t,” I say. Noah raises an eyebrow at me, but I ignore him. “Mr. Straight and Narrow over there might have other ideas, but I don’t give a fuck about monogamy. I just want to make you feel good.”
I want to dance music in her veins the way she does for me.
“I’ve never…” Noah runs his fingers through his hair. “You know what? To hell with it.”
I can’t help snorting a laugh. “What’s that you say, Dark Horse?”
Noah laughs darkly. “If you asked me a year ago if I’d be sharing a girl with my friend, I’d say fuck right off. I’ve never had any desire for swords swinging around while I’m with a girl. But that was before someone shot at me, my dad put out a hit on my girlfriend, and I helped a mobster dissolve a guy in his bathtub. The whole world is fucked up. Why should my relationship be any different?”
I can’t help the smile that plays across my lips. “So you’re in?”
“I’m in. Just as long as you don’t cramp my style.”
I snort. “Unlikely. I think I have a few tricks to teach you, young grasshopper.”
Claudia laughs. She throws her arms around us both, bringing us together so we’re smushed against her, Noah’s salty, jasmine scent mingling with hers. It feels… good, but a completely different kind of good to having her writhe under my lips. This was more of a chest-tightening, flame-licking-down-the-spine kind of good.
I kiss Claudia’s forehead. On the other side, Noah copies. The crown falls over her ear, and I pull back to set it straight on her head, brushing her hair away from her face to marvel at those wide, blue eyes. They aren’t so filled with ice today. There’s a warmth there that spreads fire across my chest.
“Every queen needs a harem.” I lean back to admire her crown.
“We’re not quite a harem. More like a threesome, a triad.” Noah decides now is the time to get technical. “We need at least one more…”
Too late, he realizes what he’s saying. Claudia’s eyes flutter closed. One name dances on her lips. “Eli…”
The name saps the warmth from the room. My chest tightens so hard I struggle to breathe. I know that I’ll never be enough for Claudia August. No one man could be. But especially not me. Noah understands her shadow side because he lives in the shadows himself. All I’m good for is a good time and incredible sex. There’s a piece missing. We all feel it.
Claudia needs Eli’s steadiness. We all do.
I’ll never admit it to Eli, but he’s a big reason why I moved back to Emerald Beach. I wanted to borrow a little of his quiet strength to get me through Dylan’s suicide. He got Noah through losing his brother, I figured he could help me, too. It never occurred to me until this very moment that Eli has lost more than all of us, and he had to go through it alone.
Dylan is right. Even when I try to be a good person, I fuck it up with my own selfishness. Eli knows it. One day Claws will realize too, and she’ll drop me for good.
Claudia
On Monday, we walk into Stonehurst Prep in our usual formation, only this time, we’ve added Isaac to our group. George is still beaming with happiness from the weekend – she called me on Sunday as I lay curled up in Gabe’s arms to tell me every adorkable detail of her night. All the other patrons left halfway through the infamous final thirty minutes of Society, leaving George and Isaac with the theatre to themselves, with tubs and tubs of uneaten popcorn. Midway through the scene in Army of Darkness where Ash fudges the incantation for the Necronomicon, Isaac kissed her.
