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“I think so. A little more leverage to add to the stash I’m building.”
I couldn’t use it against Mom until I was sure I had enough to stop her in her tracks and shield me and the guys for the rest of our lives, but every little bit got me closer to that goal.
As I tapped hastily at the touch screen, transferring the files to a cloud server I’d set up to save all my recordings and other evidence, Rafael strode down the stairs from the rink’s doorway.
“Everything’s been quiet outside,” he reported. “No sign of anyone having followed you or sniffing around.”
I stuffed my phone back into my bag and let out my breath with a sensation of relief I knew wouldn’t last—but that I’d treasure while I could. “Good. The one upside to Mom being busy planning a massive takeover is she doesn’t have a huge amount of time to notice every time I leave the house.”
Jasper glanced at the other two guys and then at me, a smile that looked a little sheepish crossing his face. “Speaking of that… Do you think you could get away with staying gone a little longer? I was thinking we could just go out and grab a coffee or something.”
I blinked at him. “A coffee?”
His gray-green gaze held mine, so hopeful despite the careful way he was phrasing the question that it tugged at my heart. “I know you have to play it safe and there isn’t much time for anything other than practice. But it’d be great to even have an almost-date, just the four of us hanging out like we used to…”
The lump that’d formed in my throat before expanded enough to momentarily choke off my words. I swallowed hard, wrenched by the recognition of how much I missed being surrounded by my men all the time. Sharing meals with them, watching TV with them, cuddling up on the sofa or in bed…
All the little pieces a relationship was made up of—the pieces we’d lost the moment my mom had dragged me back to Austin.
And she was ruining even this. Because I had to say, my voice gone rough, “I don’t know if that would be a good idea. Risking being seen together anywhere at all public…”
But I needed him to know how much I missed him. How much I still wanted him.
Rather than trying to continue in words, I scooted closer on the bench and pulled Jasper into a kiss.
God, I’d missed all of this so much. I’d kissed him since we’d reunited in Austin—I had earlier today when I’d arrived for practice. But this time I threw myself whole-heartedly into the embrace as if there were no other demands weighing on me.
Jasper twined his fingers in my ponytail, tugging me even closer. As we both gave ourselves over to the kiss, his heat enveloped me. I wanted to melt right into him and never come up for air.
Except there were two other men I craved just as much. I let my lips linger against Jasper’s for a few seconds longer, and then I pushed to my feet and grasped the front of Niko’s shirt.
Niko beamed at me in the moment before our mouths collided. There was a sunny quality to his heat that was nothing like Jasper’s but equally appealing. His deft fingers traced over my cheek while he tucked his other hand around to the small of my back.
I’d almost forgotten how well I fit against his slim but toned frame.
At a gruff clearing of a throat, I eased away from Niko to grin up at Rafael. “I’m not going to leave you out.”
My bodyguard’s eyes smoldered with a promise that left my skin tingling. “You’d better not, brat.”
The low lilt he added to the teasing nickname had me drenching my panties. I hopped up on the bench above mine so we were practically the same height and threw my arms around his broad shoulders.
As he claimed my mouth, Rafael scooped me right off the bench. Enclosed in his brawny embrace, I felt invincible, untouchable. He couldn’t really protect me from all of my mother’s power, but I reveled in the impression anyway.
When he splayed his fingers across my ass, my pussy clenched. I kissed him with even more hunger, but every nerve in my body quivered with the knowledge that this wasn’t enough.
I was going to take in everything my three men could give me. I’d had to deny myself too long as it was.
At the shift of my body, Rafael lowered me so I could stand. I teased my fingers down his solid chest and peeked at him through my eyelashes. “Secure the door and then come right back?”
His burgundy eyes outright blazed. He charged up the stairs two at a time, and I reached for the other two men.
Jasper and Niko watched me intently as I guided them back onto the rink rather than remain in the cramped stands. I tugged the down jacket Niko had been wearing off his shoulders, enjoying the quickening of his breath, and spread it out on the ice.
“Come here,” I said, gripping their arms as I sank down on the makeshift cushion.
As he knelt next to me, Jasper drew me into another kiss. Niko settled at my other side and slipped his fingers up my back under my shirt. I hummed eagerly at their combined attentions, but the shape of another man drew my attention.
Quentin came to a stop several feet away from us, his posture rigid, his starkly blue eyes both scorching and uncertain. “I guess this is my cue to go?”
