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“I’ve admitted to still being in love with you, Owen, and I’m coming to care a great deal for Tobias. Is it going to cause problems if I’m in love with both of you? If I want to express that love in ways other than sex and orgasms?”

Owen puts a hand over mine, and Tobias follows suit with my other hand.

“You sure do ask the hard questions, don’t you, love?”

“Hard or not, it feels important.”

Tobias clears his throat. “It is important. But it doesn’t have to be sorted right now does it?”

My heart falls a little at the response, but ultimately, Tobias is right. Not everything has to be figured out tonight. So, I pick up my water and try not to let my mind wander to a world where I can’t express my feelings for both of them.

Chapter twenty

Chapter 19

Owen

It’sstrangetowalkinto the High Card with Bellamy and Tobias. While we can’t be publicly together as a threesome, the club is a safe place for us to be ourselves. Bellamy isn’t sure if she wants to play in front of people, so we’ve reserved a private room just in case.

She looks at both of us nervously as we stand on either side of her. I’ve got my arm looped through hers, and Tobias has a hand resting on the small of her back.

She greets people we pass who say hello, but otherwise we don’t stop until we get to the Diamond play space. It’s my home inside the club. I’ve curated the space with the equipment and luxuries I enjoy most. Tonight, we’re hosting a Fetish Fashion Show, something Zara cooked up. Luke declared it too frilly for his play space, so I co-opted the idea for mine. The concept is to demonstrate a variety of kinks with exquisite kink fashion on display.

Bellamy and I are still learning what Tobias enjoys, so his thoughts on tonight’s entertainment will be eye-opening.

“From what I could tell, you provide the most entertainment and staged events in your play space,” Tobias comments. “Is that on purpose?”

I’ve never thought about it, but I do tend to bring in the most special performances and exhibitions.

“Not on purpose, but I am the one who enjoys that sort of thing the most. Matteo will tell you it’s because I’m an attention whore. But I rarely get on stage myself.”

Tobias contemplates that. “You always did attract a crowd to anything you did when we were growing up.”

“He enjoys making people happy,” Bellamy says quietly. “It’s what makes him happiest.”

I squeeze her arm and give her a tender smile. “Close. Making you happy makes me happiest.”

She blushes and immediately looks at Tobias to make sure the interaction didn’t bother him. That bugs me, but this arrangement is going to take some getting used to, and we’ve given her reason to be nervous about our ability to get along. I’m still not convinced this is going to work long-term, but Bellamy’s happiness is important to me, so I’m going to do my best to make it work until we can’t. How I’ll deal with the fallout when this explodes in our faces, I have no idea. For now, I won’t dwell on that.

“What gave you the idea for a kink club together?” Tobias asks as we enter the play space.

I smirk. “The club was Matteo’s creation. But the rest of us were just horny enough to agree. Turns out it’s what we all needed.”

“And Bellamy? How did you get her on board?”

Bellamy clears her throat to answer, but Tobias holds up a hand to stop her. When she looks petulant, he winks. “You can tell your side later. I want to hear how Owen tells it. We both know he likes to spin tall tales.”

That brings a giggle to Bellamy’s lips.

“I called and asked. At that point, we’d already fooled around. Kink was the next logical exploration for both of us. Bellamy gets bored easily. She faced going back to Philadelphia until you were ready to marry her, or living with her future mother-in-law in London, and neither of those were appealing to her, so when I asked, she jumped at the chance. And once we explored power exchange there was no going back for us. She’s been mine ever since.”

I expect him to react negatively to my declaration of ownership over Bellamy, but he doesn’t. Instead, he just looks at her with one eyebrow raised.

“That how it happened?”

She laughs nervously. “Pretty much.”

He doesn’t seem mad, but he’s not exactly thrilled either. This entire night is going to be interesting.

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