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Kay shakes her head, looking confused. “I…don’t know.”
Ethan leans forward, his elbows on his knees and his fisted hands falling between his spread legs. “You don’t know, or you don’t want to tell us?”
“What did you do, Kay?” I insist.
“I don’t know,” she snaps back, getting up. “Maybe I forgot. Maybe it was something meaningless to me. I don’t fuckingknow.”
Ethan and I eye each other, silently agreeing that we need to find out.
Once Kay’s left, I unsurprisingly find Jade sitting on my bed, her knees to her chest, her arms wrapped around her shins, and her head down.
“My love,” I say softly as I sit on the side of the bed. I caress the top of her head, but she doesn’t look up. “Talk to me.”
She shakes her head, and my fist closes around her hair, pulling back. “Jade,” I sing-song. “In this family, we talk when there’s an issue. If I force Ethan to do it, I can do it to you too.”
Her sad eyes twist my heart. “You won’t fall for her, right?”
A smile spreads on my lips. She still hasn’t said she loves me, but it’s so fucking damn obvious.
When I don’t reply, she panics. “I know you share me…I know it kills you. But I can’t do it. I can’t, Elliot. Sharing you isn’t an option for me. Not you. Not Ethan. I guess I’m selfish, what can I say? I’m selfish, and I want you to myself. Both of you. I can live with being a selfish bitch, but not with sharing you. So tell me you’re not going to fall for her…please.”
Unshed tears sparkle in her eyes. “I thought it would kill me to share you with Ethan,” I admit. “But it doesn’t. What I want in life isyou. You’re my ultimate goal, my love. So, no. I won’t fall for her. I won’t fuck her unless I’m forced to on the day of the robbery. I’m going to pretend so she takes me to the safe. I’ll get it opened for Ethan and Kay, then I’ll move to another room with her, but I’ll occupy her with something else. And I won’t fuck her before the day either.”
I let go of her hair, hooking a finger in the heart of her collar.
“You might have to kiss her if you date her.”
“Or maybe I’ll make her wait. It’ll make her want me even more.”
“Don’t be yourself with her,” she murmurs. “Only I get the real you. Me and Ethan.”
I nod. “Only you two.” I pull at her collar, forcing her closer to me by her neck. “Kiss me, baby. Show me how much you don’t want to share me.”
Her lips crash onto mine, her hunger for me insatiable. I pull away between strokes of her tongue, murmuring that I love her against her lips.
I say it again, and again.
“I’m in love with you, Jade. You. No one else.”
And still, her response doesn’t come.
It’s okay. I’ll be patient. I can do it. I’ve waited all my life for her. I can wait a little longer to hear her whisper that she loves me.
In the meantime…I guess we’re robbing a bank.
35
JADE
Love is Madness - Thirty Seconds to Mars, Halsey
The next few weeks pass in the blink of an eye. Kay has to go see her daughters in West Virginia again, so it’s just the brothers and me working on the robbery. The van is the most important thing, and Ethan and Elliot have been helping. They follow everything I tell them to a T, and it’s been nice to be the one to give the orders for once. Except at night. Or lunch. Or any other time of the day we’re outside the garage.
It takes a lot of energy to date two men who are demanding, like to be in control, both dominating. They don’t fight for power anymore, as they quickly realized there was enough energy in me for both to get whatever out of me. And I’m weak. I’m not a weak woman, but fuck, I’m weak and desperate to please those two like it’s a fucking save-the-world kind of mission. Only our world, but that works too.
I wouldn’t say we’ve found the perfect balance yet, and I don’t know if they’ll ever not have those bursts of possessive actions they sometimes do, but we’re working on it. Falling in love with two men is not easy. There’s a reason it doesn’t really happen. It’s hard, it hurts sometimes, and I can’t help the slight pulls of guilt when I spend time with one more than the other. But it’s working and things can only get better.
Every now and then, when one is jealous, they’ll take it out on me. Not in a bad way, more in a deliciously wrong way. I like it.
