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The silence is back.
And it lasts for several beats.
Lance swallows. “How long has this been going on?”
“Depends what you mean by ‘this.’ I kissed her twice before, then I didn’t see her for three years, and we slept together yesterday.”
“And what exactly is it between you?”
“I love her, Lance.” The sincerity in his voice mademyheart ache.
Lance seems to reel in his anger, swallows it down and nods. “How long?”
“At least as long as you.”
There is an awkward silence. I mean awkward for them, I’ve been expecting this. I’ve always been aware of Brent’s feeling for Elle, I didn’t even think he was subtle about it. I think if he was really honest with himself, Lance noticed too but was just in denial.
“So, what do we do?” Lance sighed.
“I don’t know.”
“You know,” I butt in. “We should probably talk to her about it.”
They both nod and Brent wordlessly leaves to fetch Elle.
Lance looks a little lost, all his hope and optimism from earlier seems to have dissolved into resignation. I go to him, plastering my front to his back as he leans against the counter and stroke my hands down his chest and over his taught abs.
“She won’t want me,” he mumbles.
“You don’t know that.” I kiss between his shoulder blades. “Elle has wanted Brent as long as he’s wanted her, Lance. But she wants you too. She wants all of us. And I’m willing to let her have all of us, are you?”
He turns, searching my face for something. “You’re serious? How would that work?”
“However, we want it to.” Combing my fingers into his hair, I place a gently kiss to the corner of his mouth. “We’d have each other, we’d have Elle, what would it matter if she had him too?We love Brent, right? You’d deny him something that makes him happy when it makes her happy too?”
His eyes close as I brush my lips from his mouth to his jaw and down to his neck. “Are you trying to seduce me into agreeing to this?” he asks around a moan.
I chuckle as I suck on his pulse point. “Is it working?”
He cups my face, bringing me back to look him in the eye. “No,” his answer is disappointing, but his smile gives me hope. “I agree because you’re right. I love Elle and I love Brent…albeit in very different ways.” I snort at that. “We are all bonded, the four of us. It makes sense for us to be together in whatever way feels right.”
I smile at him and kiss him slowly. “Trust me, I think it will be good.”
His smile fades and that sad dejected look come back. “If she doesn’t want me, where does that leave us?”
I press my brow to his and tell him what I told him three years ago. “I’ve just got you aftersixyears of wanting you, I’m not leaving it here.”
39
ELLE
“P
rincess?”
“Hmm.” I. Am. Tired.
Brent seemed to want to have six years’ worth of sex in one night to make up for lost time. My legs are aching from where he’d kept them stretched wide, and my arms ache from where he’d kept them pinned above my head. Then there was the deep delicious ache in my core, one I will be savouring all day.
