Page 23 of Lie No More


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It made sense that loyalty would matter so much to Xander, who had kept the same two best friends all his life. He had such shaky, weak connections with his family members, I could see now that Dane and Bryce were more family to him than the other stuck-up Townsends. This made me feel like I was part of their little family somehow, too, and though I knew that was ridiculous, I couldn’t quite shake the feeling that I belonged here with the three of them.

“Honestly, I never really liked that son-of-a-bitch,” Dane said, then. He strode over, even his fiery anger fading now in the aftermath of my sad story. He came to stand at Bryce’s other shoulder, nearly a full head shorter than his friends, though no less dazzling for it. But instead of falling in line, he reached for me, pulling me toward him by my wrist so I was in front of him, my chest almost touching his.

“I always hung out with Owen because he was friends with Xander and Bryce, but I got a bad feeling from that guy from jump. What he did to you was fucked up. I’m on board for ruining his privileged life in whatever way we can, especially if that means I get to touch you again.” He side-eyed his two friends, then smirked as he met my eyes with his own. The depths in those dark brown irises shocked me.

“You didn’t apologize for being such a dick to me, though,” I pointed out. A little bit of a reminder for myself, too—I couldn’t cave, exposeallof my vulnerabilities, with the three of them. We may be tentative allies at this moment, but we weren’t really friends. There wasn’t enough trust for that, yet.

“And I’m not going to,” he said, which gave me pause until he continued. “I don’t believe in apologies unless they’re sincere, and I can’t apologize for the way that I am.” He shrugged, but the sweet, tortured look on his face told a different story. He cared more than he was letting on. This felt like a confession of his low opinion of himself more than a refusal to be kind to me, and my stupid, misguided heart broke a little bit at that realization. His hand was gentle when he placed it on the back of my neck, and the soft, cherishing possession in it broke my heart a little bit more.

“I like you, Jade, against my better judgment. I don’t actually fucking care enough about your lies to not want you anymore. And the really fucking wild thing is that I care whether you likeme. But you need to know that I’m not the nice guy you’ve probably dreamed about, not even underneath it all. I’m not the type to buy you roses or whatever shit a lot of girls look for, alright? But I’ll stick up for you against dickheads like Owen, and I’ll always stick by my friends, too. Plus,” he said, taking a pause to shock me with a surprise kiss, passionate and promising more. He spoke quietly when he pulled away. “If you’re up for it after everything, I’ll give you everything you want and more in bed. I can guarantee you that.”

Was that really all it took for my body to sing to life, transform into a live wire of arousal? With just that reminder of Dane’s sexual prowess, I could already feel the wetness, the gentle heartbeat between my legs that made me squirm and shuffle back and forth on my feet. He was the reason I could now understand the appeal of bad boys.

Or was I really just in denial about how I’d been on the precipice of lust since the second all three of these guys were in the same room as me at the same time? There was too much tension, standing there with the three of them. Too much unresolved fantasy, staring right at me in a perfectly private,soundproofed basement—Dane’s dark woods brown, Bryce’s golden amber, and Xander’s frozen lake blue.

The perfect combination.

“Does this mean you boys are down to help me thoroughly destroy Owen Prescott, then?” I asked, not hiding the sultry rasp in my voice, the implication of where this revenge plot could take us.

“Depends on what that entails,” Xander replied.

“I’m down for whatever,” Bryce chimed in cheerily. “But I have to say, with all four of us working on it together, I think we can do better than a little FOMO on social media.”

“Might as well hit him where it wouldreallyhurt,” Dane practically purred. He pulled me to him, surprising me into a tiny yelp that made all three of the guys laugh. “If you’re going for revenge, what better way to get back at your ex than by fuckingallof his best friends?”

“What, at the same time?” I laughed, but the serious silence that greeted me told me there was nothing funny about it. My pulse quickened with excitement, trepidation, and God knows what else. They couldn’t be serious, could they?

“Hold on.” Bryce stopped the crazy train in its tracks, holding up one of his huge bear-paw hands. “First of all, I’m on board for fucking you again as revenge, Jade, but I just need to emphasize that I want you regardless. Scheme or no scheme, you’re sexy as hell, and I’ve been dreaming about that pussy nonstop. So yeah, I’m not just doing this for the wrong reasons.”

God, would I ever stop blushing at the things Bryce said to me? He was shameless in his flirting, his dirty talk, his constant praise that I was starting to realize was kind of my kink.

“Let’s be real, this is more about me wanting to fuck you than it is about your shitty ex,” Dane agreed. “But if you can kill two birds with one stone, why the hell not? Feels right.”

Xander nodded. “You didn’t think this afternoon was going to be a one-time thing, did you, Jade? Because I know we both want more than that, and I see no reason to deny ourselves the pleasure.”

“Wow.” I laughed, looking at each of their serious faces in turn. “Imagine how pissed Owen will be when he sees how much good dick I’m getting. Talk about being better off without him.”

“I don’t want to think about him right now,” Dane growled into my ear. “I just want to be inside you, finally. Will you let me fuck you, right here in front of my friends? Seems like a good way to prove you’re not in this just to spite your ex.”

My heartbeat was running away, now. Too much excitement. I worried it would thump its way right out of my chest. I looked at Bryce and Xander even as Dane started to kiss my neck, a question in my eyes before it graced my lips. “Would you… wouldallof you want that?”

As if in answer, Bryce came to my side and gently moved the hair off my neck. He leaned in to kiss my jaw on the opposite side of where Dane was, and I sighed at the perfect completeness of it. Being cocooned in between their two bodies… was this heaven?

Before my eyes could flutter closed in pleasure, I let my gaze wander until I found Xander, still a step or two away from the rest of us. He made no move to come closer. Instead, he just watched the three of us with a cool, impassive expression that may have convinced someone else, but after getting to know him so intimately this afternoon, it didn’t fool me in the slightest. His eyes were locked onto the scene with rapt attention, his body tensed as if to pounce, and I could have sworn I saw the stirring of his cock underneath the front of his gray sweatpants. My lips parted in pleasure as Dane scraped his teeth over the place where my neck met my shoulder, and then I felt Bryce’s hand come up to cup my breast. I let out a gasp.

“Undress her.” Xander’s commanding voice broke through the moment. My eyes widened with the realization that he was taking control of the scene from the outside, not directly involving himself yet. The idea of his giving us orders, posing me like his little fuck doll… it shot a bolt of heat straight to my core.

Bryce obeyed the order, a team player until the very end. He grabbed a handful of Xander’s shirt fabric and pulled it up, exposing my ass and pussy to the air. Dane swore quietly as he pulled back to help, and when I was fully naked, standing in front of them, the three guys took a long moment to drink in the sight.

“Goddamn, baby,” Bryce said first, his voice awed and quiet. “You’re something out of a fantasy.”

“She is, isn’t she, boys?” Xander spoke coolly from behind us. He took a few steps back as if to give himself a better view of the whole tableau, his eyes trailing their way from my face down to my peaked nipples, my lust-swollen labia. He licked his lips, and I let out a tiny whimper, remembering the way his tongue had teased me into a frenzy just a couple of hours before. “Dane, tell her how fucking delicious she looks.”

“Good enough to eat,” Dane rasped. He locked his eyes on the flushed heat between my legs too, enthralled by it. “I can already see you’re soaking wet for us. An insatiable little slut, aren’t you?”

I felt myself blush a deep scarlet, unable to hide it as the color reached every inch of my exposed skin. Xander’s voice was sharp when he said, “Answer him, Jade.”

“Y–yes,” I stammered, looking into each of their eyes and landing finally on Dane’s. “I’m… I’m so wet for you. All of you.”

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