“Thanks,” I whisper. Looking into his deep gray eyes, I feel something stir in my core.
“Yeah, let’s get you settled,” Xander adds as he relieves me of my heavy backpack.
“Before we do, I have a confession,” I blurt.
The two men stare at me, frowns on their handsome faces.
“My friend’s apartment, where I’ve been staying, well it has a …” Shuddering, I take a deep breath. “A roach infestation.”
Xander holds my backpack away from his body and scrunches his face.
“Oh, god, you think they’re in there?” My hand flies to my mouth. “The guy said he sprayed our stuff, but—”
West nudges Xander, who winks at me. “Just teasing, shorty. I’m sure you don’t have any hitchhikers in here.” They both start to walk down the hallway in the direction of the guest bedroom.
“Wait. That’s not my confession.” I wring my hands, and they both turn and stare at me again.
“So, what is?” West asks, his deep voice smoother than melted chocolate.
I swallow and take a breath. “That’s why I decided to come here. Because I needed a place to stay.” West and Xander share a look, but they don’t seem mad. “I mean, I hadn’t made a decision about the other thing yet. I was still thinking it over.”
Xander shrugs. “So think it over here.”
As if there’s anything to think about. I was torn before, but it only took one look at Xander’s chest and West’s thick forearms for the decision to be made for me. Not to mention the man mountain that is Zeke, wherever he is. How the hell will I survive them? But if I don’t, what a way to go. “I don’t need to.” I chew on the inside of my cheek. Just say it, Lily. “I want the other thing too. All of it.”
Xander sinks his perfect white teeth into his bottom lip and tilts his head to the ceiling, letting out a loud groan that makes me giggle. West stares at me, his eyes dark and full of longing. His tongue darts out to lick his lips. Oh god, what I wouldn’t give to have that tongue on any part of my body.
“Is that still what you want?” My voice is barely a whisper. “All three of you?” I glance around, hoping to see Zeke, and he obliges me, stepping out of the shadows and approaching us.
“Fuck yes.” West’s voice is a rumbling growl.
“Yeah,” Zeke says quietly.
I have no idea how this is going to work. No idea at all what the hell I’m doing, but something about it feels very right. Xander looks at me too, and the heat from their gazes alone makes me wet and needy. “Hell yeah, shorty.”
Chapter
Fourteen
XANDER
We ate Chinese takeout for dinner because that’s what Lily asked for and I figured it would make her feel more comfortable. Especially since her decision to move in was kind of forced on her. What West Archer wants, West Archer gets.
Zeke says he simply expedited the process, but whatever he did to make the whole roach nest situation happen, I fucking love him for it. Now we have this sexy, funny, sweet-as-cherry-fucking-pie woman sitting in our kitchen, snort-laughing because her fortune cookie says your cup will overflow with happenis. That typo would be hysterical regardless, but given the fact that she just agreed to be the beneficiary of three dicks for the foreseeable future, I totally get why she can barely breathe.
Tears roll down her cheeks, and even Zeke is watching her with amusement shining in his dark eyes. West looks at me and shakes his head, as if to ask me what the fuck we’ve gotten ourselves into with this one, but he has a huge-ass smile on his face. It’s true that Lily is different from the other women we’ve tried this with, but maybe that’s why it will work this time.
She wheezes loudly, doubled over on the stool as she tries to catch her breath. “Jesus, Lily, you don’t have asthma, do you?” West asks, genuinely concerned.
She shakes her head, making her thick dark curls bounce wildly, and it only makes me laugh harder. When she finally calms down and sits up straight again, her cheeks are red and streaked with tears. She wipes them with the sleeve of her sweater. “I’m so sorry,” she pants. “That was just so freaking hilarious.”
I wink at her and start to clear away the empty takeout cartons. “Never known a fortune cookie to be so scarily accurate before.”
That sets her off again, and West rolls his eyes, but his shoulders shake from suppressing his own laughter.
“As fun and indigestion-inducing as this dinner has been, I have a shit-ton of work to do.” Zeke pushes his stool back and stands up. “I’ll see you all in the morning. Goodnight.”