“You seem very eager to believe that Lucien did something terrible to me,” I said. “But the only thing he did was to not be able to protect me from Henrick and all his guards.”
Jaik snorted. “That’s enough as far as I’m concerned.”
“Jaik, you’re going to need to get over your jealousy,” I said and he practically spat out his wine.
He wiped the back of his mouth with his hand as if he were taking a second to compose himself before he said, “I’m not jealous.”
Oh yes, I was the absurd one. How could I possibly think that he would be jealous? Just because he’d acted like a crazy person when he thought Lucien, Caldren, or Talisyn were coming anywhere near me.
“Life can be so much better without jealousy,” I told him. “I don’t want to talk about Lucien or Caldren anymore.”
Jaik’s face tensed the way it always did when his brother was mentioned. “I wasn’t aware that we were talking about Caldren.” There was the faintest snarl in his voice when he said Caldren.
“My real concern about your jealousy is that it’s been pushing you and Talisyn apart,” I went on, “and I’m pretty sure that life can be so much more fun for all of us, if you get over your sense of jealousy.”
Talisyn smiled faintly, but his eyes flared with desire. “Why do I have the feeling you are playing with us, distracting us, kitten?”
There was the naughty cat nickname again that I was never going to live down.
“I would never.” I rose from the table and headed toward Talisyn, running my hand across his shoulders.
No matter what Jaik said, his gaze heated with a mix of desire and anger. He didn’t like to see me touching Talisyn.
“You two have kissed a lot of girls together,” I reminded him. I’d never even told Jaik that I’d been under the table at that party. It reminded me of how many secrets still lay between us all.
Jaik’s voice came out gritted when he said, “They weren’t you.”
The thought that I was special to Jaik struck me hard. My hand swept down Talisyn’s chest but he caught my wrist in his. He looked to Jaik.
“I want Honor,” he said, “and I want to make her happy and I know that the two of us together can make her happy in ways she’s never experienced before. But if you aren’t good with it, we can wait. I’ll never give up, but I’m happy to spend my time with Honor doing nothing but talking…if that’s what you need while you get your head on straight.”
Talisyn glanced up at me, his eyes saying that everything would be all right, that eventually Jaik would come around. “Go to him,” he said quietly. “I’ll watch.”
I squeezed Talisyn’s shoulder, appreciating the way he looked after both Jaik and me in his sunny, careless-seeming way. I moved to Jaik as he pushed back in his chair. His eyes went heavy-lidded the second before I straddled his lap.
Jaik’s gaze roamed my face. “It looks like you trapped me. What are you going to do now?”
I leaned forward and pressed my lips against his. His chest was warm and hard under my palms, and the aftershave he wore carried a minty tingle to my nose. His hands ran up my hips, and I grabbed his hands and put them back on the arms of his dining chair. His fingers curled around the carved ends of the arms as I ground down against his cock, which was a rigid length pressing against me even through his trousers.
“You’re a very determined girl, aren’t you?”
“I know what I want, and I happen to want you, Jaik.”
“But not just me.” His eyes smoldered.
“Not just you.” I almost confessed to how the scene I’d seen at the library lingered for me, woke me up at night sometimes with lust throbbing between my thighs. I wanted to be at the center of both men. “I happen to have grown very fond of you both.”
He kept his hands on the chair as I rolled my hips against him, watching the way his breath hitched, the way his lips parted in desire, his eyes dilating as if I were enchanting him. I unbuttoned his shirt and yanked it open so I could study the hard, broad planes of his chest and abs.
Then I opened his trousers and freed his cock, pulling it out with pre-cum beading the tip. His cock was hot and thick in my hand as I sank to my knees in front of him, wrapping my mouth around his cock, teasing my tongue along it over and over again. He let out a long groan.
I teased him with my mouth, watching his reaction, drawing him in and out of my mouth. I could feel Talisyn watching us both, but he made no move toward us. I sucked Jaik’s cock until his thighs began to tremble.
His cock jolted in my mouth, hot cum filling my mouth for a second before I swallowed frantically. I licked my way around his cock one more time, feeling him jerk in response, then sat back on my heels.
Jaik stood, dropping his trousers the rest of the way, shedding the shirt I’d unbuttoned. His fingers rested on my hair for a moment, studying my face. The way he touched me was tender. He seemed to be looking for something, and I wasn’t sure what it was.
Then the hard lines of his face softened, as if he’d found what he was seeking. His fingers curled into my hair, holding my head still as he dropped to his knees in front of me. His lips met mine in a hard, punishing kiss, his hand in my hair controlling my head, tilting my face back so he could more easily angle us for the kiss.
A low moan slipped from my lips to his. I loved when he dominated me like that, controlling but not hurting. It was Jaik at his purest form, who he was deep down—always seeking control and always caring underneath his icy exterior.
Jaik broke away from me, his eyes slightly wild, and nipped my lip one more time before he looked over my head.
“Gods damn it, Talisyn,” Jaik said finally. “Get in here.”
His lips plundered my throat before he growled. “She’s too crazy for one of us to handle alone.”
He pushed me down on the soft white rug spread in front of the fire. He undressed me in quick, fevered movements, and there was the distinct sound of fabric tearing.
“Hey, I need that,” I said.
“I’ll buy you new ones.”
“I’m skeptical. You never gave me my panties back.”
“You don’t want them back. I did unspeakable things with your panties.”
That made me very curious, but when my lips parted, Jaik shut me up with more kisses. I felt Talisyn’s hand brush my arm, then settle against my skin; his touch had the perfect amount of roughness to it as he began to caress my breasts, the calluses on his hands teasing over my nipples. My nipples sharpened in response, almost painfully, even before Jaik bent and began to worship my nipples with his tongue.
“Lie down,” Jaik ordered Talisyn.
Tal settled back on the rug beside me, his arms cocked beneath his head, the two of us side by side. He gave me a cocky smile and a wink, and I couldn’t resist smiling back.