“We still owe her five, Sir.”

“Yes, we do.” There was a moment’s pause and then a smack.

“Oh, god.” Lexi groaned and shook as they slapped at her pussy. It stung and then warmed her already overheated flesh. She wiggled her ass trying to get them to do it again. In quick succession, they gave her four more slaps, each one sending her closer and closer to the edge. She felt something building inside, but just as she thought she would burst, Aidan spoke again.

“Twenty. Now she’s really creamy and ready to go. I think we should move on. She’s far too free to move around the way she is now. I’d like her tied down. Pick her up and move her to the rack.”

Before she could protest, Lucas had his arms around her waist, lifting her up. He swung her into his arms and moved toward a big wooden table she’d thought was a work bench. Now she could see the hooks that had been drilled into it. From each of the four hooks there was a length of rope attached.

“Relax, baby,” Lucas said as he placed her on the rack. “The hard part is over. You’ll pleasure your Masters, and then we will be happy to please you. Obey, and I promise there isn’t a thing we won’t do to make you come.”

Lexi laid back, content to allow Lucas to move her limbs into position. Her ass still stung, but the ache in her pussy was far worse.

“Leave her legs untied,” Aidan ordered.

Lexi looked up, and Aidan was standing over her, watching as Lucas tied the knots. Aidan had shed his jeans. His body was hard all over. Every muscle glistened with sweat, but it didn’t bother her now. She was far too busy looking at his cock. It stood out from his core. His hand lazily stroked up and down as he watched Lucas prepare her.

Aidan had been able to fuck forever when they were engaged. He would just thrust in and out like he didn’t have a care in the world. He would fuck her until she’d come so many times she couldn’t remember anymore, and only when she told him she was sore would he sigh and pick up the pace and finally let his cum flow.

She felt Lucas tighten the rope. Lucas. He could play with her for hours. He was so patient and willing to deny his own pleasure.

“I missed you.” Aidan was so serious as he looked down at her. He stroked a hand through her hair.

“I don’t want this, Aidan. I’ll take the sex, but I don’t want to talk about this.” She couldn’t go there with him. Not yet. Maybe never.

He nodded his head, but the light in his eyes had dimmed. “Then I’ll show you. I’ll show you how much I’ve missed you both.”

Aidan leaned over and took her mouth. There was nothing tender about his kiss. He possessed her. His lips molded hers, forcing them open, and his tongue invaded. He surrounded her with his taste and feel and smell. He was overwhelmingly masculine.

Lexi shivered with desire when she felt a hot mouth on her breast. Lucas. While Aidan’s tongue danced against hers, Lucas pulled a nipple into his mouth and began to suckle.

“You’re going to give us everything,” Aidan said when he came up for air.

She looked up at his face, his handsome, scarred face, and worried that he was right.

* * *

Lucas pulled that perfect pink nipple between his lips as Aidan spoke. He wasn’t so sure that Lexi would give them everything. She was stubborn, his girl, but damn he wanted it all. Lexi felt heavenly under his hand. He stroked her perfectly soft skin as he curled his tongue around her nipple and sucked. He wanted Lexi, and he wanted Aidan. His girl and his guy. Well, his father always told him he had unrealistic expectations.

He banished that thought. He hadn’t gotten anywhere listening to his politician father. Now Jack was a different story. Listening to Jack had gotten him a good job and Lexi. Listening to Jack was going to get him Aidan, too.

Lucas had known what he was doing when he’d gotten close to Aidan and pulled their bodies together. He’d seen Lexi walk out, and her eyes had been as wide as saucers as she’d looked at them. It had been a simple thing to lean in and explain to Aidan that they had a peeping Lexi who just might like a show.

It had been an excuse. Lucas had wanted that kiss. He’d denied himself for so long that he couldn’t go on without it. And it had been wonderful. A kiss from Aidan when he wasn’t tipsy or seized with lust.

“Lucas, I want to watch. Take her pussy.”

Now Lucas was the one who was seized with lust. He’d avoided fully making love to Lexi because the time wasn’t right, because he wasn’t sure she would stay, and he couldn’t live without her. Since the moment he’d seen her, she’d been the sun in his sky. He’d been orbiting around her. She was tough and kind. She had a heart that was as big as he’d ever seen, and she hid it behind a sarcastic exterior because life had kicked the shit out of her more than once. She was his haven.

It was time to be with her.

His cock hardened painfully.

“Lucas,” she whispered his name.

Aidan leaned over the table, his face close to hers. He placed kisses all over her cheek and neck.

Lucas dragged himself off her breast. He stood and looked down at Lexi. Her bright blue eyes shone up at him. She was beautiful, with porcelain skin and raven dark hair, but beyond that he saw the young woman who had befriended him despite his past. She’d opened her heart when he needed kindness so badly. She’d taught him how to love. He couldn’t, wouldn’t fail her.

“I love you, baby. I loved you yesterday. I love you today. I’ll love you after we’re both gone from this earth.” It was his first time making love with her. He wouldn’t change it into something less. He wouldn’t play a game. He turned to Aidan. “We should do this later. I can’t play a game the first time.”

Aidan kissed Lexi’s cheek one last time and straightened up. Aidan took Lucas’s face in his hand, surrounding Lucas with his rough warmth. “No more games. That first night in Austin I should have let you have her, but I was selfish. I want to give you this, Lucas. I want to be here when the two people I love the most finally get to be together.”

“Lucas, please,” Lexi said, watching them. There was a watery gleam in her eyes. “I need you. I’ve always needed you.”

Lucas leaned forward, pressing his lips briefly to Aidan’s before turning back to his girl. “Do you want me to untie you?”

She frowned. “Don’t you dare. This isn’t a game, Lucas. I want this. I want this life with you. I want to submit to you. You better take me up on this, babe. I seriously doubt I’ll be compliant anywhere but the bedroom, or barn, or wherever you happen to tie me up.”

Just one of the reasons he loved her. He kissed her, letting his tongue have its way. He wouldn’t have wanted her as badly if she hadn’t been difficult. She was smart and funny and creative. She was his.

Lucas kissed his way down her body. He loved her touch, her sweet scent, the taste of her skin. He nipped at her breasts and tongued her navel. By the time he made his way to her plump pussy, she was writhing.

“Lucas, do it now.” Lexi didn’t sound terribly submissive.

He chuckled against her flesh. Her clit was poking out of its hood, practically begging him. “I like to take my time, baby. You know I never rush things.”

Not anymore. He used to rush things, but he’d learned the power of patience.

“You’re going to kill me, Lucas.”

Lucas breathed in her arousal and took a long, slow swipe. She tasted sweet and savory all at once. She was a treat, and he indulged in her. He licked and sucked, spearing his tongue into her cunt, imitating what his cock was going to do. He pulled her labia gently apart so he didn’t miss an inch. He traced a line from just below her clit all the way to that tight asshole he intended to fuck one day. He licked her there, and Lexi squirmed.

“You stop, Lexi,” Aidan commanded. “You behave or I’ll spank you, and Lucas will have to start all over again.”

“Please,” Lexi cried. “Please don’t stop.”

That was where Lucas wanted her. He wanted her begging for his cock, because Lexi begging meant something. She wouldn’t beg for just an orgasm. She had to be involved soul deep to truly submit.

Aidan’s voice softened, but only a little. “Then calm down and let Lucas have his way.”

Lexi stilled, though her pussy was weeping and clenching. Lucas looked up, and Aidan was staring as he stroked Lexi’s hair. A look of longing crossed his face as he watched Lucas lavish affection on Lexi.

How long was he going to pretend with Aidan? It hadn’t even been twenty-four hours since Aidan had walked back into their lives, but Lucas was ready to throw his stupid heart at the man. How long before he gave up? Lucas had been offering his heart since he was a kid, and only Lexi had ever stayed. How many times did he need to get his heart stomped on?

“Come down here, Sir. Help me send her to heaven.”

Aidan was beside him in a heartbeat, his head leaning over. Aidan touched their foreheads together, the contact sweet and gracious.

How many times would he try? Lucas would try until he had what he and Lexi needed. Lucas understood why Aidan ran. He’d been afraid. Accepting oneself was hard and frightening when it meant giving up so much. Aidan had been afraid of losing his family, his community. He was back, and he wasn’t afraid anymore. Now Lexi was the one who was afraid.

Lucas bent down and lapped at her pussy, Aidan’s head joining him. Their tongues played in the heated pool of her cunt. Every now and then they would slide together, exchanging her taste. Lucas’s cock was begging, but he had a point to prove.

Aidan speared his tongue into her cunt, and Lucas finally gave in to her little cries. He sucked her clit between his teeth, and Lexi screamed.

Aidan lapped, his tongue licking up all that cream. Lucas was done being patient. He fished into his jeans and pulled out the condom he’d put in there when he’d dressed. Lucas watched Aidan rubbing his nose in Lexi’s pussy as he kicked off his boots and jeans. His cock bobbed up and down. It was so hard it was painful, but relief lay there on that hard rack. She was glorious with her hands tied, her body helpless against their assault. Lucas rolled the condom over his dick and prayed he lasted more than a stroke or two.

“Get up, Aidan.”

Aidan’s head came up, and Lucas watched the Dom in Aidan threaten to take charge. Aidan’s whole body tensed, and an icy glare came over his dark eyes.

Lucas didn’t have time for a fight. “Spank me later, Sir. I’m going to fuck her now.”

The Dom fled, Aidan’s expression softening. He hopped off the table and kissed Lucas gently. “All right. Thank you, Lucas.”

Lucas hugged his partner, because he couldn’t think of Aidan as anything less. He would have to find a way to convince Lexi to forgive Aidan and leave the past behind. His cock bobbed against Aidan’s. Oh, he wanted that, too. He wanted to fuck Lexi while Aidan screwed his ass. He wanted it all.

But now he needed Lexi.

He climbed onto the table and spread her wide.

“Oh, Lucas,” she whispered. “I love you, Lucas.”

Tears pricked at the back of his eyes because he’d waited so long to hear those words. “Forever, baby.”

He lined his cock up and started to thrust.

“God, Lexi, you’re so tight. So fucking tight.” Lucas heard himself groan. She clenched around him. She felt so good. His balls were already drawing up. He pressed forward.

“I’ve only had one lover, Lucas. I’ll only have two in my life, I swear.” Those dark blue eyes were filled with tears.

He’d had so many he couldn’t count them, but she’d had Aidan, and now him. It was a gift. He pressed forward, but he was in control now. He had to make it good for Lexi. Lucas leaned down and kissed her, savoring their connection, mind, body, soul. She was a part of him. The best part.

“You’ll never regret it,” Lucas promised.

He worked his way in. She hadn’t had a lover since Aidan, and that was years before. Since then, Lucas had been her intimate connection, and he’d been careful. He’d used a vibe on her, but he was bigger than the one he’d bought for her. He pressed in until he was finally all the way in his love.

Lucas felt a hand on his back. Aidan. He smiled at the joy in his heart. They weren’t home yet, but they were together.

Lucas pulled back and plunged in. He thrust into Lexi, over and over. The feel of being inside her was overwhelming. Lucas ground his pelvis against hers as he pushed up. He might have had an enormous amount of meaningless sex with men and women, but it had taught him how to please a lover. It was all worth it if it brought Lexi joy. He pushed his cock deep as he ground against her clit, and Lexi’s whole body tensed and shuddered.