Seth shrugged.

“This has to—absolutely must—happen…before. You know that.”

Seth shrugged again. “I know.”

“You didn’t have a problem with it that one time.”

“Uh, yeah, thanks to the freaking tequila. Oh, and, by the way, she wasn’t your wife.”

“It’s more than that.” Kaden sat up. “You can’t put off the inevitable on my end by putting off the inevitable on yours. This is for her. I want to see her happy. I meant it when I said she’s fantasized about you plenty of nights. Let’s make her dream come true while we still can.”

“Be a little more fucking eager to pimp your wife out, why dontcha?”

“Damn it, it’s not the same thing and you know it!”

Seth stewed. He did. He also didn’t want to admit the truth.

“This week, you’re taking Leah to the club. Alone. Tony will be there if you have questions.”

Seth’s jaw clenched. “I don’t think I’m ready.”

“Yes, you are. You’re a damn sight more ready than most of the asshole wannabes that show up. Leah trusts you to take her. Just go, play an easy scene, and come home. That’s all you have to do.”

Seth didn’t respond.

“You need that alone time with her.”

“Fuck, Kade, that’s taking you away from her. She doesn’t have much time left with you!”

“Is that what this is about?” he quietly asked. “That you feel guilty you’re spending time with her and it’s taking time away from me?”

Seth didn’t answer. That was part of it, but not all.

“I already told you, we’ve got a big bed. Feel free to sleep in it with us every night.”

“I don’t know,” Seth whispered, “if I can handle seeing her…” He couldn’t finish.

Kaden studied him. Then, after a long moment, he spoke. “You don’t know if you can handle seeing her make love to me.”

Seth closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and nodded.

The laughter surprised Seth enough he opened his eyes. Kaden was howling, loud and hearty.

“I don’t see what’s so fucking funny.” And it sort of pissed him off.

Kaden shook his head and laughed harder. When he finally could speak, he said, “Dude, that’s great!”

“I think you’re getting off on fucking with my mind.”

“No! Don’t you see?” He sat up again and looked at Seth. “You’re jealous—of me!”

“You sure you don’t have brain cancer, because you’re acting like you’ve got no brains left.”

“You love her, asshole! That’s what I’ve been trying to get through your thick goddamned skull! It’s what I want to happen, because the more you love her, the less likely you are to divorce her at the end of the first year!”

Seth wasn’t yet ready to admit that he didn’t give a shit about the time limit. If Leah would have him forever, he’d keep her forever.

Kaden still tried to reason with him. “Would you do anything to make her happy?”

Seth nodded. Of course he would. He’d do anything, including trade places with Kaden so she didn’t lose him.

“Having you and me, together, would make her the happiest woman on the face of the planet. Maybe so goddamned happy that, for a little while at least, she wouldn’t be thinking of the thing that’s going to make her pretty miserable for a long time. Is it worth it to you to make her happy?”

As whacked as it was, he couldn’t deny Kade’s logic was valid.

Whacked, but valid.

Kaden leaned in a little and dropped his voice. “Here’s what I feel. When I think about her being alone with you, yes, I feel a little jealous. Not because I don’t want her with you, but because I’m not there with her. When I watch you make her come while we’re having a session, I stand back and I enjoy how she’s enjoying it. It’s what I don’t see and I’m not a part of that rips me up. Being there and seeing and hearing her enjoy herself…it’s great. Think about it.”

Seth did. He had to admit in retrospect that, yeah, it was always a lot easier to watch Kade work with her than it was to lie alone in bed and wonder what they were doing behind closed doors.

“Okay. I can wrap my head around that,” Seth admitted.

They sat in silence for a few more minutes. “Does she ever take charge?” Seth asked.

Kaden laughed. “Oh yeah. Buddy, there’s been times she’s hopped on and rode me like a fucking pony. All I could do was just lie back and let her have fun.”

Kaden left him alone. After another few minutes, Seth returned to the house.

Leah had dinner in the oven, and it smelled great. He let her hug him. Admittedly, putting his arms around her felt right. Kaden’s words hung in his brain. Yes, it was the unseen he hated. When his imagination ran wild and he couldn’t be part of what was happening.

But to see her enjoy herself…

She was beautiful.

Chapter Twelve

After dinner, Kaden returned to his study to finish a few things. Seth sat on one end of the couch and watched TV while trying to quiet the swirl of emotions in his brain. Why am I fighting this? Was a blow job so much different from a hand job? And was having sex much more than that? Honestly?

Leah finished the dishes and softly padded into the living room. She wore her heavier collar and a long T-shirt. When she started to sit down, he stopped her.

“Wait.”

She looked puzzled but complied. After a moment, he softly said, “Take off your shirt, please.”

Her skin flushed, but she immediately pulled the shirt over her head and dropped it to the floor.

She looked beautiful. Sweet, soft, rounded curves that felt right when pressed against his body.

Leah stood, waiting. He knew he could keep her standing there all night and she wouldn’t move, wouldn’t complain.

Seth did something he’d never done before—he made the hand gesture he’d seen Kaden make countless times during sessions or around the house.

Leah’s eyes widened, but she dropped to her knees in front of him.

His heart raced. Was he really going to do this with her?

He leaned forward and whispered, “Leah, answer me a few questions. Honestly.”

She met his eyes and nodded.

“Do you really love me?”

“Yes.”

“Are you honestly doing this willingly? I mean, besides the obvious reasons, because you want to do this with me, not because you think you have to?”

“I want to do this with you, Sir.”

He sat back again and spread his knees, then crooked his finger at her. “Do you want to do something else? Something…more?”

She eagerly nodded. His cock throbbed in response to the hopeful look on her face.

“Would you like to go down on me?”

Another eager nod.

Point of no return. “Okay.”

She slid forward, between his legs, and helped him open his shorts and pull them down his hips. Then came her gentle, tentative touch as she carefully caressed his shaft and sac.

He moaned.

When her warm tongue flicked the head of his cock, he closed his eyes and gently fisted his hands in her hair. He had a feeling he could sit here all night with her going down on him and maybe glimpse what heaven felt like. Her lips softly closed around the sensitive ridge at the base of the head, massaging him.

He gasped.

It was a struggle not to shoot off, and she seemed to sense it. She slowly worked her way down his throbbing cock, her lips and tongue laving every inch of flesh.

The right woman.

He’d finally found the right woman, and she was married to his best friend.

He shoved that thought back into its cage and threw away the key.

He knew Kaden could and probably would walk out at any time and find them there like that. Seth figured it was time he got himself used to the situation. Obviously Kaden was okay with it.

And deep inside him, he was surprised to find it thrilled him just a little, too.

Five minutes later, he heard Kaden walk into the living room. His low, growling voice made Leah moan. “Beautiful,” he said.

Seth opened his eyes. Kaden knelt behind her and caressed her ass. She moaned again, setting off a pleasant flurry of sensations in Seth’s cock.

“How far do you want to go tonight?” Kaden quietly asked him.

Seth shook his head. “Not all the way.”

Kaden nodded. “But you’re willing…”

“At least a little more than before.”

Kaden caressed her ass again, his hand following the curve of her hip down her thigh and between her legs. He slipped two fingers into her, triggering yet another moan from her, vibrating her mouth around Seth’s cock.

Just that sensation alone would make Seth come if she kept it up.

Seth closed his eyes and threw his head back. That way he could pretend he was alone with her.

He heard the soft sound of a zipper, then Leah paused for a moment before going back to the delicious attention she was paying him. He dared crack an eyelid and watched Kaden fuck her from behind, his eyes closed, hands gripping her hips.

She moaned.

He tangled his fingers in her soft hair. Why had he waited?

Right. Best friend’s wife.

Goddamn it.

He pushed the thought away again.

Unable to help himself, Seth watched. Now Kaden had an arm around her waist, and presumably his fingers between her legs from the way she was moaning and bucking her hips against him.

Fuck.

That was…

The sexiest thing he’d ever seen in his life.

It was easy to hold his release back as he breathlessly watched her surge toward her own. He listened to the sounds she made, as they climbed the register in octave and grew shorter in duration. Then she screamed around his cock, her hands sliding behind his hips and holding on as she literally engulfed him, deep-throating him.

The sudden change in sensation finished him. He moaned as he came and shot down her throat. It felt like he came harder and longer than he ever had in his entire life, and she swallowed every drop.

Damn! None of his exes ever did that!

Kaden took several hard deep thrusts into her with his eyes closed. Then he groaned and fell still.

She held Seth’s cock in her mouth, gently sucking. Within a minute, he was already stiff again.

Day-amn.

Kaden’s voice sounded hoarse as he withdrew and moved to the couch. “Come here, baby.” He had her lie facedown across his lap, with her face in Seth’s lap. She immediately went back to sucking Seth.

Seth gently cupped the back of her head.

“Let’s show Seth another of your fantasies, sweetheart.”

She moaned her assent around Seth’s cock.

Kaden tenderly stroked her ass, massaging it, caressing it. She wiggled her hips at him, trying to entice him.

He hauled off and spanked her once, hard.

She jumped but moaned loudly and took Seth a bit deeper into her mouth.

“You like that, baby?” Kaden asked her.

It sounded like she mumbled mmm-hmm around Seth’s cock.

Kaden smacked her ass again. Then he slipped two fingers into her, drawing another flurry of moans from her.

Fuck!

Seth checked to make sure he wasn’t drooling.

She frantically wiggled her hips. Kaden withdrew his fingers and spanked her several times in quick succession, and it sounded like she was close to coming just from that. He stopped and gently caressed her red cheeks.

“This has been one of her favorite fantasies,” Kaden softly said. Seth was a little surprised to see Kade smiling. “She’s going to have a lot of fun living out her fantasies. Aren’t you, baby?”

“Mmm-hmm!”

Kade tenderly stroked her back, then slipped his fingers between her legs again. “Just wait until you’re ready to go all the way, Seth. She’s got some doozies that will blow your mind.”

Seth was aware his fingers had tightened on her scalp, and he loosened his grip a little.

Fuck!

Kaden fucked her with his fingers as she eagerly devoured Seth’s member. “Some nights we used toys and she pretended it was you, and she screamed when she came. She’s wanted this for a long time.”

“It doesn’t bother you?” Seth gasped. That was probably close to the weirdest question he could have asked under the circumstances, but he needed it answered.

“She loves me.” Leah moaned her agreement and wiggled her hips against Kaden. “I know she loves me. Like I told you, if it was anyone but you, it’d piss me off. And yes, I was the first one surprised that I could feel this way.”