shot through him and he yelled out. He clung with one hand to Maddox’s head behind him, and with the other to Celeste’s.
Maddox seemed to sense the change, fingers gripping tighter to his hair again, pulling his head backward.
“My dick’s so deep inside you now it might as well be getting sucked by her.” Maddox’s lips slipped down his neck, his teeth sinking in at the junction of his shoulder, but the words were all it really took to send him flying.
“Oh fuck yeah,” Maddox said, fucking back against him in earnest.
The building tension from the evening released in a sudden lurch, his hips thrusting his cock into Celeste’s throat so deep she made a gagging sound. He reached back and grabbed at Maddox’s head, yelling out and gnashing his teeth at the same time as their mouths met, sucked briefly, then parted again, gasping for breath.
His free hand went blindly to Celeste’s head when his cock spasmed. She hummed and took it all. Maddox was behind him, his dick pounding hard against his ass, his own harsh cries loud enough to shatter glass while he came.
Chapter Six
Bargain Fulfilled
Celeste woke a little later and studied Lazaro’s sleeping face in the dim light, reaching up to trace her fingertips over his jaw. The love she had for him was so profound as to seem a living thing, something she had trouble even reining in when they were together. Making her request had been a painful test of her love as much as she knew it tested his. She’d seen him with Maddox on the few occasions she’d accompanied him for a tattoo, and something always struck her as intensely erotic about the way the two men interacted. The signs were never overt—only a look here and there between them that had a quality of intense interest.
The more recent visits had seemed charged with a kind of thick energy and she wondered if it felt like that between them when she wasn’t there. One thing she knew was that Maddox always spared the same level of attention for her as he did for Lazaro—very deliberate and direct, the depth of his gaze seeming to pry into her, his words always subtle yet concisely directed to a point that she wondered if he was working some mind game on both her and Lazaro. She doubted Lazaro was even aware that he responded to it, but the fact that they were here tonight, and that Lazaro had seemed to enjoy carrying out his side of their bargain told her he’d figured it out.
Maddox’s hand slid down over her bare skin, squeezing her hip tightly before his arm wrapped around her from behind and he buried his face against her shoulder, inhaling.
She rolled over, a delicate feat being nearly trapped between the men’s bodies. Maddox’s large hand immediately slipped down and squeezed her ass.
“I thought you were asleep,” she whispered.
“Always been a light sleeper,” he murmured. His rough, low voice sent a tingle down her spine. “Especially when beautiful, devious women are in my bed.”
“I don’t know what you mean.”
“I wasn’t born yesterday, honey. You see more than you let on. So do I. You had to have known he’d go through with it, otherwise you’d never have asked. My question to you now is was it really me you wanted, or did you just have a demented urge to see him get off like that?”
An unidentifiable light flickered in his gray eyes, betraying uncertainty that seemed contradictory for a man like him. She got the impression that his entire self worth hung on her answer to his question.
“He knew I wanted you. I knew he did, too.” Her eyes held his, hoping to catch some sign that she hadn’t said the wrong thing. His expression remained mute, so she continued her confession. “This was never just about sex for me. He’s the only man I’ve ever been with… because I love him.” She took a deep breath, her voice more subdued when she spoke again. “I wouldn’t sleep with a man I wasn’t in love with. I think we’re alike that way, you and I.”
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