Page 27 of Her Three Rangers
“This kiss…” She shook her head. “I mean… not this kiss. It felt… so right. But then, so did the others.”
Realization started to dawn on me as she spoke.
She wanted me. There was no doubt about that. And God knows I wanted her, too.
But she also wanted Cody.
And Jaeger.
“The others?” I asked, just to be sure I was on the right track with my thinking. Just to test the waters and see if she really might be interested in trying the kind of thing the guys and I had already discussed. “The other guys?”
“Jaeger,” she said, swallowing hard and looking down away from me for a split-second before finding my eyes again through those long lashes. “And… and Cody, too. I kissed both of them. Earlier tonight. Oh my God, you probably hate me now. You probably all will. You’ll think I’m some kind of… of…”
“No,” I said, holding up a hand to stop her from going there. “That’s the last thing I would think. It’s the last thing any of us would think about you. You’re beautiful, Grace. You’re sexy and confident and… and a fucking amazing doctor. Can you blame the other guys for seeing that in you, too?”
Her brow furrowed, then she slowly shook her head. “No, I don’t guess I could… but…”
I quirked a brow and waited. “But…”
“But don’t you think that makes me some kind of horrible person? I don’t think they know, either…”
All I could do was shrug. “I think they might know more than you give them credit for. To answer your question, though—no. I don’t think that makes you anything except a grown woman who knows what she wants. There’s nothing wrong with that, from where I’m sitting.”
“That’s just it, though,” she sighed and opened her hands. “I don’t know what I want. If I knew, I would have just kissed you. Or Cody. Or Jaeger. But I couldn’t make myself stop with just one. I wanted all three of you. You don’t see a problem with that?”
So, she’d come to the conclusion that I’d hoped for, but she was still beating herself up over it. That wasn’t ideal, of course, but at least I wouldn’t have to worry about the other guys having their feelings hurt if she hadn’t liked one of them.
Clearly, that wasn’t the issue here.
“I don’t see a problem at all,” I answered. “Look, Grace. You’ve already said you want all three of us, right? Well, there’s a simple solution.”
“There is?”
“Yeah, there really is.” I smiled and reached for her hand. “You can have all three of us. We can share.”
“Oh my God…” She pulled her hand back and gave me a sideways glance. “Share? I think you might have the wrong idea here. I’m not okay with being passed around like… like…”
This had taken a left turn. I had said the wrong thing somewhere, and I needed to get us back on track before she convinced herself that I meant for her to be some kind of party favor.
“I’m not okay with passing you around like that, either,” I said, looking directly into her eyes and hoping my calm tone would reassure her. “That’s not the kind of arrangement I’m talking about.” I could tell that she was going to need more of an explanation, so I just decided to cut to the chase. She was a smart woman. She could make up her own mind once she had all the facts. Best to just lay it all out there and leave it up to her. “Listen, I’m sure you can imagine that in a group of guys like ours, there aren’t a lot of women who come around.”
She nodded.
Okay.
We were getting back on the same page.
So far, so good.
“And so,” I continued, “it isn’t unheard of—or even uncommon—for just a few women to be attached to more than one man. There isn’t anything inherently bad or wrong about it. We’re all adults here. We all understand the situation.” I paused for a moment to let those words sink in, my eyes roaming up and down over her body in the meantime. “And the situation here is that the three of us like you a lot. You clearly like the three of us as well. I think we can work something out that would be good for all of us, that we can all agree on.”
I sat back, letting her think about what I’d just said. I’d been upfront and honest about what we wanted and how we could all happily make it happen. Her body was clearly on board, but it remained to be seen whether she could convince her brain to go along for the ride.
“Let me get this straight,” she began, speaking slowly. The look she was giving me was skeptical, to be sure, but it wasn’t hostile. A part of her was really open to the idea. “You, Cody, and Jaeger are all totally fine with the idea of sharing me, for lack of a better word? “
“Totally fine with that,” I nodded.
“And it would be like I was dating any one of you, but I’d really be with all three of you equally?”