by BE Kelly
Gabe opened the front door and stood in the entryway when Zander didn’t get out of his car. He crossed his arms over his massive chest and God, he loved when Gabe looked at him like that. He was intense and hot as fuck.
Zander sighed and turned off his engine, getting out of his car. “You coming in or are you going to sit there until morning?” Gabriel asked.
“Coming in,” Zander said.
“I found your jacket, but no wallet,” Gabe said. “Guess you made the trip for nothing since I’ve seen your closet and know you have a ton of jackets.”
“Oh, yeah—I found my wallet in the glove compartment. I forgot that I put it in there for safekeeping. Since I’m here, can I come in for a minute?” he asked. Smooth wasn’t his strong suit. He wanted to have this conversation with Gabe, but he felt like a bumbling idiot when it came to what to say next.
“Can it wait? I was going to climb into bed—I’m beat and have an early start in the morning.” Poor Gabe had gotten stuck with the early classes since he was the low man out. The scene of Gabe crawling into bed naked and hard ran through his mind and it was all he could think about. If he didn’t just spill his guts tonight, he never would, and Zander was done hiding.
“No,” he breathed. “It can’t wait.”
He brushed past Gabe and his inner wolf howled. He wanted to play with Gabe’s wolf as much as Zander wanted to play with Gabe. He followed Zander into the house and as soon as he shut the front door, Zander pushed Gabe up against the wall and kissed him.
It wasn’t the type of timid first kiss he shared in the past. This kiss was hard and passionate, letting all of his pent up aggression shine through. He was just happy that Gabe didn’t shove him off and ask him what the fuck was going on. Instead, he wrapped his arms around Zander’s neck and deepened the kiss. When he broke the kiss, he left them both panting with need. Gabe had to readjust his cock; his erection was pressed up against his jean’s zipper.
“Jesus,” Gabe breathed.
“I’m sorry,” Zander lied. He wasn’t sorry at all. In fact, he was waiting for his chance to do it all again.
“I’m not,” Gabe said. “What took you so fucking long?” he questioned.
“Me?” Zander asked. “What about you? I had to pretend to leave my jacket here just to have an excuse to come back.”
“You at least had the nerve to do this,” Gabe said, motioning between the two of them. They were so close that Zander could feel his friend’s heart beating. It called to him and gave him hope that everything he was about to ask Gabe for was a possibility.
“Be with me,” Zander whispered. “Tell me that you want me as much as I want you.”
“I want you,” Gabe admitted. Zander exhaled, finally feeling like he could breathe.
“Thank fuck,” he said. “I’ve wanted you since our first year at Graystone, Gabe,” Zander added.
“If that’s true, why are you with Violet now?” Gabe questioned. “You started seeing her right after I got back to town. Why start something up with her if you wanted me?” Gabe took a step back from him when he didn’t answer him right away, and Zan felt like he slapped him across the face.
“I wanted her too,” he said and shrugged. “I can’t explain it, man. I’ve fallen for her and that shouldn’t have anything to do with you, but I think it does. What if we can have the best of both worlds?” Zander asked. “You’re bi too, aren’t you?”
“I am,” Gabe admitted. “The best of both worlds, how?” he asked. His friend seemed curious and that was a good sign.
“I’ve told Violet how I feel about you. I was all set to break up with her. I even admitted that being with her didn’t stop me from wanting you,” he said. Zander almost told him that he was in love with him, but now wasn’t the time. They had to crawl before they could walk and if Gabe didn’t agree to this next part, all this would be for nothing.
“What did she say?” Gabe asked. “I mean, I take it she was fine with it since you two are still together and all.”
“She took it better than well,” Zan said. “She’s in.”
“In?” Gabe asked.
“She wants to see if the three of us can make things work. What do you say?” Zander asked, feeling as if he was holding his damn breath again.
“I don’t know. Violet and I don’t even know each other, Zan,” Gabe admitted.
“I get that,” Gabe whispered. He reached for Zander’s hand. “Just promise me that you’ll keep an open mind.”
Gabe smiled and wrapped his arms around Zander’s waist, pulling him in for another kiss. “I’ll keep an open mind,” he promised. He sealed his mouth over Zander’s and for now, Gabe’s promise was enough.
Violet
Violet Channing waited at the table that Zander had reserved for their dinner date. She had let him convince her to add a third to their relationship and although she found the idea hot as hell, she was scared to death this plan of his wouldn’t work. Zander admitted to her that he was in love with Gabriel Quick and she couldn’t blame him—Gabe was hot as sin. His dark hair and baby blue eyes made her want to lick Zan’s cell phone when he showed her the picture of his friend. Zander had a picture of him and his friend on his phone and they were both beautiful, although opposites. Zan had blond hair and hazel eyes and was a little bigger than Gabe. He had his arm around his friend and Violet could see how much he cared for Gabe. She could also see the same in Gabe’s eyes and knew that as soon as Zan admitted to having feelings for him, Gabe would admit to the same. She wanted in—she wanted to be a part of whatever they were going to have together because she had already fallen in love with Zander, not that she told him that yet. It was too soon. They had only been together for about two months and no normal person fell in love in just eight weeks. She had always been a little quick on the draw though. Violet worried that telling Zan that she had gone and foolishly fallen in love with him would scare him off. She was hoping that in time, he’d come to feel the same way about her, and the night that he sat her down to have what he called, “A big talk,” she felt stupidly giddy. When he opened up to her and told her that he was bisexual and in love with his best friend, Gabriel, she thought he was going to dump her, not ask her to have a threesome with them. The way he explained it, what they would have would be more than a threesome. He called it a polyamorous relationship.
Violet foolishly ran home that night and pulled out her laptop to do some research. That was what she was good at since she was Zander’s research assistant, she wanted to know what she was getting herself into if she decided to say yes to him. Violet knew that she had her hands full with one wolf shifter—two might prove disastrous, but she was a powerful witch who liked a challenge. So, she agreed, and here she was, waiting for them both to show up for their first dinner date.
“Hey,” Zander breathed into her hair. He leaned over her shoulder and kissed her cheek. “You look beautiful.” She felt her cheeks heat as they always did when he complimented her. A part of her thought he liked making her blush, he spent so much time trying to get her to do it.
“Thank you,” she said. “You look very handsome too.” He was wearing a pair of jeans and a dark sweater. Zan usually looked more like one of the college students on campus than a professor. He had a waitlist of female grad students wanting to work for him and she couldn’t blame them. He was funny, charming, and hot as hell. When she found out that her application had been selected she worried that she wouldn’t be able to live up to his expectations. He assured her that she had more than lived up to what he needed and when he asked her out, she couldn’t help herself—she told him yes. Violet didn’t care what that looked like to others on campus. She didn’t care if the other women, who didn’t get the job, talked about her behind her back. Being with Zander was worth it. If those women were talking now, wait until they found out that she was with not one, but two professors at Graystone. Violet was sure that she was going to be the talk of the town.
Zan sat across from her and
pushed back a long strand of her purple hair. He seemed to like that she was daring with her fashion choices. Plus, with a name like Violet, purple hair seemed to work for her.
“You ready for this?” he asked. “Now is the time to tell me if you want to back out, Honey,” he offered.
There was no way that she’d want out of their deal now. She had been thinking about this dinner for almost a week now. “I haven’t changed my mind,” she whispered. “Is Gabriel coming tonight?” she asked.
“Yes,” Zan said. “That’s him,” he said, nodding to the front door. Zan stood and Violet did the same. “Hey, man. Good to see you. This is Violet.” Zander nodded to her and Gabe pulled her in for a quick hug.
“It’s good to meet you,” he breathed into her ear. “Zan’s told me so much about you.”
“You too,” she said. Gabriel pulled out her chair and she sunk into it, letting him help her up to the table. “Thank you,” she said. Gabe sat between her and Zan and the three of them looked like three friends out for dinner to everyone around them, but she was nervous as hell. To her, this was the beginning of something that could be wonderful, and she was so afraid of fucking it up.
“Relax,” Zan breathed, reaching across the table, and pulling her hand into his own. “This is just a dinner for you and Gabe to get to know each other. We need to start somewhere and what better way than to have dinner together?”
She smiled at them both and nodded, “No pressure or anything, right?” she asked.
Gabe smiled and winked, “None at all,” he teased. “We’ve got this, Violet.” He took her other hand into his and squeezed it, and she could feel her pulse race. Yeah—no pressure at all.
Violet’s Surrender (Graystone Academy Book 2)—coming July 2021 from BE Kelly!
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K. L. Ramsey currently resides in West Virginia (Go Mountaineers!). In her spare time, she likes to read romance novels, go to WVU football games and attend book club (aka-drink wine) with girlfriends. K. L. enjoys writing Contemporary Romance, Erotic Romance, and Sexy Ménage! She loves to write strong, capable women and bossy, hot as hell alphas, who fall ass over tea kettle for them. And of course, her stories always have a happy ending. But wait—there’s more!
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Works by K. L. Ramsey
The Relinquished Series Boxed Set
Love Times Infinity
Love’s Patient Journey
Love’s Design
Love’s Promise
Harvest Ridge Series Box Set
Worth the Wait
The Christmas Wedding
Line of Fire
Torn Devotion
Fighting for Justice
Last First Kiss Series Box Set
Theirs to Keep
Theirs to Love
Theirs to Have
Theirs to Take
Second Chance Summer Series
True North
The Wrong Mister Right
Ties That Bind Series
Saving Valentine
Blurred Lines
Dirty Little Secrets
Taken Series
Double Bossed
Double Crossed
Double The Mistletoe
Owned
His Secret Submissive
His Reluctant Submissive
His Cougar Submissive
His Nerdy Submissive
Alphas in Uniform
Hellfire
His Destiny (Coming soon)
Royal Bastards MC
Savage Heat
Whiskey Tango
Can’t Fix Cupid
Savage Hell MC Series
Roadkill
REPOssession
Dirty Ryder
Lone Star Rangers
Don’t Mess With Texas
Smokey Bandits MC Series
Aces Wild
Tirana Brothers (Social Rejects Syndicate
Llir
Altin (Coming soon)
Veton (Coming soon)
Girl Power Romance Series/Scarlet Letter Series
Hard Limits
No Limits (Coming soon)
Dirty Desire Series
Torrid (Coming soon)
Mountain Men Mercenary Series (Coming soon)
Deadly Sins Syndicate (Mafia Series) (Coming soon)
Pride
Envy
Greed
Lust
Wrath
Sloth
Gluttony
Works by BE Kelly (K.L.’s alter ego…)
Reckoning MC Seer Series
Reaper
Tank
Raven
Perdition MC Shifter Series
Ringer
Rios
Trace
Wren’s Pack (Coming soon)
Silver Wolf Shifter Series
Daddy Wolf’s Little Seer
Daddy Wolf’s Little Captive
Daddy Wolf’s Little Star
Rogue Enforcers
Juno
Elite Enforcers
A Very Rogue Christmas Novella
Demonic Retribution Series
Sinner (Coming soon)
Graystone Academy Series
Eden’s Playground