Triple Booked

by Mardi Ballou

  Gabe threw aside the clothes. “Is that what you call it?” The tone of his voice and his body language indicated a complete lack of approval.

  Jade removed her hand from Alex’s cock, which left him disgruntled, and reached up to Gabe. “Join us, Gabe. A person can never experience too much reality. You see, I want Alex to fuck me in the usual way, and I want to feel you in my ass.”

  Both Gabe and Alex groaned with pleasure.

  Gabe felt like truth and understanding lay just beyond the limits of his consciousness. While he groped to figure out exactly where and who and what he was, seduction loomed everywhere around him. With the way he’d been with Alex, with what he was allowing to happen between Jade and Alex, Gabe felt he was losing hold of his identity.

  He needed to assert himself, reestablish the parameters of who the two of them were. And he would—soon—but not yet. Not with the sun a big orange ball sinking in the pure blue sky, with the sound of the sea and the fragrance of flowers surrounding him. Not with Jade reaching out for him and Alex sporting a huge hard-on. The combination assaulted his senses and destroyed his resolve.

  This time, Jade would call the shots. Only fair. They positioned themselves as she directed, with Jade lying on her side between Gabe in back and Alex in front. Gabe had never fucked Jade in the ass before. He’d done it with a few of his lovers before Jade, but he’d never particularly felt that the women got off on it. As he always wanted to pleasure Jade, he’d eliminated this position from his repertoire. She’d never asked for it, not until now.

  Well, he could hardly bitch about that right now, not after he’d just taken it in the ass from another guy. Cripes, he couldn’t believe it. He could hardly recognize himself. Ah, fuck, he’d deal with all that later. Now Jade beckoned to him, and he couldn’t wait to bury his cock deep inside her tight hot passage. He’d give her such pleasure, she’d, as the old song said, be swinging from a star.

  Jade couldn’t remember ever feeling the way she did now, as if she were on the brink of discovering a whole new world. Though she couldn’t have said why, she sensed with every fiber of who she was that being here, like this, with Alex and Gabe was absolutely essential to her taking the next step in that discovery.

  At first she tried to be aware of each sensation, each touch both men provided. She felt Gabe’s tongue and teeth on the back of her neck as he nibbled on the delicate skin there. At the same time, Alex rained kisses on her face with a combination of tenderness and passion she’d always dreamt of. When she moved to respond to one of her lovers, both would feel the displacement.

  Between kisses, both men murmured sweet endearments to her, which blended into a soft buzz. Never shy about making the sounds that told her lover how much she was enjoying what he did, Jade felt freer than ever to groan, moan, gasp, sigh or shriek—whatever most expressed the moment.

  Alex now was suckling her breasts while he massaged her all around her pussy, teasing her with those talented fingers before he touched her where she longed to feel him. In back, while Gabe continued to kiss his way down from her neck, across her shoulder blades, she could feel the length of his hard cock pressed against her tenderness.

  “Touch me too, my goddess,” Alex whispered. She wanted to reach for his cock, but he pulled back and kissed his way down her belly, lingering in the indentation of her navel, which he licked all around. When he tongued her there, she felt a resonance in her clit, and she grew wet and creamy for him. Not being able to touch his erection, Jade dug her fingers into Alex’s wide, muscular back. Not for long. He worked his way down to her hot, wet cunt and began to work his magic there.

  First he licked her labia and then Alex went right for her clit. The first touch of his tongue to that sensitive nub nearly sufficed to send Jade through the ceiling. But this time, as if they were in perfect harmony, Gabe began to tongue her rear crease at the same time. Jade keened out her pleasure, which reverberated through every part of her being. She couldn’t find the words to express the sheer erotic ecstasy she felt with these two men having loosed tongues, teeth and lips to drive her out of what was left of her mind.

  But it was just the beginning. Again, in such perfect harmony that she wondered how and when they might have rehearsed, Gabe and Alex added fingers to their other weapons and continued their quests. She vaguely heard each one question her, ascertaining that what they did met with her approval. No-brainer. No brain. She’d turned into one massive sense organ that demanded constant stimulation and feeding. Somehow, she managed to mutter some words of consent and, thank the gods, they would proceed.

  Realizing that even more and better were coming, Jade made the most encouraging sounds she could constrain herself to utter.

  With a gasp, Alex put his cock where his mouth had been, at her intimate opening. Gods, she wanted him there. She wanted to feel him in her. At the same time, she felt Gabe’s more tentative probing in back. Though she appreciated his sensitivity and carefulness, she wanted him back there. She wanted him to bury his shaft up to his balls.

  Alex was all the way inside her before Gabe began to press himself in too. The fullness of having both men with her like this made her feel complete for the first time ever. Both men moved, falling into a rhythm Jade swiftly was caught up in. Now the few words any of them murmured sounded like nonsense. Mostly, their breath went to panting.

  Jade briefly wondered how she’d ever be able to write about any such scene and capture the truth of how it felt. But mostly, she felt like she was floating down a river on a barge created entirely for her pleasure, with love songs and the finest perfume filling the air. Words could never describe the sensations.

  Alex was beginning to move more quickly. When she opened her eyes and looked at his handsome face, the grim determination there, she realized he was focused on pleasuring her and holding back his own climax.

  Gabe generously lubed her butt crease and indulged in some finger play. By the time his cock entered her, she was past ready. She found having him deep inside her ass extremely pleasurable as his thrusts grew deeper, faster and wilder.

  Her excitement built to a fever pitch. She wished the three of them could remain together like this forever. But unless Alex had a kind of magic she’d never foreseen, their time here would be finite. Soon, the men would come. She’d come. It would be over, and nothing again would ever be the same.

  Actually, now it was all going better than Alex had projected. Though he hadn’t planned for them to make love again so soon, Jade’s initiating their embrace encouraged him. Okay, maybe Jade hadn’t been totally alone in bringing this about. After all, he had sported an erection that could have shattered concrete. Gabe had shown himself to be more receptive than Alex dreamt. He had agreed to this threesome, with Alex clearly being very intimate with Jade—with both of them. Even Demetrios’ presence fed the eroticism.

  He’d have to move them along quickly to the next step. They’d come too far to risk messing up their progress by a careless action now. But preoccupied as he had to be with the mission, first things first. He was very near climax. Normally, he’d stroke his female partner now to ensure she’d also come. He realized his touch could be part of their forward movement—he could stroke Gabe as well as Jade.

  Convinced this was the right thing to do, Alex advanced one hand to rub Jade’s clit and the other to massage Gabe’s balls as both men continued to piston in and out of her. Jade was extremely hot and wet, and Gabe was hugely erect. Both, primed with senses on high alert, reacted instantly to Alex’s merest touch, which gratified him and ramped up his own excitement.

  But even more exciting was the sensuous feel of touching Jade and Gabe where they were joined. Jade’s slickness, Gabe’s hardness. The sound and feel of how the two of them moved together. Alex had thought he was at the pinnacle of arousal already, but now he realized he had yet more heights to climb.

  Before he got much higher, he felt his climax gather force. “I’m coming,” he called out, moments before his two compa
nions, who quickly followed. Alex nuzzled Jade’s sweet-smelling neck as he gave himself up to his release, exploding deep inside her. He felt like he triggered a chain reaction, with both Gabe and Jade giving voice to their climaxes moments after his own.

  The three of them lay united for a perfect moment as the sun cast its rays from low on the horizon. For just this moment, Alex experienced such profound and complete communication with the other two he could believe nothing and no one could ever stop them. He would accomplish his mission and be initiated as a full participant in the Order of the Dionysian Mages. Then, when he came into his full powers, the three of them would get the Order’s message out. The world would once again more fully embrace the primacy pleasure. And the prophecy of the Tarot would come true for Gabe and Jade as well.

  “I really wish you would let me join you next time.” Demetrios once again stood over them. This time, he had his erection in hand and was stroking himself. “Though I know I’ll come, clearly I would enjoy it much more in such delightful company.” He pulled at his cock. “You could do this for me,” he invited Alex. “Or perhaps one of your guests.”

  Gabe and Jade looked at both Alex and Demetrios with confusion.

  “I thought you said we were alone on the island,” Gabe muttered. Alex realized the positive energy and feelings from their lovemaking were rapidly dissipating, far too soon for him to take full advantage of all the positive energy.

  As if released from their thrall, both Gabe and Jade scrambled to cover their nudity. Demetrios stroked himself to climax, releasing his seed in a shower before the three.

  “Gabe, Jade, this is Demetrios. I thought he was still away, but he’s returned.” That didn’t quite answer Gabe’s question, but Alex figured he’d provided enough information for the moment.

  “Gabe and Jade?” Demetrios smiled. “Pleased to meet you.” He held out his hand to the twosome. Alex wasn’t too surprised when neither accepted the handshake.

  “Our ways are new to Gabe and Jade.” The explanation was actually more for their benefit than for Demetrios’.

  Gabe had pulled on his shorts. He shielded Jade with his body as she finished dressing. “Rapsos, is this one of your buddies, an ex-lover, what?”

  “Yes to both, as far as that goes. But Gabe, the truth is too complex for a simple answer.”

  Jade, who’d so recently glowed pink with pleasure now looked mortified. “Alex, I just don’t understand any of this. Why did you bring us here? Why were you intimate with us in so many ways when you already have a lover on this island? Are you playing some sort of games with him—are you using us to get back at him in some way?”

  Demetrios, still buck-naked but no longer erect, sat down on the ground opposite Gabe and Jade. “Yes, Alex. I’d also very much appreciate hearing your explanation here. Also, while you’re at it, maybe you could explain why you’ve changed so much in the short time since we parted.”

  Alex would gladly have strangled Demetrios right about now, which would be a first for the Order Dionysian Mages. But couldn’t Demetrios tell he was interfering intolerably with Alex’s mission? He’d bet Demetrios didn’t have any such obstruction in completing his mission. Of course, Demetrios had managed to do whatever he’d set out to without having to bring any strangers back to the island. And he’d been done before the deadline. On the other hand, his mission hadn’t been as complicated or challenging as Alex’s.

  Alex willed his mind to work. “There’s much about the island and its usual inhabitants I’m not at liberty to tell you right now.”

  “Maybe you never will be,” Demetrios unhelpfully pointed out. “Like for example this.” He rose, waved his arms around and recited a simple oath, and a deluge of cold rain poured down on all of them from the clear, cloudless sky.

  “What the hell—” Gabe jumped up and waved a fist at the sky.

  Jade’s eyes grew large with bewilderment and distress.

  “Stop the fucking rain,” Alex whispered to Demetrios.

  “Is that the way you speak to the lover who’s rushed back to be with you? You know, I could have made it snow or hail. I figured the rain would be easier for you explain.”

  “Right, in the middle of a perfectly sunny day. Stop it already. You’ve proven your point.” Alex found it increasingly difficult to refrain from killing Demetrios. Had he ever really felt close to this man who so thoughtlessly misused his gifts?

  Demetrios, looking almost bored, nodded his head twice, and the rain stopped. Though they’d all been soaked a moment before, now they showed no evidence of wetness.

  Unfortunately, the memory of the rain didn’t disappear as quickly or as completely as the unwelcome moisture. “What the hell just happened?” Gabe asked. “Was this rain in the category of the earthquake?”

  Demetrios raised his brows as if impressed. “An earthquake, Alex? Previously, you were content to make the earth move in a more limited way.”

  Alex chose to ignore him. “In this part of the world, sudden rains aren’t unknown. It was just a shower.”

  “I don’t think so, Alex,” Jade pointed out. “Felt more like a hurricane.”

  Demetrios put an arm around Alex, who wanted to shrug it off. “My dear lady, you are, no doubt, reacting to the surprise effect of our little rain.”

  “Geez, the two of you are just a fountain of information. I’ve had enough.” Gabe looked hard at Jade. “I’m past ready to walk away from this mess, Jade. It was bad enough when we were dealing with just Rapsos. But now, we’ve also got this nut. I’d say, let’s cut our losses. Let’s get the hell out of here and return home, to our nice, normal lives.”

  “Come on,” Jade said. “We’re writers, Gabe. We don’t have nice, normal lives.”

  Gabe flushed. “That may be true. But baby, compared to what’s been going on with us since Rapsos pushed his way in, our lives seemed nice and normal. I want to go back to how things were.”

  “Do you really think we can?” Jade’s voice sounded wistful.

  Gabe shook his head. “Maybe we can’t, not completely. But I sure as hell want to try. Come on. Assuming Rapsos is telling the truth about where we are, we can get a boat to Athens. Heck, we can even take a few days to be tourists, take in the sights, view this as an unplanned vacation. Even our editor would have to cut us some slack on a missed deadline when we explain our unplanned trip to Greece. We’ll just call Maura and get her to express-ship our passports or something.”

  “You can’t leave,” Alex pronounced. “Not yet.”

  Gabe glared at him. “What are you saying? Are we prisoners here?”

  “No. Nothing like that,” Alex reassured him.

  “Alex hasn’t completed his mission yet,” Demetrios said. “You two are essential to him for that.”

  He should have strangled Demetrios while he had the chance. Shit, shit, shit.

  “What mission?” Jade asked.

  Okay. At least, for the moment, they weren’t talking about leaving. How could he explain this convincingly without revealing too much? “Part of my mission is to work with you on your writing, just as I’ve been telling you since we met at the Tarot party.”

  “And?” Gabe prompted.

  “I really can’t tell you any more quite yet. All I can do is ask you to continue with me, and trust me.” Alex wanted to slap the smirk off Demetrios’ face.

  “Trust you? Now you’re talking about some sort of mission we don’t know anything about but you want to involve us in. Is that why you were masquerading as a writer? To get close to us like that?” Gabe growled, and Jade looked worried.

  Alex held out his hands. “First of all, I wasn’t pretending to be a writer. I am a writer. That has shaped my particular mission, which I can’t say any more about right now.”

  Gabe looked at Demetrios. “You tell us what’s going on.”

  Demetrios sprang to his feet—now that he’d done his damage. “I believe I’ve overstepped boundaries by coming here without an invitation and talking wi
th you today. Alex must be the one to enlighten you.”

  One of these days, he’d get revenge on Demetrios. Alex’s stomach clenched at the thought. Such base desire was totally inappropriate for one such as he, who’d come so far in the initiation process to be a mage. Revenge was not considered a sacred pleasure, though it would have felt very good to him right now. “And so I will, at the appropriate time. Thank you for stopping over, Demetrios. Though it’s late in the game, at last you recognize that you haven’t been invited and you’re not welcome. May our next meeting be a happier one.”

  Demetrios, who appeared to be restraining a smile, nodded, sauntering off as if he had all the time in the world to take his leave.

  “I’m for doing the same, Jade. Come on. I’ve had enough of the Isle of Maniacs to last me a lifetime.” Gabe looked determined.

  “That’s the Isle of Manikis,” Alex mumbled.

  “Whatever. Are you coming, Jade?”

  Jade understood exactly how Gabe felt. When they caught Alex in his lies—by omission or commission, it didn’t much matter—she experienced a sense of betrayal so deep she nearly wept. But as a writer and a person, she needed to understand what had just happened to her and Gabe.

  Here they were, a couple for years, their lives going along in an uninterrupted pattern. The arrival of Alex shook them up so profoundly, she wondered if they could ever again find their way back to where they’d been. Now she realized how much she’d loved the lives they’d led, the way they worked and played together, the two of them headed toward the same goals.

  But much as she regretted the loss of their old ways, she had to admit she was glad, in a perverse way, that Alex had come along. Though she wouldn’t say Gabe and she had been edging toward being stuck in a rut, they’d been close. Now she couldn’t help feeling both she and Gabe knew themselves and each other better than they ever had before. Though parts of this process were painful, ultimately, she felt confident, they’d be in a better place than they’d been at the start. Besides which, there was Alex. She couldn’t begin to sort out her feelings about him. All she knew was, she didn’t want to lose him.