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by Knight, Natalie

  Finally, when it subsides and it’s just the three of us, lying on top of each other, panting and heaving, Scott sighs.

  “Fuck me,” he says.

  “We just did,” I say. He chuckles. Carly is paralytic on top of me. “Are you okay?” I ask her.

  She nods, her cheek against my shoulder.

  Scott pushes himself up and slowly pulls out of Carly. She whimpers when he does. We help her sit up and she clambers off me, my dick sliding out of her. She complains a little again and collapses onto the bed next to me. She pulls her legs up, almost hugging her knees to her chest and shivers.

  Scott glances at me. I have the idea we are both thinking the same thing. Carly is the hottest woman we’ve ever been with but we are also developing a sense of protectiveness over her. Lying curled up like that, spent and breathing hard, she looks small and vulnerable. I want to protect her from the world. It’s a conflicting emotion considering what Scott and I are doing to her when we’re all fucking.

  It’s rough, forcing her to lose control.

  Maybe that’s what makes me feel so protective over her. I have a sense of possession over her. Mine, I think. But that isn’t it. I glance at Scott again.

  Ours.

  I turn on my side and pull Carly against me. Scott crawls around us and lies down on her other side, pressing his chest against her back. It’s intimate and sensual, the three of us connected in some way that has nothing to do with words or even the sex we just had.

  Carly shudders and tension leaves her body almost visibly. She relaxes in our arms. I close my eyes. My dick throbbing with the echo of the sex we had and I’m tired, relaxed, but I’m not going to sleep. I’m alert, ready to take care of her. I take a deep breath and let it out, slowly.

  Scott sighs just after I do and I wondered how much of this he’s feeling, too. I’m willing to bet that he feels the same about her. What does that say for the both of us and our friendship, if we are falling for the same woman? I don’t know. But, right now, we are together, all three of us pressed against each other, and that is all that matters.

  We’ll probably get up and leave again in a while. We won’t spend the night unless she asks us to. But for the moment it’s the three of us and the warmth seeps through me. This, I will remember for a long time, no matter what happens.

  This and the fucking mind-blowing orgasm I just had.

  Carly

  It’s getting harder to concentrate at work. And not just because of what’s going on in my personal life. I’m stressed about the alleged sex tape and whether it will leak or not. The sex I had with Kevin and Scott last night – as amazing as it was – just reminded me how much trouble we are in if that sex tape surfaces. Being the secretary that sleeps with the owner of the company, as the anonymous tip suggests, is a serious scandal. Even just the rumor can be damaging to my image if it comes down to getting another job.

  Yeah, if that tape becomes a real thing, I’m screwed. I’ll be a Stanford graduate condemned to be the secretary of sleazy perverted men for the rest of my life. And that’d be if we were only talking about a normal sex tape.

  But a threesome? On tape?

  That can ruin all of us.

  Kevin and Scott will lose the company, their positions, which is a hell of a lot worse than me just losing my silly little PA job, but it will still hurt me. It will put a nasty dent in my reputation and then no one will take me serious again. I will become a walking piece of ass.

  I shake my head, trying to calm my thoughts. I can’t think about it like that. I must stay positive. Maybe it’s all just a threat and it will amount to nothing.

  God, I hope that it is the case. With the camera being found, though, the chances are getting slimmer and slimmer. I can’t believe Emma would do something like this to me. She’s ruining my life. Who the hell did that to her sister? No matter what I’m doing in my personal life, whether she agrees or not, doing something like this is taking revenge - or whatever her issue is – to a whole new level.

  It’s even worse because of how close we’ve always been. If we always fought, if my relationship with Emma wasn’t as good as it is, or used to be, it might have been a different story. It would still have been terrible but not as terrible as it is now. Emma and I stuck together since the day our father left and our mother had to plan to make ends meet. She worked so hard to make sure there was cash for us to be able to still lead a normal life that we barely saw her.

  In losing our dad, we lost our mom, too. Emma and I were all we had and we stuck together through thick and thin. For her to just throw that away right now doesn’t make sense. It hurts a hell of a lot, in fact. And talking to her about it seems impossible, too. It doesn’t seem to me like she’s willing to listen, at all.

  Lately, she’s been getting angry and storming away from every conversation I want to have with her. She’s stormed off twice in the club when we saw Kevin and Scott. Whatever her issue is with me seeing them, she doesn’t even speak to me about it.

  She just tries to make my life hell. And she’s succeeding.

  I drop my head in my hands and sigh. I must talk to her about it. I can’t just sit here and wait for the other shoe to drop. If this tape is real and she decides to come out with it we are all royally fucked. And I will lose my sister for good. If all of it can be prevented, I must try.

  During my lunch hour, I walk to the parking lot and sit in my car. I dial Emma’s number and breathe slowly in and out, waiting for her to answer. My stomach tightens and in a knot of nerves. I never used to feel this horrible about talking to her.

  The phone rolls over to voicemail and I get the monotone voice Emma used to record her message. I hang up and dial again. I don’t want to talk to a damn machine, I want to talk to my sister.

  I get her voicemail a second time. When I try to phone her a third time, the phone goes straight to voicemail. Emma turned off her phone.

  Getting her voicemail can mean that she is too busy to answer, but switching her phone off is a very clear message. She doesn’t want to speak to me.

  I feel betrayed. If this comes out, my reputation will be ruined. I will either not be hired at all, or hired because they think I will fuck them, too. Scott will lose his job, his income. Kevin will lose his whole company. The damage will be so great it will be impossible to fix it, and Emma is willing to do this to us.

  I sigh and bite back tears that suddenly sting my eyes. I squeeze my eyes shut and tears roll down my cheeks. What the hell am I going to do about this?

  When I’m done crying in the car, I check my face in the mirror. I fix the bit of makeup that’s smudged, reapply lipstick so that I look fresh, and get out of the car. I walk back to my desk. My lunch hour is over and I haven’t eaten at all. I can’t eat when I feel this horrible. It feels like everything is falling apart.

  The problems at work are so hard, and at the same time the sex with Kevin and Scott is so good, the contrast gets to me. The good is amazing and the bad is terrible and I’m stuck in the middle, pulled apart by the two opposites and I have no idea what to do.

  Stop fucking Kevin and Scott. Easy, right? But I don’t want to. Lose my job? I don’t have a choice.

  When I get to my desk, I notice that Kevin’s blinds are drawn. The last time that’s happened, Scott and I were in there with him and he got handsy with me, turning me on, giving me a taste of what a threesome with him and Scott would be like.

  Now, I know he isn’t thinking about our sex at all, except in terms of saving our skins. He’s probably talking to the investors again.

  Scott walks to my desk. He looks good all dressed up – dark suit pants and a crisp white shirt. He doesn’t wear a tie, often has the top button undone and on a hot day his sleeves are rolled up, but today he looks neat and put together.

  He looks at me, eyes searching my face.

  “Are you doing okay?” he asks.

  I shake my head. I’m not t even going to try lie about it.

  “I’m not okay,
” I say. The tears threaten to make a reappearance and I fight not to cry. I don’t want to cry in the office where everyone can see me, or in front of Scott.

  “I don’t know how to deal with this. I feel like it’s all my fault.”

  Scott shakes his head. “Don’t do this to yourself. It’s not your fault. Just because it’s your sister doesn’t make it your fault. You can’t be held responsible for someone else’s actions.”

  I nod. “I see what you’re saying. But we did this, Scott. If we don’t do…” I swallow, not wanting to say the words out loud in the office. “Then there wouldn’t have been anything to record.”

  I glance around the office, hoping no one heard me. Dana sits at her desk not far from me but she’s buried in paperwork and doesn’t even glance up when I speak.

  “So, you have a personal life. So, you do things that other people might not do. So, what? Just because your sister is making life hell for you doesn’t mean it’s wrong what you’re doing. We don’t even have a rule about fraternizing with colleagues at this company. It’s just because the investors are so damn anal…” Scott smirks when he says the word. I can’t help but smile.

  “That’s better,” he says. “I love it when you smile.”

  I chuckle. He’s making me feel better. Smiling and laughing is good. But that doesn’t change the facts. We are still in this mess. My smile slips away again and I sigh.

  “I wish I can just think about something else,” I say. “I just want to forget about it for a moment and have a chance to breathe again.”

  Scott smirks. “Do you want me do distract you?”

  I glance up at him. “We can’t…”

  He shakes his head, still smirking. “I don’t mean like that, although having you right now will be the best thing I can think of.”

  “Stop it!” I say, my voice low.

  Scott laughs. “I’m just going to distract you, give you something else to think about.”

  I chuckle, feeling silly. “Yeah, okay,” I say.

  Scott leans forward, lowering his voice. “I really loved fucking you last night.”

  My cheeks turn scarlet immediately.

  “Your ass is delicious, baby. I love pushing my dick into it.”

  “God, Scott, stop!” I say. I’m blushing like mad and I can’t stop myself from grinning.

  He shrugs. “I don’t want to stop. You’re so fucking hot, kitten, and delicious. Whether I’m sucking on you or fucking you, your mouth, your pussy, your ass…”

  “Scott,” I say feeling so shy I don’t know what to do with myself. My body is responding to what he’s saying, too, the familiar twinge happening between my legs. His words are making me wet.

  “God, the things I will do to you right now if I can,” Scott says. “But even kissing will be plenty.” His eyes slide to my lips when he says it and I suddenly wish he can do it, too.

  “You shouldn’t do this,” I say.

  Scott grins at me, a lopsided grin that makes me feel unbalanced. It’s an open smile, so different from the dirty grins that he gives me so often.

  “I have to get back to my office,” he says. “We’ll just have to continue this later.” He leans into me. “My dirty girl,” he says in a low voice. He winks at me and turns away, whistling like he doesn’t have a care in the world.

  Scott is a great guy. And it isn’t just what he does to me in bed that makes me feel that way. He’s a good person, someone that genuinely cares for me, not just my body. Yes, sexual innuendo is a big part of his way of speaking to me, but when he grins at me like he just did before walking away, I see a side of Scott that is raw and natural, different than what he becomes when he flirts. It makes me want to get to know him more. I want to know who Scott is. I’m starting to care for him.

  I glance at the office, at Kevin’s drawn blinds. What did that say to me about him? Am I falling for Scott? I don’t have a clear-cut answer to that, but I know right away that my feeling something for Scott don’t mean I’m forgetting about Kevin. He is a great guy, too, in different ways. Control, responsible, he’s a lot less reckless than Scott but the stability grounds me in the same way that Scott’s wild side sets me free. Between the two of them I feel completely balanced. Do I have feelings for Kevin?

  I can’t say no but I’m hesitant to say yes. Who am I falling for? Am I falling for either of them or is it just that the sex is so good I can’t think straight?

  Or is it possible that maybe, just maybe, I’m starting to develop feelings for both of them?

  I don’t know if that is possible. I don’t know if that’s fair. What if it comes between their friendships? What if I am the one that pulls apart two friends that are so tight sometimes I feel like they think the same thing?

  I shake my head. What did Scott say? I can’t be held responsible for someone else’s actions. But this isn’t the same. This is about the three of us and what happens every time we get naked together, and I’m not thinking about what happens with my body.

  Somewhere through all of this, I’m falling in love with them.

  Kevin

  Hull is in a black mood. He isn’t my favorite person as it is – he always looks like he has something on his mind and he doesn’t waste his time with bullshit unless it benefits him in some way. But this, this is different.

  He is ready to pull the plug on the funding, and that will pull the plug on my entire company.

  “I don’t see why we should stay on board with this,” he says. Two of the other investors are there, too, but they shrink to the background with Hull in the room and I see only him as a threat.

  “Because there has been no evidence of any of the allegations,” I say. “The tip is anonymous and led to nothing and the tape hasn’t even surfaced.”

  Hull shakes his head. He walks to my window, hands clasped behind his back, and looks out at the view. If he takes back his funding Raven Publishers isn’t going to survive it. I built this company up from scratch and the money from Hull – difficult as the man is – has allowed me to take the next step and make my company something great. Without him, though, I will fall. I’m in that space where I need him.

  I hate that, but it’s the truth.

  “The rumors are enough,” one of the other investors say.

  Hull nods and turns to me. “I agree,” he says. “The rumors make you look bad, whether they’re true or not. Because we invest in your company, it makes us look bad, too. Give me a reason why we shouldn’t pull out.”

  “Because they’re not true,” I say again.

  Hull shakes his head and paces the office. I sit behind my desk but I don’t feel like I’m in charge. I feel like Hull is here to chastise me, to be a tyrant of sorts.

  “I told you that I’m getting to the bottom of it and the investigation is bringing some facts to light, but I need a bit more time to find out all of it.”

  I’m not even lying about it. We know enough to know that Emma is behind it and that she is serious enough to do something as bad as planting a camera in Carly’s bedroom. Of course, I can’t say any of that to Hull. I don’t want him to know that we have an idea of what happened because he will find out that we really did what the tip and the tape are suggesting.

  He’ll pull out for sure if he knows what’s going on. I just need to keep him on board.

  “I just need a bit more time,” I say.

  Hull shakes his head. “If you ask me, you should fire that PA of yours.”

  I blink at Hull. I didn’t ask him, but I’m smart enough not to say it. I know I’m in a bad place, no need to make it worse.

  “Fire her?” I ask.

  Hull nods. “She seems to be the common denominator in all of this and all the trouble only started when you hired her It’s a shame really. She has the potential to become some much more.”

  Shit. He’s closer than he knows. It’s true, of course, because I started fucking Carly. And fuck, it seems that Scott and I were doing was working – Hull is impressed with Carly
. So how do I get rid of her just to save the company? It seems like the worst thing to do.

  “I can’t do that,” I say. “I’m also part of this so-called scandal. It’s hardly reasonable to get rid of whoever might be implicated in this rumor.”

  Hull gives me hard look and I realize what he is thinking. He’s planning on getting rid of me, too.

  My stomach turns to stone. I don’t like the direction this is going.

  “I just need time,” I say. “If it turns out that Miss Brown really is the problem I won’t hesitate to let her go. But if she’s innocent and these are just rumors – which they are – then it will be unfair to fire her for no good reason.”

  Hull doesn’t look like he agrees with me.

  “I don’t think you understand how serious this is, Meyers,” Hull says. He is calling me by my surname now, he never addresses me as Kevin anymore. That is a bad sign. To Hull, calling me by my first name is a privilege of sorts. That he refers to me as Meyers now means that I’ve been demoted.

  The next step will be them withdrawing their funding.

  “You’ve got forty-eight hours,” Hull says and I blink at him, surprised. I didn’t expect him to budge on this.

  “Thank you,” I say.

  Hull shakes his head. “Don’t thank me. If you don’t find out anything in the two days I’m giving you, you’re firing Miss Brown. If you don’t do it I’m not even going to hesitate to withdraw.”

  I swallow hard. If I don’t find anything I’m either going to lose Carly or lose the company. That is a hell of a choice to make.

  “I’ll be back here on Friday, Meyers,” Hull says. “You better have something to show me.”

  I nod. The other investors – all quiet, still – get up. They walk in a line out of my office with Hull leading the way. The symbolism isn’t lost on me.

  When they are gone I lean back in my chair and sigh deeply. This is a big mess, bigger than anything I’ve been in before. And to think I could have prevented it all if I didn’t sleep with Carly.