She closed her eyes and smiled, an actual smile that looked tender and warm for the first time since she got out of her jeep. “I believe that.”
Snorting, I rose onto my knees to be closer to them both as I untucked her uniform shirt from her pants. “I have the urge to tell you both all the ways I’d make you suffer for making me worry if either of you ever got hurt, but I’ll save that for later. Right now, I just want to focus on the fact that you’re both here. And that you’re both okay.”
“Martinez was trapped.” She said gently, opening her eyes and staring at me. “I couldn’t leave him. But now they’re saying—” her body shook with a shiver as something like disgust rolled over her.
“That you’re a hero.” Tanner finished, staring down at her with pride, “Because you are.”
“I hate that word.” She said, looking up at him. “The same way you do.”
“I know,” he smirked. “But you have to wear it for a while.”
“Ugh,” she murmured, tipping her head back to me. “There’s something else I want to wear for a while instead. Something that will help me forget everything else in the world.”
I paused as she stood up and pulled me to my feet, “What is that, exactly?”
She took her shirt off, revealing her toned body in her black sports bra, and then slid her hands around the back of my legs and picked me up as if she hadn’t just survived hell and back for the last dozen hours. I shrieked and wrapped my arms and legs around her as she started walking toward the stairs.
“Your legs. Wrapped around my ears as I lose myself in your body for a few hours.”
“Rhea,” I gasped and giggled as she walked up the stairs. “You’re avoiding your stress.”
“No,” she said confidently as she called Tanner to follow us upstairs. He was already coming up behind her, eyes glowing bright with dominant need. “I’m going to let you help me unwind and relieve that stress, so it doesn’t drown me under the weight of it.”
My giggles faded as she put how heavy the night had been into words. “Fine,” I kissed her neck as she walked us into my bedroom and straight through to the ensuite on the other side. “But be prepared for Tanner and me to make you talk about it later.”
“I’ll do anything you want. After sex and sleep. Lots of both.” She agreed, setting me down onto my feet on the tile floor.
I walked into the shower and got the water going, making sure I had soap and fresh washcloths for them before heading back out.
Rhea was peeling Tanner’s shirt off as he dutifully lifted his arms over his head to assist her, and I paused, leaning against the shower wall to watch them. They rarely had moments alone, just the two of them, and I didn’t want to interrupt them, but I didn’t want to walk away either. I enjoyed watching them together like that.
I enjoyed watching their intimacy grow with their comfort in one another.
Tanner ducked his head, leaning down and sealing his lips over hers in a kiss. It was different than how he kissed me, more reserved, but there was no lack of need in it, it was just different.
I watched as Rhea ran her fingertips over his chiseled chest and down over each defined ab to the waistband of his jeans, and my mouth watered.
“Goldie,” Tanner said, holding his hand out to me, inviting me in.
“I’m enjoying watching.” I said with a grin, knowing they would not let that fly. As much as they enjoyed what they weredoing, neither of them was willing to let me spectate. And there was a gooey, girlish part of me deep down inside that loved that too. Who wouldn’t want to be in the middle of a Rhea and Tanner sandwich?
Rhea turned and pulled me in, putting me between them as she kissed me while Tanner unbuttoned my sweater from behind. “But I enjoy feeling you both,” Rhea said. Tilting her head, she deepened our kiss before skimming her fingertips up my ribs as Tanner pulled my sweater open. “Tasting both of you.”
“Easy, Hotshot,” I moaned when she flicked her thumbs over my bare nipples and then pinched them lightly. “This is supposed to be about you.”
She moaned, a low, deep purring noise in her chest as I pulled her pants open and pushed them down over her flared hips. “I’m enjoying myself immensely.”
I clicked my tongue at her before stripping her panties down and helping her kick free of them, pulling my leggings down to join her. Turning over my shoulder, I winked at Tanner, where he stood, hard and watching us. “Come on, lover boy,” I cooed, pushing Rhea back toward the steaming water. “I want your help to make her come.”
“Fuck,” she moaned as the hot water ran over her delicious body. I followed the rivulets of water over her skin with my mouth, and her fingers tangled in my pinned-up hair as I sank to my knees in front of her. “Goldie.”
“Shh, baby,” I soothed, pushing her back into Tanner’s waiting arms as he eagerly pressed himself against her back, catching her weight and holding her up. “Let me see to your needs.”
Her head tipped back against Tanner’s shoulder as he slid one hand under her knee, lifting it and opening her to me andmy hungry desire. “God, you two are so sexy when you work together,” she crooned.
“Almost like Goldie knew how perfect this would be, way before we did.” Tanner added, teasing kisses down her neck and nibbling on her ear. I ran my tongue over her clit and pushed it into her as she reached up and dragged her fingertips down Tanner’s neck.
“She’s perfect.” Rhea said, staring down at me, rocking her hips against my mouth. “We don’t deserve it.”