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“I want to see for myself,” Ryan replied. He held out the phone dramatically. “Today’s date… Well would you look at that? I happen to have this week in the pool.”
“You’re a terrible winner, you know that?”
I looked between them. “What are you two talking about?”
Ryan punched Andy in the arm playfully, then explained, “None of us believed Dorian could have a platonic relationship with a hot woman for long. So Andy, Braden, and I created a pool to guess how long it would last.” He held out the phone. “I picked week 4 and 5, so I’m the winner.”
I looked at the spreadsheet on his phone and started laughing. “You’re not joking.”
“I’m dead fucking serious because that means Andy and Braden each owe me $100.” Ryan reached out and shook my hand. “Thanks for picking today to finally seduce Dorian.”
“I didn’t seduce anyone!” I sputtered. “It just happened!”
“Sure,” Ryan said with an exaggerated wink that made the freckles on his cheeks pinch inward.
I sighed and leaned back. “I’m glad someone is making money off of this, because I feel like shit about it.”
“Why?” Ryan asked.
“What do you mean why?”
“Just talk to him about it. Then it won’t be awkward.” Ryan took a swig of the scotch and gestured with the bottle, sloshing brown liquid within the glass. “If you don’t remember who kissed who, then it was definitely mutual. That’s a good thing.”
“But…” I trailed off, thinking. “The proposition you guys gave me was specific. There were ground rules. He and I were supposed to just be platonic friends.”
“Who gives a fuck what the rules said?” Ryan said philosophically. “We can all do whatever we want, as long as everything is out in the open and everyone is cool with it. We’re five adults. What do you think, pal?”
Andy was deep in thought. “Honestly? I know I should feel some sort of jealousy, but I don’t.”
“Really?” I asked.
He shrugged one tall shoulder. “I never expected to have you to myself. I never expected to have you at all, since we were taking things slowly and naturally. Ryan and you have been… umm, together longer than I have been dating you. It does not feel weird.”
“Not even with Dorian and me?”
“Let’s be clear first,” Ryan interrupted. “Is there a Dorian-and-you?”
“Good question.” I paused. “I’ve become pretty good friends with him. And there’s more there, growing underneath the surface. The kiss made that clear. Brought it all up to the forefront.”
“Excellent,” Ryan said as he pulled out his phone. “I’ll just call Dorian and ask him how he feels and we can—”
“NO!”
I slapped the phone out of his hand, sending it sliding across the stage. Both of them watched the phone come to a stop by the curtain, then twisted back to look at me.
“I was mostly joking,” Ryan said defensively. “Mostly.”
“I’ll talk to Dorian when I’m ready,” I said, turning back to Andy. “But how do you feel about Dorian and me kissing?”
“I think… I’m okay with that too,” Andy replied. He seemed to be looking inward. “I’m probing my emotions and there’s nothing jealous there.” He slapped a hand at Ryan’s knee. “Not when I think about you and Nadia, or Dorian and Nadia.”
“That’s fantastic news,” Ryan announced happily. “Because I think we should have a threesome.”
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Nadia
I almost choked on my tongue. “You what? We should what?”
