Page 57 of Brazen Obsession

“No, please, I’m all ears.” Hope smirks. “I haven’t really dated much since the kidnapping, but I’m all for hearing about your sex lives. Especially since I’ve only managed to land guys who are very vanilla.”

Madison flushes pink. “Me too, until my guys.”

“I was a virgin so...” I shrug.

“Lucky.” Hope laughs.

Madison reaches over and touches Hope’s arm. “Your guy is out there. Maybe he just hasn’t found you yet.”

“Or my brother has scared him away.” Hope rolls her eyes. “Sometimes having a protective older brother is the worst.”

I nod. “Mine kept his best friends away from me for years. But it wouldn’t have been right to date just one of them, and without Drew to push us in the right direction, who knows what would have happened?”

“What you’re saying is I should just find a bunch of guys and make them my own personal harem?” Hope winks.

I smirk at Madison. “I mean, it seems to work.”

“Maybe I could hold a contest.” Hope grins. “You think my brother would let me use his bar for that?”

We laugh and it feels good. Everything has been so stressful here. I forgot how nice it is just to sit and talk with my friends.

When we settle down, I stand up. “I think if we’re going to talk sex, we should have some wine. Fortunately, Dante thought to bring up a few bottles and glasses until they can decide if they want to install a wet bar. If you’re okay with red?”

They both nod. I walk over to the cart currently acting as a bar.

“So this is going to be the place?” Hope asks. “It’s nice. Big, but nice.”

Shrugging, I gather the wineglasses and a bottle. “It’s weird because a few weeks ago I was just looking to get laid and now it feels like all these plans are being made for our future around me. It doesn’t help that the danger isn’t over yet. Ergo, the men watching the door.”

Madison nods and takes a glass from me. “Even once the danger is over, it’ll take time before they’ll feel comfortable not being with you.”

I pour the wine into Hope’s glass, then Madison’s, and fill mine before sitting down.

“Does it get better?” I meet her blue eyes. Both Madison and Hope went through hell. I basically had a nice vacation where I was locked in a room. If it got better for them, I know it will get better for me.

“It takes time.” Madison runs her fingertip along the rim of the glass. “The guys were hesitant to even let me out of their sights for weeks. Blake was my shadow. Noah checked in on me constantly. Coop...” She blushes. “He was wounded at first, but he didn’t let up. Seth.” His name is soft on her lips. “He always takes care of me, but he wasn’t as obvious about it. At first, I needed it, but eventually, we had to sit down and talk about it.”

“Jason doesn’t like it when I go anywhere alone still.” Hope’s eyes meet mine. They swim with tears, but none fall. “It’s not the same because I don’t live with my brother, but he texts me every night and every morning. I think he’s ashamed he didn’t know I was missing earlier.”

Madison reaches out to take Hope’s hand. “I’m ashamed I didn’t realize sooner.”

“I’m just glad you questioned the texts from me.” Hope looks up at the ceiling and blinks back the tears. “Dammit, we’re supposed to be talking about hot sex, not trauma.”

I let out a harsh laugh. “Yeah, but my guys and I are kind of dealing with both.”

“We stayed together for a while after my incident.” Madison takes a sip of wine. “Same bed, but then we fell back into a pattern. I spend a night in each of their beds during the week and they all sleep in my bed on the weekends. We don’t always have sex, but I never sleep alone.”

“That sounds nice.” Hope sighs wistfully and takes a drink.

“We didn’t really have a pattern before,” I say. I didn’t want to choose and it wasn’t long before all hell broke loose. “Finn doesn’t want to schedule sex so...”

“Sex isn’t really scheduled with us either.” Madison laughs. “The only thing we schedule is where I sleep. There are evenings we all fuck around before I go to sleep with one of them. There are other times I might have sex with two of them, and sometimes, they’ll both sleep with me even if it isn’t the other’s night. Sometimes we’re just tired and snuggle in bed. Then there are nights when it’s just two of us where we get to explore some of his kinks and mine. Which can be a lot of fun.”

My insides settle because that’s what the guys want. I loved sleeping with Dante, Wyatt, and Finn. We got to explore a little before everything went down, but I’m excited to learn more about each of my guys. Maybe this will be a good thing.

Madison reaches for the bottle to refill her wine. “I know we’ve talked a little about sex before, but if I overstep, let me know.” She leans back and laughs. “We might need a safe word.”

Hope and I laugh with her.