Wild Flower: A MFM Menage Romantic Comedy (Flambé Series Book 6) by Elle Berlin

Author:Elle Berlin [Berlin, Elle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-15T16:00:00+00:00

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BECCA

I wake up under black satin sheets.

I lie in the center of Archer’s bed, with the weight of his naked thigh draped over my hip. Archer’s dark hair is out of his bun, and he lies splayed over the sheets like the petals of a Dracula’s Kiss iris. On my other side, Finn sleeps naked on his stomach. If I reach out, I can slide my hands down his muscled spine and over the perfect curve of his backside.

How is this my life?

How is it that I feel perfectly safe and myself in a strange house with two men that I barely know—and yet, it’s as if I know them in ways deeper than is possible. I’m so unfamiliar with this part of me, myself, that it feels like there’s a moth trapped inside my heart, fluttering and braying to get out.

The ceiling of Archer’s bedroom is a skylight made in a spire of glass. The triangular panes angle inward to a point like a princess tower. It’s a modern greenhouse that in the daylight will fill this room with brightness and color, sunrays spilling down onto the three of us in a showering baptism. Morning hasn’t kissed the sky with light yet, but the color above us is navy blue instead of black, announcing the sun’s impending assent.

Unfortunately, I have to get up and go tend to my farm, and I’ll probably find my mother sitting in my living room a second time, that angry frown etched permanently into her skin. It felt invigorating to defy her and run away, but as morning approaches, I know I have to be an adult and face the mess I’ve made.

“Can’t sleep?” Finn asks, turning to me and sliding a hand over my stomach. It’s warm and broad and is a weight I never want off of my skin.

“I was just thinking about how perfect everything is right here, right now,” I admit, covering his hand with my own and squeezing it. “It’s like a fairytale. I want to be locked here in this tower with the two of you forever. I could be your princess in the jungle.” I motion to the spire above us. “In a castle of glass.”

Finn kisses my temple then shifts to find something on the floor next to the bed. When he rolls back, he has his camera in hand. He snuggles up next to me and angles the lens at the two of us, clicking the shutter several times. When he flips the camera around and shows me the image, it’s of the three of us.

“There you go,” he says. “Captured forever. It may not be the real thing, but it holds the memory.”

My chest feels tight.

Archer’s still asleep in the photo, but there’s a comfort and intimacy in the image with the three of us together as if this is a tapestry that no one will ever untangle.

“Will you print a copy of that for me?” I ask.

“You don’t want me to text it?”

“You could, but I’d prefer something physical, more permanent.

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