Three to Tango by Holly Emma;Lauren Dane;Megan Hart;Bethany Kane

Author:Holly, Emma;Lauren Dane;Megan Hart;Bethany Kane [Holly, Emma;Lauren Dane;Megan Hart;Bethany Kane]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 2011-05-02T21:00:00+00:00

Twelve

He almost didn’t answer the phone when she called, but in the end Brian could no more let a call from Kerry go unanswered than he could forget her. “Hi.”

“Brian. I’m sorry. I never should have had you over.”

“No. It was important I see.” He sighed into the phone, thinking of the nights they’d talked in the dark this way. Sometimes he’d had a hand on his dick while he listened to her make herself come. Now he couldn’t stop wondering if Jeremy had been beside her, watching. Listening. Hell, maybe helping. The thought sent a shudder of distaste through him.

“See what? Jeremy?”

“You,” Brian said. “You with him.”

Silence, broken only by the harsh hitch of a breath.

“He’s a decent guy,” Brian said. “I wanted to hate him.”

“Do … do you hate me, instead?” she asked in a tiny voice that made him hate himself.

“No. I could never. But I can’t do this anymore, Kerry. I thought maybe I could, but I can’t.”

Another hitch of breath and the soft sniffle that meant she was crying. His gut clenched, but her tears couldn’t change anything. Brian closed his eyes in the dark, the phone to his ear, and hoped she’d hang up.

“I’m sorry, Brian.”

“Hey.” He tried to sound jovial and only sounded slightly manic. “Don’t worry about it. We both got what we wanted, right? Finished up all those years of wishful thinking.”

“That’s not it,” Kerry said. “That’s not what it was. Not all of it, anyway. I miss you, Brian.”

“It’s only been a couple days.”

“I can’t miss you even if it’s only been a couple days?” She sounded a little more like her normal self, and he had no trouble imagining her small grin.

“I don’t want you to miss me at all.”

“But I do.” Her whisper burned him even through the phone.

“You’re his,” Brian said, the weeks of frustration coming out at last. “Not mine. And I can’t fucking stand it.”

Kerry gasped; the sound was so different from the noise she sometimes made when he entered her that he wanted to curl up and die from it. “I’m not … his. I’m not something to own, Brian. You can’t buy and sell me like a damn car.”

“No, I can’t buy you. I guess I just leased you for a while.”

She gasped again. “What a shitty thing to say!”

“Tell me it’s different,” Brian said, ashamed of taking such a cheap shot and helpless to stop. “I’ll tell you you’re a liar.”

“You knew … maybe not from the start, but you knew about him,” she said in a low, hoarse voice. “And you were okay with it. So don’t act like it matters now.”

“But it does, Kerry. I don’t care if Jeremy doesn’t mind sharing you. I do. I can’t.” His voice cracked, and he cleared his throat, determined not to let her hear him sound so upset. “I want you all to myself. I love you.”

There. It was out. It had been like ripping off a bandage, but having said it, the pain was fading quickly.

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