Nicole Edwards - Travis

“So, it is different from when you were with her?” Kylie sounded surprised.

Gage glanced between the Travis and Kylie. If he was going to lay it all on the line, now was his opportunity. He could tell them he loved them and be done with it. Whatever their reaction, he’d have to live with it.

When he opened his mouth to speak, nothing came out.

“It’s a lot different,” Travis said calmly, speaking directly to Kylie. “Like I told you before, until you, I had never loved anyone. And until Gage, I hadn’t loved anyone after you.”

Gage was staring at Kylie as Travis spoke. When the last words came out, he jerked his head in Travis direction. Gage’s heart skipped a beat. Maybe two. He stared at Travis, replaying what he’d just said over in his mind, trying to figure out if he’d misinterpreted it. When Travis turned to meet his gaze, he knew he hadn’t.

“I should have told you before,” Travis said, his voice low. “I’ve spent the last three days trying to come up with the way to say the words, but I chickened out.”

Gage couldn’t say anything at all.

“And I should’ve told you, too,” Kylie added. “Both of you.” She angled her body on the couch to face Travis more fully and said, “I loved you the very first day I met you. I spent ten years hoping I’d stop loving you. The day Gage took me to see you, I realized it hadn’t worked.”

The room was so quiet, the only sound was the air coming through the vents from the air conditioner.

“And Gage, I fell in love with you before you brought Travis back into my life. The day you came to my house, and we made love for the first time, I knew I’d never stop loving you. No matter how badly you hurt me.”

“I’m sorry,” Gage said automatically.

“I’m not,” Kylie added. “I didn’t like it at the time, but if you hadn’t dug around in Travis’ past and found me, we wouldn’t be here. And I don’t even know exactly where we are at this point, but I can tell you, I...” Kylie stopped as a sob tore from her chest.

Gage wasn’t sure which one of them moved faster, but Gage was on one side of Kylie as Travis was moving up to her other side, their arms going around her.

When she got herself under control, she started speaking again. “I don’t want a divorce,” she told Travis. “I don’t know how this works or even what’s legally acceptable, but I want to be married. To you both.”

“Baby,” Travis whispered as he pulled her close.

“Sierra said she had two husbands,” Kylie hiccupped as she buried her face in Travis’ shirt.

“They aren’t legally married, but yes, there are some ways to go about it,” Travis replied, his eyes locked on Gage’s.

As he sat there staring into pools of steel blue, Gage finally found the words he’d been searching for, and they fell from his lips although the rest of his body didn’t seem to be working. “I love you,” he whispered to Travis.

He hadn’t thought Kylie could hear him, but she looked up at him just as Travis said, “I love you, too. And Kylie, I love you, baby.”

Kylie held Gage’s stare for long seconds. The words were on the tip of his tongue and he had every intention of telling her, but he was holding back because he knew once they were out there… if she ever walked away again, he wasn’t going to survive it.

She must’ve realized he was having a hard time because she moved closer, taking his hands in hers. “I’m sorry. I know you might not be able to trust me, but when I tell you that I love you, I want you to know that the only other person I’ve ever said that to is Travis. I don’t take the words lightly.”

Gage slid his hand into Kylie’s hair, holding her so she continued to face him. “I trust you, Kylie. That’s never been the issue. I’ve just never realized I could love anyone as much as I love you and Travis. And truthfully, it just scares the shit out of me.”

“I’ve always been told that a little fear is a good thing,” Kylie whispered as she leaned in to press her lips against his. “It means you’re alive.”

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Not in a million years did Travis ever believe he’d be here. The place, the people, the conversation. For so long, it’d been a dream and yet here they were, sitting in Gage’s living room, professing their love for one another. Copping to their fears and their mistakes.

They weren’t lying in bed, bodies wrapped together and sharing the sweet words that seem so easy to speak in the heat of the moment. Not that he’d ever spoken the words that way either, but this was much more intimate than he ever expected.

Too bad his true nature was kicking in because Travis’ cock was as hard as a baseball bat, and he was ready to strip them both and alternate fucking them both until they were screaming his name. He’d be more than willing to tell them he loved them a million times after the three of them came.

His opportunity presented itself when Kylie kissed Gage, but as he moved closer, she pulled back. He waited, breathless and eager, and he wasn’t disappointed because Kylie leaned in again and this time Gage pulled her to him, cupping the back of her head as their mouths pressed together.

Travis wasn’t sitting this one out, and he quickly got in on the action, moving up behind Kylie, lifting her so she was sitting on his thigh as they crushed her between them. Travis grabbed the backs of their heads and inserted his close enough so they had to break the kiss.

“What are you doing?” Kylie giggled.

Yeah, it probably looked a little ridiculous, but he had his reasons.

“I’m planning to kiss you,” he explained. “Both of you, right now.”

And that’s exactly what they did, the three of them shared a kiss hot enough to torch the place down. Maybe that was because they expressed their love for one another, or because they’d spent so many days apart. Travis didn’t care. He would put more effort into thinking about it once they were naked.

He felt like he was high, his body not his own. He had been so overcome with anger and pain when Kylie left them that he had a hard time coping. He had just settled in to go back to the life he had been happy to shed and here he was again, the euphoric feeling returning in full force.

Gage was the first to pull back. “This couch isn’t big enough for the three of us.”

No. No, it certainly was not. Although, if they… Ok, no. It wasn’t the right place for them right now.

“You don’t have to tell me twice.” Travis pushed to his feet and held his hand out to Kylie. Before she could take it, Gage swept her up into his arms and headed toward the stairs.

Travis didn’t stay still for long. They were almost to the second floor when Gage stopped suddenly, and Travis had to grab the railing to keep from slamming into him. “What the hell is the matter?”

“We haven’t finished talking,” Gage said seriously, and Travis damn near rolled himself right down the stairs to ease his misery.

“What else could we possibly have to talk about?”

“Condoms,” Gage said.

“Condoms?” Kylie and Travis asked at the exact same time.

To Travis’ relief, Gage continued up the stairs but at a much slower pace. He stopped at the top, which left Travis still a couple of steps beneath him. “Yes, condoms. We need to talk about us using them.”

“We always use condoms,” Travis reminded him. Had Gage fallen on his head lately?

“Yes, we do. What if we didn’t ?”

Ok, now Travis feared he actually would fall down the stairs, so he pushed past Gage and Kylie and stood on level ground.

“I’m on the pill,” Kylie said, squirming in Gage’s arms like she wanted him to put her down. “And besides the two of you, I’ve only ever had sex with two other people and we always used condoms, but I was still tested after both of them.”