with us, so why are you suddenly bitching?”
“Cause she’s been climbing into bed with us for the past month for us to comfort her, not fuck her!”
“You wanted a girlfriend as much as I did. Not a fuck buddy. Big difference there, bud. You have to woo and court a girlfriend.”
“Yeah, well, I don’t see you wooing or courting her.”
“So things didn’t go quite according to plan,” Jess admitted. “She was resistant to the idea of coming home with me that night until I confessed to her that you were my lover.”
“Yeah, you sure as shit screwed up there by not letting her know we’re bisexual and that we actually crave pussy as much as any straight guy does.”
“She was going to spend the night in the fucking library! No way in hell was I going to let her do that. It was too dangerous, and she’s too special to me to allow her to put herself in danger that way!”
“Yeah, that’s why you kept her to yourself for almost a year, isn’t it?”
“Oh, now you’re pulling the jealousy card on me? Please! I was laying the groundwork for us. Where were you?”
“Yeah, Jess? Where was I? Why didn’t you ever introduce me to Mags before then?”
“You are jealous,” Jesse exclaimed incredulously.
“Damn straight I am. Not to mention horny as hell. I haven’t been with a woman since before she moved in, but I’ll be damned if I ruin our chances with her by going out trolling for a random piece of ass,” Alex added before Jess could even make the suggestion.
“So you really want Maggie?” Jess asked as he patted his face dry.
“As much as you do,” Alex admitted, stepping out of the shower and grabbing a bath towel.
“No,” Jess tried to clarify. “I mean you want Maggie , not just a random piece of ass.”
“I mean,” Alex snapped, narrowing his eyes at Jess, “that Maggie is the only woman I can ever see myself with for the long haul. She is just as great as you said she was, and if I don’t get to at least kiss her in the very near future, then I won’t be responsible for my actions.”
“You can’t seriously mean that you would force her, do you?” Jess asked, horrified by the thought.
Jess received an incredulous look from his lover of the past four years. “Don’t be an ass! But I just might resort to getting her drunk and seducing her,” Alex admitted.
“Seducing,” Jess said thoughtfully. “Now there’s an idea. I’ve already gotten her used to climbing into bed with us, and we’ve both gotten her used to seeing us walk around shirtless in front of her. And I’ve seen her ogling you, and you said you’ve seen her ogling me…”
“Yeah, so?”
“So, since she likes looking at us, why don’t we start to allow her to look at us together?”
“What do you mean ‘look at us together’?”
“You know exactly what I mean. We’ve confined ourselves to the bedroom ever since she moved in six months ago. But that isn’t the real us. So I’m suggesting that we start showing her the real us. We allow ‘public displays of affection’ in front of her. See if it turns her on to see us kissing and touching each other. If we catch her watching, ask her if it bothers her. If it doesn’t, become more demonstrative in front of her, work up to her walking in on us some night having sex on the couch or something. If she doesn’t run screaming from the room with hysterical blindness, hell, we can even ask if she wants to watch or even join in.”
Alex grinned back at his boyfriend. “You are so devious when you put your mind to it,” he said admiringly.
“One of the many things you love about me,” Jess replied.
Gathering Jess into his arms, Alex kissed him deeply. “Do we have time?” he murmured in a passion-laden voice.
“I don’t have class until eleven. You?”
“Noon.”
“Then we have time,” Jess said as he unwound the towel from Alex’s lean hips while he reclaimed his lips for a deep, seeking kiss.
Chapter 3
Making their way