Three. The Perfect Number

MADISON

Heat flooded Madison’s face.

She’d thought that girl looked familiar—and now she realized why. She looked just like the girl who’d been with the twins last week.

“Is she…?” Madison started to ask, but before she could finish the question, both of them nodded, keeping their eyes on her.

“You don’t have to,” Levi assured her, putting a hand on her thigh. “It’s just a game.”

But his touch only made her want to do it more.

“No, it’s fine.” She swallowed, then glanced from one twin to the other. But before she could decide where to go first, Ethan pulled her close.

“Here.” He cupped the back of her head gently and pushed a few curls back from her face to search for her eyes. “Don’t be nervous. It’s going to be good. I promise.”

She’d never seen his eyes look so big or felt his hands so warm.

He caressed her lips with his thumb and leaned closer at her nod. “Close your eyes.” It was a whisper brushed against her lips that only she could hear.

With his hand still supporting her neck, Ethan urged her closer, mingling their breath, brushing his lips against hers for a few more seconds before he closed the gap and kissed her.

He held still at first, giving her time to decide the next move, but with the storm happening inside her, it didn’t take her long to decide. She parted her lips and let Ethan’s tongue slip in and capture hers.

The softness and the wetness of their tongues tangling together made a quiet moan rise in her throat and her panties feel uncomfortable.

Could all this happen from just a kiss?

After a moment, they slowly pulled away from each other, and without opening her eyes, she touched her tongue to her lips, searching for his taste. He tasted good—too good.

“That wasn’t so bad now, was it?” he said softly as her eyes fluttered open, and it was like everyone else was gone.

Until she looked around and saw the shocked faces of everyone watching.

“Don’t bother about them,” Levi said as he gently turned Madison’s head in his direction.

He got on his knees in front of her and slid one arm around her waist and the other one around her neck, then pressed his forehead against hers.

“Trust me. It will be just as good. And these people? Not here.”

Difficult to believe when all their eyes are on me. But despite her nerves, she wanted to know what he tasted like.

She nodded at him and closed her eyes, then felt his breath tickle her nose.

The moment his lips were on hers, a fire lit up her body.

Levi’s mouth was just as soft as Ethan’s, but instead of waiting for her, he was the one in control.

Moving one of her hands behind his neck, she locked her fingers in his hair and pulled him closer. Small whimpers escaped her as she savored every bit of his mouth.

Again, how could a simple kiss ignite so many feelings?

But as soon as they pulled apart, reality flooded back in. Everyone was looking at her; a few people were even hooting and whistling. And what if this got back to her brothers?

Her heart felt like it would jump out of her chest as an uneasy cocktail of embarrassment, arousal, and fear overwhelmed her.

Not really how she’d imagined her forbidden dream coming true.

With one last look at the twins and at Sam, she slowly stood up. Then, smiling apologetically, she moved a few steps away, keeping her eyes on them.

“I’ll…catch up with you later?”

And then, feeling like she was made of air, she turned and walked away.

“No,” she whispered to herself as she headed down the beach. “Definitely not what I imagined.”

***

With her cheeks still flushed and the taste of both Ethan and Levi still on her tongue, Madison finally reached her destination: a small cave at the end of the beach.

It was hidden behind some bushes, and growing up, it had been her favorite place to hide when the boys were becoming too much.

This was a new kind of too much, though.

Her mind was a storm of thoughts and emotions, her panties were soaked, and her nipples were hard enough to ache against the fabric of her bikini.

What’s wrong with me?

She found a flat rock in the back of the cave and sat down. With one finger she traced her lips, then licked them and savored the taste left there by the twins. When she closed her eyes, she could still feel their lips on hers.

She pulled her legs up to her chest and hugged them, resting her head on her knees. She hadn’t been expecting to kiss either one of them, let alone both. Still, she wasn’t regretting it.

Not entirely.

She just wished they’d kissed her because they wanted to, not because they’d been dared to.

“’Flake? You here?” Ethan’s voice echoed through the cave.

“Uh…yeah, down here.”

In a matter of seconds, both of the twins were in front of her, looking worried.

Ethan stood on her left with his hands in his pockets, while Levi knelt to reach her level and, putting one hand on her shoulder, brushed a few curls from her face with the other.

“Hey, why did you run away, ’Flake?” Levi asked, his voice gentle. “What’s going on in that pretty head of yours?”

The look of worry on their faces made her shift uncomfortably on the rocks.

“Nothing.” She looked down, but Levi slipped two fingers under her chin to pull her face upward.

Ethan crouched down next to Levi and met her eyes. “So you ran away from us for no reason?”

His husky voice made it difficult to focus, and his gaze was magnetic, making it impossible to look away.

She bit her lip nervously, torturing it until Levi rubbed it with his thumb, stopping her.

“’Flake, it’s us,” he said. “You can tell us the truth.”

Her eyes filled with tears.

“Did you not want to kiss us? Do you regret it?”

She looked at Levi and realized she couldn’t quite read his eyes. In the past they’d been easy for her to read, but not now. Now they were filled with an emotion she didn’t understand.

“No…yes… I mean, I don’t regret it, no. I just… I…” Her voice was barely audible. “I didn’t want it to happen that way.”

Both twins raised their eyebrows, like mirror images of each other, but waited for her to go on.

Pulling away from Levi’s touch, she buried her face in her hands. “I didn’t want my first kiss with you guys to be because you had to, but because you wanted to.”

Her words hung in the air for a moment, then Levi pulled her toward him. He caressed her skin softly then replaced her hands with his own, cupping her face and locking his amber eyes with hers.

“And you think we didn’t want it?”

But before she could answer, his lips crashed against hers, and Madison’s world went blank.

Heat rose from her stomach to her chest, and her core ached in anticipation as the kiss raced past innocent to passionate and needy.

She tangled her fingers in Levi’s hair to pull him closer, and he let out a guttural moan.

Is this really happening?

When he finally pulled away, she opened her eyes to meet his. They were full of lust.

Yes, it is really happening.

The cave was so silent, surely he could hear the sound of her heart trying to escape her chest.

She’d been so caught up in Levi, she didn’t notice Ethan moving closer to her until he gently tugged her to him and placed a finger on her swollen lips.

He rested his forehead on hers and ran his palm over her cheek. His fingers moved down to softly trace her jawline.

Still aroused from the kiss with Levi, Madison’s skin fired up under his fingers, and once again, her core clenched in anticipation while her stomach seemed to flip.

She rested her fingers on his hard chest, tracing little circles, feeling him shiver under her touch, and when his lips landed on hers and his tongue slipped between them, her eyes drifted closed.

With a greedy moan, she forgot everything around her, letting her remaining senses be filled with Ethan’s and Levi’s scents and the delicious feelings running through her body.

After a minute, Ethan slowly pulled away, but not before biting her bottom lip gently, then releasing her mouth with a small smack.

He locked eyes with her, and behind the lust and excitement of the moment she could see the sweetness and purity of his thoughts.

“Just to be clear,” he said, his voice low and hoarse.

“We really wanted to. For a while now.”