Faye's Spirit (10 page)

Garth smiled at that.

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“Now that I know a little bit about Maud, I feel I can draw her into conversation. I don’t need a lot of sleep, but if I take a short nap this evening then I can stay awake tonight and wait around in her favourite places, the areas she shows up. If I’m there, she’s more likely to come out.”

“A magnet to ghosts as well as to mere mortal men, hmm?” Jai said, ever the charmer.

“Stop it.” She felt embarrassed by that. “That’s not what I meant. Anyway, I need to go home to change my clothes so I can grab a nap then.”

“You should pack a weekend bag and stay over,” Jai suggested.

Garth quickly added his encouragement. “Bring whatever you need. You might as well be comfortable at my place while you’re um, on the job.”

“You should have brought your stuff to begin with,” Jai added.

“I didn’t know I was going to get such convivial hosts then, did I?”

Garth reached across the table and caressed her hand. “Why don’t we escort you to your place, then we can tuck you in for your nap.”

“Can you afford the time?”

Garth nodded quickly. “Hell yes, anything else can wait.”

Jai agreed. “I’ve already cancelled my squash game for tomorrow morning so I’ll be on hand for anything you might need.”

Garth arched his eyebrows at his cohort but he didn’t say anything.

“Well, if you’re sure. Actually, I’d love to get a photo of you two in my flat.” That way she’d always have it to remember. As the thought occurred to her, she realised how sad she’d be to say goodbye to them, after the job was done. It quelled her bubbly mood for a moment.

“I’ve got a confession,” she added quickly. It was something that had been playing on her mind and she needed to get it out in the open. “When I said it was my sister who is in a three-way relationship, that wasn’t quite the whole story.”

She had their full attention.

“I have two older sisters, and they are both in a ménage à trois relationship.” Her face heated, because it shone a spotlight on her motives.

“No wonder you were curious.” Jai’s eyes glinted. He seemed intrigued.

Garth studied her thoughtfully. “That’s why you wanted to meet two men who were willing, because they had?”

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“Well, it wasn’t quite like that. I was curious about it, and I suppose that made me open to it. To be honest I never thought I’d have the opportunity.”

Jai shrugged. “It’s a common enough fantasy.”

She smiled his way. She’d felt a little awkward making her confession, but it had to come out or she might trip herself up by saying something about it at the wrong time. Jai had a knack of diffusing tension, making everything seem as if it wasn’t a big deal.

“You must have a lot of birthdays to remember, with all those other halves,” Jai added.

She chuckled. “Christmas was a bit of a nightmare, I have to say. It’s hard enough finding a good gift for men anyway without having to double it up all the time.”

Garth still looked thoughtful. “I feel like the odd one out, you both have large families.”

Faye noticed that he focused on the family aspect, not the unusual long-term relationships she’d mentioned. Perhaps that was easier for him. “You’re an only child?”

“I have an older sister but she’s worked in Spain since she left Uni, so we don’t hook up as a family as often as we should.”

As the conversation moved on to their upbringings Faye began to learn more about her two lovers. How lucky she’d been, to experience this. But she’d got so much more than her fantasy made real. It wasn’t just the sexual experimentation, it was being around them.

The way they were together tickled her, and she enjoyed their company, fast growing to care about them on another level.

Pull back
, she warned herself. Twenty-four hours was too soon to feel this way. But she couldn’t help it. She felt gloriously happy, dazzled by her good fortune, and eager to experiment some more.

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Chapter Eight

“Oh yes, this is good.” Jai crossed to Faye’s bed, turned around and threw himself back on it, arms outstretched. “This is
way
more comfortable than your bed, Garth.” He picked up the cuddly lion she had sitting on the spare pillow and began to toss it up and down in his hands.

Faye couldn’t withhold her smile. “You look quite at home there, which makes me doubt my ability to get a proper nap in.”

Jai propped himself on one elbow and grinned.

Garth rubbed her shoulder affectionately. “Don’t worry. I’ll make sure you get plenty of rest before tonight, even if I have to take him out kicking and screaming.”

“Now that I’d like to see.” Faye felt intoxicated by their presence. Somehow having them in her tiny little flat, her private space, felt like she would keep part of them there. It was a memory to cherish.

“This man can make himself comfortable in any bed,” Garth continued. “It’s in his personality to nest wherever he happens to be.”

“Do you even have your own bed?” Faye asked.

Garth shook his head at his friend. “You wouldn’t think so would you?”

Jai shrugged with one shoulder.

Faye’s curiosity had been baited. “Where is your bed? You haven’t mentioned where you live.”

Garth gave a wry laugh then folded his arms over his chest. He didn’t say anything, but looked at Jai expectantly. When Jai didn’t offer any more information, Garth responded for him. “Jai still lives with his family. Thirty-two years old and he still hasn’t got his own place.”

Jai gestured with his free hand, still holding on to the cuddly toy with the other one.

“I’m never at home, what’s the point?”

“There’s a weird sort of logic there, but maybe if you had your own place you’d spend more time in it.”

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“Maybe, but where’s the fun in that?” That wickedly suggestive look of his had returned and it made Faye brim with reciprocal energy. There was something vital about Jai—something eternally elusive too—but where he chose to spend his time meant fun for those who were there. Was that why these two worked so well together—because Garth needed Jai, and Jai always had a good cause in making Garth have fun?

Meanwhile, Garth seemed to love the fact Jai was being exposed. “I offered him the floor below mine at the house. It’s all but empty at the moment and he’s invested in the place, so he has the right. But no. That would be too much responsibility for him.”

“What do I need with responsibility? That’s what you’re for.”

It tickled Faye because it was so obviously an illusion. If he’d invested, he already had the responsibility. He just wasn’t reaping the same reward Garth was when it came to personal space. “Wherever you lay your hat, that’s your home?”

Jai nodded. “The lady really is psychic.”

“You haven’t decided where to lay your hat yet, that’s what it is.”

“Maybe.” He seemed pleased that she was so attuned to him.

“She’s got your card marked,” Garth said.

Jai’s smile grew.

For some reason Faye felt a bit giddy. “I have to get a photo of you both, on my bed.”

“Really?” Garth looked confused.

“Call it a souvenir.” She darted off to find her bag. While she rifled through her bag in the hallway she heard them laughing. Jai was winding Garth up, by the sounds of it. He seemed to do that a lot. This time it was a commentary about posing for sexy photographs on a woman’s bed with another man.

When she located her phone she rejoined them. Standing at the end of the bed, she switched it to camera mode and looked at them on the screen. Jai still reclined on the bed.

Garth was sitting on the edge of it rather gingerly.

She laughed. “Try to look as if you’ve been enjoying an exciting three-way in my bed, why don’t you.”

Garth gave her a reprimanding glance. “That would be so much easier if we had just done that.” He looked her up and down very deliberately.

Pleasure bubbled up inside her.

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“Now you’re talking.” Jai put the cuddly toy aside and opened his arms to her.

So much for napping
. Maybe she should have said no to them escorting her home for a rest. “Oh, come on, I want the picture.”

Garth held up his hands and shifted to lie out alongside Jai.

Jai put the cuddly toy between them and made a big show of kissing it.

Laughing, Faye grabbed the shot.

Jai leapt to his feet. “You get on the bed for the next one. Wait, has your camera got a time delay?”

“Yup.” Faye pointed it out as she handed it over.

“In that case we can all be in the photo. You get on the bed and I’ll set it up.” He arranged the camera on the dresser opposite the bed, then darted back and joined them.

They posed for the photo. The camera clicked and Jai got up again. “Wait there. I’ll see how it came out.”

While he checked out the camera, Garth moved up against Faye’s side. “He’s right.

Your bed is more comfortable than mine.”

“You reckon?” When she turned to look at him, he kissed her.

Caught unawares, she hesitated. Then melted. It was the affect he had on her. Garth was hesitant at first, then full-on.

By the time they drew apart, Jai had lifted her phone from its perch and studied it.

“You did know this can record video, right?”

“Um, yes. I haven’t used it though. I’ve only had it since Christmas.”

Jai’s slow, suggestive smile made her realise what he was getting at.

“You really ought to test it out,” he said. “Make a home movie.”

Her pulse beat more erratically. “You don’t mean what I think you mean?”

“Why not? You wanted a souvenir.”

An erotic home movie? She exchanged looks with Garth but neither of them verbalised their thoughts. She had the feeling he was as surprised as she was. Was he as curious as she was, too? It was something that she’d never considered before, but the idea seemed so hot it sent her spinning. Could she face up to a recording of herself in action, with not one but two lovers? As she thought about it, she realised just how hot a keepsake it www.total-e-bound.com

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would be. Performing while a camera recorded them would take some nerve, but to get a souvenir like that she was willing to push herself to a new level of brazenness.

Jai was busy studying the settings on her phone.

“Do you want to give it a go?” Garth’s voice drew her attention back. The expression in his eyes was caring and sincere as he queried her, but the set of his mouth gave away how turned on he was by the idea of it. His lips were tight, erotic tension oozing from him as he held himself in check awaiting her consent.

“You are so adorable,” she whispered, smiling.

He pulled back and looked at her. “I am?”

“Yes, you are so gentlemanly.”

“I don’t feel very gentlemanly right now.” He drew her hand to his fly.

Faye inhaled when she felt how hard he was. His penis strained against the fabric of his trousers. Her hand closed around his rock hard erection and her core clenched, instantly craving it there, where it belonged.

“Are you attempting to seduce our woman?” Jai asked, hardly breaking with the job he had in hand to quiz Garth.

Garth nodded. “You better believe it.”

Jai put the camera back on the dresser and leaned over to check the screen before he rejoined them. Then he stood at the end of the bed with his hands on his hips. “Tell me, Milady, what sort of souvenir are you after?”

He had taken control of the situation. But didn’t he always? It occurred to her that that was exactly what he did, nudging the situation along until they were all able to cast aside doubts and inhibitions. He was just being more overt this time by playing into the whole movie-making scenario.

“What are you, the director?” Faye looked beyond him, at the phone, and her mind whirred. The set up turned her on immensely, and that astonished her. It was recording, right now.
Am I really doing this?

Jai nodded. “What mood are we in?”

Garth rested a possessive hand on her hip. “Horny.”

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“Me too,” Faye whispered. It was the truth, but as she said it a sense of mischief flitted through her. “I’m surrounded by all this high-powered testosterone, all this strength and virility, I can’t help it. It makes me want to offer myself…”

Jai leaned over and cupped her chin, staring down into her eyes. “Offer yourself, huh?”

His eyes glinted. He looked dangerously aroused, and he was in charge.

Faye’s pulse raced.

He drew her to her feet then changed places with her, dropping down onto her spot on the bed. “Why don’t you offer yourself by stripping for us? We’re waiting.”

Her heart thundered in her chest. She was on the spot, and she could either take up the challenge or back out, and that would mean missing the opportunity to watch the way this would unfold, over and again, after the event. Heady with arousal, she stared down at them. Her two lovers. Both of them were aroused, there was no hiding that. She took a deep breath. The camera was behind her. Jai had put her there on purpose.

“Show us what you’ve got.” Jai gestured at her clothing then stroked his hand over his fly, as if making her a promise.

Garth cocked his head on one side.

Faye stared at the headboard beyond them for a moment to level her head. A few days ago she’d slumbered in that bed, never for one moment thinking something like this would ever happen to her. It thrilled her that it had.
Don’t chicken out now. You’ll always regret it.

Reaching for her hem, she shimmied her dress up and off, nice and slow, playing to the mood. When she undid her bra she turned away from them and faced the camera.