“So catch us up to speed. How are things between you and Mr. Movie Star?” Maddie asked.
“About the same.” I turned onto my side and pulled the covers up to my chest even though the girls couldn’t see me.
“That bad, huh?” Emma said.
“Yeah. He’s still an ass.” Even as the words left my lips, my mind objected. Not strenuously, but at least a little. Aiden hadn’t really been an ass in a while. And he sure was going above and beyond to help make Sierra feel comfortable with the sex scene. But it was too early in the morning to sort through my feelings about that.
Maddie was still asking about the guys. “How about the other two? What’s the name of the one who’s teaching you all the stunts?”
“Ford.”
“He sounds more like your type,” Emma said.
“What’s my type?” I asked, curious what they thought about that.
“Someone who’s not famous and not an asshole,” Maddie said. That seemed about right, but Emma elaborated.
“She’s into people with athletic skills,” Emma said. “Right, Ronnie? You’ve always admired the flips and jumps my twins can do.”
“Half the women in town admire them for that.”
“Yeah, but they admire them because they’re hot. You admire them because of what they can do. I bet it’s like that with Ford, too,” Emma insisted.
She wasn’t wrong about that. I did admire Ford’s strength, dexterity, and athleticism, but now there was more to like. Like how he could choreograph a sexy encounter that allowed all parties involved to have the maximum amount of pleasure.
“Do you like Ford better than the stunt double?” Maddie asked.
For some reason, that irritated me. “I came out here to get a fresh start, not to go boy crazy.”
Emma laughed. “But when you’re living in the same house as a bunch of hot guys, it’s a little hard not to.”
“Trust us, we get it,” Maddie added.
“All right. I do like Tanner. I never thought I’d like one of my stepbrothers, but—he’s a good man.”
“And as a bonus, he looks exactly like Aiden Hunt,” Maddie said with a wistful sigh.
I couldn’t help laughing. “Or Aiden looks like him.”
“But Aiden’s the movie star. That makes him more handsome by definition.”
“Tanner’s his identical twin. That makes him equally handsome by definition,” I replied. This debate was nonsensical but amusing. “That’s what makes him such a great stunt double.”
“I can’t believe there are two of them,” Emma said with a dreamy sigh of her own.
“Would you ever consider… doubling up with them?” Maddie wasn’t shy about asking personal questions.
My face scrunched up as I thought about what to say. I wanted to talk to them about last night. Of all the people in the world, they’d understand. But it had just happened and I hadn’t even begun to process it myself.
On the other hand—I’d never seen myself as the type to shy away from difficult topics. “I kind of already have.”
“Oh my god!” Emma exclaimed.
“You did it with the twins?” Maddie shrieked.
“No! God, no. With Tanner and Ford.”
“With two out of three of them?” Emma sounded aghast.
“Why not? There’s no law that says it has to be an all or nothing thing.”
“But those are so fun,” Maddie said with a giggle. “What did Aiden do while you three were going at it? Hang out in his room with a pillow over his head?”
“He wasn’t here.” I was taken aback by their attitudes. After all, most women just hooked up with one man at a time. I’d hooked up with two, and my friends didn’t think it was enough.
“That’s great since they’re the two you like best,” Emma conceded. “I just couldn’t ever imagine leaving one of my guys out.”
“Aiden’s not one of my guys. None of them are, actually. It was just the one time.” What I didn’t add was that after another week or so, I didn’t even know if I’d see any of them again. “I don’t even know if the three of them are used to sharing women. Most men aren’t.”
“Well, were they good at sharing?” Maddie asked.
More memories and sensations from last night flooded my mind. “Hell yeah.”
She giggled. “Glad you finally got to join the club.”
“But one of them was your stepbrother,” Emma said. “That’s kind of… not the norm.” She was obviously choosing her words carefully, but it was still irritating.
“They’re not my family. My estranged father marrying their mother doesn’t make them anything to me.”
“Except a good lay,” Maddie said. She seemed rather hyped this morning. I wondered if that meant her men were in town—or that they weren’t.
“Right. I never even met Tanner before I came out here, so there’s nothing weird about fooling around with him.” On the contrary, there had been very many positives to fooling around with him. But then a bad thought crossed my mind. “But for god’s sake, don’t tell Tonio.”