"You fucking left me? You arsehole. You don't get to walk away from me."
"Shit, Liv. Why are you calling? You are just supposed to accept it and move on."
"Move on? Move on?" I yell at him. "I can't just move on!"
He sighs. "I just need to get away for a bit. Away from you. You are taking over my life again, Lizzie, and I just can't do it again. I can't just be a quick fuck whenever you have time to fit it in."
"That's what you think?" I croak out.
"Yes. You go off to Toronto for three days to be with Cole, you come back and the first thing you do is go to Lincoln and then I get twenty minutes before you have to get upstairs to that fucking bastard that has been treating you like shit for the last few months. I would never treat you like that, Lizzie. So why do I lose out to him?"
"Fuck, Dev. I'm sorry. I know I have been so busy with everything lately, but it's no excuse. Please just come home so I can fix it."
"I am going home. Back to L.A. Just for a bit. I'll be at home and I'll hold down the fort at work but if you need anything from me with regard to business, ask Lincoln to call me. You'd better get back to him. I'm sure you will pay for taking this much time out to speak to me," he says derisively.
"We're okay," I say shortly.
"Good. That's good," he says softly, and he means it. "At least you will have him now."
"It's not a trade-off, Dev. I need you."
"And I need you. I just need some space from all of…this. I need some normal. I'll get over this. Just let me. Okay?" He hangs up.
My shoulders sag as I realize he isn't going to come back anytime soon. I go back into the sitting room to find CK on his phone and Lincoln flicking through his.
"You okay?" Lincoln asks as CK hangs up.
I shake my head. "Not really. He's going home though. To our home. That's a good sign, right? That he isn't going to be gone long?"
"Absolutely," CK says and Lincoln says, "Sure." Whether they said it to humor me or not, I feel better.
Lincoln stands up and comes to give me a tight hug. "Everything will be okay. We'll get through this. I promise," he says and drops his mouth to mine to kiss me. I let him, needing a distraction.
CK clears his throat behind us and I pull away. "Aefre," he grumbles, "time to go."
Lincoln gets a wicked glint in his eye as he pulls on the belt of my robe and it falls open. He turns me around to face my sire, whose face is a picture of fury as Lincoln squeezes my nipples and nuzzles my neck.
"Aww, come on now. What's a family reunion without a bit of sharing?" he says seductively.
"No sharing tonight. This is my time," CK says sternly.
Lincoln ignores him as he moves his hands further down, lightly brushing over me. He pulls us back towards the sofa and sits, pulling me onto his lap. I lean back against his chest, enjoying the attention and wiggle in delight as he pushes his fingers inside my pussy.
"Oh, baby," he whispers to me, eyes on CK's furious reaction.
Unable to help myself, I thud against his fingers as he rubs them over my clit. He says to CK, "You're right. There really isn't anything like it in the world." I writhe against him, relaxing, completely at his mercy.
"Ah," he breathes as I rub against his stiffening cock. "You wouldn't let her rile me up like this and then leave me hanging, would you? At least let me watch."
CK narrows his eyes and moves closer, observing Lincoln still playing with me and my reaction to it. For all his time spent away, Lincoln has more than made up for it with me. I delight in his desire to please me and to learn new ways in which to do so. Devon has been most instructive, and we have had many a pleasing night, the three of us.
"Or would you prefer to watch me? What would you like t
o see me do to her?" he asks slyly.
CK crouches in front of us with a hunger in his eyes that I haven't seen for a while. "Oh, the things I would like to see you do to her," he says softly.
A frisson of uneasiness goes through me. Lincoln, surprised by the whiff of fear coming from me, flicks his eyes to CK's.