by Amy Sumida
“I don’t know.” Doug walked towards the large sectional couch in their living room and sat down with Aria still wrapped around him koala-style.
Chad and Jason sat down on either side of them.
She felt each of their hands touching, stroking, and caressing her as they murmured words of comfort. Her tears continued to rain down her face, soaking Doug’s chest.
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Spent. Aria pushed herself up from Doug’s chest keeping her eyes down. She knew they would have questions for her, but she didn’t know if she had the strength to answer. Trying to stand, she pushed against Doug, but his hands anchored her to his lap. He did allow her to slide away far enough to see all their faces if she lifted her head.
As her body slid back, Chad stood and walked away. He returned with some Kleenex. Sitting down, he lowered his body until his eyes met hers. Placing his fingers under her chin, he slowly lifted her face until she looked at all three of them.
“Here, let me.” He carefully wiped the tears from her face making her feel like a piece of priceless treasure he was cleaning. As soon as he was done, he handed her some more so she could blow her nose.
Jason held out his hand. Aria glanced at him questioningly, but he raised his eyebrows and moved his gaze from her face to his hand until she harrumphed and placed the used Kleenex there. He kissed her temple as he stood and walked to the trash can.
“Are you okay?” Doug’s thumbs massaged the top of her hip bones as his eyes searched hers.
“I will be,” she whispered.
Chapter Eighteen
— Aria —
“Want to tell us what happened?” Chad handed her a bottle of water. He placed his hand on her thigh, his fingers rubbing along her inner thigh.
Aria took a sip. She wiped her mouth. “It was just a stupid fight. The girls have been bugging me to start living again and when I do, they act all outraged that I’m not the same person from before I became sick.”
She watched as the three guys turned to look at each other with downturned faces. As they all carried the same sadness in their eyes that she did, she wondered if they experienced the same thing. Had they fought and lost family members and friends over their different difficulties?
Jason stroked the side of her face. “Give them time, love. Dealing with what you went through is an adjustment for them as well. They just didn’t realize it.”
She searched his eyes, knowing he had experienced an unspoken loss. She lifted her hand to his cheek and cradled it. “You’ve gone through something similar, haven’t you?”
He nodded. Placing his hand on hers, he pulled them both down entwining their fingers on his lap. Shoulders raised, he took a deep breath as his eyes glanced to his friends. Meeting their eyes, his shoulders dropped. “Remember when I told you I hadn’t kissed anyone in three years?” She nodded. “That was when my wife was killed in a car accident.”
Aria’s breath caught in her throat. While she was fighting for her life, Jason’s wife lost hers. He was in the very position her ex would have been in. Tears started to fall freely down her cheeks once more. “I’m so sorry. I’m alive and your wife isn’t.”
Jason pulled her from Doug’s lap onto his own. “Hush, love. Don’t cry.” He continued to rub her back and murmur quiet words.
Chad stood, leaving the room. He returned carrying a facecloth. Sitting on the coffee table in front of Jason, he lifted the cool, damp facecloth and gently bathed Aria’s face. “Sweetheart. It’s okay. Jason has had three years to try to come to terms with it.”
“Love, please don’t cry any more over my loss. It was rough, but there was more to it.” He kissed her forehead, the tip of her nose, and then moved to place a soft kiss on her lips.
Aria nodded. She rested her head against his shoulder and wrapped an arm around his waist. She reached for Chad’s hand and looked towards Doug, wishing she had another hand.
Doug offered her a smile. He picked up her legs and stretched them over his thighs. His hands massaged her calves and feet, relaxing her.
Jason tilted his head to rest his cheek on the top of her head. “She was killed when she T-boned a car that was entering the Armdale roundabout. For some reason, she swerved at the last moment, changing lanes.” He placed his hand on her thigh and squeezed slightly. “Like anyone, I was in shock when the police came. Chad showed up just after them as his fire station had responded to the initial 911 call. I felt guilty and blamed myself because things had been tense between us. But nothing prepared me for the phone call I received two weeks later.”
Jason’s heart sped up under her cheek. His leg muscles tensed under her. She placed a soft kiss on his chest as her hand rubbed his side offering him some comfort.
“I had just arrived home from the funeral when the phone rang. At first, I wasn’t going to answer it because I didn’t recognize the name of the clinic.” He took a deep breath before continuing. “Something told me I needed to answer. The call turned out to be from a fertility clinic informing me our surrogate had a failed insemination attempt and they wanted to schedule a repeat procedure in six weeks.”
“Oh, Jason, I’m so sorry. I know the feeling of losing a baby and you lost both at once.” Aria tilted her head to kiss the underside of his chin as tears shimmered in her eyes.
Jason’s lips thinned at her condolences. He tilted his head down so he could look her in the eye. “Finding out it failed wasn’t too rough because I didn’t know anything about it.”
Aria gasped. “What do you mean?”
“My wife and I had been talking about kids. I really wanted us to start a family, but she was resistant. We’d been talking for nearly two years and things were becoming more strained in our relationship.” He motioned to Chad asking for his water from the table. Chad passed it to him. He took a quick drink to clear his throat. “I guess she felt having a baby would put our marriage back on track, but didn’t want to get pregnant herself, so she used my power of attorney to go to a fertility clinic and hire a surrogate.”
He took another drink. His voice was clipped with restrained anger as he continued with his story. “I felt guilty when she died because she’d been pushing me for sex that morning. I wasn’t feeling very loving. We’d been fighting so much. She finally pushed enough of my buttons that I fucked her, not made love, but fucked her just to shut her up.”
Aria pulled her hand out from behind Jason and stroked his tight cheek. She used her thumb to soothe the frown along his forehead. When it didn’t relax, she pulled his head down until she could place a kiss between his eyes.
He pulled her close, wrapping his arms around her. “After we had finished, she threw on some clothes and ran out the door. I felt horrible for the way I treated her, but it turned out she was running to the clinic to give them the sample. They implanted the surrogate an hour later. She was rushing home when she had the accident.”
Aria was horrified, but she didn’t want to show it. No wonder Jason acted so sullen and standoffish when they first met. This also explained his cryptic remarks about the walls he had. She didn’t know how he could ever trust someone again, let alone a woman. As horrified as she was by what he’d gone through, she felt extremely special. He trusted her and opened himself up. She stared up at him with the early stages of love in her eyes.
Jason placed two fingers on her mouth when she opened it to speak. “It’s okay. You don’t need to say anything. I just felt you needed to know what happened in my past and why I don’t like secrets.”
Doug cleared his throat. “Well, now that Jason successfully made us equally angry and sad, I suggest we order in supper, kick back, and relax.
“I agree,” Chad replied as both Jason and Aria nodded.
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After supper, the four of them climbed onto one of the two king-sized beds in the suite. Aria sat back against the headboard, her legs outstretched. Chad reclined against Aria with his head resting against her pelvis while Doug and Jason each sprawled out on either side of her. They put i
n a spy action movie to keep their thoughts off Jason’s revelations and Aria’s argument with her friends.
Aria ran her fingers through Chad’s brush cut, loving the feel of it on her skin. She lowered her hands and started to massage his scalp and the side of his neck before moving on to his chest muscles. Between the weight of his body pinning her pelvis to the bed and the warmth of his skin under her hands, her body was heating up.
Her encounter with Doug earlier in the day opened a door she long thought closed. She never expected to have sex again, thinking that part of her life was over, dying with her old self. But Doug showed her differently. Well, him and the other two bodies that currently cuddled against her.
She continued to massage Chad’s pec muscles, watching as his nipples extended into tight nubs. Her fingernails raked over his skin and around his nipples, but didn’t touch them.
— Chad —
Chad grew harder the longer Aria ran her hands through his hair and over his skin. He bit back a moan when she switched to using her nails, but when she started to trace around his nipples he lost his battle as a low moan tore through his chest. Rolling over, he sat up on his knees in front of her taking in the sight before him.
The movie played in the background, but none of them watched it. Instead, Doug and Jason kissed and nibbled the sides of Aria’s neck as she threw her head back. Eyes closed, her face flushed with pleasure. He watched Doug and Jason each reach out to grasp a breast.
Aria pulled her hands up and out from between their bodies. She grabbed onto the hair on their heads. Doug’s lips climbed up her neck, licking and sucking as they went while Jason mirrored his actions in reverse.
Doug’s lips captured hers in a searing kiss. His tongue thrust into her mouth, laying claim to all that it touched.
Jason’s mouth continued its descent until it reached the edge of the neckline on Aria’s sundress. Sitting up, he used both his hands to pull the strapless neckline down onto her breasts as his tongue followed, tracing its path.
Watching the scene, Chad groaned, his erection developing the imprint of his zipper. He popped the button on his shorts and lowered the zipper to give himself a little more room as he started to stroke himself. Thank God for going commando. Watching his two best friends work their magic on the woman of his dreams was a bigger turn on than he thought possible.
Unable to hold back any longer, he slid his hands up her thighs, bringing the hem of her dress up as he went. He lowered his head and allowed his mouth to follow first one hand and then the other as they travelled up her waist.
As Doug’s mouth worked its way from her mouth back to her neck, Aria’s head tilted back, giving him more room. Freeing her mouth allowed her moans to escape.
Chad’s tongue traced the line along Aria’s hip. Smelling her arousal, it was all he could do to stop himself from feasting upon her. He pulled back a little watching her writhe with pleasure as both Jason and Doug reached the swell of her breasts with their mouths.
Sitting up, he tapped both Doug and Jason on the shoulder. “We need to set some rules.”
They both nodded and sat up beside him with Aria’s legs between them. Aria opened her eyes and pouted.
Chad stared into Aria’s desire filled eyes. “Do you trust us?”
She nodded.
His eyes became stern and he spoke in his lower ‘do not disobey me’ timber. “We won’t have sex with you tonight”—Aria’s bottom lip stuck out farther, causing both Jason and Doug to bite their own lips—“You won’t have the three of us at once until your heart is checked out and we know how to care for you properly, understand?”
— Aria —
Aria was surprised at her body’s reaction to the tone of Chad’s voice. She’d heard of dominants and submissives, but never in her wildest dreams did she think it would turn her on. She couldn’t keep from squirming under Chad’s stern gaze and when he laid down the law about the three of them having sex with her at once… Well, she nearly orgasmed right then. She didn’t think she could take orders from anyone else, but with Chad, she knew her best interests came first while his came a distant second. She bit her lip and nodded when he asked if she understood.
He continued to stare at her, along with Jason and Doug, as she waited to hear what he would say next. She squirmed under the weight of their gazes. Her eyes dropped, noticing how Chad’s shorts no longer confined his erection. Licking her lips, her eyes traveled to Jason’s and then Doug’s erections, wishing they followed Chad’s example and freed themselves from the restrictions of their shorts. She watched as three hands traveled down to stroke the three erections in front of her, driving her lust to new heights.
Fuuuuck. I want them and I want them now. She tried to rub her legs together, but couldn’t move them from between the guys.
“I think Aria is wearing too many clothes. Jason. Doug. Help her out of her dress.”
Jason and Doug took hold of the bottom hem and started to work the dress up over her hips. Aria lifted her butt to help them and then sat forward allowing them to lift it over her head.
They sat back on their heels, her body heating as their eyes raked over her, lying in nothing but a royal blue thong and matching strapless bra.
“You’re so gorgeous, sweetheart,” whispered Chad reverently as he bent over and kissed below her belly button.
As if Chad’s movement was a signal, Jason and Doug surged forward, removing her bra and replacing it with their mouths and tongues. Her eyes rolled back.
Chad continued to kiss down until he reached the edge of her thong. She held her breath as his fingers slid under the lacy waistband and pulled it down her legs. His mouth and body followed. When her thong hit the floor, he started his journey back up her legs, licking and nipping as he went. He paused with his mouth inches from her core.
Aria didn’t know what to do. Her body overwhelmed with pleasure. She couldn’t contain the moans six hands and three mouths elicited from her. Each set of hands and each mouth touched her in a different way. Doug, gentle in the way he held her, always concerned about his size in comparison to hers. Jason’s touch, hesitant and a little unsure as if he questioned himself, which, after his story, she understood. Chad’s touch was completely different. He was sure and confident, almost domineering, as if he expected her to obey whatever his every command.
Her body tensed in anticipation of what Chad would do next. He slid his body forward until his mouth latched on, kissing, and licking; driving her crazy. Her hips bucked as his tongue swiped through her folds and circled her clit before sliding down and plunging inside.
Jason and Doug, each held one of her hands above her head as they continued to trade places. When one lavished on her breasts, the other plundered her mouth, and then they switched. Occasionally they would both suck a breast into their mouth driving her body into an added frenzy.
Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh!
She was being driven to new heights. Heights she’d never experienced before. She could feel it building…building…building inside her, making her want to move, to squirm, anything to help bring her over the edge, but Chad pinned her hips down with his arm and Jason and Doug had pinned down her hands. Whenever her lips were free, she was busy biting them to keep from crying out.
“Stop biting. We want to hear you,” Doug’s husky voice said in her ear while another set of lips, must be Jason’s, tugged her lip out from between her teeth. Before she could say a word, Jason’s tongue plunged back into her mouth, thrusting as if it was his cock entering her depths.
Chad licked his way back up to her clit and bit down lightly as Doug impaled her with two fingers. He curved them slightly hitting her G-spot, sending her over the edge. He continued to thrust his fingers prolonging her orgasm.
Aria opened her eyes to see Doug pull his fingers out of her and suck them into his mouth. She wanted to rub her thighs together at the sight, but couldn’t as Chad still lay between them. His breath caressed her sensitive skin and start
ed her on the path again.
Chad lifted his head to stare at her across her body. “Are you okay?”
“B-b-better than okay.”
He raised his eyebrows and smirked. “Good, because we’re just getting started.” He climbed from between her legs taking Doug’s spot, who moved into Jason’s, who moved into Chad’s between her legs.
They started the main event over again, and again, changing spots between the guys until Aria lost count of the number of orgasms she had. When she couldn’t keep her eyes open any longer, she felt the blanket being pulled up around her. Soft kisses brushed across her skin, along with murmured good nights. Doug’s body curled up around hers, but she didn’t have the energy to respond as sleep overtook her.
Chapter Nineteen
— Jason —
Jason crouched beside the bed and stroked Aria’s cheek. She looked so peaceful lying there with Doug wrapped around her, a sated expression still on her face.
His thumb slid across her cheekbone again as her eyes opened. “Want to come for a swim with me?”
He leaned in and placed a chaste kiss on her lips.
A blissful smile stretched across her face as she licked her lips. “I’d love to.”
She pushed the covers down as Jason tried to help ease her from Doug’s arms.
Stirring, Doug tightened his grip. His head angled down to kiss the top of her head while his eyes stayed shut. “Where are you going?”
“I’m taking her for a swim.” Jason’s eyes twinkled as Doug opened his eyes.
Doug nodded and lifted his arms. “Be good.”
He rolled over and closed his eyes.
— Aria —
Aria quickly threw on her bikini, cover-up, and flip-flops. Meeting Jason at the door, he took her hand and led her out. They silently walked towards the beach and Aria found herself relaxing further. Since their talk two days before, she felt a difference within their group. It was as if the four of them forged a greater level of intimacy between them, culminating in the previous night’s activity. She felt closer to each of them and more at ease with the whole situation. Prior to their threesome…foursome, maybe, she still had concerns about jealousy, but their actions, working together to bring her pleasure, set her mind at ease.
