Because it was time they got their shit together and moved forward.

It was definitely time.

Chapter Fifty-Seven

This.

Jase rolled over onto his back and stared up at the ceiling. Ashlynn and Leyton were in the bed beside him, sleeping while he couldn’t seem to close his eyes.

He’d tried. Numerous times, in fact, to no avail. For whatever reason, he couldn’t get his brain to shut off. It wasn’t simply the events of the day that were keeping him awake. More that he was thinking about everything that had happened over the last few weeks. How much his life had changed in so many ways.

Maybe that was guilt eating at him once more because he knew he should still be mourning his brother. It seemed as though everyone expected him to be thinking about Derrick every single minute. But the truth was, sure, it pained him that his brother was gone, but Jase couldn’t help but be thankful that he had Ashlynn and Leyton. As devastating as it was to have lost Derrick, Jase knew his world would’ve been shattered beyond repair had something happened to Ashlynn.

“Hey.” Ashlynn pressed her lips against his chest. “Shouldn’t you be asleep?”

“Shouldn’t you?” he whispered, turning his head and brushing his lips across her forehead.

“Can’t,” she replied.

Jase smiled into the darkness. Possibly the first smile all week. “Horny?”

Ashlynn chuckled. “How’d you know?”

“I know everything there is to know about you,” he told her.

“Is that right? Then what am I thinkin’ right now?”

Jase rolled to his side, forcing her onto her back. Glancing over, he noticed that Leyton was watching them. So clearly no one was sleeping tonight.

Turning his attention back to Ashlynn, Jase crawled over her, pressing his cock against her thigh as he kissed her gently. Her soft fingers brushed his cheeks, and he lifted his mouth from hers, staring down at her. He hadn’t expected her to be quite so gentle. Although he’d made love to her numerous times over the past year, she’d never reciprocated, always attempting to keep a certain level of tension between them.

But tonight, something was different.

Staring down at her, he smiled again. “Make love to me, Ash.”

Her nod nearly leveled him, but before he could consider what it all meant, she pulled his head back down and brushed her lips against his. She didn’t release him, and Jase kissed her, exploring her mouth languidly, enjoying the slow, easy sweetness of it all. And when Leyton’s hand slid over his back, his body tightened, his cock thickening.

Their touch alone could unravel him, and they seemed to realize that, because for the next few minutes, the two of them ganged up on him. Never once did they rush. There weren’t any demands, no instructions, merely three bodies moving together.

After a while, it took no effort for Jase to push inside Ashlynn, his dick sliding through her slick heat, her body enveloping him as she held him close, her mouth still sliding against his. As he’d done many times before, Jase made love to her, rolling his hips forward, burying himself as deep as her body would take him. Unlike those times, though, she was making love to him as well. Not just with her body but with her heart. But there was still something missing, something he wouldn’t have recognized until Leyton was above him, his lips trailing over Jase’s shoulder blades while his cock slid in the crack of his ass.

He wanted to feel Leyton inside him while he was filling Ashlynn. He could only imagine it was likely the greatest feeling in the world.

Ashlynn began rocking her hips, her hands sliding down his back to grip his ass as she held him to her. Or so he’d thought that was what she’d been doing. It wasn’t until he felt the head of Leyton’s cock against his asshole that he realized what was going on. She was assisting while Leyton’s lubed cock slipped inside, filling him.

An electrical current of sensation surged through him when Leyton filled him completely, not moving, while Jase was buried inside Ashlynn. He’d never felt anything quite like it, and he wasn’t sure there was anything as great as being one with the two people he loved most in the world.

Leyton began rolling his hips, retreating slowly. Using his momentum, Jase continued to rock forward into Ashlynn while she moaned sweetly against his mouth.

Jase had to break the kiss as his body surrendered to the pleasure. It was too much. Too much sensation, too much emotion, too much … everything. But he wasn’t trying to run from it; he was trying to memorize it.

“Oh, God,” he groaned when Leyton impaled him again and again, their slow and easy pace gaining momentum. “It feels so damn good.”

“Perfect,” Leyton groaned. “It’s fucking perfect.”

Ashlynn’s hands disappeared from his back, and he realized that Leyton had taken them, linked their fingers together as he covered Jase’s body with his own, still rocking inside him while they sandwiched him between them. Unable to move, using Leyton’s thrusts to propel him in and out of Ashlynn, Jase relished the ability to let go, to lose himself to the sensation. The two of them were focusing solely on him, and it was the most exquisite thing he’d ever experienced.

“Harder,” Jase pleaded. “I need more.”

Leyton gave him more, driving into him, pushing him deeper into Ashlynn while she rocked her hips forward and back, increasing the friction of her sweet pussy on his dick. That numbness he’d felt before disappeared completely, and he felt only warmth. It radiated from deep within him.

Leyton’s grunts increased as he fucked him harder and harder until Ashlynn cried out their names over and over, her pussy milking Jase’s release from his body at the same time Leyton filled him. The release that tore through him was unlike anything he’d ever felt before, and he knew that the only way he’d ever feel it again was with these two people.

Love.

That complete, soul-quenching warmth… That was what love felt like.

While the three of them tried to catch their breaths, falling to the bed, Jase peered over at the two of them and smiled.

Leyton met his gaze and Ashlynn smiled, staring up at the ceiling.

“That was fucking incredible,” Ashlynn mumbled.

“Yeah,” Leyton said, still breathing hard. “Fucking incredible.”

The three of them were silent for a moment, but then, almost at the exact same time, they each said, “I love you” into the darkness.

And for Jase, it was the most unbelievable feeling in the world.

Well, except for a few minutes ago when he’d been pinned between the two of them. That had been the most unbelievable feeling in the world.

But not by much.

Chapter Fifty-Eight

Beautifully loyal.

When Leyton and Jase finally gave in to sleep, Ashlynn remained between them, her head resting on Leyton’s chest, Jase’s warm body spooned up against her. She didn’t move, didn’t speak, but her mind was whirling.

So much had happened over the course of three short weeks. More than she’d ever imagined possible. Some good, some devastating, but all in all, it had shaped the world as they now knew it.

And no, she wasn’t simply referring to the love she felt for the two men who completed her in ways she hadn’t expected. There was no doubt about it; she loved them. But that wasn’t actually a surprise. She’d loved Jase for a long time; she simply hadn’t realized that was what the amazing feeling he gave her was. But yes, she’d loved him for years.

As for Leyton, Ashlynn was fairly certain she’d fallen in love with him long ago, back when she’d been young and naïve. Although she’d always given her brother credit for saving her, she had to give Leyton some of that credit, as well. He’d saved her, though she doubted he’d even realized it. He’d given her something to fight for, something to want. It’d always been about Leyton. Ever since that fateful day when he’d come to her parents’ house, beaten and broken. That first sweet kiss they’d shared. The night Max had killed Leyton’s father and finally freed Leyton from the nightmare that had been his life.