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  Now, Fi’s feelings were hurt. Why did he have to talk to her like she was a disgusting hag?

  It was true. She had feelings for all three of them: Blaine, Adam, and Crawford. Her feelings for Blaine and Adam had been obvious to her, but not until Crawford dismissed her with such disregard did it really strike home. She cared for Crawford, too.

  The realization of this hit her, nearly making her feet crumble from under her. Her voice shook. “I didn’t intend for any of this to happen.” Sobs bolted from her throat. She couldn’t stop them. “I love this job. Luv Maite, the application we are building, is something I believe in. It is a once in a lifetime opportunity to be an engineer and work on something you actually believe in.” She let the tears flood out of her. She didn’t care anymore. “And I love working with all of you. I love seeing you everyday.” She turned to Crawford. Bitterness was thick in her throat. “Even you.”

  Crawford’s tense expression transformed into shock. “Me?” he said in a weak voice.

  “Yes. Even you.” Fi wiped the tears streaming down her face with the back of her hand. “I’ve tried to deny it to myself, but I have feelings for all of you.”

  Her revelation fell onto the room like ton of bricks. No one said anything. Everyone sat in silence with their emotions.

  Finally, Adam broke the silence. “Just to be clear. I’m included in this? Your feelings?”

  Fi answered, “Yes.”

  Adam erupted into an explosive cheer, jumping up and down and pumping his fists up in the air. “Yes! Yes! Yes!”

  Blaine shot him a look.

  Adam quieted down. “What? An incredibly hot girl likes me!”

  “She likes all three of us,” Crawford said.

  Adam shrugged. “It doesn’t take away that she likes me.”

  Fi said, “It’s true. It doesn’t. My feelings for all of you developed independently.” She bit her lip. “This could never work. I quit.”

  She turned on her heel, ready to bolt out of the best thing that ever happened to her.

  “You can’t quit,” Crawford said, moving toward her.

  “We need you,” Blaine added.

  “I’m sure you can find another engineer. We’re in Silicon Valley,” Fi answered. “There are hundreds of male engineers that can fit my spot.”

  Adam shook his head. “Your talent is extraordinary. It’s not something we can easily find. We need you.”

  Fi said, “I can’t stay here and see you all every day, knowing that my feelings will grow stronger every day. This is an impossible situation. I’ve ruined everything.”

  Crawford took her hand, pulling him to him. “You haven’t ruined anything” Fi’s initial instinct was to pull away, but Crawford looked at her with earnest. “You are the best thing to happen to us.”

  Fi looked away, shrinking under his powerfully emotive gaze. “No. You were right. You saw something like this would happen. I’d start dating one of you, causing imbalance in the company. You knew that I’d bring a level of unprecedented unprofessionalism. I understand why I was off limits now. I’ve made a mess of everything!”

  Crawford explained, “The reason I demanded for you to be off limits is because I wanted you.”

  “You did?” Fi asked. She would have never suspected. She assumed her attraction to Crawford was unrequited.

  “I did,” Crawford said, stepping closer to her. “Still do.”

  Without warning, he took her face in his hands and kissed her. Fi wanted to fight him, just like she had been fighting her feelings for him all that time.

  But in his muscular arms and with his pine aftershave enveloping her, she melted. She was a pile of goo in his embrace. In his long deep kiss.

  When their mouths came apart, silence filled the room. The men looked at one another.

  Fi had suspected an instaneous brawl with hurling insults and biting words. Blaine and Adam’s faces were chastened while Crawford look wholly ashamed.

  “I didn’t mean for this to happen,” Crawford admitted. “Ever since, Jessie…” He cleared his throat. “I didn’t think I could even be interested in another woman.”

  Blaine nodded. “I didn’t either.”

  Crawford threw his hands up. “This is complicated. This is a mess!”

  Adam shrugged. “It doesn’t have to be.”

  Fi’s heart felt as if it were going to explode. Her feelings for each of these men were real and intensely profound. If they were going to ask her to choose, she wouldn’t be able to.

  “I can’t choose!” she blurted out. “I care for all of you so much.” Tears flooded her eyes again. This was a mess, and there was no way out of it.

  Adam put his arms around her. “Don’t cry. It’s going to be okay.”

  She shook with sobs. “How is it going to be okay? I’ve fallen for three amazing guys, and… And I can’t be with any of them!”

  Blaine wrapped his arms around from behind. He buried his face in her hair. “Who said you can’t be with us?”

  Fi cried bitterly. “No. I can’t possibly choose. I can’t!”

  Adam took her face in his hands and wiped a falling tear with his thumb. “No one said you have to choose.”

  Fi looked into his beautiful green eyes. “What do you mean?”

  Adam pressed his lips to hers. She could feel the heat between them ignite while behind her Blaine’s grip around her waist tightened.

  As Adam and Fi kissed, Blaine murmured in her ear, “You don’t have to choose.”

  With Blaine and Adam pressed so closely to her body, she still didn’t feel complete. She needed Crawford just as much. She reached out for him, afraid he would reject her.

  He took her hand, and she pulled him closer. When Adam’s mouth left hers, she attacked Crawford’s. She wanted him to be a part of this. If anyone was going to oppose to the arrangement, he would. To her relief, he kissed her back just as fervently.

  Her body was on fire with raging desire. She reached out for her men with desperate hands. She palmed Blaine’s cock first, reaching behind her and stroking his massive dick outside of his pants. He moaned into her ear as he kissed her neck and lifted her shirt over her head.

  Crawford kept kissing her, his large hands were on her face willing her to kiss him back just as deeply. With her other hand, she tugged at his jeans, unbuttoning and unzipping them. Her body tingled all over when she reached inside his boxers and took hold of his enormous dick.

  Meanwhile, Adam was on his knees pulling down her leggings. She hadn’t worn panties that day. She usually didn’t with workout pants. He let out a satisfied growl when he saw her bare pussy. He pounced on her pussy lips, spreading them open with his fingers and sliding his tongue along her slit.

  Fi was dizzy with emotion and overwhelming sensations. Blaine undid her bra, letting her breasts spill out. Crawford lifted a luscious breast to his mouth and flicked his tongue on the nipple. Fi caught his dirty expression of desire right before Blaine grabbed her head to face him.

  Blaine kissed her, probing his tongue deep in her mouth while he kneaded her other breast. His fingers found her hard nipples and pinched fiercely. Fi moaned into his mouth, making him pinch even harder.

  Adam’s tongue worked magic on her clit, at first coaxing it out of shyness. When her clit was hard and on fire, he sucked on it. A warm tingling sensation spread up from Fi’s pussy until it rocketed out to her limbs. Her body convulsed violently while her pussy gushed juice down her thighs.

  Panting, she begged, “Fuck me! I want to be fucked!”

  She’d cum, but she wanted more. She wanted all them all at once.

  She bent herself over the couch, sticking her thick ass up in the air. Crawford murmured, “Look at this ass.”

  She shot him a look. “Slap me!”

  Crawford’s face clouded over with lust. He raised his hand up high. “You want me to slap your ass?”

  She bit her lip and nodded.

  His hand came down on her ass with a sharp slap. The i
mpact on her ass cheek made her entire ass throb with delightful terror.

  She begged, “I need a cock!”

  Adam, now completely naked, had his big black cock in his hand. He mounted up behind her and said, “You need a cock?”

  She whimpered, looking at the colossal dick in his hand. “Yes.”

  He licked his lips as he ran a finger up from her wet pussy to her asshole. She moaned when his finger teased her puckered hole. He rubbed at her asshole gently while spreading her ass cheeks open wide.

  She watched as Adam eased his thick black cock inside of her. His face tightened in pleasure when he was all the way inside of her.

  She pushed back against his cock as he thrust forward. His dick slammed deep inside of her. Blaine had stripped down and stood on the other side of the couch. He leaned down and kissed Fi. She moaned softly in his mouth.

  He stood while holding her chin. With his other hand, he pushed his thick cock into her mouth. She slurped his cock tip, slathering her tongue all over the head. She lapped up the drops of pre cum. Then, she opened her mouth wide to take the entire length of girth of him.

  Adam pounded into her harder. He gripped her ass with his big strong hands. His cock reached deep inside her pussy. An orgasm exploded inside of her, starting from her pussy and expanding throughout her limbs. Her pussy gushed juice all over Adam’s large black cock.

  Adam’s growled, “It’s so tight!”

  His face went rigid as he pumped into Fi’s pussy. He pulled his cock out and spurted cum all over back.

  Blaine retrieved his dick from down Fi’s throat. He jumped over the couch and mounted Fi within seconds. He eased his dick, already dripping wet with Fi’s saliva, into her pussy.

  It wasn’t long before Crawford took Blaine’s place in front of her. She looked up at him with eager eyes. He still had his clothes on. He looked down at her, while run his fingers through her hair.

  “I want you,” she murmured. She licked her lips.

  Crawford cupped her chin and ran his thumb across the bottom of her lip. Fi curled her lip inward to suck on it. He let out a soft moan before pushing his heavy cock between her lips.

  Blaine plowed into her, grabbing both of her hips and pulling her back into her cock. His movements were rough and hard, making her breasts swing from the force. Her body ignited in fire storm. She shook and convulsed, tightening her grip on the couch. Blaine moaned loudly, heaving his cock from her pussy and spewing cum across her back and into her hair.

  Crawford lifted Fi up to her feet on the couch and picked her up. He swung her around to the wall, wrapping her legs around her. Fi held onto his muscular back as he plowed into her and kissed her with his urgent tongue. He rocketed his cock deep inside of her with fast needy strokes.

  Fi continued to kiss him, knowing another orgasm was near. She’d never had so many orgasms in one sexual experience. Hell. She’d never had so many orgasms in one day. She closed her eyes tightly and gripped, bracing herself.

  Her body shook once more. She tightened her legs around Crawford’s torso. He held her even tighter. A moan bolted from his mouth. He retrieved his cock quickly from Fi’s pussy, holding her up with one arm and directing his cum down her leg.

  She heaved big sigh as she rested her head on Crawford’s shoulder. Adam and Blaine sidled up next to her, one on each side. She raised her head to look at them.

  “I’ve never done anything like this before,” Fi admitted.

  Blaine shook his head. “Neither have I.”

  Adam shrugged. “Obviously, I haven’t.”

  Crawford chuckled. “Same.”

  She put her hands to Adam’s and Blaine’s cheeks. “Is this going to work?”

  The men looked at each other. The barrier of embarrassment of being naked in front of each other being shattered by having sex with the same woman the loved.

  Blaine let out a sigh. “I think it will.”

  Adam nodded. “It works for me.”

  Finally, Crawford said, “We can, at least, give it a try.”

  The four of them shared an embrace that left Fi feeling emotionally and sexually satisfied. This was a huge feat for her. Her past boyfriend had deprived her of joy in so long. She loved the feeling the men gave her when in their arms.

  In the back of her mind, she wondered if it would truly work. She pushed that thought aside as she enjoyed the lingering embrace.

  Chapter 12

  Their arrangement was perfect. Too perfect. Fi couldn’t help but wait for the other shoe to drop. Adam, Blaine, and Crawford had been perfect gentlemen for her. The best boyfriends any woman could have. And somehow, Fi, had all three of them.

  Was it too good to be true? She couldn’t possibly be good enough for all three of them. Her track record of boyfriends, only one, had turned out horribly. How could three gorgeous sweet men have their hearts set on her? From what her ex told her, she was nothing special.

  Of course, she told herself thousands of times before: Trevor was an asshole. Possibly a jealous asshole. She wondered truly if there was any substance in anything that he said to her. Couldn’t there be some truth in what he said?

  All she could do was wait it out patiently and be observant. She ventured into her new relationship with Adam, Blaine, and Crawford with caution. She’d gotten her heart broken before. It was hell. What would getting her heart broken by three guys at once feel like? She didn’t want to find out. Her plan was tread safely. She couldn’t lose herself in this relationship. The thought of the pain was enough to make her not even want to continue, but she had to give it a chance.

  She arrived at work at the house earlier than usual. She wanted to get a jump on a new feature she was working on. There was a definite crunch time to get Luv Maite in top form for the competition. It was a thrilling experience to be part of the development of an application that would likely catapult into the next big thing.

  Despite the bad experience of working with her asshole ex, Gipton had been an overall great job to start her engineering career with. So many engineers apply and get rejected every year. She was grateful for the opportunity. By the time she joined, Gipton was a huge company. She was a minnow in an impossibly huge pond.

  Luv Maite was different. She was really in the thick of things. In more ways than one.

  When she walked into the kitchen, Crawford was up in boxers. He was at his usual spot at the counter with his laptop.

  “Good morning!” she greeted him, slinking behind him and giving him a kiss on his back.

  He turned around and gave her kiss. “You’re an early bird.”

  She kissed him again and said, “Well, you know what they say…” She playfully palmed his crotch before spinning away to grab a cup in the cupboard behind her. She poured herself a cup of coffee.

  Crawford cleared his throat. “Fi. I have to ask you something.” His tone was serious, a dramatic change for the playfulness a few moments before. “No matter what happens… You’re not going to sue us for sexual harassment, are you?”

  Fi leaned back on the counter in shock. “I would never.”

  Crawford nodded his head rapidly. “I know you wouldn’t.” He took a deep sigh.

  Fi stood dumbfounded. She stammered, “I… I can’t believe you would ask that.” Her insecurities began to flood into her mind. What had she done to make him think they couldn’t trust her. “Have I done something to…”

  Crawford cut her off, putting his arms around her waist. “No. You’ve been perfect. I’m being stupid.”

  Fi pressed, “Are you sure? Have I not shown how devoted I am to the company? To you guys?”

  Crawford’s face tensed. “No, you haven’t. You really haven’t.”

  “Okay,” she said, letting the issue drop. She wriggled out of his grasp. She marched out of the kitchen to the work table. She set up her computer put off by what happened.

  How could this work if Crawford didn’t even trust her?

  Chapter 13

  Crawford shoul
dn’t have asked Fi that. He was being paranoid. He knew that, but he couldn’t help it. The last time he let a woman into the group, it had been hard on all of them. GIRLFRIENDCHANGE had been part of Luv Maite. She was an engineer like Fi, but she was living in the house when the three of them: Adam, Blain, and Crawford, were getting the company off the ground.

  When she left, it was difficult to get used to, especially for Crawford, of course. It was his girlfriend, but she had become best friends with Adam and Blaine, too. She was a fixture in their lives for a long time before she couldn’t stand it anymore. It felt like a loss for everyone. They had been a family. Or so he thought.