I take Leo’s chin between my thumb and forefinger, tilting her head a little more as I dip my chin. “Leonor?”
She licks her lips as she searches my eyes and just when I’m about to get in on that, kiss those petal soft pillows, Leo has me stopping short. “I love you.”
I pull back slightly,myheart the one now hammering away, and the skeptic in me hesitates.
The words were there last night, I knew that and so did Lucky, but I wasn’t sure where they were coming from. Orgasms can bring on a lot of things but I didn’t want them to bring on something like that. Aside from Lucky, I haven’t told anyone I love them in that way, and not just because I’m a stoic asshole. I haven’t been in love with anyone other than him, than Leo and our fucking band, and those words are ones I don’t throw around freely, or take lightly.
I thought I’d always be skeptical of them.
Right now though? Looking down at Leonor, her chin on my chest, those starry night eyes staring at me, her bright red hair still damp from her shower and fanned over both of us, yeah, I don’t think I can deny what she’s saying.
So, I fight against everything in me trying to.
“Yeah? You mean that, princess?”
Leo nods and gives me an absolutely gorgeous smile. “I wouldn’t say it if I didn’t.”
“You’ve said it before…” I arch a brow as Leonor rolls her eyes and swats at my chest.
She has, Leo used to tell us she loved us but it was platonic, like brothers, or so we thought. This is different and I know that, because telling her how I feel last night and today, it isn’t the same for me. It never was but I knew how hung up on her Lucky was and I had no intention of interfering with any of that. Then he showed me that real, genuine, true love didn’t have limitations, it didn’t have rules to be followed, and people can have it with more than just one beautiful soul if that’s how they feel. When you’re in love with someone it isn’t conditional, and it doesn’t have to follow societal norms and expectations.
Soulmates isn’t a singular word.
Lucky said that, and of course I argued because nothing is singular when you make it plural, but the sentiment struck a chord and everything clicked into place.
It isn’t for everyone but we are capable of being in love with more than one person, we have the capacity for it and sometimes it’s the only way things can be explained.
I’ve come a long way over the last three years, can’t fault me for being a slow learner.
“I love you, Pete. I’minlove with you, and it took me a minute to embrace it, but I realized I always have been.” For the first time since I’ve known her, Leo holds eye contact with me for as long as I make it and when she doesn’t waver at all, I can’t help but smile.
“I don’t think you know what you’re getting yourself into, princess.” Gripping her chin tightly, I press a hard kiss to that smart mouth. “We aren’t letting you go now.”
She giggles as I do it again but sighs when I kiss her a little slower. “That’s all I’ve ever wanted, to just be with you guys,living in our own perfect little bubble. I never wanted you to let me go, even when I was the one who pushed you away.”
“Good,” I grunt as Leo shifts around so she’s on top of me. “Remember that when Lucky starts smothering you again.”
With a laugh, Leonor props herself up on my pecs with her forearms, her hair falling in her face as she looks down at me. “I do have another question, though.”
Of course she does.
The closer she gets to feeling one hundred percent, to feeling more like herself and back into our rhythm, the more Leo is going to do the things that used to drive us nuts about her.
Overthinking everything, going all control freak, there weren’t many things about her that did that, but there were a few. And asking endless questions that didn’t really have any relevance was one of mine.
And she knows it.
Sliding my hands up her naked thighs, I lean back into the pillows and settle in. “What’s that?”
“So, you said you and Lucky haven’t been with any other women…” One red eyebrow arches and I knowexactlywhere she’s going with this, too. “But what about any other dudes?”
“Jesus, Leo,” I say as I bark out another laugh, my hands flying to her ass where I smack both bare cheeks hard. “I can’t tell if you’re asking because you’re that jealous, or because you liked what little you saw of the two of us so much you wouldn’t mind adding a third.”
Leonor just shrugs and now I’m rolling my eyes.
Jealousy is something she wears on her sleeve, even if she tried passing it off as protectiveness for a long ass time, but our girl was definitely into watching us last night. Even if we didn’t give her very much to watch.
“In theory,” she says as she lifts a few of my dreads and starts playing with them. “Would you be against adding in other people?”
