She was speechless for a minute — a full fucking minute — after Luke finished speaking.

Fuck I’d missed being around her. I hadn’t seen her since that night with Vic, and almost a week later, not being near her had been giving me fucking headaches and kept me from sleeping. She was like air I’d learned to breathe, and without her, I was gasping for more.

We were in Luke’s office — her sitting in a chair across from the three of us on one of his sofas. A few days go, being here in the room where Luke had claimed her would have brought up all sorts of shit inside of me. But now, the three of us had buried that ax. We’d come to the only logical conclusion when it came to all three of us and our obsession with Julia.

She’d be all of ours, or no ones, and that choice would be hers.

So, now, being in this room and glancing at my friend’s desk where he’d made her come and scream for more didn’t fill me with confusion and jealousy.

Fuck, it made me hard.

“All three of you.”

They were appropriate first words after three guys tell you they all want to be with you, together, equally. The three of us nodded.

“Yes,” Luke said quietly. “Look, I understand this sounds insane, and I understand if you’re worried, or freaked out. But we all felt something with you. Something we weren’t looking for and something we’re not even sure what to do with. But I know being away from you, and not being with you isn’t something any of us are prepared to do.”

“I know you felt what we’re talking about, Julia,” Victor said, his voice low and tense as he sat forward on his seat. “I know you felt it with Micah and I, and I know you felt it again with Luke.”

Her face flushed, and I watched as her eyes darted from one to the next, to the next.

“How would this work?”

She wasn’t saying no.

“However you want it to work,” I said. “Honestly, this is new territory or us too. But I swear, we’ll do everything in our considerable power to make this work, if you choose to.”

Julia smiled at me, and fuck did I want to close the distance between us, kiss her fiercely and claim her right here and now.

But she had to say yes first. Again, we’d decided it would be all or nothing. She’d have all three of us, or none.

“Can I ask a question first?”

We nodded.

“What are your tattoos?”

The three of us froze, glancing at each other.

“The crowns, I mean.” She shrugged. “Look, if this…well, whatever this could be is going to be a thing, I don’t want to step into it with shadows hanging over it. I mean the scales are already way slanted. You’re princes, for God’s sake, and I’m just—”

“Our everything,” Vic said quietly.

Julia blushed, biting back her grin.

I could have fucking hugged Vic.

I glanced at my friends, both of them nodding at me, before I turned back to Julia.

Fuck it. Cards on the table time.

“There’s a club.”

I watched her cheeks turn red as her eyes went wide. Clearly, she’d heard the rumor.

“Julia, if we tell you this…” I shook my head. “This is the biggest secret we have.”

“It’s okay, really,” she said softly. “Look, forget it, you don’t—”

“We want to, actually. I— we want you to know everything, and this is something you should know.”

Julia nodded, her eyes locked on mine.

“It’s called the Triple Crown Club, and I’m betting by your look that you’ve heard the rumors.”

She nodded again.

“They aren’t rumors,” Luke growled.

I sighed. “I don’t know how it started, but it’s been around for awhile now. It’s a place without a place — the location changes all the time with only members being in the know as to where it is. It’s a place for the rich, wealthy royal elite to play, with an emphasis on…” I glanced at my three friends before turning back to her, seeing her waiting with bated breath.

“Sharing,” I growled.

Julia swallowed, her teeth raking over her bottom lip.

“Three crowns,” Vic said, his voice steely.

“One beauty,” Luke finished.

Her eyes went wide, and she slowly nodded as the heat bloomed through her cheeks and down her neck.

“You’re members.”

We nodded.

“Oh,” she looked down. “So, you’ve been there, together, with…”

She trailed off, her brow furrowing as she looked away.

Fuck.

The three of us were up and over to her in half a second, all three of us pulling her into us. I kissed her first, soothing that worry in her face with my lips, before I pulled away. Vic was next, his hand cupping her jaw as he kissed her deeply. Luke paused, his eyes searching hers before he moved in, claiming her mouth as well.

“It’s been empty,” I growled. “Us being members. It’s been meaningless, to the point where we don’t know why we joined.”

“We won’t lie to you,” Vic said, his hand moving to hers. “Sharing is something that comes naturally to us.” He grinned. “I think you saw that the other night with Micah and me.”

Her cheeks burned hot, and something fierce burned in her eyes as she glanced up at him and then me.

“But the ‘one night’ thing isn’t for us. It never has been. The whole ‘no names, no faces’ shit is just…”

He shook his head before he looked up into her face.

“I like knowing your name, Julia,” he said quietly. “I like knowing your face, and I fucking like you knowing ours.”

He leaned in and kissed her again, Luke moving in to kiss her neck before taking his turn with her lips. I went after, savoring her tongue and feeling the hint of her moan set something alive inside of me.

“We want to bring you there.”

She drew back at my words, but I took her hand in mine, lacing my fingers with hers.

“We want to show you what it is, so you know that part of us.”

Her eyes went wide. “You can do that?”

“We can. Though the female guests are usually chosen and invited by members anonymously, no one has to know that we’ve, well, that we’ve had this discussion.”

She paused for a moment, eyes darting between us again like she was taking this in. And again, it was a lot to take in.

“Okay,” she finally said, slowly. “Yes to going to this club, you guys just better never leave my side when we’re there.”

“Not a fucking chance we would” Luke growled.

“And for the main question,” she bit her lip and turned to me, and this time it was her that closed the distance and kissed me first. She moved to Luke, and then Vic, doing the same. I watched her face flush more and more, and her breath come more and more halting before she finally pulled back.

“I know it’s all of you or none of you, and I…” She blushed. “I felt it too. I felt it with all of you, and having to pick one — as if I was going to be the one picking a Prince — has been eating at me.”

“So that’s a yes,” Vic growled.

She swallowed. “That’s a big probably for now, if that’s okay?” Her brow worried. “Can I see what this all means, at the club, and tell you afterwards? Look, I get if that’s a big annoying thing, it’s just that there’s so many emotions going through my head right now, and it’s all so confusing to feel what I feel for each of you at the same time, so I just—”

“Julia.”

I stopped her worries with a grin.

“Yes, you can tell us what you think after the club.”

She let out her breath, her shoulders relaxing as she smiled at me and then my friends.

“Thank you,” she said quietly. Her eyes sparked as she grinned wickedly.

“So…when does this club meet next?”

This time, it was our turn to grin.

“Tonight,” Luke purred. “I hear you’re good with masks.”

She blushed, biting her lip again, and I felt every muscle in my body coil with anticipation.

Tonight, she was going to peek behind the curtain. Tonight, she was going to really see what being shared by three of us would entail.

Tonight, we’d show her what she’d be missing if she denied us, and something told me, she’d be begging for more before the night was up.