Free Any Given Sunday by Mari Carr

didn’t know you wanted.”
    “Like what?”
    Lauren could picture Riley rubbing her hands together as she plotted. “You’re
    going to get a lesson in submissiveness from two masters.”
    “Sean and Chad?”
    Riley giggled. “Oh hell yeah. I have a feeling they’ll both jump at the chance. Then
    once you have them both in your bedroom, you just have to make sure they stay there.”
    “This is never gonna work.”
    “Oh ye of little faith. We’ll work out the details tomorrow at the shower. And
    Lauren?”
    “Yeah?”
    “Bet you get an A-plus on this assignment.”
    Riley hung up and left Lauren struggling to figure out what can of worms she’d just
    opened. She’d inadvertently given Riley a mission. A dangerous proposition in the best of situations.
    Worst of all, Lauren had a feeling she was going to go along with everything Riley
    said—because she really wanted to. She closed her eyes. Imagined Chad and Sean
    undressing her, touching her, kissing her—
    “How’s the research coming along?”
    Lauren opened her eyes, quickly minimizing the browser before setting her laptop
    on the nightstand and looking up. Sean stood in the doorframe, smiling at her. She
    wondered what he saw when he looked at her. She didn’t need a mirror to know her
    face was flushed. Shit, she’d been close to slipping her hands into her lounge pants
    again and bringing about the orgasm building inside her.
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    “Fine,” she said, the word sticking in her throat. She cleared it but remained quiet, unable to say more, afraid she’d give herself away.
    Sean’s gaze narrowed and she fought to clear her face of expression. Sean was too
    savvy, too smart. “Find anything interesting?”
    She shook her head. She couldn’t have this conversation with him. Hell, she
    couldn’t have any conversation with him right now. She was too hot, too bothered, too fucking close to coming. “Not yet. I think I changed my mind about pizza. I’m going to keep working up here for a little while.” She’d promised Sean she’d never cheat on him, but if he touched her now there was no way she could lie with him and not think about Chad. Her gaze drifted to her nightstand drawer. The second he left, she was locking
    herself in, surrendering to her ménage fantasy and taking care of business with her
    vibrator.
    Then she needed to figure out what the fuck she was going to do next. She was
    screwing up every relationship in her life that mattered to her.
    Sean walked into the room, closing the door behind him and not stopping until he’d
    reached the bed. “I’ve been thinking.” He sank down beside her on the mattress.
    Screw the vibrator. The moment Sean leaned closer, her body went into overdrive.
    Being close to him never failed to provoke a red-hot need.
    “Oh yeah?” She forced an easygoing tone to her voice. “Thinking about what?”
    “Your dilemma.”
    She frowned. “I don’t have a dilemma.”
    “You need to learn about submission.”
    She waved at the computer screen. “I’m finding plenty of stuff. I don’t think this
    will be as hard as I thought.”
    “I thought you weren’t supposed to Google for information. I thought you needed
    to take a more up-close and personal look at it.” He leaned forward as he spoke. She
    could smell the sweet scent of soda on his breath.
    She loved Sean, loved being physically close to him, but most of all, she loved his
    kisses. He sure as hell knew his way around her mouth. It had been over two years
    since their first kiss, but every time his lips met hers was just as exciting and new as that original kiss.
    “Up-close and personal?”
    “Haven’t you even wondered, Lauren?”
    Her eyebrows creased at his question. “About what?”
    “Us. What it would be like to expand on our bedroom experiences. Our sex is still
    hot…fucking knocks my socks off, but wouldn’t you like to see if we could go higher,
    find more?”
    “I suppose I’ve thought about it.”