Free Daye, Rainey - An Unconventional Love (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour) by Rainey Daye

becoming jealous whenever the other scored, and it kept the competition between us to a minimum.”
    “Oh,” Maggie breathed, wondering why she suddenly felt crushed.
    “But we’ve recently grown tired of all those one-night stands,” Alex admitted.
    “How recently?” She wanted to know, while wondering just how many women they had been with since she had moved in.
    “The last time I was with a woman was about a month before you moved in,” Alex said.
    “It was somewhere around that time for me, too,” Jess said.
    “If you like women so much, then why has it been so long?”
    The two men exchanged another long look before Alex softly confessed, “Because of you.”
    Maggie felt her breath catch in her throat and her heart stutter at that softly spoken confession as she wondered crazily if she had cried herself to sleep in her window seat and was now dreaming.
    “Because of me?” she croaked.
    Jess took her hand in his again and gently squeezed it. “I developed a major crash on you the first time I saw you in class. It’s why I put together our study group. I wanted to spend more time with you,” he confessed to her.
    “Why not just ask me out?”
    “Because Alex and I don’t date women. We just troll the college bars for one-night stands.”
    “Why don’t you date?” she wanted to know, not understanding.
    “Because when all is said and done,” Alex explained, “the fact remains that Jess and I are a couple, and neither of us thought a girlfriend would be understanding and okay with that.”
    “Even if she didn’t think we were freaks, she would still be too freaked over the idea of AIDS or something,” Jess added.
    “But you two always use condoms and get tested twice a year.”
    “Doesn’t change the fact that a girl would go dry over the fact that I thoroughly enjoying sucking my boyfriend’s dick,” Alex pointed out bluntly.
    “Okay,” Maggie said slowly as she considered that. “But all this still doesn’t explain why you didn’t even try for a one-night stand with me, Jess.”
    “Because you’re the type of woman a man keeps, not a one-night-stand type of woman. I liked and respected you way too much to reduce you to that level,” he replied matter-of-factly.
    “So when you found out about my dorm situation and invited me to move in here, what? Was that because you liked and respected me and had given up on the crush you had on me?” she asked, more confused than ever.
    “No. By the time I brought you home with me that night, I was totally jonesing to have you as my girlfriend but wasn’t sure how to go about approaching you. I even kept asking Alex for his advice,” he admitted.
    “Really?” Maggie breathed, feeling flattered.
    “Really.” Jess nodded while Alex stated drily, “You were all Jess could talk about. It was quite irritating, actually. I was really getting tired of hearing him rave on and on about the ‘Great and Wonderful Maggie.’”
    “Oh, I’m sorry,” Maggie whispered lamely.
    Alex laughed and placed his arm back around her shoulder. “Don’t be,” he assured her. “It’s what actually got us to thinking. If you really were as great as Jesse claimed, then surely there must be a woman out there for us.”
    “So you decided to start looking seriously for your own girlfriend?” she asked, wondering why she was feeling strangely disappointed.
    But Alex was already shaking his head. “No, we finally decided what we both wanted and had found missing in our lives was a girlfriend. The same girlfriend. One who knew all about us and could accept us and love us that way.”
    “I started trying to lay the groundwork with you because I wanted you so damn much, and Alex said that if you really were as great as I claimed you were, then you sounded perfect for him, too, and he wanted to meet you for himself. So I tried to feel you out to see if you would be open to a relationship with us. ”
    Maggie nodded slowly as she remembered some of the highly