should have reworded that last statement.
Maggie tried her damnedest to be pragmatic about everything now that it was all coming out into the open. She weighed the pros and cons versus her own wants and desires and decided to ignore her knee-jerk reactions and instead approach what they were telling her they wanted in a cool and rational way.
“Clarify for me what a girlfriend means to you,” she finally spoke.
The men exchanged disbelieving looks before they both began talking at once.
“Someone to go on dates with…”
“Someone to take to a movie and make out with during most of it…”
“Someone to cuddle with on the couch at night while watching TV…”
“Someone to spend quiet, quality time with…”
“Pretty romantic view of a girlfriend you two have there,” Maggie interrupted. “But what about sex?”
“That goes without saying,” Jess said with a frown.
“No, I mean, how would sex work with two men sharing the same girlfriend? My room or yours? Alone or as a group? If I’m going to even consider this, then I need to know exactly what you two expect of me.”
“We’ve never had a threesome before,” Alex said thoughtfully.
“What are you talking about?” Jess demanded. “You had one with those two blondes you picked up at Smiley’s last spring.”
“I meant that I’ve never had a threesome with you ,” Alex protested. “And stop telling Maggie about my past misdeeds, or she’ll start thinking I’m a pervert!”
And with that, Maggie burst into laughter, startling the two men who were oh-so-earnestly trying to woo her.
“If anyone’s adorable, it’s you two,” she said, repeating their words from earlier in the week to them.
“Does that mean you’re considering our offer?” Jess breathed.
“I don’t remember either of you actually making the offer to me.”
“Then we have been greatly remiss,” Alex said gravely, and turning her head to face him, he took her hand in his and pressed it against his chest. “Maggie Conner,” he breathed. “Will you be our girlfriend?”
Maggie swallowed the sudden lump in her throat and couldn’t believe that she was actually seriously considering their offer of a relationship with them. But they misconstrued her extended silence for dissent.
“Before you say no,” Jess hurriedly said, “let us reassure you that when it comes to sex, we’re okay if you want it to be strictly one-on-one, and wherever you prefer. Nor would we ever rush you into having sex with us, and we will never try to force or coerce you into doing anything you don’t want to. We can even draw up a schedule of date nights between us, and if you wanted to sleep alone, we would respect that, too. In fact, we’re even willing to go so far as to allow you to simply snap your fingers and demand that one of us service you right then and there, and the other will gladly leave the room.”
“Hey!” Alex snapped angrily. “Stop speaking for me, you boob!”
And Maggie found herself bursting into laughter again at Jess’s unconventional concessions and Alex’s anger over them.
“Let me try to salvage what little I can from what Jess just said, Maggie,” Alex said once her mirth was under control and Alex had stopped trying to murder Jesse with nothing but dirty looks. “We both care deeply for you, and it goes way beyond friendship or desire on our part. I would even call it love but don’t want to spook you any more than we already have. What we want is a girlfriend who knows the real us. Someone who will be faithful to us, just as we would be to her. Someone who understands us and respects our needs and desires. Who won’t be mad or offended if the two of us want to spend quality time alone together, just as we would both want to spend quality time alone with her.”
Taking a deep breath, Alex looked her seriously in the face before continuing. “I’m going to be blunt here so that there is no way you can misinterpret what I’m saying, so