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Oscar arrived at the bar, Rafe bit his lip and Oscar  looked between him and Eliza. She kissed him and took his hand kissing it reverently. He sat between the two of them, Eliza kissed and squeezed his hand all the more.

“Rafe,” she said.

Oscar turned to look at Rafe.

A mixture of feelings filled him. It was easy to look at Rafe now. He was not quite his best friend, but not his adversary and competitor the way he had been. There was more of an ease between them but there was something in Rafe’s face that he had never seen before as Eliza let his hand go to give him his scotch.

“Rafe…” Eliza said again and now Oscar was nervous.

“Oscar,” Rafe cleared his throat. “I just told Eliza that since that night that we spooned in bed—you and I—that I have been fantasizing about something more.

Oscar sat back on his stool. First he looked at Rafe with a smirk and then Eliza with dark eyes. Her expression was one he had never seen before either.

“What would you like me to say Rafe?” Oscar said and then looked at Eliza. “What would you like me to say?

“Nothing,” Rafe replied and downed his drink. “Eliza asked me to tell you.”

Oscar turned his full attention on Eliza.

“Eliza? What would you like me to say?”

“I cannot tell you what to say Oscar, but when Rafe told me it is not really something that affects me is it?”

Eliza took a sip from Oscar’s drink since her own drink was done.

“Well I really do not know what to say put on the spot like this.”

“Oscar,” Eliza whispered and took his hand again.

“I mean I am not sure Eliza what more you want from me. You possibly have my daughter that you are raising as another man’s child and you convinced me to live with the two of you and now you want me to fuck your husband as well? I am not sure what to say Eliza…”

“It is all my fault Oscar,” Rafe said. “Everything that has happened between me and Eliza lately is because I kept this secret. Why I started with Kelly, why she ended up in this hotel tonight with Vance–why we called you here now.”

“I fucked Eliza in a hotel the first time that we met and I never, never would have imagined any of this.”

“Oscar, I love you…” Eliza said. “I have always loved you. You are not a pawn here…”

“I’m not?” he laughed. “But you are the queen, aren’t you?”

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Eliza waited at the bar for her husband. Vance had stayed upstairs and their room was still available. He understood that she needed to see Rafe.

Rafe walked into the bar and Eliza felt her heart leap, a combination of excitement and adrenaline. Her husband sat down beside her, his wedding band bright under the light.

“So have you sorted everything out with her?” Eliza could even hear that the extra intonation of her meant that she did not even want to say Kelly’s name.

“Eliza,” he started as his drink was handed to him and she swirled her wine. “Eliza, I never meant to hurt you, Bibi.”

“Rafe, I know,” she said. “This is my fault too.”

Rafe touched her arm and Eliza took his hand in hers.

“You were with Vance?” Rafe asked.

“He is upstairs,” Eliza said. “It is not about him.” 

“I need to know if we are good,” he asked, putting his hand on her knee.

“What really can make us not good?” Eliza asked and she looked at her husband. After everything they had been through, she really did wonder what would make them not good?

“Nothing Eliza, nothing. Kelly…”

Eliza winced when he said Kelly’s name, but she knew she was not a threat now just from looking at Rafe.

“What about her,” Eliza asked, picking up her drink.

“I just got close to her and I told her personal things and I was wrong about what was between us.”

“Did you tell her things that you did not tell me?”

Rafe bit his lip.

Eliza took his hands. 

“Tell me.”

Rafe shifted on his bar stool,

“That time that Oscar and I spooned.”

Eliza bit her lip now, she remembered that night. Both of them sexy and in bed with her, that was how she slept a lot of nights but Rafe had never told her anything about him and Oscar.

“Did something happen?”

“No,” her husband said, shaking his head. “But I have fantasized about it.”

“Alessa told me that you were with a man before…”

“I have never been with a man before Eliza.”

“Did you sleep with Kelly because you were nervous to sleep with Oscar? Did you really want to explore something with Oscar? We are all so close now…”

Rafe looked away from her. Eliza squeezed his knee. The three of them had their dynamic going for quite some time and she believed that anything could happen. She loved them both and she had Alessa who was the first woman she was with. Rafe could do anything he wanted if he wanted to be with Oscar.

Her phone buzzed. 

Is he there, she saw twin messages from Oscar and Vance. Eliza texted Oscar back first.

Come meet us…

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