Chapter 24
TWENTY-FOUR
Sophie
I squint in the bright light as a man is holding my Mack up against the wall.
In shock and fear, I rear up to my bed head and grasp the sheet to my chest as I watch on in horror before I find my voice and manage a bewildered and terrified, “What is happening?” The man is standing between me and Mack so I cannot see Mack pressed up against the wall.
Then he pauses, his whole body going deadly still as my words hit somewhere in his consciousness.
He slowly lowers his arms from holding Mack against the wall, his shoulders sagging in what looks like defeat.
In slow motion, he turns and also steps aside, and what I see before me has me blinking in utter confusion.
“Tye? Zee?” I say as I look between them.
Zee is not wearing his glasses and doesn’t have his trademark stubble or his slicked hair but I can see it’s him.
Tye, on the other hand, is naked as the day he was born.
My mind spins as my hand reaches my mouth, “Oh my god,” I say as I realise who Zee is and what Tye was doing in here.
But why? Tye looks sheepish as all hell and Zee looks aghast.
“This isn’t how I wanted you to find out who I am,” says Zee or Mack, or whatever the fuck his name is.
I look over at Tye, who runs his hand through his hair before he says, “Please let me explain,” his eyes plead with me.
My mind runs over the amount of times I had sex with Tye, who I thought was Mack. And then I look at Zee and remember the amount of times he made me come and the words he spoke to me last night as Mack.
“I need a drink,” I declare, holding my head in my hand.
“I’ll go get you one,” says Tye guiltily as he strides, naked, out of my bedroom. I hear cupboards being frantically opened and glasses clinking on the countertop, all the while I stare into the beautiful eyes of my unmasked Mack, hauntingly beautiful.
“Take off your top,” I say, my voice hollow as I try to take in what is happening here.
I need one final clarification. Zee nods once and pulls off his top in one sweep and there is the final confirmation I needed, he is my real Mack.
He looks so different from the slicked-hair, unshaven, bespectacled Zee I have known for the past three years.
As he stands now, he looks closer to Mack in appearance but I know him as Zee.
This is such a mindfuck. And that’s not forgetting the deeper voice he put on, on the video calls.
I look up to see Tye hustling back into the room holding three glasses of a clear liquid.
He hands one each to me and Zee and I can’t help but look down at his impressive cock that still has the remnants of our come smeared on it.
I’m so confused how all this has happened.
I would guess it was part of Mack’s game but judging by the way he flew in here and the sadness that tugs at his eyes, I can tell it was not.
I take a sniff of the liquid in my glass, recognise it’s my vanilla vodka and throw it down my throat in two big gulps.
My throat burns and I take solace from the pain as it dulls the firing nerve endings in my brain.
I see Tye look over at Zee and they both do the same.
Tye steps over to the bed and reaches for my held out glass.
“Another,” I grit out. He solemnly nods and walks out of the room, coming back with the bottle and another two thumbs of vodka in my glass.
This time I sip the cool liquid and watch the strange interaction between the two men.
Tye hasn’t bothered getting dressed and Zee hasn’t killed him.
I look between the two and settle on Tye.
I have been speaking to Zee as Mack, so it’s Tye who is the intruder here.
“Tell me,” I command, letting the vodka relax me back into the bed.
Tye takes a step closer and sits on the corner of the bed mournfully.
I watch as Zee slumps against the wall and takes in a breath, preparing himself for what Tye is about to tell me.
“I built Mack’s software. I told him how I felt about you but he thought it was an infatuation. That only he, Rory and Flynn were in love with you. They hatched a plan to win you over but apparently they decided that four lovers were too many for you, without actually asking you.”
I absorb his words and cast my eyes over at Zee who stares back in defiance. He has something to say on the situation but I have some words for Tye.
“How did you know Zee was going to wear a mask?” I ask, sure that detail would have been kept secret.
“I… I installed spyware on Mack’s laptop and I have master access to the software as its developer and troubleshooter. I knew when you were online, I could watch in remotely,” he says heatedly as if he’s replaying every call I shared with Mack.
“You spied on us.”
“No, well, yes. I couldn’t take my eyes off you.”
“And that is how you knew to wear a mask and when to visit me. That is fucked up Tye, you know that?” I say boldly, almost coldly but there is humour and a small amount of gratification tucked deep in my belly of how far he has gone to be with me.
“No wonder when you put your arms around me during our golf lesson, they reminded me of the evening before. Jesus Tye, why didn’t you ask me out like a normal person?
” Tye looks over at Zee and nods at him.
“Because our father forbade us from dating a playmate,” he says so sadly that my heart hurts for him.
“Both your fathers are members and both won’t allow you to date me?” I ask, looking between them.
“We have the same father Sophie, I’m Mack’s brother.”
I blink as the realization crashes down on me. Mack wouldn’t let Tye in on the plan because Tye is his younger brother. Both brothers fell in love with me. “But, but you’re both here now, you both decided to turn my life upside down now, why?”
This time it’s Zee who finds his voice and answers, “You had a boyfriend from the minute you arrived at the Clarendon. And when you broke up, I wanted to give you time to process. I didn’t, I mean we didn’t want to be any kind of rebound for you.
We want to be it for you. I had this idea about a business I wanted to start and knew my brother could build the website and software for me.
When the light started to fade in your eyes I knew we needed to make our move, before you could take action yourself.
If you’d have moved interstate to be with family or started dating someone else, we would have lost our one opportunity.
It was now or never.” Zee knows me well, he has clearly been paying attention to me.
“But I asked you to give me PT lessons. Shit Zee, I even offered myself on a platter to you the other day.”
“I know,” he replies sadly. “God I wanted to give you PT lessons or ask you to relieve my sexual tensions. But I knew I wouldn’t be able to stay away from you, it was hard enough driving you to jobs where other men fucked you, I couldn’t touch you and be near you in any other environment than work.
I needed to keep that distance for my own sake. ”
“So you took a job as my driver but Tye became a member?”
“I didn’t want to be with anyone else but you and being your driver was the closest way I could reach you, abiding by my father’s rules.”
“You could have asked me out?” I say, baffled.
“I wanted you to see all of me, the real me, not the driver, not the person I was pretending to be. I didn’t know how to share that with you, show that side of myself. It’s confusing, even for me. So I put on my Zee persona and held you at arm’s length.”
“So whilst you worked as staff, Tye joined the Clarendon as a member and posted somnophilia jobs online, hoping I’d apply for them?”
“I never accepted any other applicants for my jobs in the hope you would apply for them, but you never did,” says Tye solemnly.
“I didn’t know I’d enjoy that kink so much until I did,” I say flatly. I’m not ready to let either of them off that easily.
“It was you who stole my keys that day when I couldn’t find them?” I look directly at Tye.
“Yes, I meant no ill intent. I wanted to show you how much I wanted you and needed you, how much pleasure I could give you. I couldn’t see any other way to win you over before Mack and his friends scooped you up and stole you away.
How much good would it have done revealing my love for you when you had Masked Mack?
But by pretending to be my brother, that enabled me to be someone he wasn’t ready to be, to take you, to be inside you, to fuck you. ”
I can’t deny, those words on his lips awaken something primal in me.
I did like being fucked at night. I did like him breaking into my apartment and taking what he wanted.
I can’t deny it. I wouldn’t wish it didn’t happen.
I steal my eyes away from Tye to look back at Zee who is standing deadly still, his jaw clenched, seething at Tye’s admission.
“You got something you want to say to your brother?” I say to Zee, who looks like he’s about to combust.
“How fucking dare you?” he spits out. “You know I’ve loved her since the minute I laid eyes on her.”
“You never took into consideration that I saw her at the same time? I was visiting the Clarendon on the same day Sophie started. I wasn’t a member yet but I had eyes. Just because you said it first, doesn’t mean you get to hold that over me. Sophie gets to choose, not you.”
“That’s right, I get to choose who I fuck, I get to choose who I suck and I get to choose how this fucked up situation ends.
” I drain the last sips of my glass, fortified by the alcohol now racing through my veins.
“So here is what is going to happen. You share. You share me now. If you can share, we can work this out. If you cannot, you both lose.” I’m tipsy as fuck, outnumbered by two exceptionally attractive men.
One who has fucked me, one who has not. So we play.
I deserve it. They deserve whatever awkward shit they’re about to experience.
They want this? They want me? I want to feel it. Now.