18. Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Eighteen
Rosie
I was genuinely impressed with Gauge’s quick work of getting Emma over here and onboard with our situation.
Today was a day of surprises, though, since Jamie had all but pulled me out of the room to spare Emma and Gauge discomfort. Jamie never took the lead, so them dragging me anywhere was unusual.
They shut the door behind us, and I looked at them questioningly. Instead of speaking, I just waited.
"I like her," they said.
"And you're implying I'd mess it up?"
"I'm implying you're a bit intense. And since she already freaked out a little when I kissed her earlier, we need to be more chill."
"You kissed her?" I asked, half surprised and half jealous I hadn't been there to see it.
Jamie nodded. "Yeah, I thought she knew about Gauge, but he hadn't told her and she got super uncomfortable. I made him tell her, but yeah, we need to cool it."
"By ‘we’, you mean me?"
"I mean, I wasn't the one who fucked her inside of Gauge, so…"
"You wish you had," I scoffed.
"Maybe a little."
I was startled by their answer. This was a side of them I hadn't seen before.
"What would you do to her?" I asked.
"I didn't do anything—just kissed her."
"But you wouldn't say no to doing more," I pushed. They didn't say anything, so I kept going. "I'm sure the two of you together could put on quite the show for me and Gauge."
"That's the ‘too strong’ I'm talking about."
"Hard to believe that'd be too strong for her. When I met Emma, she was fucking herself in public on a train."
They shook their head at me. "Still less intense than the orgy you're after."
I raised an eyebrow. "I was with her. She has it in her."
"I don't think she's there yet," Jamie insisted, turning away to listen at the door. "I don't even think she knows about us."
"You just said you guys told her we're together."
"No, no, not that. About what we are."
I paused for a moment. "You don't think he's told her yet?"
"I doubt it. I've been with her most of the day and I really think it would've come up."
"I thought she knew. Isn't she the one fighting to keep our tracks untouched?"
"She is, but she started that before she met any of us."
I sighed, mulling over our predicament. "If they get rid of the tracks, we can't stay—he knows that."
"He probably didn't want to add more to Emma’s plate. She's been really stressed out trying to get the island to care about the trains."
She was going to be even more stressed if he left without explaining anything to her. We couldn't stay on the island without the tracks.
I sighed heavily. "He's got to tell her so she knows the stakes. What if we can't stay? He can't be planning to just disappear without telling her."
He was already in deep enough that it would hurt him to leave her. If I was being honest with myself, I was pretty attached to the possibility of her, too. I could see her fitting in quite well with him, me, and Jamie—and not even just sexually. They both already liked her, too.
He had to tell her. There may be some way we could help her, but only if she knew.
"I'm going back out there."
"No," Jamie said quickly. "Give them some time. Maybe he'll come to his senses on his own."
I shook my head. "I'm going out there."
"Please don't."
"What's in it for me?" I asked. We'd played this game enough that they knew exactly what I wanted, the one way to make sure I stayed in the room with them.
They sunk to their knees in front of me, looking up at me and pouting. "Can I please taste you?"
"I don't know," I said, pretending to consider it. "You're being a bit of a brat today. Maybe I should punish you."
"Punish me later if you have to, but don't punish yourself too. Please let me taste you."
I pretended to think about it, but I already knew that even if I was going to spank them later, I was going to indulge them now.