Love in the Mix (Love in the Mix #1)

Chapter 22

twenty-two

XAVIER

“ W hoa, you good?” I say, grabbing the arms of the skinny woman I’d run into. The whole situation jolts me back to when I had my hands full of sass and blue hair.

A tinkling laugh meets my ears, and somehow, every time I hear it, it grates my nerves more than I thought possible. Ruby Knight is a conventionally attractive woman, with long blonde hair and a megawatt smile, but God I could not stand her.

“My bad. I didn’t mean to run into you. Though I can’t be sad that you caught me.” Her blue eyes sparkle as they meet mine, but there’s something in them, almost devious, that has my hands immediately releasing her as if she’s on fire.

“No problem. It was my fault. Have a good night, Ruby,” I say as I move around her. She moves directly into my path.

“I was actually hoping to steal just a brief moment of your time. Both of you, of course. You know Luna and I have been friends for ages. ” Her eyelashes actually flutter as her glance moves to Sebastian, as does mine. I jump when I feel a hand land on my chest, looking back down at her.

“I was just wondering if you caught my set. I’m so excited to know what you thought.” Her hand moves down my chest with every word. I quickly grab her wrist and pull it away from my body.

“I’d appreciate you not touching me.” My voice comes out harsher than I mean. Her smile falls slightly.

Luckily, Sebastian recovers quickly. “Unfortunately Ruby, we arrived only ten minutes before our set. You were already off.” He wastes a beautiful smile on her, his green eyes lighting up.

“Oh, that is unfor—” she starts, but Sebastian doesn’t give her an inch.

“Yes, we really must go now. Have a good one, Ruby.” He pushes me enough to the side for us to move around her and dash away.

“I really hope we can work together soon!” she yells after us. I raise my hand in a silent wave and keep moving.

“That’s never going to happen,” I mutter as I open the back door and we make our way out into the night.

“Why aren’t we talking about Luna?” Sebastian says with a mouthful of pizza, sitting across from me as we inhale our post-set room service.

“What do you mean?” I ask nervously. I wasn’t trying to avoid the conversation exactly, but fuck, I want to do it all again. Being inside Luna while I watched her cause Sebastian to come undone was the sexiest thing I’ve ever done. I’ve thought of nothing else since.

Especially since a clip of Luna and Sebastian’s kiss went viral. She’s been unreachable. I can’t even check in with her to make sure she’s okay.

But how do you bring that up to your best friend and lover?

“Hey man, I’m really worried about her. But God I loved watching you shake as you filled her. I loved watching you drip from her perfect ass.” Even more than that, how do I tell the person I’ve been with since I was a teenager that I want her too? That she belongs with us, to us.

He interrupts my thoughts. “You know what I mean. She set this fucking challenge to find her, and she’s disappeared. We can’t even check on her after all this bullshit on the internet. We’re just fucking stuck here!”

“What do you expect, babe? Have you read some of those comments? They’re fucking brutal, and untrue.”

“Well, you and I know that, but that doesn’t seem to matter, especially when Savannah is telling us to keep our mouths shut.” He shoves himself off the bed, beginning to pace back and forth.

“I don’t want her to think that we don’t care about her, that we’re just letting people talk shit. Don’t you realize we have no consequence here, only she does?” His speech speeds up as he visibly becomes more and more anxious. I get to my feet to meet him halfway into pacing the length of the room, grabbing his shoulders.

I search Sebastian's face, my brows furrowing with concern. “I know that it all sucks right now,” I say softly, my hands slowly running up and down his arms, trying to calm him. “But until she resurfaces, or answers our messages, there’s not a lot we can do. We just have to wait.”

“I’m sorry we haven’t talked about it. When she left, we were so set to go after her. Then the clip…” I trail off, hoping for some understanding.

“I don’t know what to say. That night with Luna was more. Just more, and I’m not sure what that means.” I can feel the heat of a flush covering my neck.

“Care to elaborate?” he says with a laugh. His eyes rest on mine, a look in his eyes I can’t quite place. “I know you enjoyed watching.” He flashes his signature smirk at me.

“So did you,” I counter, my skin prickling with heat.

“Yeah, I did,” he admits, his voice low and gravelly. “But I enjoyed watching you more than I thought.”

My breath catches in my throat. “What does that mean?”

He takes a step closer, his body a line of heat against mine. “It means things have… shifted.” His gaze drops to my lips, then back up, smoldering. “And maybe I don't know what that means yet.”

“Care to elaborate?” I say nervously, laughing to cover the racing of my heart. His shoulders square sharply before letting it all spill out.

“I’m saying I want to watch you fuck our girl. I want to watch you both as you fall apart. I want to watch as your cum drips from her soaked pussy.” The very thought has my cock hardening in my sweats. There’s almost a phantom feeling of Luna’s pussy gripping me as she falls over the edge.

“Oh, is that all?" I gulp down the last bit of moisture in my mouth, but my tongue feels as rough as sandpaper.

“I think she fits with us. We need her, and something just fell into place with her. I know we invited her to play Valentine’s Day because you were obsessed, but now I’m right there with you. I’m obsessed with her and I cannot stop thinking about what it felt like to have her between us.” he says, taking a deep breath before continuing. “And I really want to know what it feels like to be between you both.” His eyes search mine.

“Good.” I hook my hand around his neck and pull him up to meet my lips. Amusement lights up his eyes right before they slide shut. One hand comes to rest on my hip. My eyes close as his body squirms against mine. Our lips move together softly.

My hands finally relax as they move to tangle gently in his hair. I pull lightly, moving his mouth to the side as I run my nose down his neck. His breathing is fast and sharp in my ear. There’s a piercing pain as I feel him sink his teeth into my sensitive lobe.

The gentle grip I had on his hair tightens, moving his mouth to mine, the softness gone as we attack each other’s mouths with ferocity. I wrap my hand around his throat and pull his full lips just far enough away from my own. “You sure that’s what you want, pretty boy?” I whisper, rubbing my nose against his. “I want her, too. She does fit with us.” I squeeze his throat a little tighter as the other hand slides down to cup his hard cock. I cut off the moan that attempts to escape his mouth with a tighter grip of my hand.

“Yes,” is all he forces out before my lips are on his.