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  Contents

  Title Page

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  About the Series

  JUST A BIT OBSESSED

  (Book #2 in the Straight Guys series )

  Alessandra Hazard

  Copyright © 2014 Alessandra Hazard

  Editor: Elizabeth Balmanno

  Cover by: AKE Media

  *Nightmare*

  This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and events are the product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual events, places, or persons are purely coincidental.

  All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the author except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

  This book contains explicit M/M sex and graphic language. For mature audiences only.

  Chapter 1

  The beginning of the end of Alexander Sheldon’s perfectly orderly life came on an ordinary Saturday evening.

  His girlfriend was snuggled up against his side, her head on his shoulder, as they watched her favorite series.

  “Honey?” Mila murmured during a commercial break.

  “Hmm?”

  “I’ve been thinking...”

  Alexander looked at her dark head. “What?”

  Mila’s fingers played with the hem of his shirt. “I... what do you think about trying something new? I mean sex.”

  Alexander studied her curiously. Mila normally wasn’t shy when it came to sex.

  “Sure,” he said with a slight smile, burying his fingers in her hair and stroking her nape. “What do you want?”

  Mila chewed on her lip and looked up at him, her gray eyes full of hesitation. “How about a threesome? With a guy?”

  Alexander’s smile froze on his lips before slowly fading.

  “You don’t have to decide anything right now,” Mila said quickly. “Take your time and think about it. No pressure, though.”

  If she hadn’t said that, Alexander would have refused outright. But he knew her. It was obvious she really wanted it.

  Alexander averted his gaze. He wasn’t very good at sharing his things and he believed in monogamy. But he owed it to her to at least give it some thought, regardless of how much he disliked the thought of another man touching her.

  “All right,” he said. “I’ll think about it.”

  He did think about it.

  It was constantly at the back of his mind over the next few days, even when he was at work. The thought of Mila having sex with another man left a sour taste in his mouth, but he wasn’t jealous per se—just uncomfortable, displeased and faintly irritated with Mila. She knew what Alexander thought of having multiple sexual partners at the same time, but she had asked for it anyway. On the other hand, ignoring his girlfriend’s request wasn’t something a good boyfriend would do.

  Dammit. He was thinking in circles. He needed a fresh perspective on this.

  Alexander ended up calling Jared, his cousin and closest friend. Lately they rarely saw each other face-to-face, since Jared worked in England, but they had been close since their childhood. He could always count on Jared.

  “If you’re jealous, just say no,” Jared told him.

  “I’m not jealous,” Alexander said, leaning back in his chair. “I never get jealous, you know that. I just hate sharing what’s mine.”

  “It’s not like she can force you. If you don’t want to share her, just tell her that.”

  “You don’t know her,” Alexander said with a sigh. “If I tell her I don’t want a threesome, she’ll sulk, pout and give me the cold shoulder for weeks. And I hate when she does it.”

  “Is it really such a big deal for you?” Jared said. “Some men like watching their women have sex with another man.”

  “Not me,” Alexander said shortly.

  Jared was silent for a moment before saying, his voice careful, “You know, it’s not cheating if it’s done with your partner’s consent.”

  Alexander looked blankly at the picture on the opposite wall. He had to make a conscious effort to keep his voice casual and offhand. “You got any other advice, Captain Obvious?”

  Jared heaved a sigh. “I don’t think she has the right to pressure you into doing something you don’t want, but on the other hand… good relationships are based on compromise.”

  “I know,” Alexander said, pinching the bridge of his nose. That was why he was considering it at all. “When are you coming home? You’re getting a stuffy British accent.”

  Jared laughed. “In a few months, actually. Got a vacation coming up.”

  When Alexander hung up a few minutes later, he closed his eyes and sat still for a while, thinking. Jared was right: relationships were based on compromise.

  Alexander turned off his computer and left his office, after making sure it was locked behind him.

  “Going home, Mr. Sheldon?” his secretary said, smiling at him widely and batting her eyelashes.

  He nodded, choosing to ignore her flirting, as usual. Erica was an excellent secretary; that was the important thing. She was fast, she was smart, and she required little direction. She was good at dealing with clients, despite the fact that most of them didn’t speak English well. In time she would learn that her flirting was pointless: Alexander didn’t cheat. Ever.

  “Anything urgent, Erica?”

  “No, nothing urgent. Neville said he’s almost done with the Russian translation. It should be finished by tomorrow.”

  Nodding, Alexander left the office.

  He drove straight home. He often picked Mila up from school, but if he remembered correctly—and he always remembered correctly—her classes had finished early that day.

  Mila was at home, as he had expected.

  Alexander kissed her briefly, removed his tie, and started unbuttoning his shirt.

  “I’ve thought about your idea,” he said quietly.

  He heard her breath catch in her throat. “And?”

  “I have a few conditions.”

  “Okay.”

  Alexander removed his shirt and put it in the laundry basket. “First, he will not have full-on sex with you.”

  “Oh.” There was clear disappointment in her voice. He ignored it.

  “Second,” he said, his voice even and controlled. “It will be a one-time thing, and you’ll make it clear to him.”

  “Yeah. Okay.” Mila walked over and pressed her body against his from behind, wrapping her arms around his waist. She kissed him on the shoulder. “You’re the best boyfriend ever.”

  Alexander unzipped his pants. “Do you have anyone in particular in mind?”

  “Yeah, I’ve already picked someone,” Mila said. “We have a few classes together.”

  The fact that she’d apparently been attracted to some guy for a while didn’t sit well with him, but Alexander didn’t comment.

  “What’s he like?” he asked instead.

  Mila laughed. “How am I supposed to answer that? He’s younger than you, about the same age as me—probably twenty.”

  “Handsome?”

  She laughed again, burying her face in his back. “He’s…very attractive, but d
on’t worry—Christian’s nowhere as handsome as you. All the girls envy me when you come to pick me up.” She went quiet for a short while. “You’re not mad at me, are you? It’s not that our sex life isn’t satisfying or something—it couldn’t be better, but it’s just—”

  “I get it,” Alexander said shortly. “You just want to try something new.”

  “Exactly. If you want, at some point we can have a threesome with another girl.”

  Alexander couldn’t say it was something he wanted, but he accepted it as the olive branch it was obviously intended to be.

  “Fine,” he said.

  “Great! I’ll tell him, then. Think he’ll agree. He’s pretty easy.”

  Alexander suppressed a grimace and just nodded.

  Chapter 2

  The day the guy was supposed to come arrived too soon.

  “You told him it’s just a one-time experiment, right?” Alexander said.

  Mila nodded, checking her reflection in the mirror and brushing a lock of her hair away from her face. “Yeah, I told Christian that. How do I look?”

  “Good.” He poured himself a drink and downed it in one long swallow.

  The doorbell rang.

  Alexander tensed but forced his body to relax. They were a modern couple. He was twenty-seven years old, hardly someone new to sex. He and Mila had been together for two years, and their sex life wasn’t exactly vanilla. A threesome was among the few things they hadn’t tried. There was nothing to get worked up over. Nothing.

  Mila opened the door.

  Alexander eyed Christian critically.

  The guy was definitely good-looking. He was maybe an inch shy of six feet—about three inches shorter than Alexander. A surfer’s body, messy brown hair, big chocolate brown eyes, strong jaw that seemed at odds with full lips. Yes, he was good-looking, but truth be told, Alexander had expected someone more handsome. The guy was nothing special.

  And then Christian smiled at Mila, revealing a pair of dimples.

  Some people had a nice smile. Some people had a beautiful smile. And then there were a lucky few who had a smile like that guy did. It transformed Christian from just good-looking to stunning when he smiled.

  Realizing he was staring, Alexander grimaced. He had never had a reason to complain about his looks—women seemed to love the combination of dark hair and blue eyes that was so common in his family—but the Sheldon looks tended to seem cold and unapproachable to most people. This guy practically radiated warmth and charisma when he smiled.

  Christian kissed Mila on the cheek and turned to him.

  Alexander forced himself to walk forward and stretch his hand out for a handshake. “Alexander Sheldon.” He was pretty impressed he’d managed to sound neutral and not at all like he wanted to kick the guy out.

  The guy shook his hand, his grip firm and strong. “Christian Ashford.” His voice was deep and low. Christian’s eyes flickered over him before meeting his gaze again. “Are you sure you’re all right with this?”

  “Why wouldn’t I be?”

  Christian shrugged a bit. “You look kinda tense.”

  “It’s just the first time we’re trying a threesome,” Mila cut in before Alexander could say anything. “My boyfriend’s really okay with this,” she told Christian, smiling at him. Then she kissed him.

  Alexander stood still and watched it, wondering how he would even manage to get an erection. He was as far from being turned on as it was possible to be. He didn’t get those men who enjoyed watching their women have sex with someone else.

  Christian broke the kiss and looked at him over Mila’s shoulder. “Okay, just to clarify: you didn’t ask me to join you guys because you knew I’m bi, right?”

  Alexander sucked a breath in. “I’m not into men.” His voice came out sharper than he intended.

  Christian stared at him and nodded slowly before looking away.

  Mila chewed on her lip. “Are you disappointed?”

  Christian’s eyes flickered to Alexander. “No,” he said after a moment. “Of course not.”

  Mila beamed at him and grabbed his hand. “Let’s go to the bedroom, then.”

  Christian let her pull him to the bedroom but looked back at Alexander. “Coming?”

  “Yes,” Alexander said.

  Their gazes locked, and amusement flashed across Christian’s face, without actually surfacing into a smile. “Don’t worry, I don’t have anything contagious that you can catch by being next to me.”

  “If you’re implying I’m a homophobe,” Alexander said, following him into the bedroom, “you couldn’t be more wrong. My favorite cousin is gay.” He pulled his T-shirt off and put it on the chair. “There’s nothing wrong with being gay.”

  “Hmm,” Christian said, starting to undress, as well.

  Unzipping his jeans, Alexander fixed him with a look. “What is that supposed to mean?”

  Christian smiled, shrugging slightly. “Nothing.”

  “No, let’s hear it,” Alexander said, removing the rest of his clothes and putting them on the chair. He looked at Christian’s discarded shirt on the floor and pursed his lips.

  “You sure you want my honest opinion?” Christian said, shimmying out of his tight jeans. “I think you might have some repressed negative feelings about homosexuality. Sure, you might be ‘open-minded’ and all right with your cousin’s sexuality, but it’s a completely different thing when it concerns you.”

  “You’ve known me for a grand total of five minutes.”

  Christian shrugged again, that infuriating smile still on his lips. “What can I say? I’m good at reading people,” he said, stepping out of his briefs.

  “Pick them up,” Alexander said.

  Christian blinked. “Huh?”

  Mila started giggling. “Your briefs, Chris. Alexander hates sloppiness and disorder.”

  Christian looked between them. “Is this a joke?”

  Mila laughed harder. “I wish! When we first started going out, I reorganized his DVDs and he forced me to reorganize them again until I got it right. I did, seven hours later, and I was pissed as hell. We almost broke up because of that. Now I know better.”

  “I did warn you not to touch anything,” Alexander murmured.

  Christian looked at him. “Do you have OCD?”

  Alexander snorted a laugh. “No. I don’t obsessively clean things. I just really dislike sloppiness. Pick them up. Now.”

  Christian glanced at the black briefs at his bare feet before looking up at Alexander. His eyes danced with merriment. “No,” he said, looking him in the eye. “What are you gonna do to me?”

  Alexander felt his muscles tense up and his heart beat faster. He could almost feel the adrenaline pump into his blood stream, his senses kicking into overdrive.

  He walked to Christian.

  The guy didn’t move.

  Alexander put a hand on Christian’s shoulder and pushed him down.

  To his surprise, Christian didn’t offer much resistance and dropped to his knees. Looking up at Alexander through his long dark eyelashes, he picked the briefs up.

  “Where should I put them, Master?” he said, in a mock-submissive tone, his eyes laughing. He threw his briefs on the chair. “You want me to kiss your feet while I’m down here? Or kiss something else?”

  “You’re not half as funny as you think you are,” Alexander said.

  A slow smile spread across Christian’s face. “I wasn’t joking.”

  “Get up. I don’t want you to kiss anything.”

  “Er, guys?”

  Startled, Alexander looked at the bed. Mila was lying naked on the bed, frowning slightly.

  Right. Threesome.

  Alexander looked down at Christian.

  Christian looked back at him.

  He was also very naked.

  Alexander swept his gaze over his body, lingering on the guy’s hard dick. A bit smaller than his, but definitely nothing to be ashamed of.

  Glancing down at himself, Al
exander realized that he had an erection too. He didn’t know when he’d managed to get hard.

  Christian got to his feet and leaned toward his ear. “Don’t worry,” he murmured. “It’s a pretty normal reaction. Happens all the time when I tell the guy I’ll kiss his dick. Nice dick, by the way.”

  He stepped back, grinning, and Alexander gave him a flat look. “It’s not you,” he said in a low voice. “My naked girlfriend is in the room, and I’m going to have with sex her. Of course I’m hard.”

  Christian nodded. “Okay. Sure.”

  “Guys, I’m getting bored here.”

  Christian inclined his head towards the bed, still looking him in the eye. “Let’s go have sex.”

  They walked to the bed, keeping a wary eye on each other, and lay on either side of Mila.

  Mila smiled, giving them appreciative looks. “I’m the luckiest girl in the world.” Putting a hand on Alexander’s neck, she pulled him down into a kiss. Alexander obliged and kissed her for a few moments, gently and deeply, though his heart wasn’t really in it. He couldn’t concentrate while another guy was in their bed.

  Mila ended the kiss and then pulled Christian to her lips.

  Alexander watched them kiss for a moment before he leaned down and started kissing Mila’s neck and the side of her face, his lips nibbling along her jawline to her ear, teasing her lobe before his tongue tickled the sensitive hollow beneath.

  Christian broke the kiss, and Alexander stared at his wet, red, slightly swollen lips just inches away.

  “You have such girly lips,” he said before kissing Mila again, harder this time, sucking greedily on her lips.

  Christian laughed by his ear and whispered, “Your girlfriend wasn’t complaining. Can you taste me in her mouth?”

  Alexander stopped kissing Mila and turned his head to glare at him. Christian just smiled innocently.

  “Suck on my nipples,” Mila said breathlessly. “Both of you.”

  Alexander leaned down and took her right nipple into his mouth. Usually he loved Mila’s breasts, but at the moment he couldn’t focus at all. It felt like a chore, something he must do just not to be outdone. Christian’s presence made it impossible to relax.