Love me 'Til it Hurts

Chapter 18 - This is Gonna Take Some Work!

The Following Morning...
Callum Downey...

The sound of Juliette frantically muttering, and hyperventilating tore me from the slumber that had finally taken over just as the first rays of sunlight splashed the horizon. "No! No! Not again-!" She was sobbing, painful cries of disbelief contorted her as I slowly sat up, "how could I have been so stupid! Why does he keep doing this to me?"

"Woah, woah princess, what's wrong?" The sheet dropped to my torso as I sat up and eased my hands to the tense knots on her shoulders, Jesus she was as tense as a whore at Sunday-mass.

"He's gone - again!" She practically slumped into my gentle caressing of her flesh, "why did I believe him? Why does he keep doing this to me?"

"Oh honey, he isn't gone. We heard Jay getting up and he just thought it best that he gets up, we don't want your brother catching him coming out of here, not after what we discussed last night," I explained.

I knew that Juliette had some serious trust issues with the third person in our relationship. It was to be expected, given their past. That level of trauma just won't disappear after one night together, no matter how amazing that night had turned out to be.

I still can't quite believe what happened last night. I mean I haven't exactly been a prude in the past. I have had a couple of threesomes, but they were always with two other women, last night was the first time I had double-teamed a girl. If you had asked me if it would be something I would be interested in before last night, I would have said absolutely not but there is something about Juliette that made me willing to try and I am glad that I did. Having her as the centre to focus all our attention on was like both mine and Jeremy's driving force. I am not sure how the actual sex is going to go but we have time to figure it all out.

"He-he did-didn't leave me-again?"

"No, sweetheart. If anything, he really fought with himself but in the end, he knew that this is something that needs to be kept to just us for now," I explained to her as honestly as I could.

It was true - I had watched the way he had basically fought himself to leave the room. To leave this little bubble we had created between the three of us. If I had been unsure of his feelings before last night, those doubts had been laid to rest after he and I talked when Juliette had passed out. I could see how much he loved our girl, and I could see how much the past had hurt him. I guess it hadn't crossed my mind that he could be just as hurt as Juliette by what had transpired.

"I'm sorry for waking you," she sighed, "I guess I have some residual fears when it comes to Jeremy-"

"Understandable, sweetheart. I would be worried if you didn't, but just know that there is nothing in this world, or even the next that is going to keep him from you now," I explained, "and the same goes for me, I hope that you know that!"

"I never have doubts when it comes to you but with Jeremy, I guess it is going to take time-"

"And I am sure that he knows that-" I nodded, as her phone pinged with a text.

As always, she didn't try to shield the phone from me as she grabbed it and opened the message from the man in question, 'morning piccolo, I hope you are feeling as good as I am this morning. I am just sorry that I couldn't wake up with you in my arms, but Jay was up at ridiculous-o'clock and I didn't want to risk him catching me coming out of your room. See you in the kitchen soon, kisses J'.

"See, he is in this beautiful, just as much as I am, just as much as you are, but you are right, it will take time and patience for you to truly believe that," I dropped a kiss to her shoulder, "now come lie with me for a bit before we get up!"