“Not that!” Avery said.
“Sadly, no,” Kaia said. “She’s still not ready to dabble there. But she really likes boob play, and she has the absolute most suckable nipples ever.”
“Oh. My. God.” Avery punched Kaia in the shoulder, almost exposing those bespoke nipples in the process before hunkering back under the blanket. “You’re the worst!”
“Just speaking the truth,” Kaia said, clearly having fun. “C’mon, you can show him.”
“No. Absolutely not.”
Not that I’d have minded at all, but I wasn’t comfortable with Kaia pressuring my sister into doing anything she didn’t want. “Really, that’s okay.”
“Thank you, Alex,” Avery said. “And you’d better not say a word about any of this to anyone, ever. Unlike blabbermouth here.”
“Oh, he won’t,” Kaia said. “I’m not done filling everyone in.”
Avery’s eyes narrowed and I felt the heat building in my own face now. Not much point in running or denying anything, since my cousin was clearly in the spilling mood. To what end, I had no idea.
“Yeah,” Avery said. “Just what has been going on with you two?”
Kaia filled in my twin, starting with calling me out on how much I’d ogled her breasts at the beach (Avery heartily concurred on that point, to my mortified embarrassment), going through our agreement, and each of our little encounters since. Avery’s eyes absolutely bugged out when she heard about what had gone down in the shower. I couldn’t tell if she was shocked, pissed, turned on, or all of the above. I had to just stand there and take it, feeling the judgment of my sister much as I’m sure she thought I had given her. Honestly, though, I’d been cool with all of her revelations and hoped she might view my actions in a similar light.
“Well,” Avery said when Kaia was done. “I see why none of this will be leaving this room.”
I nodded. “Mutually assured destruction. What I don’t get, though, is why invite me here? What did you hope to get out of this?”
Kaia looked a little disappointed. “I… I guess… Damn, I’m not entirely sure. I mean, I’m totally jealous of you two.”
“Us?” Avery said. “Why?”
“You’re twins. I don’t even have a sibling, yet you two grew up together. I know you’re not best buds all the time, but you’ve got a bond. This unbreakable thing. And, well, I guess I didn’t want to come between you two, not in a way that could have happened if either of you discovered I’d been messing around with the other in secret.”
I guess I could kinda respect that, but it still felt weird. “So that’s it? You just wanted to come clean? By having me walking in on you and Av like this?”
“Yes. No.” Kaia banged her head against the headboard. “This isn’t at all what I was thinking. I mean, yes, but…”
Avery scooted up a little, but held the blanket firmly to her chest. “Why do I get the feeling you thought you could have the best of both worlds? Like, mess around with both of us?”
“I’m kinda getting that sense, too,” I said, staring down Kaia who was looking almost sick.
“Didn’t think that through very well, did you?” Avery said, though her tone was considerably softer, almost sympathetic.