Give Me More

Give Me More is a contemporary romance centered on three interconnected characters who discover that their lifelong bond runs deeper than friendship.

Seven years before the main story, Hunter Scott, a twenty-six-year-old with a criminal past who has cleaned up his life, attends a Thursday happy hour with co-workers, including his younger girlfriend, Isabel, and his lifelong best friend, Drake Nielson. When the group jokes about secret desires, Isabel surprises everyone by admitting she wants a threesome. Hunter claims he has none, hiding an unspoken longing. The next morning, their employer goes bankrupt, and a co-worker pitches a kink-based dating app that Hunter helps build into the Salacious Players' Club, an upscale sex club in the fictional California town of Briar Point.

A decade later, Hunter and Isabel are married co-owners of Salacious, on a cross-country road trip with Drake to tour rival clubs for business ideas. Drake, the club's head of renovations, has spent the decade as their perpetual third wheel, masking loneliness with casual hookups. In Phoenix, a Shibari (Japanese rope bondage) demonstrator pulls Isabel and Drake onstage, where Drake ties a harness around a half-undressed Isabel and simulates a thrust against her. Hunter watches from across the room, startled to find himself not angry but aroused.

Privately, Hunter admits to Isabel that seeing Drake touch her excited him. He researches hotwifing, a kink in which someone derives pleasure from watching a trusted person have sex with their spouse, and realizes only Drake produces this reaction. When Drake loses his apartment, Hunter and Isabel insist he move in with them. Over breakfast in Austin, Hunter asks if they know what cuckolding is, a kink in which someone derives arousal from their partner's sexual encounters with others, and confesses he wants to explore it. Isabel refuses, interpreting the request as rejection; Drake is furious, assuming it is a loyalty test. Hunter presses Drake privately, asking point-blank if he wants Isabel. Drake cannot deny it. Isabel confesses to Drake that she shares his feelings. Drake proposes a trial at an Austin sex club: Isabel will go as his date while Hunter watches, and if Hunter loses composure, the idea dies.

At the club, Drake kisses Isabel passionately. Rather than raging, Hunter hoists Isabel over his shoulder and has possessive sex with her in a private room, confirming how aroused he was. Isabel agrees to move forward. Outside New Orleans, a hotel error forces all three into one king bed, and at Hunter's whispered encouragement, Drake performs oral sex on Isabel while Hunter watches. The next morning, Isabel and Drake set ground rules: nothing happens without Hunter present, a safe word is established, and condoms are mandatory. Drake surprises Isabel by saying he does not mind Hunter joining in.

At a New Orleans rope workshop, Drake confides in the instructor, Silla, who gives him a key to a private room and challenges him to consider that he might gain Hunter and Isabel rather than lose them. Inside, Hunter orchestrates their first full encounter: Drake enters Isabel while Hunter watches, then takes her himself. Their Nashville rental turns out to be a sex dungeon, and the evening escalates into both men taking Isabel simultaneously. Hunter privately realizes he wants Drake in their lives permanently.

That night, Hunter kisses Drake for the first time. The kiss deepens beyond an experiment into something charged and mutual. Isabel, when told, reveals she has long noticed Drake is in love with Hunter and that Hunter's discomfort with Drake's male partners stems from jealousy, not judgment. She encourages him to explore further. At Pitch, a Nashville club built around dark rooms, Hunter corners Drake and initiates an intense encounter. Drake performs oral sex on Hunter, who climaxes but immediately panics, his abusive father's voice echoing in his head, and flees. Isabel finds Drake afterward and is sympathetic, understanding the depth of Hunter's internalized shame. Drake confesses he noticed Isabel first the day she met Hunter but never pursued her, believing she was too good for him.

The next morning, Hunter apologizes and says he does not want the arrangement to end. Isabel detours their drive home to Las Vegas, where Hunter declares on the dance floor that he is no longer interested in just watching. Their hotel encounter feels less like casual sex and more like an emotional bond being sealed. On the final night, the intimacy is slow and bittersweet, everyone acknowledging the vacation is ending.

Back in Briar Point, Drake flirts with Geo, a bartender at Salacious, and Hunter grows furious. Drake insists the trip was just fun; Hunter cruelly compares Drake's behavior to his mother's revolving door of boyfriends. Drake goes on a date with Geo but realizes he is in love with Hunter and Isabel. He confesses to Isabel that she has always been "his girl." Isabel, angry that Hunter stirred their hearts only to pull away, turns her back on him that night.

A playful food fight in the kitchen breaks the stalemate and escalates into a sexual encounter in which Hunter kneels and takes Drake into his mouth for the first time. Days later, during late-night renovations at the club, Hunter and Drake have penetrative sex while Isabel listens from outside the room. At Silla's urging, Drake confronts Hunter, demanding he acknowledge his bisexuality and commit. Unable to give Drake what he needs, Hunter packs a bag and moves into the guest room of Maggie, a friend who becomes his unofficial counselor. He tells Isabel and Drake he is the broken piece and must confront the damage his father inflicted before he can love them properly.

Two months pass. Isabel and Drake settle into a domestic routine, grieving Hunter's absence. When Isabel impulsively cuts her long hair, Drake buzzes his own so they will both look different when Hunter returns. The shared vulnerability breaks the final barrier. Drake tells Isabel he loves her for the first time, and she says it back. They have sex without Hunter present, affirming that their relationship matters on its own.

Hunter visits his father's grave and says aloud that he is bisexual and in love with a man. He comes out to the Salacious team, who are unsurprised and supportive. He returns to Isabel with flowers, telling her that if he cannot have them both, he would rather she and Drake have each other. At the club, Drake spots Hunter and bolts off the stage mid-demonstration. Hunter kisses him fiercely in front of the crowd. Drake has converted a club room into a dark room as a surprise. Inside, the three reunite. Hunter tells Drake to take him, and Drake does. Afterward, both men say aloud that they are bisexual, and the three agree on the ground rules of their polyamorous relationship.

Six months later, Drake builds a custom double-king-sized bed for the master bedroom to accommodate the three of them and the twin girls Isabel is carrying. In a bonus epilogue two years later, the toddlers, Austin and Phoenix, are thriving. Isabel has asked Drake to call her his wife alongside her marriage to Hunter. The family confirmed the twins are biologically Drake's, and they have begun trying for another child. Isabel reflects that she wanted a home overflowing with love and now has exactly that.