Not like Gary clearlydid.
“You care about him a lot. More than Iexpected.”
Gary turned to give Bas an appraisinglook.
“Not all of us were fortunate enough to have good fathers of our own. We can quibble about your father’s ethics all you like, but from everything I’ve heard, he loved you and showedit.”
Bas frowned but nodded, and he felt Drew’s hand snake around his back in a gesture of support. Gary was right. Whatever kind of businessman his father had been, Levi had been a loving father. He and Ilyadidhave something incommon.
He extended his hand to Gary. “Drew’s right. Thank you. For setting this up. For letting him risk himself. I oweyou.”
Gary’s eyes sharpened and his smile turned shark-like. “Exclusive-interview-levelgratitude?”
Sebastian barked out a laugh. “We’ll see.” Assuming they lived to tell thetale.
Gary and Drew exchanged goodbyes, and the moment the door was closed behind him, Bas leaned back against it,exhausted.
Drew took out his phone. “Twenty minutes,” he said, stepping forward to burrow his face in Bas’schest.
“Forwhat?”
“That’s how long we’ve been awake!Twenty minutes, and the world’s turned upside down.” Drew looked vaguely shell-shocked, and Bas snickered. His little control-fiend was having a rough couple ofweeks.
“But at least now we get the fun of waking up Cort and Cam to share thenews.”
Drew pulled back to give him a fulminating look. “You take way too much pleasure in winding themup.”
“Nonsense,” Bas argued. There was no such thing as too much. And if Bas had learned anything from this nightmare with Alexei, it was to take his pleasure where he could find it. Speaking ofwhich…
“We could probably wait and call them in half an hour,” he offered, coasting a hand down Drew’s back to glide over his ass. He had no underwear beneath his borrowed sweatpants, which were convenientlyloose.
Drew’s teasing smile was wide and gorgeous, familiar and brand new. “I think that would be the considerate thing to do,” he agreed, and he lifted his lips to kissSebastian.
