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“Now, where was I?” he mused, a devilish light in his eyes. “Oh, right, I wanted to see what you’re packing. But I think I’ve changed my mind. It’s been at least a week since I’ve had the pleasure of being inside your tight?—”

I tensed at Theo’s words, and he must’ve felt it, because he stopped talking.

“Did you just say a week?” My mind rewound to the last time Theo had taken me over the pool table. “Has it really been a week?”

“I’m not usually one to keep score, butoui. You greedy fucker.”

“Shit. We forgot to check in with King.”

As if a light bulb just switched on, Theo mouthed,Oh.

Then, just as quickly, he shrugged it off. “Well, he can wait another few minutes.”

“Minutes? I thought you had more stamina than that?”

“Hilarious.” Theo drew the infinity symbol around both my nipples, his lips pursing. “I just meant he doesn’t need to be in this bed with us. So why don’t we forget about him until…after?”

I could do that. What was another hour or so? And the last thing I wanted to do was bring King into bed with us. It had been all I could do to get him out of this house after the last call we’d had. But after several days I’d somehow managed to convince Theo he was delusional when it came to King’s acting jealous.

Because that was definitely not the case.

“You’re right.”

Theo leaned down and pressed his lips to the base of my throat. “Of course I am.”

“He can wait.”

Theo hummed as he started down my body, moving over to my left nipple to flick it with the tip of his tongue. “Exactly.”

“Plus, we’re safe, and there’s nothing to report. He can check the trackers if he wants.”

“He can,” Theo agreed, scraping his teeth over my sensitive skin and moving to the other side. “And you can turn your brain off anytime now.”

Fuck.He was right. Here Theo was, about to blow my mind—among other things—and I was talking about trackers.

Jesus, Shep, get your shit together.

I closed my eyes and let the feel of Theo’s warm lips take over as he flirted his way down my torso to my navel. He kissed, licked, and sucked on it, until I reached for his head and arched up off the bed. That talented mouth was doing a fan-fucking-tastic job of making me forget everything but him.

“Yes, Theo…” I groaned as he nuzzled his nose against my treasure trail, inhaling my scent as he made quick work of my shorts. Then he mouthed his way down the material, his hot breath penetrating the fabric and heating my already-scorching skin.

This was exactly what I needed. To shut off my brain and justfeel.

Theo lifted his head, and when I opened my eyes to see why he’d stopped, he flashed me a deviant grin and slipped his fingers into my shorts. Then he tugged them down until my cock finally sprang free.

“Hmm, I don’t see anything resembling a?—”

“Don’t you fuckingdaresay it.”

He chuckled and wrapped a hand around my throbbing dick, then directed it into his waiting mouth. My head fell back to the pillow the second his lips closed around the sensitive head, and when he swallowed me down to the back of his throat, a shout flew out of me.

The pleasure was so intense that I squeezed my eyes shut, and with the ringing in my ears and harsh breathing distorting my reality, I didn’t notice the door to our bedroom open. Nor did I notice or hear that same person walk inside and pick up the notepad I’d thrown to the ground earlier.

It wasn’t until a rough cough that I knewdidn’tbelong to Theo echoed around the room that my eyes flew open.

“What the fuck is going on here?” the person demanded in a voice that both Theo and I knew in an instant.

The two of us jerked apart in shock, and when we looked to the end of the bed, we saw the one person we’d just banished from it standing there—King.