Thad’s smile looked almost bashful as he looked over again. “I’ll keep working on it though.”
“Okay,” Graham said with a smile.
“There’s, uh, something else you should know,” Thad said, his voice growing a little rough. “Something I need to tell you.”
“Sure.” Graham frowned, wondering what the big secret was. “You can tell me anything.”
Thad cleared his throat. “I haven’t been fully honest with you?—”
The door slammed open and Thad flinched, turning his head to look at the stream of guys pouring out of the building.
“Okay, losers,” Tanner said cheerfully. “That’s enough couple time for now. It’s Halloween, Graham got a hatty, Jesse won best costumeandthe bet, and we’ve got a new rainbow guy to celebrate. Thad, quit hogging him.”
“What?” Thad sputtered.
“I tried to stop him,” Mickey said in a resigned tone. “I really did.”
“Uhh, guys, this isn’t the time,” Graham began but the team was already crowding around them. Someone was carrying a tray of shots, and one was pressed into Graham’s hand. He took it automatically, looking at Thad for help, but it was too late.
There was no escaping this.
Thad gave him an equally helpless look as he got pulled to his feet and Graham nodded. They could talk tomorrow. Whatever it was Thad had to say, Graham could wait a little longer to find out.
“Uhh,” Graham turned to them. “The bet? What bet?”
“That you and Thad were boning,” Tanner said cheerfully.
“We weren’tboning,” Graham protested. “We’ve beendating. And we’re in love.”
Tanner gave him a skeptical look. “In love but not having sex? I mean, it’s cool if you’re ace or whatever, but you really expect me to believe you’re not fucking that man otherwise? Because he ishotand that would be really fucking sad to not get railed by him.”
Mingling with his horror at Tanner’s lack of tact, Graham felt a helpless wave of affection for his ridiculous teammate.
This situation was made all the more ridiculous by the fact Tanner was still wearing aturtlecostume.
“Iamgetting railed by him,” Grahan admitted quietly. “And it’s great. I’m just saying it’smorethan that.”
“Oh, Good.” Tanner pressed a hand to his chest like he’d been genuinely worried. “That’s a relief. And I mean the sex part. I don’t give a shit about the love part. Happy for you, or whatever, but I want to hear about the man’s dick. Is it big? It looks like it would be big. He has big dick energyfor sure.”
Graham sputtered, but Jesse spoke up, his voice carrying over the crowd. “To Graham and Thad!”
Everyone toasted as Graham stared around in confusion. “I really don’t know what the fuck is happening right now.”
“Drink,” Connor muttered in a low tone. “You’re probably gonna need it.”
So Graham tipped the shot back and enjoyed the burn on the way down. Yeah, he probably was. This team was … a lot. Under the best of circumstances.
And tonight had been particularly chaotic.
After Graham had discarded his shot glass, he turned to look at his captain. “Uhh, so …”
“Happy for you,” Connor said gruffly, holding out what looked like water in a little toast. “Sorry I wasn’t there for you, if you needed to talk through your, uh, sexuality stuff or anything.”
“No, it’s fine,” Graham said. “I wasn’t. This wasn’t …” He sighed. “I don’t know. I guess it was a little weird, realizing I was attracted to Thad. But it was more about … fuck, I don’t know. Didn’t help that I was dating Madison while all this was going on.”
Connor lifted an eyebrow. “That doesn’t sound like you at all.”
Graham told him the slightly condensed version about the kiss with Thad and the back and forth with Madison.
