Then I will stare deep into his beautiful eyes as his peak rolls through him and takes down all his walls, enabling me to see his naked soul.
It’s going to be exquisite.
Chapter eighteen
Sammy
Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. I have never been so nervous in all my life. I’m so glad Blue took my bait and has left to drive across the city to get my doughnuts from a tiny shop that I have been talking wistfully about all day. He is such a sweetheart.
At this time of day, the traffic is going to be awful. It’s going to take him ages. I feel so bad. I’ve never even had those doughnuts before. I just googled independent shops at the far end of town. I needed a way to get him out of the house.
But what if the delivery doesn’t arrive when it is supposed to? I would have sent Blue on a wild goose chase for nothing.
I’m standing here on the driveway as if I can will the delivery truck into existence with the power of my thoughts. There are probably a thousand more useful things I could be doing, but I’m rooted to this spot.
“Calm down,” says Lello as he squeezes my shoulder.
I take a deep breath. “You’re right, everything is going to be fine.”
“I didn’t say that.” Lello wrinkles his cute little nose.
I stare at him. He shrugs.
“If you don’t calm down, Blue will sense that you’re anxious and he’ll turn the car around to come check on you.”
My heart skips crazily. What the hell? Stop being anxious or things will get worse? What the hell am I supposed to do with that information?
“Thanks, Lello,” I say drolly.
The little kelpie beams at me. “You’re welcome!”
Then his gaze flicks over my shoulder. “Oh, I see the truck! I told you everything was going to be okay!”
He skips away from me, back towards the house. “Guys! The truck is here!” he bellows into the doorway.
I shake my head in weary resignation. Lello is quite something.
One by one, the boys emerge from the house. My smile gets wider and wider. Everyone is here, apart from Ned. He’s at work, and besides, it is the middle of the day, so he wouldn’t be able to help much anyway.
But Lello, Red, Jade, Pink and Gray are here. So are Mal and Carter. Brodie is at the pet store, picking up fish.
I still feel super bad about yelling at Red and Brodie about how shit Blue’s pool is. But they are the de facto leaders of this strange family, so they should have realized. To their credit, they were aghast once I pointed it out, and have been very happy to pay for everything I have organized.
And Red is here, ready to lug heavy bags of gravel around to the back, and Brodie is acting as fish delivery guy. So they are completely redeemed and forgiven in my eyes.
The truck finishes reversing up the driveway and comes to a stop. The engine switches off. The driver jumps out of the cab and walks towards us while pulling on his heavy work gloves. He looks up and freezes. His jaw drops and his gaze darts everywhere.
I bite back my chuckle. Poor guy. It can’t be everyday he is greeted by a small army of incredibly hot twinks. The others may be well out of my league, but I’m still not bad to look at. So this man really is being presented with a feast of eye-candy.
“You got something for us, darling?” I wink.
He startles and shakes himself out of his stupor. He opens the back door of his truck and starts heaving bags of gravel out and onto the driveway.
Red takes the first bag and the poor driver blinks in surprise as the slender young man picks up the heavy sack with ease and saunters off with it.
Lello is next, and he makes it look just as easy. Gray takes two bags.
My gaze locks with Pink and we both have to cover our mouths to hide our giggles.
