He was on edge. I could feel the tension radiating off him, see it in the rigid set of his body. When I reached over to cover his hand with mine, he practically jumped through the roof.
“Hey, we don’t have to do this if you don’t want to.”
Theo shook his head. “Non,I’m fine. You just caught me off guard. That’s all.”
“Are you sure?”
“Oui. I’m just trying to remind myself not to…”
“Lose your shit?”
Theo snorted and raised a brow. “I was going to say ‘kick his ass in front of his little boyfriends,’ but sure, ‘lose my shit’ works too.”
“You know”—I leaned over the car console until my lips were a whisper above his—“if Zac and East weren’t up there, I might pay good money to see you kick his ass.”
Theo’s lips curved under mine, right before he nipped at my lower lip. “And you thinkI’munhinged.”
“You are, and that’s why I’d want to see it.”
Theo chuckled and shoved me back to my side of the car, right before the elevator came to a stop.“Well, hate to break it to you, but Twiddlesweet and Twiddlebratarehere.”
“I know.” I frowned, and looked at the door that led inside of the penthouse. “And that’s the only reason I won’t allow you to beat him up. I don’t want to be left alone with them.”
“Well, well, well.” Twiddlebrat—better known as East—leaned against the door that led inside King’s penthouse. With a smirk on his lips, he assessed the two of us as we got out of the car and approached.
If I didn’t personally know what a shit East was, maybe I could see his appeal. If you were into twenty-somethings with a smartassed mouth and a god complex, which I wasn’t.
Then again, some could argue that the man beside me wasn’t all that far off from earning a similar title.
“What’s so important it has you two interrupting brunch?” East said, still blocking the door.
Not a smart move, considering my guy’s mood.
“None of your fucking business,” Theo said. “Go run and tell your nanny he’s got visitors.”
East’s eyes narrowed and he straightened, ready to give more attitude, but a hand clamped over his mouth from behind him and Zac gave us an apologetic smile.
“He’s a menace before he eats,” he said, pulling East aside so we could enter.
Zac had a few years on Twiddlebrat and seemed a hell of a lot more levelheaded, but the fact that he and King both not only put up with East but enjoyed him had me questioning their sanity. And mine. Because how the fuck did King go from what we had to…this?
I didn’t understand, and didn’t care to at this point.
“Where is he?” Theo said, getting straight to it.
Zac nodded to the right, still keeping a hold on East’s mouth. “He’s in the kitchen.”
“Thanks.” I started forward, following Theo, but then he turned around suddenly.
“I want to talk to him privately first.”
It wasn’t what I’d been expecting him to say, and I blinked in confusion. “Why?”
“Because you add another layer to the conversation that complicates things, and I want to say my piece.”
Normally that wouldn’t bother me at all, mostly because I understood Theo’s feelings about what went down.
But…
