“Are you forgetting about Gillian?”
“Why do you think I made it a rule, brother?” Chuckling, Brendan turned in his seat to see the girl standing there with his glass on a tray. “Thank you, Savannah.”
It wasn’t apparent if she’d overheard the conversation. She simply left the glass on the table and walked away.
“The meeting with Hans go okay?” Matt asked after they all poured themselves a drink.
“Yeah, we were tossing around some ideas for future events.” Then, he proudly added, “Actually, they were Katelyn’s.”
Oh?
Intrigued, Matt encouraged him to say more. “Do tell.”
“I can’t. At least, not yet.”
“Are you two planning to do more demos together?”
“Possibly.” Brendan shrugged, but a faint grin curved his lips.
Sloan nodded. “She enjoyed being out there on the platform, huh?”
“She did.”
“Sorry that I missed it,” Matt said, and he wasn’t ashamed to admit it, either.
His eyes narrowing, Kit stared down at the contents of his glass. He swirled it, then took a healthy sip.
“Where were you?” Brendan asked, his eyebrows raised.
He swallowed some scotch. “In the alcoves.”
“He took off with Drummer Boy and Miss Bo Peep as soon as that big ole dick of yours flashed on the jumbo screen. Ain’t thatright, Rhythm Man?” Sloan shimmied his head. “And they were gone a helluva long time.”
Fucker.
His lip curled. “Your point?”
Kit crooked his finger to call Hans over to the plum velvet booth. “Anyone down in the playroom yet?”
“Yes,” he answered, his salacious grin wide. “And they’ll be pleased to have you, gentlemen, join them.”
“Go on.” Matt lifted his chin toward Sloan. “I’ll catch up with you. I’m gonna hang here with Brendan for a while.”
“Suit yourself, man.” He drained the whiskey from his glass and stood. “C’mon, Kit. You’re the one who dragged me out.”
After a moment of uneasy silence, Brendan finally spoke. “Something you wanna tell me?”
“No.”
He cocked his head, a single eyebrow lifting. “Bo and Ava?”
“It’s not like you’re thinking.”
His brow raised.
“Ava didn’t want to scar herself for life, watching you and her BFF doing whatever it was you were doing out there. Bo asked me for a favor.” Matt chuffed out a breath and picked up his glass. “It wasn’t a big deal, so don’t make it into one.”
“Look, I’m not judging.”
