Eli reads the message, laughing as he says, “See, he gets it.”
“I literally don’t even want to know what you two are going to get up to,” I say, sticking my phone in my pocket.“I’m just glad I don’t have to fucking listen to it anymore.”
Eli laughs as Owen says, “Gonna have to bleach that house every morning.Scrub out all the debauchery.”
“Please,” Eli scoffs.“Don’t go getting jealous or anything.You made your bed.You lie in it.”
“Jealous?”Owen says with a laugh.“You know there are a million perks to having a live-in girlfriend that you share a bed with.Every.Single.Night.”
“Totally agree,” I chime in.
“Whatever,” Eli says, grinning as he waves away our comments.“Anyway, what are you two up to?Wanna go for a surf?”
“Can’t, got some lessons to give,” Owen says as a group of girls walk past, grinning and giggling, clearly checking us out.
Eli returns the smiles, giving the group a wave as his eyes take them all in, and he says, “No worries, looks like I’ve found something to do anyway.Later,” he adds, before making his way over to the group of girls.
“Fuck me, I’m actually seriously worried about him and Kai living together,” I say as we watch the girls giggle and fawn all over Eli.I mean, he’s a good-looking guy and he’s definitely in great shape, but jesus, he may give even my brother a run for his money.
“It was your brilliant suggestion,” Owen says with a laugh.
“I know,” I say, shaking my head.“I don’t know what I was thinking.”
After my morning with Owen doing surf lessons, I head over to Dad’s shop to work on some boards with him and Kai.As we’re finishing up, Eli swings by to grab a key from Kai, and somehow, I get roped into helping him and Owen move all his stuff in, which has been stored in the garage at Owen and Sloane’s house while he’s been on Oahu.
“So this is really happening?”I ask as we take a break in the kitchen of my old house.
Beside me, Kai laughs, slinging his arm around my shoulders as he says, “Wasn’t this your brilliant idea, little brother?”
“Yeah,” I reply.
Eli hands me a beer, a huge grin on his face as he says, “It’s gonna be fine, Miles.Besides, aren’t you all loved up with your girl now?”
Now it’s me grinning as I take a sip and say, “Yep.”
“Not just him, your cousin too,” Kai adds, pointing at Owen with his beer bottle.
Owen rolls his eyes playfully as he says, “Yeah, but at least me and Miles are getting it on the regular.You two clowns still have to work for it.”
Kai and Eli look at each other before they both burst out laughing, my brother shaking his head as he says, “Work for it?Fuck that.I never have to work for it.”
Owen bursts out laughing, shaking his head as he says, “Oh man, I cannot wait for the day some woman makes you work for it.”
“Pfft,” Kai scoffs.“That day is never gonna happen, I promise you.”
“Truth,” Eli says, holding his hand out to my brother for a fist pump.“Never.”
Owen and I both laugh at that as we finish our beers before we get back to hauling all of Eli’s stuff into my old house.
It’s late by the time I get home, but the light is still on in the shop.When I walk in, I see Daze through the door to what I know will be her kitchen.She’s covered in dust, her hair pulled into a messy knot on top of her head, and her skin hot and sweaty.
With a smile, I walk through, wrapping my arms around her from behind as I lean in and whisper, “You look kinda filthy.”
She laughs, her head falling back onto my shoulder as she smiles up at me.“Good filthy or bad filthy?”
I drop a kiss to her mouth, my lips against hers as I say, “Always good filthy.”
She smirks, hooking her hand around the back of my neck as she draws me in for another kiss.“Wanna go get me clean?”she murmurs.
