“But, Chassie says Tempie has a flat in London.”
“Tempie has a flat in London because I walked in on her blowing a man in the lounge at Burleigh House.”
I grimaced.
“Yes, sweetheart,” he agreed. “Click your teeth, slack the reins, and loosen your legs.”
I’d already done the leg bit, so I did the others, and Noelle and I started walking again.
Oberon and Battle did it beside me.
“She and I decided to give each other space until we settled,” he shared.
“You could have just made a rule that any kind of fornication happened in a bedroom or put a sock on the door to the lounge or something.”
“That would disallow both her and I to get creative.”
Since I’d been the recipient of some of his creativity, I got that.
“Why does settling matter?” I inquired.
“It was simply a pact we made so we could get beyond how mortifying it was for both of us when I walked in on her. However, from that experience, I believe we both learned our lesson.”
I should say.
Tempie was the shit.
But, yuck.
“It was a kneejerk reaction on her part,” he explained. “Tempie has her pride, and a certain reputation she cultivates. If she needed that distance, I wasn’t going to stop her.”
He’d do anything for his sisters, so that was no surprise either.
“But she would also need an excuse to let the flat go and come back,” he continued, “And our pact gave her that.”
“Ah.”
“Did you hear what I said earlier?”
I turned to him. “I heard it all, but which part are you referring to?”
“I’ll always live with my sisters, and they’ll always live with me.”
Their vow.
“It isn’t like you live in a two thousand square foot, three-bedroom, two-bath house, Battle,” I pointed out. “Either residence.”
“That doesn’t bother you?”
“Honey, I walked to the breakfast table all three of your sisters were sitting at after a sex-fest and with a visible love bite. If I can survive that, and do it making pancakes, I think I could handle…”
Oh shit.
“You can handle…what? Living with my sisters?” he prompted.
I did the whole tighten-reins/lightly-squeeze-legs bit, and Noelle stopped.
So did Battle and Oberon.
