Nightmares plagued Colton for months, imagining his family’s pain and suffering that awful night. It went against everything Colton dedicated his life to prevent. Growing up, it was he who his brothers and sisters relied on to take care of their cuts and scrapes, yet he wasn’t there when they needed him most. Andthatwas something he couldn’t forgive himself for. He never talked to Jackson about it because his brother had enough on his plate just making sure the seven of them survived.
Yup, his brother had risen to the task at hand, providing a roof over their heads and food for their bellies. Just for that, Jackson deserved all the happiness in the world. He knew some of his brothers were jealous of Jackson finding his mate and discovering he could have a pup, but he wasn’t. Nope, his eyes were clearly focused on the attainment of his goal. Amate? No, not right now. Maybe sometime in the far-off future…sure that would be nice.But right now, he had more important things to do and nothing was going to stop him from achieving them.
Cody nudged him. “What?” he asked.
“Jackson asked you a question,” murmured Cody.
“Oh, sorry. What did you say?” Colton asked Jackson.
“I asked if you had talked to Dr. Wallace while we were gone.”
“Uhm, yes. He ordered some blood tests along with the weekly ultrasound,” said Colton. “We can do that in the next few days. No hurry.”
Jackson smirked. “Well, that’s good to know, but did he tell you when he’d be arriving?”
Colton’s face turned pink. “Oh. Sometime at the end of this month.”
Logan came to his rescue, asking Steel if he was ready to show Jackson the surprise he ordered.
“Babe, another surprise? You are spoiling me. What is it?” asked Jackson, smiling.
Steel stood, pulling Jackson into his arms. “Well, do you want me to tell you or show you?”
“Show me, no tell me, no tell me first then show me!”
Everyone began to laugh. “Did my brother ever tell you he used to buy himself a gift for the Long Night Moon Festival?” asked Logan.
“Hush,” shushed Jackson. “Don’t give my childhood secrets away.”
Steel said, “I know about it babe. Remember, you told me.”
“Yeah, but your parents didn’t know,” pouted Jackson.
“Oh no, you leave us out of this,” said Maximus. “We’ll pretend we didn’t hear anything about your secret gift buying vice,” he laughed, as everyone cracked up again.
Jackson smiled. “What’s my surprise?”
“Well, I’ll let Logan tell you since he’s responsible for it.”
Jackson looked at Logan. “Well?”
“It seems you bragged about my interior design skills so your mate hired me to redo your bedroom while you were away.”
“What? Really?” exclaimed Jackson, wrapping his arms around Steel’s neck, kissing him senseless before asking, “Wait, is that why you didn’t let me go upstairs before?”
Steel replied, “I wanted to tell you first. And by the way, Logan, you did an outstanding job.”
Smiling at Logan, Jackson said, “Come on. Show me what you did. Has everyone seen it?” A chorus of voices chimed in, claiming they helped in some way.
“Okay. Come on and you can tell me what each of you did.”
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Getting ready for bed, Colton looked around his room. He supposed he should let Logan do his magic in here but he’d declined his brother’s offer.Why? Who knows? No wait. That’s not true. He knew exactly why he rejected the redesign. He felt if he accepted, it would mean giving up on his dream.Yup, that was dumb on my part.Just seeing Jackson and Steel’s beautiful bedroom tonight showed him what a mistake he made. Colton resolved to talk to Logan tomorrow.
He climbed into bed, pulling his cock from his briefs. Slowly tugging on it, he thought about the man consuming his thoughts since first hearing his voice. Dr. Ian Wallace. That did it! His cock went from 0 to 60 in three seconds.
Just thinking about that voice did it to him every night. He wondered what the man looked like.Mmm,maybe I should do an internet search on him and see what comes up. It would be nice to have a picture he could put to the voice.Shit, maybe not.Nah, it would just make the man too real.Right now, the fantasy worked just fine—except to his dismay, Ian invaded his dreams every night.
