“Just use a gag on her next time,” Rowan suggested.
I glanced at Nick with a smile. He knew why I did what I did.
“It’s not as fun,” I replied, grabbing my clothes.
I stared at Sophie. Red lipstick was smeared across her mouth, mascara streaked down her face. Nick hadn’t gone easy on her either.
“I’ll get Harris to stick her in a taxi,” I murmured.
Rowan tossed me her dress, and I snatched it from the air before it could land on the floor.
“You’ll need to wake her up first,” Nick stated the obvious.
“Don’t leave her in the office,” Rowan added.
I nodded.
We all knew the protocol.
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I set the coffee pot back on its stand before returning to the table and taking my first sip of caffeine for the day. It wasn’t long before I heard Rowan and Nick coming down the stairs. It didn’t feel like a house share most of the time. We had a floor of our own, but we did have a communal bedroom that came in handy from time to time. Our preference was the office or a hotel room before inviting anyone into our home.
“You’ll make someone an excellent wife one day,” Nick said as he wandered toward the coffee.
“And you won’t know if I spit in your breakfast panini tomorrow,” I replied dryly.
“Why do I have to be the dad?” Rowan asked, snagging a mug from the countertop.
“See? We have a complete family now,” Nick said, smirking as he sipped his coffee.
“Great. A delinquent son,” I said.“You’re too old for us to change your ways.”
He was only four years younger than me, and although he could be volatile when left to his own devices, we managed to keep him grounded.
“Is anyone else getting bored with Sophie?” Rowan asked, unwrapping his panini.
“You know my answer,” Nick snorted, taking a seat beside him.
“I almost choked the life out of her yesterday,” I said with a shrug.
“There’s always an ulterior motive with an outsider,” Rowan said.“But I’d rather find someone exclusive to us.”
“I don’t want anyone permanent,” Nick scowled.
Rowan was thirty-four, and I was a year younger. Nick was probably right, being the youngest, he liked to keep his options open. He’d started as a security guard at Dominion, but when he saved Rowan’s life, his trajectory shifted. Rowan began giving him more responsibility. That was six years ago, and we never looked back.
There were times I wanted to smack him around, but that was mostly because he knew exactly which buttons to press.
“It would be good to fuck someone without a condom,” I said, thinking of the benefits of exclusivity.
Nick paused, his panini hovering halfway to his mouth.
I hid my smile behind my mug.
The fucker had so many piercings on his dick it resembled a pincushion, and he was always complaining about trying to get a condom on without it tearing.
“It was just a thought,” Rowan said, flicking open the newspaper.
