I crack open the door, and let her out, leaving it open for her to wade back in when she’s ready.
Checking the cabinets, I groan. “No, but I’ll run to the store to get you some.”
“No, it’s alright, you don’t?—”
“I want to. We are also running low on milk, and a few other things. Plus, I need to get some more medicine. There’s a bunch we’re nearly out of, and some that expired.” I roll my eyes as I fill up a cup with water. “For a doctor, you’d think Grant wouldn’t have had that.”
Ayden laughs through a groan. “Probably never took them. Dad was always healthy as a horse.”
I shrug, not commenting. My mom’s medicine was in their room; one I still need to get cleaned out.
Moving back to him, I place the water directly into his outstretched hands. “Thanks.”
“Mhmm.” I sit in the middle of the couch, and drape my arm over the back.
“Are you going to go back into work?”
“No, thankfully Corey picked up for me. He says he hopes you feel better.” He peers at me from the corner of his eye, and smiles. “I’ll be going in for my shift tomorrow though.”Unfortunately. I clear my throat. “So let’s try and get you feeling as good as possible today. Rest, and I’ll take care of you.”
“Yes, sir.”
I adjust in my seat. The way he says that, far too sultry and low, has my cock forgetting that, one, he’s sick, and two… unavailable to it.
Very muchunavailableto it.
“Thanks for last night, Keo.” And there it goes again, jumping. “It’s been a while since someone’s taken care of me.”
My brow rises. “Your ex didn’t take care of you?”
I guess it’s ignorant for me to assume. He’s an ex for a reason, and I don’t even know when or why they broke up. It must have been since last Christmas, because Alysa said he had a boyfriend at the time. She offered information no one asked for about Ayden… and while I was mad at him, I didn’t hate that she tried to keep us updated. Even if the information she provided wasn’t enough to settle my aching chest.
“Um, yeah, he did at times.”
“When did you guys?—”
“When was your last relationship?” he cuts in, drinking from his glass.
There’s a light twitch under my eye, but instead of getting upset like I did that night at the bar, I just release a sigh. “Roughly two years ago.”
“Girlfriend?”
“Both? I had a boyfriend and a girlfriend.”
He literally spits the water out, and it dribbles down his chin onto his shirt.
I quirk a brow. “What happened?”
The bewilderment across his face accompanies him dragging his arm across his mouth. He misses some on his neck, and a line of liquid drips slowly down his Adam’s apple.
Fuck me, the thought of licking it really shouldn’t be top of mind right now.
“You just… casually told me you were… cheating?”
A thick, slightly offended laugh bursts from my chest. “Wow, what an assumption. No, Ayden, I was in a polyamorous relationship.”
“Oh.”
“It didn’t last more than a few months. They were nice, but, uh, yeah.” I’m not heartbroken about it, and while the sex was great, it wasn’t what I wanted. “Before then, two years? I’m complicated to date.”
