I smirked and reached for my pants to drag them on. “Yeah, well, we’ll just have to fuck in the auto shop so you really can fuck me over a car.”
“Jesus,” he muttered. “I’m not gonna be able to look your brothers in the eye tomorrow.”
I laughed. “What they don’t know won’t hurt them. I’m an adult. We’re not doing anything wrong.”
“I know that logically,” he said, “but what if they don’t like it?”
“They’ll figure out how to deal with it,” I said. “It’s my life. My choice.” I hesitated. “But if you don’t want to keep doing this with me?—”
“No, I do,” he interrupted. “Jesus, I really do.”
I smiled tentatively. “Okay, then. I know that working for my brothers puts you in a weird position, Flynn. We won’t keep it a secret forever. But for now, don’t you think it’s easier?”
“Probably,” he agreed.
“It’s going to be fine, but they’ll want to know where this is going and how it’s going to affect my plans for school, and I’m just not ready to answer those questions, you know?”
“So this is about…school?” Flynn asked. “Not because I’m an ex-con and they’re gonna flip out at the idea of me touching their innocent baby brother?”
I laughed. “Come on, Flynn. They like you. It doesn’t matter that you’re an ex-con.”
“I don’t know, Bailey. It’s one thing to like me okay as an employee or a friend. But as their little brother’s boyfriend?” He shook his head. “It’s a big ask.”
“Then don’t ask,” I said tartly.
He smiled faintly. “I wish it was that simple.”
I swallowed. “If it’s too hard?—”
“No, Bailey. I’m not saying that.” He sighed. “If you were here, I’d hold you and kiss you so you’d know how I feel.”
“This weekend, right?” I asked. “You’re still going to come?”
“I’ll be there,” he said. “And whatever happens with your brothers, I’m not pushing you away ever again, okay? You’re worth everything to me.”
My heart thumped. “Good. Because I’d just chase you down and make you take me back.”
He smiled. “Baby, I could never give you up. Not even if your brothers put a bounty on my head. You’ve woken up something inside me, and I can’t go back to the way I was before I met you.”
“How was that?” I asked.
“Dead inside. Or at least hibernating.”
“Flynn,” I said softly, chest aching at the vulnerable admission. “I wish I could kiss you.”
“Me too. I’ll see you tomorrow night, though. Kiss me then.”
“I will,” I promised. “I’ll kiss you until you forget about my brothers, and your job, and your past, and just feel how right this is. How right we are together.”
“I already feel it, Bailey. I always have, or we never would have made it this far.”
“Good, then you know resistance is futile.”
He laughed. “That’s for damn sure. I’ll see you soon.”
“Yeah,” I said. “I can’t wait.”
CHAPTER 18
