I told him about it as we went up the stairs. They weren’t in our room. He went to her room? Yeah, Brennan’s inner-alpha was over-the-moon in love with her.
“What are we doing for dinner?” I asked.
“Riley’s going to Hiro’s. Spencer and Wes have work. I’d planned on trying to make Brennan’s day better,” Evan said.
“You still could.” Maybe I could take Grace out, or at least we could go pick something up for everyone.
“Why is there a sock on the doorknob?” My eyebrows rose.
“I don’t know. Let’s go through my room.” Evan took my hand, and we went into the bathroom.
The closed door between their rooms also had a sock on it. I didn’t understand the socks.
I knocked on the door and opened it, taking off the sock. “Kidnapping’s over.”
Brennan and Grace were cuddled together on her little daybed. There was a water bottle, a teacup, and some massage oil on the nightstand. I could smell the lavender oil mixed inwith the scents of them and their lovemaking. Her neck and shoulders were covered in love bites and hickeys.
My husband took up most of the bed which wasn’t meant for alpha sleepovers. He looked so fucking cute wrapped up in the pink sheets.
Grace gave me a look. “Um, there’s asockon the door.”
“I know.” I held it up. “Why?”
“Oooh, there’s a boy in your room,” Evan teased.
“Well, yeah, that’s what the sock means,Do not disturb, I’m entertaining. Is that not what you do in the dorms here?” She made no move to get up from her Brennan pillow.
“Oh, that’s what that means. We just used the underwear of the person we were fucking,” Brennan replied.
Evan thought for a moment. “In the military we put a condom on the doorknob, or a rubber band.”
I looked at everyone in horror. “What? Why didn’t your dorms use the light system? We literally had lights by each door, and there was a panel inside where you could change the colors to indicate if you were at home, asleep, in class, studying,busy…”
Okay, I’d seen the underwear on the doorknob a few times when we’d gone to parties at Rock State. But I thought that was just something stolen from the movies and they were being funny. People really did that?
And acondom?I mean, the red light could theoretically mean a lot more than,Don’t come in, we’re fucking,but there was no doubt what a condom on the doorknob meant.
“Yeah, you went to the nerd university.” Evan laughed, going all the way in.
“The light system is a good idea. You can come in,” Grace added.
I came over to the bed. “I installed your chicken TV. The cats are going to sit in the window and watch them like they’re the new hit show.”
Grace laughed. “I love it.”
“It’s just us four for dinner, what should we do?” Evan waggled his eyebrows and eyed them suggestively.
“It’s Tuesday.” Grace looked at me. “Will you take me to Cam’s class, and then we can get noodles?"
I felt a little pout through the bond, because obviously Evan was suggesting a sex party for dinner. But I liked the idea that she’d rather the two of us do something together.
“Of course, Peaches. Though you don’t need me to take you. You have a membership and a car. But…” I recalled my earlier thought about wanting to spend more time with her. “If you’d like to, maybe we can make it a regular thing that we do together? I’d really like that.” Reaching out, I stroked her hair with my hands.
She beamed. “You and noodles every week? Amazing.”
“Um, can we get noodles too?” Evan asked.
Grace thought for a moment. “Sometimes. But only if it’s okay with Jett.”
