“No! And it’s not… It’s not what you think. We’re not… I mean, it’s nothing, okay? He’s just a guy I talk to.”
“What do you guys talk about? Sexy stuff?” Arie asked, and Isaak shook his head before shoving his phone into the pocket of his oversized sweater.
He was lying, but I wasn’t going to call him out on it. I was the last person to try and get in the way of anyone’s sexual or romantic destiny, now that I’d been abundantly blessed with my very own weird little love story with my very own perfectly prickly boyfriend.
“Don’t worry about them,” Ren instructed Isaak gently as he plopped down next to him, as if to shield him from our nosy snooping. “They’re both just huge perverts.”
Arie scoffed, but shrugged like he couldn’t argue. I couldn’t either.
“Permission to speak freely, Sir?” I asked, tilting my head, and Ren laughed, rolling his eyes as he waved for me to go on. “You’re just as much a pervert as the rest of us.”
“I am not,” he denied.
“You and Maddox fuck 24/7,” Arie piped up to support my claim.
“Maddy and I don’tfuck,” he corrected, tilting his chin up to show his mild disdain for the expression, though he had a goofy grin stretched across his face. “We’re in love. And we… Demonstrate our love through expressions of physical intimacy.”
At that moment, the sound of the front door clicking open, followed by the rustling of grocery bags and Cyprian’s low, rumbling voice tumbled in from the foyer.
The three of them came in, their arms bulging with bags, passing by us on the way to the huge kitchen to set them down.
“Hey, Maddox?” I called, smirking at him when he stuck his head back into the room, his eyes reflecting that weary, deadpan lack of enthusiasm he exclusively saved just for me.
“What?”
“Do you and Ren demonstrate your love for each other through expressions of physical intimacy?”
“We fuck,” he replied flatly, before his head disappeared from the doorway as he returned to the kitchen to help Cyprian and Aspen.
Looking unperturbed by his boyfriend’s description of their loving relationship, Ren smiled a little.
“Well, you can’t expecthimto call it that,” he reasoned. “It’s Maddy.”
A very true statement that I had absolutely no argument for.
When Aspen returned to the living room, I wrapped my arms around his waist and pulled him to me, nuzzling my face into his side.
“I missed you, Cupcake.”
“You didn’t dig up any flowerbeds or chew up anyone’s shoes while I was gone, did you?” He questioned, staring down at me.
I shook my head, blinking my eyelashes up at him. “I was good. Can I get a kiss?”
The corner of his mouth perked up, his pretty hazel eyes softening with total infatuation for me, as they tended to do more and more, the longer we were together. A purr crawled its way up my chest and throat as he leaned in, pressing his lips to mine. My hand moved up his shoulder, my fingers sliding into his hair as I held him in place, deepening the kiss. The room around us fell away as his lips moved against me, the tip of his tongue slicking over mine. I’d never loved kissing anyone so much, it was something I could absolutely never get sick of.
“Love you,” I murmured, just before he pulled my bottom lip in and suckled it.
“Love you too,” he said, the moment we parted to breathe.
“Alright, we get it,” Arie pointed out, giving Aspen’s body a rude little nudge as he passed by. “You guys demonstrate your love with physical intimacy, too. You don’t have to fuck in front of us.”
“You’re right,” I conceded. “Let’s go get in the hot tub, Cupcake.”
Through the sliding glass door and out onto a lovely lifted deck, there was a massive hot tub, big enough for all us, really. And getting in the steamy, bubbly water when it was frigid and snowing out feltsogood, like no other sensory experience.
“I thought the rule was no sex in the hot tub,” Isaak spoke up. Not like he’d need to try very hard to follow it. Evidently,hisbeau was somewhere else at the moment. Whoever that might have been.
“It is,” Aspen reaffirmed, cupping my chin and giving my jaw a harsh little squeeze. “I don’t want the water to turn into vanilla pudding or something.”
