Ollie snickers. “Ares!” he shoutswithout giving any warning.
Milo pushes him to the side. “That was right in my ear.”
“That’s what she said.” Ollie busts out laughing at his own joke. Milo just rolls his eyes.
“What?” Ares enters the doorframe, his hair still damp from his shower.
When Ollie stops cackling, he tilts his head back and looks at Ares. “Can I have your debit card?”
“For what?” Ares crosses his arms over his chest, the sleeves of his dark gray shirt tightening over his biceps.
“Just a TV or two,” Ollie says innocently.
Ares narrows his eyes on him skeptically. “Don’t order too much shit Oliver. Or you’ll be the one finding a place to put it when the construction starts,” Ares warns.
“I won’t, I promise. Just a couple TV’s and maybe a place to sit, even if it’s temporary. I’m tired of lying in bed all the time.”
Ares jerks his head. “My wallet is downstairs on the counter.” Ollie jumps up and Milo bounces on the bed, tipping over.
“It’s not like it’s goingto magically appear once you order it, what’s the hurry?” Milo grumbles re-situating himself on the bed.
Ares follows Ollie out of the room. I climb up on the bed and settle in next to Milo. He takes his arm from behind his head and lifts it so I can scoot in closer. I lay my palm over his upper stomach and my head on his chest. There’s nothing soft about Milo, but I still love being next to him. “I think he’d have the whole house furnished in an hour if it was possible.”
“Agreed,” Milo says, his voice echoing under my ear.
“Oh, I see how it is.” Ollie bounces onto the bed on his butt, Ares’s slim wallet clutched in one hand, his phone in the other. “You wait for me to leave and then you get all cuddly? Well, good thing I don’t mind being the third wheel.” I tilt my head back and look up at Milo, we make eye contact then he rolls his eyes at Ollie’s antics.
Ollie snuggles in close behind me, curling around my back. His hands now empty and reaching over me to land low on Milo’s stomach.
Milo makes a grunting noise in response. He bites his bottom lip, his eyes searching mine. I don’t wait for him todecide tokiss me; I lean forward and place my lips on his. It’snot often we find ourselves alone—well, just the three of us anyway.
Milo leaves his one arm behind his head, holding himself back I’m sure. I feel the way his abdominal muscles tighten as he curls forward into my kiss. Ollie moves right along with me, his arm moving over my waist. He plants a few kisses on the back of my neck. My heart rate easily triples being between him.
Milo opens his mouth, the tip of his tongue teasing me with soft sweeps against mine. I inch farther up his body, my hand gripping his shirt. He shudders out a breath and I pull back, seeing his eyes squeezed tightly together.
It’s maddening how in control he always is. I want to see his resolve shatter. Feel his heavy hands crush my body to his while he’s kissing me. I dip back in, running the tip of my tongue across the seam of his lips. “Milo,” I whisper between kisses, “do you want me to stop?”
“Laura, don’t stop,” Ollie mutters from behind me. “Milo, you need this, we need this.” I pull back anyway. There’s no way I would force him to do anything he wasn’t ready for.
“There’s no hurry Milo, I’m not going anywhere.”
Milo’s nostrils flare as he pushes out a heavy breath. “I don’t want to hurt you, either of you,” comes his pain filled reply. He slams his head back against his hand and the pillow beneath it.
“Youaren’t going to hurt anyone Milo, I wish you’d just trust yourself.” Ollie doesn’t hide the frustration in his words.
“You don’t know that. I could break her bones if I squeezed her too hard. How would I live with myself after that? Hell, Ares and Dante would probably kill meanyways.”
Ollie groans, his forehead tapping on the center of my back. “Milo, youhaven’t hurt anyone since you first manifested, and that was an accident.”
“Stop talking about it like it was someone else Ollie, it was you. I hurt you.”
“Only because I hadn’t come into my abilities yet Milo. I promise you wouldn’t hurt me now, you’re just too afraid to even try.”
I’m still between them, and both of their words come as a shock. No wonder Milo is so cautious. I never knew he hurt Ollie.
“We’re part of the same Infinity Milo. Our powers are not effective on each other. The only exception would be Dante, and that’s only because when he shifts he’s a real fucking tiger. Your strength, my fire, it can’t hurt either of us, or Laura.”
It’s definitely not the first time they’ve had this conversation.
