He sucked in air as he turned on his back.“Huh.Guess I should’ve gone over you.”
Dom walked toward him, still in a bridge.“See?I know what’s best.Give me a kiss?”
I coiled my fingers around Linc’s.We were both watching.
Marcus didn’t hesitate for long.He licked his lips and nodded.
Dom bent over and kissing Marcus like that was one of the hottest things I’d ever seen.It gave me a whole new appreciation for the game, which perhaps I should’ve found when we’d been playing naked.Yet this was somehow a lot sexier than just us grinding against each other.
It ended too soon.Dom pushed straight up into standing, then turned and offered his hand to Marcus, who was still breathless.It made me think of a good dozen other things that might render him breathless.
“Want up?Or want to stay on the floor?”
Marcus blinked a few times, then took Dom’s hand and let himself be pulled to his feet.“I want food.You said we had to do the game before food.Can we do food now?And a movie, right?”
Linc sighed.“Another warning.Where I come from, people watch the movie and don’t yap during.That, unfortunately, is not the case in this household.”
I kissed his knuckles.“When I came on a trip to New Harbor with this guy, we went to this theater where they will pull you out of your seat if your phone is on or if you talk.They don’t even sell you food other than popcorn.”
Linc crossed his legs.“Ah, yes.Those were the days.They have no-snacks nights too.Should’ve taken you then.No crunching in the theater.”
Marcus sucked on his bottom lip, then asked, “Do you guys happen to like animated stuff?”
Dom took him by the shoulders.“Marcus.Are you serious?Tell me we can finally do theK-Pop Demon Hunters Sing-Along.I’ve been outvoted three times in a row on that now.”
Marcus blushed.Dom seemed to have found his deciding vote, at least for today.
“I mean, I didn’t necessarily mean the sing-along, but if you think we should…”
Dom hugged him close.“We should.We definitely should.I’ve been waiting for this for too long.”
Linc put a leg on my lap.“This is going to be as far from watching a movie quietly as it could possibly be, isn’t it?”
Marcus patted Dom’s cheek while Dom took the opportunity to rub his chin against Marcus’s head; an affectionate gesture I hoped Marcus would read that way.
Marcus cleared his throat.“Does everyone know the movie though?If Linc doesn’t know the movie, then pushing him right into a sing-along seems like overwhelm.”
Linc smiled.“Thanks for thinking of me, but we’ve seen the movie.Dom is just being dramatic because we don’t want to hear him sing.”
“Hey!I have a singing voice.I think.I mean, I’ve sung ‘Happy Birthday’ for people.You included!”
I chuckled.“We’re family.We’re kind of obligated to like that.”
Dom narrowed his eyes at me.“Do you lie to your patients like that too?What are you, a doctor or a con artist?”
Marcus, his hand still on Dom’s cheek, looked at me as well.“He also tried bribing me with candy.”
I held his gaze.“How about I bribe you with dinner?”
Marcus nodded.“Yup, that works.But we’re still doing the sing-along, right?”
Linc pulled his leg off me and stood.“Of course.Want to help me set up the screen while these two do the cooking?”
Dom crossed his arms.“Ell’s going to do the cooking.I’m making Phia’s coffee cake.She said something along the lines of ‘even I should be able to make it’ and I don’t like being underestimated like that.”
Marcus put his hands on his hips.What a change it was to see him that way, not just compared to when he’d been unconscious at first, but also…there was a glow about him, as if a burden had been lifted off him.It made me more than a little hopeful about him staying.
“I can help with the food too, you know.You can stop doing everything for me.It’s nice and all, but I don’t mind helping.”
