Reese knew from personal experience the night before how gross that could be, so he heaved himself toward the side of the bed and almost fell on his ass because his thighs were bound together by his forgotten underwear.
David and Mati laughed while he dragged his briefs back up and marched into the bathroom with as much dignity as he could muster—which wasn’t much.
David joined him at the sink a minute later, one hand cupping Reese’s hip and the other reaching for his toothbrush. Mati slipped in behind them and started the shower. He and David, with toothbrushes hanging from their mouths, watched her strip off her gown, flashing them a tantalizing view of her bare ass before disappearing behind the curtain.
He and David grinned at each other in the mirror.
Reese followed David back into the room and found him gathering the couch cushions and setting them aside. Reese forced himself not to sigh and went to help.
“It’s not about you guys,” David said as he reached for the handle to pull out the bed.
“I know,” Reese said.
David still looked disappointed. “Okay.”
“You know you’re welcome to sleep with us anyway, right?”
David stopped straightening the sheets. “What?”
“We don’t care if you wake us up. We’d rather have you with us.”
“Shouldn’t you ask Mati first?” David asked.
“I haven’t a doubt in my mind she’d agree.”
“But she hasn’t seen it. What I’m like.”
“I have,” Reese reminded him. “More than once.”
David grimaced. “I’m sorry.”
“Did I not just ask you to sleepin bed with me?Does that sound like I want an apology?”
“It won’t—it doesn’t get better when I sleep close to someone else. That doesn’t help.”
Reese thought it might, since it would allow him to soothe David sooner. To hold him, if that might make a difference. But even if it didn’t, it didn’t change his answer. “That’s not why I’m offering.”
David looked thoughtful as he set out his pillows and folded down his covers. “Okay. I’ll think about it.”
Which was more than Reese thought he’d get. He kissed David’s cheek. “I hope you sleep well,” he said gently. “No matter where.”
David smiled, but it was sad. “Thanks.”
Reese went to his bed and buried himself under the covers. Mati came out of the bathroom, hair braided and legs bare, and joined Reese after a brief detour to the couch for a kiss.
Reese noted her new pajamas were hot pink satin panties under one of his undershirts. Reese was astonished he could get hard again so soon.
Mati put her glasses aside, turned off the light, and curled up against his chest. There was no way she didn’t feel his dick poking her hip, but they both ignored it.
“Goodnight,” she said with a smile.
David answered from across the room. “Sweet dreams, you two.”
“You, too,” Mati said.
Reese hoped with all his heart that would be true. He wasn’t surprised, though, when something woke him in the middle of the night. He lay in bed, listening, but didn’t hear anything. He propped himself onto an elbow to get a look at David.
He was sleeping peacefully.
