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“I’ve got you,” I whispered, and he leaned against me.
“I know you do.”
A few moments later, two doors opened and closed, and then Hilton and Ellis were there, joining in on the hug around Judah. He wasn’t okay, but I knew he would be in time, with us at his side.
EPILOGUE - PART I
JUDAH
“This house is amazin’,” Tav whispered to me as we strolled away from the party room toward where I thought the wine storage was located, somewhere near the small odeum in the back of the house.
“Jon’s grandparents left it to him when he was still in high school. Isn’t that nuts? And his parents insisted he move in, so he’s been here a while. They wanted someone in here, so it wasn’t sitting around empty.” I stopped to spin a circle in the atrium at the center of the house. The vaulted ceiling had Tav mumbling under his breath because there were stained glass windows on each side that sprayed it with brilliant rainbows. I finally remembered where I needed to go, and Tav followed me toward the kitchen, and then down a hallway to the right. When I opened the door, he gasped. I stood to the side and held the door for him, then closed it and hit the lock on the doorknob.
“Christ,” he said.
I hummed. “Yes, Jon said he thought we needed a bottle of red Zin for our toast.”
Tav shook his head and wandered over to the closest wall, gaze scanning the racks. The unfinished brick motif made everything feel like a high-end basement even though the room was aboveground. There was a glass table in the center, with clear glass chairs surrounding it, and in the middle was a decanter and stemless wineglasses waiting for anyone who decided they needed to test an expensive bottle. It was over the top, and I had to admit a slight amount of envy.
“Found one,” Tav said, picking up a bottle and bringing it over to the table. He plopped it down.
“That’s an eight-hundred-dollar bottle of wine,” I said, nodding at Tav’s selection.
“Shite, we can’t.” He shook his head.
“Yeah, he’s going to want the really expensive stuff for this toast,” I said with a laugh, and Tav let out a small strangled sound. He was still getting used to living life around my friends and coworkers, and I didn’t exactly blame him. My mom had raised me slightly more frugal than other people I knew, and occasionally, I was taken by surprise as well. I retrieved a bottle and settled it next to Tav’s.
“How much is that one?” he asked, raising an eyebrow in my direction.
“I’m not telling you.”
“Why?” He frowned and crossed his arms over his delicious chest. He’d let me buy him a suit for the party, mainly because I hadn’t taken no for an answer, and he looked fucking edible with the gray fabric stretched tightly across his pecs. I licked my lips.
“Because then you won’t drink it.” I winked.
He chuckled. “Fair enough.”
My gaze kept straying to his pecs, and I swore I could see his nipples through the shirt, even though I doubted that was actually true. With a smirk, I took a few steps closer to him. “This is my party celebrating a good first week at my new company.”
“And what does that have to do with anythin’?” he asked, voice rougher than it had been a few seconds ago.
“I should get everything I want,” I said, brushing his arms away from his chest. I toyed with the top button on his shirt. Thankfully, he hadn’t worn a tie, and I was able to slip the button free.
“Oh, do you think that’s how that goes, then, Mr. Company President?” He shook his head, but his face was pinking up, and I loved the way his breath hitched when I kept popping open buttons.
“We’re alone in here.”
He backed away from me, and I followed until he landed against the wall in between two racks of wine.
“You better hurry up,” Tav muttered, cupping my face.
Groaning, I dove forward and kissed along his throat down between the fabric that I peeled apart. Tav hadn’t worn an undershirt, and I nipped the top of his right pec.
“Hussy.”
He snorted. “I know what I want. And what I want is your mouth on me.”
Moaning, I opened his shirt down to his belly button, and then I stopped and shoved the cloth aside until I could latch on to his right pec. I had never really figured out what I loved about this so much, but his light gasp and the way he slid his fingers into the hair on the back of my head were definitely part of it. I lightly tugged on his nipple with my teeth, and it made me think about something else I wanted to wrap my mouth around.
