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On my lap, Theo gets himself comfortable, wriggling his ass enough that I need to think some very specific thoughts to avoid an awkward boner. He eventually leans back against me and sighs contentedly, my arm rests heavily across his lap, taking full advantage of our ability to touch each other in public now.
“Uh, Seldon mentioned maybe taking a trip to Twin Heads next weekend. He wants to take me to the gay bar there? What’s it called?”
“Slash,” Seff pipes up across the fire.
Theo nods enthusiastically.
“Yeah, that’s the one. Anyway, we were talking yesterday, and he said that we should go there, and then I thought maybe I’d go have a look at some furniture at the same time. I have an appointment with Dr Brordieu that weekend, too, so it all works out.”
He turns to me, his hand absentmindedly patting my arm, “Sorry, meant to mention it last night but got distracted.”
I snort because I remember exactly how he got distracted. I’d gone up to his room just as he was getting ready for bed and gave him the blowjob of champions. He’d passed out hard when we were cuddling in the aftermath—he certainly hadn’t had the presence of mind to share plans.
Not that he owed me that. Because despite him sitting on my lap in front of his brother, and me making furniture plans for his new place, we’re still justfriends. I shake my head to stop myself dwelling on later’s problems.
“No stress at all.” To prove my point, I kiss his cheek, and he blushes prettily for me.
I want to kiss him all over to see how far I can make the blush spread.
“I’m inviting myself to tag along, you know.” Seff demands, his upset about being the only single man here forgotten again.
Edith shudders next to him, no doubt at the idea of going to the nightclub. Caelan’s is as far as she ever ventures out of the Woods.
“Oh, yeah, I’m sure Seldon will bedevastatedabout that. What about you two?”
Caelan and Tor briefly look at each other, no doubt doing their freaky bonded mates communication thing.
“Yeah, hard pass. Caelan got the full experience at Faetesque when we went back to Loqueaur to pack everything up. That was probably enough for him.”
Caelan’s eyes are wide when he nods, like he’d seen things he could never unsee.
I try to ignore the clench in my stomach that Theo has pointedlynotinvited me to come with them. In all our avoidance of talking about this thing between us, we’d never discussed exclusivity. It had just been a given considering our constant proximity.
Maybe he wants to go and hook up? Broaden his horizons? I mean, he’s young. It’s the right thing to do, that’s the reason I was so hesitant todothis, I didn’t want to tie him down, to stop him from experi—
“Roan?”
Shit, in my little spiral I think I missed something.
“Huh?” I try to piece together what has happened, but everyone's eyes are on me, and I have no clue. Theo sighs and rolls his eyes.
“I said, do you think Mauvy is going to be okay without us?”
It would be hard on a weekend night without SeldonandTheo serving, but we had other employees.
“I mean, I know she’ll be fine without me and maybe Seldon, but without you, too, it leaves the tavern super short if she runs into troubles.”
Oh. He meantus. Including me.
I feel like a raging dumbass, but everything in me loosens a little bit, and I wave him off, taking a sip from his bottle to cover the surge of emotions threatening to make talking difficult.
“Yeah, she’ll be fine. We’ll work it out.”
Theo gives me a kiss to the base of my horn, and I shudder again, wrapping tighter around him.
Things settle down after that, and we mostly just chill in silence, enjoying the balmy night air and the humming of insects in the otherwise silent night. Eventually the fire dies and someone yawns and we pack up for the night.
Edith hugs us all, pressing a kiss to both of Theo’s cheeks, before disappearing into the Woods with a wave. The rest of us make our way to Caelan and Tor's cabin.
