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That made Cash blush but he didn’t get dramatic. It made me realize how much he wanted this for him to actually answer questions without groaning. So I did my best to take what he was saying seriously too.
“What about money?” Trying to remember everything Cash had said as I looked at Bates, that stuck out to me the most. “You said you had a part-time job but college is expensive.”
Bates didn’t brush it off or refuse to talk about money like other people I knew would have. “I’m getting my master’s in mathematics because I work for a company that does statistical analysis. I got started with them when I was an undergrad and they’re paying for most of my degree. They’re letting me work from home too, so I can pay for the gear without it being a problem.”
Huh.
“So, you’re like average smart and lucky with getting your foot in the door or like that professor on campus who jumps around from class to class because he’s ridiculously smart and kind of odd?” Cocking my head as Bates started to do a really good impression of Cash, wiggling and sighing, I realized the answer should’ve been obvious.
Interesting people always seemed to fall in thetoo smart to be normalcategory and the way Bates started stumbling through his answer made that clear. “Um, well, I like math.”
Duh.
“Math is good.” At least he’d always have a job? It seemed like one of those skills that jobs would always need. “We don’t mind that you’re smart.”
The building was so weird it might make things easier, honestly. He’d have probably known what to do with the spider a lot faster than we had.
“Maybe you could help us with Gareth’s taxes this year? His parents keep forgetting to claim him and then we have to fix it and then they go back and claim him. It’s been a mess.” Cash’s idea was brilliant and earned him a big kiss from me.
“That’s a great idea.” Cash was just as smart as Bates.
But, man, I hoped neither of them was as smart as that professor because he was just weird.
“And now we don’t have to worry about how to pay for groceries and the puppy play stuff.” That would’ve been hard on the budget. “But you know, we probably could’ve explained to Brady’s mom and she’d have helped. She likes helping.”
And she didn’t care that Brady was very Brady, so she wouldn’t mind me being interesting either.
But that idea sent Cash into another round of groaning and shaking his head. “No. Just no. We are not talking with her about anything kinky. Meeting Bates is going to give her enough to worry and lecture about.”
True.
“I get to meet her?” Bates seemed thrilled for some reason. “That’s going to be so much fun.”
Yep, he was weird-level smart.
Chapter 24
Cashel
The smart thing explained so much.
They were always nuts.
But Bates was nice and cute and not too weird, so we could probably just ignore the smart part. What we couldn’t ignore was that Gareth thought I was scared of his penis and that he wanted help picking out his gear.
Ugh.
“No, nothing interesting.” Bates kissed my forehead. “We’re just going to talk about our threesome. Perfectly boring.”
He was such a brat sometimes.
“She likes interesting and she doesn’t mind Brady is little. So I don’t think she’ll find it weird at all.” Gareth paused, cocking his head and mulling over something. “You know, one time she—”
Nope.
“No distracting us with Brady stories.” I hated to be the one to get us back on track talking about something so hard, but if we wandered off mentally, I wasn’t sure I’d survive coming back to it. “We have things to discuss.”
Someone kill me.
