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He’d grabbed something for them to drink from the fridge while his mom had made Kody sit down on the couch with her. When he returned, Mom was busy interrogating Kody. Not that he seemed to mind with that big smile on his face.
Ace put the bottles on the coffee table and sat down between the two of them, unsurprised when his mom rolled her eyes and Kody shook his head at him.
“Kody, do you have your own place?” Mom asked.
“I do. I’ve got a little two-story house not that far from here, actually.”
The way she lit up had him groaning before she’d even spoken. She snapped her head toward him, that evil grin on her face that meant that she was about to get him into trouble.
“Do you have room for two?” She asked, looking between him and Kody with her brows raised.
Kody leaned back on the couch, head tilted to the side and eyes narrowed as he looked at Ace. He hummed, then tapped his lips thoughtfully.
“You know, I think I might,” Kody said, his eyes sparkling.
“Good. Then please take him with you,” Mom said, physically pushing Ace toward him.
“But, Mom… I don’t like you being here alone.”
She gave a little huff and when she got up to head into the kitchen, she said over her shoulder, “Who said I’d be alone?”
“I?” his mouth dropped open and no other sound made it out. Kody didn’t seem to have the same problem because he was laughing his ass off.
He glared at Kody who couldn’t seem to care less.
“Your mom’s spicy,” he said with laughter in his voice.
“That’s one word for it,” he muttered.
Kody reached for his hand, fingers brushing over Ace’s knuckles.
“Would it be so bad? Living with me?”
Ace’s heart jumped and he shook his head. “No. No, not at all. I would love to.”
“Yeah?” Kody asked, a smile spreading on his face.
“Yeah.”
Kody leaned in, so he wrapped an arm around his waist to pull him close enough to get his lips on his.
“Nuh-uh.”
They separated and he gave his mom a sheepish look.
“No funny business while you’re here,” she said with that patented I-mean-it mom look.
“But you told us to come here,” Ace whined.
She put a tub of ice cream and three spoons down on the coffee table.
“Yes, because I know when I call, and you only respond with a text that something’s either bothering you or something serious is going on. Which is it?”
He felt Kody’s eyes on him but avoided his gaze. He only ever told his mom what she needed to know. Or, rather, what he thought she needed to know. He wasn’t going to tell her anything about what he and his brothers got up to that she would have to lie about in court if they were ever to screw up that badly. He wasn’t going to scare her either. She didn’t need to know that he’d killed someone and might end up going to prison for it. Not unless something actually came of it.
“There’s this girl, Luna. She was trafficked.”
The horror on his mom’s face made him want to wrap her up in his arms.
