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Daire grunted in response, neither admitting nor denying culpability.
I brought up the rear, shaking my head at East. “Being an antagonizer isn’t winning you any favors.”
“Ah, yes, perhaps I should endeavor to be more like you, future statesman Preston Abernathy,” he said, letting the door slam shut behind him. “Pretend to abide by the rules while really being a total freak behind closed doors, get myself a fake arm-candy girlfriend, and kiss a lot of ass.”
“You’re just jealous he’s not kissing yours.” West smirked as the elevator doors opened and we all piled inside. It was a tight fit, but thankfully we only had a couple of floors to go.
“His loss, since I have a great ass.” East turned back to me and raised an appraising brow as he studied my face. “Although you do have nice lips. It’s a shame you waste them on Serena. Oh, wait, you don’t. You waste them on herdad.”
I shook my head. “For fuck’s sake, East.”
His smug grin kicked up higher on one side. “Let me know if you ever change your mind or want a third?—”
There was a groan from outside the elevator, and I turned to see the doors had opened and Serena stood there looking a little…green.
“This is so not a conversation I want to be a part of,” she said.
East shrugged. “All I’m saying is I’m very good at bending over.”
“East, the only thing that’ll happen if you bend over is my foot up your ass,” she said, taking the top few pillows from the overflowing box I carried before they could tumble to the ground.
“You know what? I might actually enjoy that.” East glanced over my shoulder to look at her feet. “How big are we talking?”
“Oh my God, don’t even think about it.” I shoved him off and followed Serena to Daire’s condo—well, Daire andGavin’scondo, which I still couldn’t believe was actually happening. The surliest in our group never shared anything, not his thoughts, not his time, and certainly not his home. But here he was, somehow agreeing to let Gavin take the spare bedroom to get away from the lovefest happening in his old condo between his brother, Donovan, and Kelly.
One by one we entered the condo and dropped the boxes by the entrance—which, from the scowl Daire shot us as he walked past and into Gavin’s new room, wasn’t where he wanted them.
Donovan, Kelly, and Travis were all gathered by the kitchen island with drinks in hand, and judging by the bottles of alcohol along the counter, it wasn’t water in those glasses.
“You three are just as bad as East,” I remarked, cracking my neck from side to side and then rolling my shoulders to ease the ache that hauling boxes for hours had caused.
Travis blinked, looking utterly bored. “We’re done, right? You brought up the last of it.”
“Uh, we’re missing my furniture, if you haven’t noticed,” Gavin said as he walked out of his room and surveyed the rest of the stuff we’d brought. “I need my bed, or did you expect me to sleep on the floor?”
West shook his head as he reached for an empty glass and the bottle of bourbon. “Nope. That’s where we draw the line.”
Gavin balked. “Excuse me?”
“We aren’t carrying your fucking furniture, and even if we wanted to, we couldn’t.”
A flush of angry red crept up into Gavin’s pale cheeks. “Why the hell not?”
“Because the only way to get it up here is through the service elevator,” Daire said, striding out of Gavin’s room and kicking at the boxes left by the entrance. “Management will deal with it this weekend.”
The way Gavin’s mouth fell open was comical. “Where do you expect me to sleep?”
“Maybe if you ask nicely, Daire will let you snuggle up to him,” Travis said, and Donovan snorted.
“I’m thinking Gavin would like toseethe sun rise tomorrow.”
No lie. The probability that anyone would live to see the next day after a night in Daire’s bed was…unlikely. The guy barely tolerated humans as it was. I think we were probably the only few he bothered with, and that was only because we were forced on him through his parents trying to make him more social.
Daire hefted one of the remaining boxes into his arms. “Go fuck yourselves.”
And clearly that worked.
“How about we make up a bed for Gavin on the couch?” I suggested, trying to find a solution before a fight broke out.
