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Julien’s eyes went beyond Priest’s shoulder, and he knew exactly what his husband was talking about. The plan. Their plan. This was the first step. “He said yes?”
“To dinner.”
“That’s a start, mon amour. But I think I would like to cook tonight, if you don’t mind.”
“Why would I ever mind that?” Priest said, and pressed his lips to Julien’s. “I have to go. I trust you’ll look after our guest appropriately.”
Julien leaned away from Priest and nodded. “Of course. Are you implying that I’d do something without you?”
“Are you implying that you wouldn’t?”
“I would never… Not if we have an agreement.”
“And we do, don’t we?”
“We do. So hurry up and leave so you can come home.”
When the sound of a door opening filled the room, Julien glanced over Priest’s shoulder as his husband stepped aside so they could both get a good look at Robbie, who had just walked out into their living room.
Wearing nothing but the lowest, tightest pair of jeans Julien had seen, Robbie ran a hand through his messy hair as his smudged eyes wandered around the space.
Last night Julien had taken Robbie’s shirt to wash for him, and as he and Priest stood there staring at the young man, Julien couldn’t help but wish he’d been able to remove those jeans too. He would’ve bet money there was nothing but a flimsy scrap of fabric, if that, under that denim.
“I’ve got to go,” Priest announced, and then he looked at Julien and said, “Remember, appropriate behavior.”
“Je sais. I know,” Julien said, and laughed when Priest looked down at the erection he had no hope of hiding in his loose yoga pants. “Don’t act like I’m the only one. Il est délicieux.”
“Agreed. But I’m leaving. You’re staying. So behave yourself.”
As Priest picked up his briefcase, Julien was about to assure him that he would when Robbie started laughing from across the room.
“Oh my God,” Robbie said as he brought a hand up to his mouth and looked over to the balcony doors. “I just realized why this place is so familiar.”
Priest grabbed his keys off the counter and walked around it to head out the door, as Julien stood at the island, waiting for Robbie to fill them in.
“This is Logan’s old place.”
At those words, Priest’s feet came to an abrupt halt. “Yes. It is.”
“I knew it. It looks totally different now. But if you’d taken me into that room,” Robbie said, pointing to the master bedroom, “I would’ve known straight away.”
Oh shit, Julien thought, as Priest looked at him with an expression that relayed loud and clear that this was information he was not aware of.
“You have to go to work, remember?” Julien said.
Priest’s eyes narrowed as if to say, Nice try. Then he turned back to Robbie, who seemed oblivious to the fact that he’d just kicked a hornets’ nest. “You dated Logan?”
Robbie laughed at that. Once, twice, and then he really started to laugh. When he finally got control of himself, he said, “I wish.”
“Then how have you seen the master bedroom in this place?”
Robbie looked to Julien. “He really is from another century, isn’t he?”
“Robert,” Priest said in a tone that made Julien’s cock ache and Robbie—oh yes, princesse, you like that tone too—blush, from his face down to his neck.
“What?” Robbie snapped.
Priest walked over to Robbie, and Julien admired the fact that Robbie didn’t back up even when Priest got so close that the tips of his shoes touched Robbie’s bare toes.
“I’m going to ask you a question, and I would like you to think very carefully before you answer.”
Robbie looked as though he wanted to tell Priest to take a hike, but instead he kept his mouth shut and waited.
“Have you had sex with Logan?”
Robbie’s eyes darted over Priest’s shoulder to Julien’s, and when he inclined his head, hoping to relay that Robbie should answer with the truth, he looked back to Priest and said, “Yes. We met at a club one night before he knew Tate.”
That vibrating tension that Julien had started to think had lifted was back in full force as Priest stared at Robbie in silence, and Julien wondered if this new piece of information changed his husband’s mind about what he wanted out of all of this. But then, without another word, Priest turned and walked down the corridor and out the front door.
As it slammed shut behind him, Robbie startled slightly, and Julien said, “Don’t worry. He’ll come around.”
“Come around? What was he expecting? A virgin?”
Julien chuckled and shook his head as he headed back to the sink. “Non—he just wasn’t expecting you to have slept with one of his work partners.”
“Uh, news flash. There was no sleeping involved that night. I was awake for all of it.”
Julien looked over his shoulder to see that Robbie had moved to stand behind one of the stools.
