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“If they’re here and you leave, you’d have to kick them out?”

“Oh.” He snorted, folding over me so he was half covering me. His hand went to my stomach and moved in soothing circles. “No. Or, I mean, maybe that’s weird, but my mom’s open-door policy is just how it’s been for me. My friends are here and if I gotta go somewhere, I take off. It’s how it’s been since we moved into this house.”

“What if they take something?”

“I start asking questions. We have security cameras on the exterior and in the rooms where the valuables are.”

“Cameras?” I shrieked, jerking upright against him.

He laughed, his arm curving around me to tug me so I was on top of him, straddling him. “Not in the rooms we’ve been in. My dad’s office. Their bedroom. Those places, but it’s not been a problem. Plus, we can always ask Noah. He lurks, right?”

A wary feeling went through me, remembering what Noah said last night.

My hands formed fists. I pressed them lightly down on Lee’s cut stomach. “Um, yeah. I lied to you last night.”

He went still. Quiet. “What about?”

“Noah was here last night. He said you’ve been lying to me about something or holding something back.” My gaze held his steadily, even though my pulse was skyrocketing. This was a big deal, what I was doing right now. I was questioning him and now he had the choice to lie or…something. I didn’t know. It was a step for us, though, in what we were doing.

“Oh.” He fell silent again. Pensive. His hands went to my thighs. He began rubbing his thumbs in circles. “Yeah. There is something.”

“There is?” Air left me.

He nodded, his gaze skirting away. “But uh, it’s big. Like, big big, and I’ve not told anyone. Anyone alive, I guess.”

I pressed my hands down on his stomach.

His gaze returned to me. “You don’t have to tell me. You can wait.”

“Yeah?” The relief on his face was palpable.

“Tell me when you’re ready.”

His phone had been continuously buzzing the whole time. He’d been ignoring it during our talk and he continued to ignore it as he reached for me, tugging me so I lay more fully on top of him. His mouth found mine as his hands held my hips. He began moving against me, moaning deep in his throat as his tongue slid inside. “Maybe today I don’t have anyone come over except Cass. Lazy Sunday?”

I groaned in protest, pulling my mouth away. “Except I have to work in a couple hours.”

“Fuck. I forgot.”

His phone began ringing. The sound was angry and impatient.

He groaned in protest but reached for it to look at the screen. Seeing who it was, he accepted it, putting it on speaker. He laid the phone between us, on his chest. “What’s up?”

Cassian’s voice came from the other end. “My dick.”

Lee choked on a laugh. “What a coincidence. So’s mine.” He grinded up into me. My head tilted back, enjoying how good that felt.

I shook my head. “We’re all such a cliché. Horny teenagers.”

“It’s the reason I was calling,” Cassian said from the phone. “Did you guys do stuff last night? Tell me. Don’t leave any details out. I jerked off to thoughts of you, Cole. Lots of thoughts. It was glorious until my mom almost caught me.”

“Don’t scare your mom,” Lee said.

“I jumped in the shower after that so I’m sure she got the picture, but it’s my mom. She was just happy I showed up home safe and sober. You know?”

Lee and I were both quiet.

“Oh.” Cassian’s voice dropped. “Sorry. I⁠—”