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“Yeah, she’s a little prodigy.”
He could hear the pride in his best friend’s voice. Wariness added another layer to his already heavy shoulders. Sparks was by far the most traditional of them all. He’d mentioned that he wasn’t into kids, but was that just talk?
Seeing a mini-Jules was pretty terrifying as far as he was concerned. Wild child worked when you couldn’t wait to get her under or over you, but as a Tasmanian devil living in his space?
Fuck.
“Did Juliet get off?”
Tristan’s eyebrow rose. “A few times.”
“A little liftoff before the flight, Tris?”
“Nah. I’m not the solo artist on her. That belongs to you.”
Rand’s fingers went white. “What the hell is that supposed to mean?”
“Nothing.”
He turned toward Tristan. “I’d say there was a bit of something in there. You were there, man. Every inch.”
“Not every inch. Not backstage where the dirty gets done between songs. Do you push her up against the guitars? Or is it just the trunks?” Images in his head fired up the caged animal in his chest.
“Fuck you, Tris.”
His voice cooled. “So it’s just trunks then?”
“No. Fuck no. We don’t have sex outside this—outside of us. Not until you gave us the go-ahead.”
“Oh, so now that permission is on the table, it’s all good to get it done wherever.”
“Where the hell is this coming from?” Sparks pushed his shoulder until Tristan faced him. “This isn’t about any one of us. It’s always been about all of us.”
“Until it isn’t. Until someone asks questions?”
Sparks took a step back. “What? I thought you were okay with this. You made it seem as if you were.”
“What? That I’m the dirty little secret of this little triad? As long as the triad lasts. Look, it’s fine, man. I get it. You guys have all the things in common. I’m just the dick on the side that can’t help myself from getting inside her. It’ll wane. Don’t worry about it.”
“Fuck off. Fuck you and fuck off.”
“I got off plenty this morning.”
“Yeah, okay. Play it off as just sex. You know it hasn’t been just sex since the night of the wedding, dickhead.” Sparks’s chest heaved. “You might not want to own it, but I know it is.”
“It is for you. You’ve had a thing for her for months.”
“So have you. You can’t tell me that she doesn’t get under your skin like no other woman. She doesn’t make your head and your dick hurt in so many ways there’s nothing but her sometimes.”
“Sound more like obsession to me, bud.”
The fist came out of nowhere. Tristan stumbled back, his jaw lit up from the inside as pain sizzled across his cheek. Instinctively he ducked down to driv
e him back with a shoulder to the chest. The anger that had been twisting inside him snapped free. He swung out and Sparks ducked.
Tristan wouldn’t have pegged him as a fighter, but it was always the wiry ones you had to worry about. Rand was lean and tall with an arm span that Tristan couldn’t compete with.
“Let’s not do this, man.” Sparks bent at the waist and watched him carefully. “You really don’t want to do this.”
