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“I napped,” Erin said, meeting my gaze with more warmth than I expected.
“Me, too,” Silas said with a laugh. “I lay down on the bed just to see how soft it was, and woke up three hours later.”
I turned to Viktor, who took a sip of wine. “I did a bit of work,” he said. “Had to check on some business stuff, and found a new project for Silas and me.”
“New project?” I asked. “Tell me about that. What do you guys do?”
The food was served, and we spent most of dinner talking about Viktor and Silas’s business.
“It sounds like you’ve both done very well,” I said, impressed with their obvious work ethic and ingenuity. For two men who hadn’t gone to college and whose parents hadn’t been able to help them financially, they’d done extraordinarily well.
“We got lucky on our first project,” Silas said, being too modest. “And we’ve learned a lot over the years.”
I looked at Erin, whose face was pink from the wine. “What about you, Erin? Do you enjoy your profession as much as these two?”
She burst out laughing, snorting as well in a cute yet inelegant way. “Oh, definitely not. The more I hang around with these two, the more I’m thinking I need a change.”
“What do you mean?” Silas asked.
She sighed heavily. “I don’t enjoy my job. I really don’t. The pay is decent but climbing the promotion ladder is slow, and I really don’t get any joy out of working there. I want to be like you guys. I want to wake up and really look forward to going to work.”
Silas reached over and squeezed her hand and she looked up at him with a level of adoration that had me clenching my hand into a fist.
Viktor chuckled beside me, his eyes a little glazed over, due to the wine. “You know, Silas and I killed ourselves laughing when we found out we’d inadvertently gotten ourselves into a poly marriage. A legal one, too.”
I frowned at him. “Why?”
“Because we’ve done a poly relationship before.”
“Two, if you count Nancy,” Silas added.
I glanced from one guy to the other, and I could see Erin blinking at them too. “You’ve been in poly relationships before?”
Viktor nodded, his gaze daring me to say anything negative about that fact. “Absolutely. Women need so much love and time and attention. It’s a lot easier when you get to share the load with someone else.”
Silas chuckled. “Yeah, it definitely works well.”
Erin’s mouth dropped open. “You guys don’t mind sharing one woman? Really? I mean, Viktor said something along those lines earlier, but I thought he was joking.”
I was thinking the same thing but didn’t want to appear ignorant.
The servants arrived with dessert and Silas reached for a piece of Dreikönigskuchen, a sweet roll filled with citrus rind and raisins.
“We prefer it, actually,” Silas answered, after the serving staff had backed away. “It’s great fun.” He wagged his eyebrows and smiled at Erin.
I nodded as if I knew what he meant and poured myself another glass of wine.Holy hell. This conversation had just taken an unexpected turn and I wasn’t sure how to get it back on track. Nor was one hundred percent sure I wanted to.
