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My cheeks turn pink. “Shut up, you know what I mean.”
“No, I think we should talk about this ‘weird thing’.” He insists. “Don’t you guys think we should talk about this ‘weird thing’?”
“You mean the weird thing where Rosalind is dating all of us?” Fielder asks.
“Who says I want to date all of you?” I grumble. I kind of do, even though I absolutely shouldn’t.
“The weird thing where she’s our girl?” Hardin says, his voice rumbling through my body.
“What if I don’t want to be your girl?” They are doing an excellent job of just ignoring me.
“The weird thing where we’ll do anything to keep her safe? Even move her into a building full of guys who walk around nearly naked all the time?” Ezra adds.
I perk up at that. “How nearly naked?”
“No fucking way, love.” Hardin growls in my ear, walking me forward, toward the building that I in no way want to step into.
“The only nearly naked bodies you’ll be looking at are ours.” Gideon pulls open the door.
I stop fighting, stop trying to drag my feet. I’m now imagining all of them shirtless and just parading by me in a never ending line of sexiness.Sweet baby kittens.“Okay,” I finally agree. “I’ll stay here, but I want Merritt to stay here too.”
“Done,” Fielder says so quickly that I eye him with suspicion.
We’re in the elevator now, and he taps his card against the scanner before selecting the fifth floor. “You already got her a room here, didn’t you?”
His smile is wolfish. “We figured you’d feel more comfortable with her here.”
“And it’ll be safer for her here, too.” Ezra adds, and I can see that he actually cares about his cousin, despite the number of times the Merritt had stated that he doesn’t.
“Well, Ben will be thrilled to have his girlfriend so close.”
“Fuck Ben,” Gideon rumbles. “We’ll be thrilled to haveourgirlfriend so close.”
“You know, none of you have actually asked me to be your girlfriend? You’re all just doing that rich kid thing where you take what you want.”
“If I was taking what I wanted, sweetheart, I’d have you up against that wall with your legs wrapped around my waist,” Gideon says, his voice heavy with want and lust.
I pause halfway out of the elevator, my cheeks flushed again. His cheeks go a paler shade of red than my flaming skin, but he blushes too when he realizes what he’d said and it’s freaking adorable. Who would have thought that Gideon Brightwater could blush?
A second later, I let out a squeal as Hardin scoops me up and tosses me over his shoulder, clamping a hand over my bare thighs. “Ah, so much easier. Why didn’t we just do this to begin with?”
I want to smack him, but my hands are trying to keep my skirt smoothed over my ass so I don’t flash everyone my panties. At least I put on cute ones this morning. “Put me down, Yorke!”
His hand swats one of my ass cheeks. “Calm down, love, we’re almost there.” A door opens, we step through and then I’m right-side up, with my hands on Hardin’s shoulders to keep balance as the blood rushes from my head.
When I’ve successfully regained my equilibrium, I smack his chest. “Do not carry me like a sack of potatoes.”
He just grins at me and then gently turns me so I can see the room that they’ve prepared… for me. My mouth sort of drop open as I stare at it.
It’s the same layout as Fielder’s, a small kitchen and living area, furnished in items that do not belong to the school, plush couches and chairs, a huge TV over the lit gas fireplace. There’s a drafting table with all of my art supplies on it.
“Wow,” I say. “You guys did this for me?”
“And that’s not all.” Fielder’s behind me now, turning me toward a door on the right side of the room. “Merritt’s room. She has her own bathroom, so you won’t have to share.” Then he turns me toward the two doors on the left. “Your bedroom is the first door.”
I wander toward it, push it open, and a small sound of pleasure leaves me. It looks like a freaking hotel room. All fluffy blankets and too many pillows and a plush throw rug on the floor. I see a walk-in closet and a door to a private en suite bathroom. But if that’s my bathroom... “What’s the second door?”
None of them answer. Instead, they just watch me as I move over to it, push it open and then immediately close the door again, fighting back tears.They didn’t. They couldn’t.But they did.
