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“Fuck off, Hayes. A blind squirrel finds a nut, eventually. I wiped the floor with you the first two rounds.”
Austin throws up his middle finger quickly before focusing back on the controller.
“Eat shit, motherfucker.” Austin jumps up and does a celebratory dance. My eyes widen in shock. I’ve literally never seen him like this.
I’m thrown back in time as he spins and shoots Cooper with his finger pistols before blowing the tip of his finger as if it were the barrel of a gun. Such a Tanner thing to do.
“You okay, Ry?” He looks up and tilts his head in concern.
“Yeah.” I rub between my brows, just trying to comprehend everything. “I thought someone was getting murdered in here when I heard shouting.”
“I mean, someone did.”
Cooper mocks him as he stands and adjusts his jeans before settling back down on the couch. “Whatever. You up for another round?”
“Yeah, I need a refill first, though. Need one?” Austin stands and grabs the coffee cup off the table.
“Sure.” Cooper holds up the mug to Austin.
Austin bumps my hip as he walks out of the room toward the kitchen.
“So I guess I don’t have to ask howyourmorning was,” I laugh as I close the distance between me and Coop.
Cooper pats his knee for me to sit down. As I take a seat on his lap, I smack his arm.
“Hey, what was that for?”
“That was for scaring the shit out of me. I could hear y’all yelling outside as I approached and wasn’t sure what I was coming home to.”
“I like you wanting to protect me, but I think I can handle myself.” He chuckles, and I mock him. He sets his chin in the crook of my neck, his lips dancing over my skin, but he quickly pulls back. “Phew babe, you are, umm, quite ripe.”
A deep, rumbled laughter comes from Austin as he comes into the room carrying two cups, and I think about sticking my foot out to trip him. “Right? That’s what I’m always saying.”
I flip him the middle finger as Austin sets one mug in front of us on the table. “Yeah, I’m not feeling this.” I move my finger back and forth between my two favorite men. Not even twenty-four hours back together and these two are already ganging up on me.
I stand up and reach forward, touching my toes. My ass is directly in Cooper’s line of sight. I smirk when I hear a low growl slip from his lips.
I stand back up and carefully swipe the mug from the table. “And I’m taking this, too.” Ignoring Cooper’s loud grumbles, I head up the stairs to get cleaned up.
By the time I’m walking back down the stairs, the chaos has seemed to calm down between the boys. I threw on black leggings and a light hoodie and pulled my hair into a low ponytail.
I settle in on the couch between the two of them. Cooper must not like the distance there is between us because he tugs me closer until I’m flush against his chest. I relax into him and allow his heartbeat to lull me to sleep. Before I know it, I’m startling myself awake.
“Hey, sleepyhead.” Cooper looks down at me with a gentle smile. The video game is no longer on the TV, but there’s some show with the volume turned way down, I assume not to disturb me.
Damn, I’m making it a habit of falling asleep on the couch post-run.
“Hey,” I respond sleepily. “Was I out long?” I look over to the side of the couch where Austin was and find it now empty except for Cooper’s and my stretched-out, tangled limbs. Wow, I must have been out cold to not have woken up from him shifting us.
“He went upstairs,” he answers without me asking. “And no, not too long.” I guess “not too long” is up for debate because it was clearly long enough for them to finish playing, Austin to leave, and Cooper to focus on something else on the screen.
“You hungry?” he asks, just as my stomach lets out a loud rumble. “Well, I guess that answers that,” he chuckles.
I press up on his chest to sit up and stretch from side to side. “I could definitely eat something.”
“Me too,” he mutters, and I glance over to see his eyes a darker shade of blue.
“Actual food, Cooper. I need actual food,” I joke.
