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Xaiden stepped to my side. “JJ, how’ve you been?”
“Fuck the niceties, X. Get in here.” He reached for my brother to hug him.
“Would all of you get inside?” I heard Luann say loudly. “You’re letting every damn bug in a three-mile radius into the house.”
“It’s early November,” Dominic replied. “Most of the bugs are dead.”
We piled inside where Dominic busied himself in the kitchen. He gave my brother a quick side hug in greeting. Out of everyone here, he saw him the most outside of me. Dominic still trained with Xaiden at the gym. I wasn’t sure how much longer he would. From what Xaiden had told me, Dominic caught on fast and was strong and quick.
“Dexen Dremest, you bring that brother of yours over here,” Luann said with her hand on her hip.
“Yes, ma’am.”
Xaiden stuck his hand out to shake hers, no doubt to be polite since it had been years since they’d seen each other. She bypassed it just like she did when JJ tried to shake her hand when he met her. Luann brought my brother in for a hug. Xaiden relaxed the moment she did.
Luann hooked her arm through Xaiden’s and tugged him toward the living room. “You tell me what you’ve been up to while the boys finish dinner.”
“You really want Junior in the kitchen?” he asked.
Peyton plucked the tennis ball Greer had started bouncing from his hand and lobbed it at my brother. Xaiden turned just in time to catch it. He smirked at Peyton and threw it to Greer who easily caught it.
I took a few steps to elbow Peyton in the ribs. “It’s funny how you thought you were going to hit my brother with that.”
“Just making sure he’s still sharp,” he said loudly so Xaiden would hear him.
Without turning around, Xaiden replied, “I’ll put your ass flat on the floor any time, any day, anywhere.”
“There’s a mat downstairs.”
Xaiden stopped and turned. “The only reason we’re not heading down there now is because I have this lovely woman on my arm, and she asked me to catch her up. Come by the gym and we’ll go.”
I grinned. It was a good thing Xaiden came tonight. It was just what he needed.
As I glanced around the room, I realized I had nothing to be twitchy about earlier. I needed Greer and JJ. They grounded me, made me better. I was right where I was supposed to be.
20
GREER
We stayed downstairs and talked for a while after dinner before coming up to my room. JJ and I had missed Dexen the past two nights. We both understood. Dexen had a business to run but JJ did too, and he still made time to stay here. Hell, I had a pile of work waiting for me. It was never-ending and I was here too. Dexen’s issue was more than the club. It was him and his heart. He was worried, scared, and I was going to fix that. JJ too.
Dexen always looked good in a dress shirt, sometimes he wore a tie, but tonight in jeans and a Henley, he was delicious. Not only did I get him dressed down, but JJ too which I loved. In suits, we were dressed for business. Like this, it was how I preferred us.
My bedroom was at the end of the hall. I had a view of the back property. Currently, the curtains were closed, the room bathed in low light from the two lamps on either side of my bed. The door was closed and locked. No one was coming in here. I needed to be with my men tonight, no interruptions.
I reached for the belt loops on Dexen’s jeans to tug him to me. “I’m going to strip you, okay?”
He nodded.
JJ came up alongside us to run his hand down Dexen’s arm. “Then you’re going to get on the bed on your stomach and we’re going to make you feel good.”
Dexen swallowed, drawing my eyes to his throat.
My fingers danced to the front of his jeans to pop them open and pull the zipper down. I wasted no time pushing them and his boxer briefs to the floor. I used my foot to hold them so Dexen could step out of his clothes. JJ lifted Dexen’s shirt over his head.
Standing bare before us, Dexen was a sight. His dick wasn’t hard yet, my guess was he was too much in his head and didn’t like how vulnerable he felt. That was why he stayed in charge when it was just me and him. And why he tried to control JJ when they were together. If he didn’t, he was exposing his throat. He had given himself to JJ, as much as he could back then. In the end, he got hurt. He closed himself off to feeling again. Except he eventually did when I became more than a friend to him.
I gripped the back of his neck and crushed my lips to his. He shivered against me; his hands going to my chest to steady himself. JJ pressed kisses to my neck while Dexen and I battled for dominance. He was still trying to control, but I refused to let him.
