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Adam
As soon as Angel was out of the room, Q pounced.
“Where did you and Angel meet? She’s never said.”
“At a club.”
“Really? Normally she never gives out her number to guys at clubs,” Sam interjected, looking surprised.
“She didn’t then. But she told me about the show she was in and I ended up going to see it and then we ran into each other again after that... and it seemed like fate.” He deliberately didn’t give them any details about exactly what club he’d met her at or where they ran into each other again because he didn’t know how much information Angel had given to them.
“What do you do for a living?” Q asked, obviously not deterred from his questioning. Sam rolled his eyes sympathetically at Adam, while Mark chuckled but also waited for the answer.
“I own a head-hunting and temporary employment placement company.”
All three of them look a little startled.
“You own it?” Mark asked.
“Yeah. What do you guys do?” Turnabout was fair play he figured, and if he was going to be spending time with Angel he was apparently going to be spending time with her housemates.
“Apple store, doing the repairs and stuff,” said Sam.
“I’ve got the dream job, video game testing for Maxland Games,” Mark said grinning.
“I write proposals for a contracting company,” Q said. Adam raised his eyebrows, he’d been expecting another tech job quite honestly. To his surprise, he earned his first real smile from Q. “We can’t all live the dream.”
Just then the doorbell rang and the three men frowned at each other.
“Were we expecting someone else?”
“I didn’t think so.”
“Angel? Did you invite someone else over?”
She popped her head out of the kitchen. “No. Find out who it is, dinner will be ready in one minute.” Flashing a brilliant smile at Adam, she disappeared again. Very faintly he could hear the sound of something sizzling.
With a slightly exasperated groan, Mark got up from his seat and went to the door. When it opened, Adam was a less than pleased to see Michael standing there.
All three housemates greeted him as if he had a standing invitation to be there and they were glad to see him. Q gave Adam a sidelong look, as if gauging his reaction to the other man, but Adam stood and smiled, giving Michael his hand. He’d lined up a job for the other man and had already received good feedback from the employer.
And he told himself he was not jealous about the welcome Michael could obviously always expect at Angel’s house.
“Pretty boy!”
“Pest.”
Adam sighed inwardly, but since things were more solid between him and Angel, he found their interaction easier to tolerate than he would have otherwise.
“Come on in, you’re just in time for dinner.”
“Thanks, I was hoping you might take pity on me. I’ve been eating my own cooking all week.” Everyone chuckled. Looked like Michael was staying for dinner.
Angel
Dinner started off a little awkward, but it got better as everyone relaxed. She understood why her friendship with Michael was occasionally hard for other guys to take. They were particularly close and at one point in her life she’d lusted after him. Hell, when she was single she still fantasized about him a bit, even though she knew it would never happen. The few times they’d gotten close to doing something post-Monica, her ex-best friend would always pop into her head and she had pulled away.
Besides, having been to Stronghold and playing with Adam now, she knew she was so not on Michael’s level. She did like a little bit of pain with her pleasure, but Adam was much more to her speed.
