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“Be nice.” Matteo swatted my ass and stepped back.
My face heated as both of my friends snickered. I waited for someone to tease about him taming me once he disappeared into the half bath.
“He’s perfect for you,” Kellen said, and I popped the taco dip out, shutting the oven door again with my hip. “The daddy side to keep you in line and a heart full of praise to rain down over you.”
Well, damn.
I didn’t call Matteo daddy, nor did that kink tick off any boxes for either of us, but yeah. I liked how he looked after me. Cared for and encouraged me. He was all the things I’d been missing thanks to my emotionally deadbeat father—but that was another story, one I’d decided to leave in my past unless chatting with my new therapist.
Pop could go fuck himself, but I would show up for the monthly family meals at Micah’s—with my boyfriend in tow to keep my spirits up.
“You’re the happiest I’ve ever see you, Sean,” Mason said, his hazel eyes warm and peaceful, something I’d never noticed he’d lacked before Jasper had entered his life.
“It’s all because of my man,” I stated even though Matteo insisted time and again that my own recent choices lended to my smiling face.
Mason’s grin widened. “That I can understand.” He lifted his bottle of water toward me as though saying “cheers” and moved back toward the living room area.
Kellen grinned as our friend sauntered out of the room. “At the rate the Elites are finding their soul mates, the business might be in jeopardy.”
I glanced around the group of friends and co-workers lounging around my space beyond the archway leading to my room framed by a wall of windows. “Nah. There’s always another guy willing to lay pipe—I mean lay down their life for the betterment of EEMM in order to earn a living.”
A chuckle rumbled from Kellen, but JJ walked up behind him and wrapped his arms around his waist in the same way Matteo had done to me. Fucking loved that for my friend.
“I want to thank you guys again for your help with the whole Zerig situation,” I said.
“Micah called and told us it’s all taken care of,” JJ said, his dark eyes intense as always.
“Yep, and thank fuck, because I was about to lose my shit.”
“He also said you dropped out of college.”
I grinned, not one trace of shame or embarrassment smacking me like I’d expected. “Best decision I ever made—wait. No, that would be talking my hot professor into me—literally.”
“He looks good on you,” JJ said with a teasing note.
“You should see me on him,” I shot back with a wink. I’d angled my full-length mirror toward our bed the night before so I could enjoy watching how I rode his dick. What a sight it had been.
A shiver licked over my spine remembering how he couldn’t tear his focus off my face no matter how much I begged him to look at the mirror. He’d claimed there was nothing better than seeing the real thing right in front of him.
Drake came into the kitchen, an empty beer bottle in hand. He glanced at me, snickered, and shook his head.
“What?” I tossed his way as he pulled open my fridge for another drink. “Be a sweetie and grab me a beer while you’re in there.”
“Never thought I’d see the day when heart eyes took over your face,” Drake said with a chuckle.
“Yeah—” I caught the bottle he tossed me “—well, I can’t wait until some ginger grabs hold of your heart and sticks a fork in it. You’ll be just as done as me.”
A grimace flitted over Drake’s eyes as he twisted his cap off. “Not gonna happen.”
I snorted. “Careful with statements like that. I never thought I’d be taken off the market either.”
Matteo came back from the bathroom, and the heated look he gave me twitched my dick in my jeans. He got all up in my space, and fuck how I loved his lack of reserve, his freedom to simply be with me. “You’re off the market, hmm?” he murmured, wrapping his arms around me again and nibbling on my ear.
My fucking knees wobbled.
“Knock that off, Teach, or I’m gonna pop a boner in front of all my friends,” I said loud enough to hopefully embarrass him that he’d want to yank me over his lap after all the guys went home.
“Now why do I have a feeling it wouldn’t be the first time?” he teased right back.
