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“I can’t imagine a world without him,” Lou admitted. “ButI’m having a hard time seeing us together.”
“You’re always together. You function like a team. He lightsup when you walk in a room,” Kala pointed out. “But up until today you weremissing something necessary.”
She knew exactly what her bestie was talking about. “Sex.”
“Yup. Hot, sweaty, satisfying sex, and I kind of thinkyou’re the only one who got the satisfying part.” She frowned suddenly. “Oh,shit. Was he bad? The way my dad talked about it I thought you were having agood time. Was he shitty at oral?”
Sometimes she wished Kala wasn’t so open about sex. “Thatwas not the problem.”
“No, the problem is you’re a big old scaredy cat, and that’sokay. He’s played a part in that.” Kala eased back down. “So do what my momwould tell you to do. Take him up on his D/s offer and keep dating. See howthat goes for you.”
There was a light in Kala’s eyes.
“You think I should keep dating? While I’m playing with TJ?”
“A D/s relationship doesn’t have to be exclusive,” Kalamused. “You told him you were going to date, so mean it. Show him it wasn’t aploy to get him in line. Keep it light with him. Prove you can be friends withbenefits for a while until you either know it can work with him or you find theone you want to stick with.”
“This feels like a trap.” It was too good to be true. Shewould get to try with TJ while not giving up on her plan.
Not that she loved the plan. Dating kind of sucked. Her bestdate so far had been with a guy who’d bet he could take her virginity in highschool.
“The thing about a good trap is you walk into it and you’restuck before you can think to walk back out,” Kala explained. “An excellent trapfeels like home.”
“Okay, that does not make me feel better.”
Kala considered her for a moment. “What would? Turning backtime and not having today happen?”
“Maybe. I don’t know.” Did she want to not know? Maybe. The problemwas she was fairly certain they would be spectacular in bed together. Or he wasjust really good and she would disappoint him.
“Well, that’s not happening, sister. So do I go and tell mycousin he’s shit out of luck and he’s going to have to move back into his oldroom? I’m pretty sure Aunt Erin turned it into a home gym. He could probablysleep on the treadmill. Or he could sleep on Lucas and Seth’s couch and wave atall the women who come in and out. Hopefully he doesn’t catch a contact STI. Mycousins are kind of gross.”
“They aren’t going to have the security he needs.” Yes, thatwas what she should be thinking about. The op wasn’t over until they figuredout why someone thought TJ had a connection to an arms dealer. His mom hadalready had to kill one dude. Lucas and Seth were often distracted by their ownmanwhoriness.
Ian and Charlotte had a baby at home right now. Theiryoungest, Travis, was finishing up law school and needed help because he was asingle dad. She shouldn’t put a baby in harm’s way.
They had excellent security at their home. No one would knowby looking at it, but there was a beyond state-of-the-art security system inthe smallish four bedroom.
When she thought about it, staying close to TJ was the onlyway to do her job.
“He should stay with us. We can protect him.”
Kala snorted. “Yeah. We can protect the delicate GreenBeret.”
There was something Kala wasn’t taking into consideration.“Well, I had to do it today, didn’t I?”
“You keep up that level of sass and this could be fun.” Sheyawned. “And Lou?”
“Yeah?”
“I’ll back off. A little. I love you, too. And I might vomita lot, but if you did get involved with TJ and did the whole happily marriedwith kids thing, I would be a great fun auntie.” With that Kala yawned andclosed her eyes again. “If my dad comes by, throw something at him. That olddog needs some sensitivity training.”
She was asleep in moments, and Lou was left watching thenight outside and wondering if she knew what she was doing in any way at all.
* * * *
If his uncle swatted him with a newspaper, he was going toget pissed. Luckily the man passed him by and then used it on Kala, proving hehad a death wish.
“My brother is such an asshole. I have no idea how thosekids haven’t murdered him yet.” His father sat back in the lounge chair. “Imean after he got these company jets, did we really need him?”
