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About two weeks after we returned, I got home from work to find the two of them sitting on the living room sofa, grinning like a couple of Cheshire cats.
“What’s up?” I asked when they bounced to their feet and came to kiss me hello. “You’re up to something.”
“Us?” Collyn tried to school his features into innocence, but I already knew them too well to buy that.
“Yeah, you!” I hung my purse on the hook behind the door and faced them again. “Did you make something weird for dinner?” They’d already done that once, and while I loved most of their creations, I just wasn’t a calamari pizza kind of girl.
“No.” Fitz took my hand. “Come to the basement.”
Ah. They’d been working on it all week with great secrecy, and, while it was their domain, I’d been very curious about what they’d done. I’d even seen a big-box truck trundling away from the driveway one day when I arrived home.
“Are you going to give me a hint of what I’ll see?” I let them lead me to the door off the kitchen, all sorts of images flooding my mind. “Is it a sex dungeon?”
Collyn, in front of me, stopped so suddenly I nearly ran into his back. He turned around on the staircase and eyed me. “Is that what you want?”
My cheeks burned. “No, I mean, I was joking.”
“Fitz, maybe we should have gone that way?”
“Our mate is very sexy…” He started back up the stairs. “I think we need to redecorate.”
“Please…eek, no.” I was probably protesting too hard because nothing these two could suggest would I refuse. But the two of them were a lot, and I wasn’t sure I could handle a level up. “Can’t I see?”
“All right.” He relented and we started down again. “But maybe we should send for a dungeon furniture catalog.”
“Stop teasing her,” Collyn chided mildly. I closed my eyes and pictured the room as I’d last seen it. A previous owner had made it into a sort of mother-in-law suite slash kids’ playroom with a kitchenette along one wall and a three-quarter bath. I’d never done anything with it at all, so it was a pretty blank slate.
At the bottom of the stairs, Collyn stepped back and held out his arms. “What do you think?”
“Oh.” It wasn’t a sex dungeon or a pool room or any of the things I’d thought of. “It’s not a man cave at all.”
“It’s an uber-nest.” While it wasn’t small like the one we slept in most nights, they had somehow managed to take my boring basement and turn it into a perfectly cozy room for lounging in the evenings, watching movies, eating snacks, and doing whatever else occurred to us. They’d brought in one of those big couch groupings that fit together and installed a TV so big I didn’t know how many inches to describe it as. “Can we live here?”
“We probably could.” Collyn chuckled. “But why don’t we start out with a sleepover?” He opened a closet door and pulled out a heap of fluffy comforters and down pillows. “We’ll bring down dinner when it’s done.”
Their two recliners were there, as well as a third. “Aw, you got me a chair! Really, you could have had this room just for the two of you, so you could do guy things or whatever.”
“Mate, you know how much we miss you when we’re not in the same room. We created a mate-nest-den-cave for all of us.” Fitz opened the refrigerator in the kitchenette and pulled out a bottle of champagne. “Shall we toast?”
My phone buzzed in my pocket, and I was determined to ignore it, but Collyn pulled it out and handed it to me. “It’s Tilly. You’d better check.”
I read the message and shook my head. “That’s…a surprise.”
“What is it?” Collyn asked.
“We have a new kind of shifter who signed up. Have you ever heard of a basilisk?”
They hadn’t, but we’d do our research and make sure they got their best match. Just like I did. Everyone deserved a happily ever after.
