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“Travis,” Tommy snapped.
Travis ignored his dad and flipped his brother the bird, and his brother, in all his seven-year-old glory, copied him and started to flip everyone off with a huge smile on his face. As if the little shit didn’t know what that meant. That innocent face of his got him out of trouble way too much.
Just the way it should be, he figured.
Edan scolded them while Tommy ran his hands down his face and muttered, “Someone shoot me, already.”
“Sorry, you can’t afford my fee,” Kai quipped.
Tommy scowled at him but, fortunately, his husband walking up to him had him forgetting all about Kai. Edan wrapped his arms around the back of Tommy’s neck and Tommy tugged him closer to press a kiss to his lips.
Kai looked away which wasn’t like him at all, but lately? He felt like he was drowning in other people’s happiness and love. Was he jealous? Yeah, probably. Not of any of them, just the love and happy parts. He wanted that. If he was honest with himself, he wanted it a lot, but he also knew he’d never have it. Not with his line of work. Not with who he was.
He was stuck with meaningless sex for the rest of his life. Quite a chore, obviously.
The fact that he hadn’t gotten laid in months meant nothing. It certainly wasn’t because he kept thinking about one guy in particular. No. Nope. Not at all.
He hadn’t seen Steel in forever. He’d checked up on him and his family a few times, because… well, he didn’t really have a reason. Not a good one at least.
“Thinking hard over there, huh?”
Kai rolled his eyes before turning his head to find Nic next to him.
“Yeah, you should try it sometime.”
Nic snorted out a laugh and wrapped an arm around Kai’s shoulders. He pulled Kai toward the outdoor couch and when they sat down, Nic turned toward him, a line forming between his brows as he ran his gaze over Kai’s face.
“What’s going on?”
Fuck. Nic looked serious. Damn it.
He wasn’t about to tell him about the love and Steel parts. No fucking way. He could barely admit it to himself. He wasn’t saying any of that shit out loud.
“It’s nothing. Just a job.”
Nic got that perceptive look in his eye that Kai hated above all else. He usually managed to slink his way out of whatever questions that look spawned, but he’d been less and less successful with that over the past few months.
“Something you don’t wanna do?”
Kai shrugged. “Just complicated.”
“Then quit.”
Nic hadn’t been in the game for long enough to make Isaac worry about him knowing too much. He’d also gone straight to the Kings which had also kept Isaac at bay.
Kai didn’t have that luxury. He knew more than anyone else. He knew Isaac intimately, which, of course, would come back to bite him in the ass, and not a lovely little love-bite, but more like a shark attack.
“Gee, thanks. I totally hadn’t considered that option.”
The surprise in Nic’s eyes wasn’t good. Shit. He shouldn’t have said that. Now Nic was definitely going to try to convince him to quit even more than he usually did.
Elijah dropped onto the couch next to Nic and asked, “What’s up?”
“I think Kai’s joining the dark side,” Nic said.
Elijah grabbed a pillow and bonked Nic over the head with it because he hadn’t been looking at him nor signing as he spoke and then they were promptly attacked by their dog. If getting licked all over their faces could be considered an attack. It probably could. Ew. Dog breath. Ass-licking tongue on their faces. Gross.
Of course, he was King’s next victim.
