Page 81 of It Must Be Love

"Thirteen."

"God!"

I smiled and licked his nipple and was rewarded with a sharp intake of his breath. "I was cooking, and Daddy was helping set the table while Nolan was hanging out with you and Hayes, and there was a girl there and another guy."

"Jackson was the guy and…I can't remember the girl's name. She was Jackson's girlfriend."

"Anyway, Nolan went to his room, and you followed him. I was outside the door, and you told him that he needed to get his act together."

"She's a fucking child, and she's cooking? Come on, man, you live here," Amias said to Nolan as he grabbed something from his room.

"She's the one who started cooking after our mother died, okay."

"So?"

"So, what? Amias, I can't be here taking care of the house. You know how hard MIT is."

"I know, Nolan. But she's a kid."

"Naya is fine."

"I don't know, Nolan. It doesn't feel right."

"Fine, I'll help more."

"That day, you helped clean up and stack the dishwasher. Every time you came over, you helped."

My crush only got more intense because of that. I knew Amias came from a wealthy family; Nolan had told us that he, Jackson, and Hayes were all trust-fund babies. He hated that he had to have a job to pay for his living expenses because Daddy paid for school. And, yet, Amias had no problem cleaning the table or throwing out the trash like Nolan did.

"And you fell for me?"

"Hard."

He nuzzled my hair and cupped my ass, stroking the crease in between, jumpstarting my arousal all over again.

"I saw less of you once Nolan moved into your place," I mused. "I missed seeing you, but you still came by with him once in a while. He loved living with you guys. He'd tell us about how great the house was; so much better than our place. It was expensive but he was so enamored."

"Nolan stayed for free in our house; we'd decided upon that because we knew his financial situation and—"

I pushed up and sat, not caring my boobs were on display. "What?"

"What?"

"Nolan didn't have to pay rent?"

"No. We took care of it. I mean…we had the money and…what?"

"I'm so angry with him. He made Daddy feel guilty because he had to work to pay rent and living expenses when you all didn't have to."

Amias frowned.

"Yeah, Nolan told us he was paying rent. Daddy sent him money for that whenever he could. I didn't have a college fund because of Nolan, which is fine, but he didn't have to make our father feel bad. That was despicable."

"Your brother is a bigger asshole than I thought. Fucking hell, Naya. I can't believe I've stayed friends with him…but he was part of the group, and…." He pulled me back down to hold me. "I'm so sorry, baby."

"I asked him to pay for part of Daddy's medical bills, and he said he bought a house, so he had no money."

"He bought a house he can't afford," Amias muttered.

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