Page 76 of Callow

“I guess I can make you some when we get home.”

God, that felt both weird and wonderful to say.

Whenwegot home.

The onlyweI’d been a part of for sixteen years had been just me and Daphne. It was strange, in a very cool way, to involve someone else in that.

Especially when that someone was a man like Callow.

There was a knock somewhere down the hall, making me stiffen.

“Housekeeping!”

I popped up, looking down at Callow.

“Did you put the sign on the door?” I asked, seeing the answer on his face before he even said it. “Shit,” I said, rolling off of him and the bed as a whole, landing on my knees besidethe bed, quickly gathering my clothes and rushing toward the bathroom.

Callow was a lot more casual.

By the time I got fully back into my uniform, he’d just barely pulled on his pants and was making his way to the door to slip the sign on.

“Little late now,” I whispered with a smile as I moved toward the door with him. “Let them clean it,” I added, leaning up to press a kiss to his lips. “Do I look presentable?”

“You look happily fucked,” he told me, chuckling. “But put together,” he added, then leaned out the door to check to see if the coast was clear. “I’ll see you down there in five,” he said. “Now… run.”

I didn’t need to be told twice.

I booked it down the hallway as quietly as possible.

I was just inside the elevator car when the door two down from Callow opened and Maria came out, humming softly to herself.

Feeling like I’d just gotten away with something incredibly naughty, I smiled the whole way back down to the lobby.

Hell, I was pretty sure I smiled through the rest of my shift.

We got confirmation that Daphne was safely at the gym with the twins being replaced by Sully and Nave as well as the women at the gym, so we took a quick segue to the grocery store before we picked her up, getting the ingredients for dinner and the cookies I still owed Callow.

When we pulled up out front of the gym, Daphne made her way out and climbed into the backseat, leaning between the two of us like we were going to engage in some light gossip.

“Sooo… how was work?” she asked.

I swear all the blood in my body rushed to my cheeks, making me have to turn to look out the window to hide my predicament as Callow tried to keep his lips from curving into a smile.

“Good,” I said.

“Just good?” she asked, sounding disappointed. Though I had no idea what she’d been expecting.

“Yeah. It was, ah, normal,” I added. “How was school and the gym?”

“Well, you can say that some of the girls are really jealous that two guys as hot as Rune and Croft are hanging out with me.”

“And I’m assuming you did nothing to squash those rumors?”

“What was I supposed to say? That they’re my bodyguards?” she shot back.

“Touché,” I agreed. “We’re making tacos for dinner.”

“Oh,weare, arewe?”

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