Page 55 of My Hunger, Your Soul

“Because you are totally unaware of basic human emotion, like it's abnormal,” Dima says.

“You’re one to talk. I haven’t seen much emotion from you two in all the years we’ve known each other.”

“Yeah, but I’m smug now that I have Seb.”

“You mean dick whipped,” Lev retorts.

“Oh and you’re not obsessed with the doe?” Dima argues. The two hardmen of this family now sound like ten year old boys.

“Yes, but a reasonable and appropriate amount. I don’t love bomb him everyday,” Lev defends.

“Are you saying I’m soft?”

“That's one way to put it. I’m more of an alpha,” Lev teases, and I can’t help but chuckle.

“You two need to stop before the guys get here,” I say, trying to diffuse the situation before it intensifies. As it normally does.

“I’ll go wait with Jules,” Lev says and he leaves the room.

“So, are you and Tyler together?” Dima asks.

“Yeah.”

“I mean, does he know you’re together and is in agreement?”

“I told him we were together and he hasn’t protested. Too much. I think maybe I should move him in here with me until the house is finished, if that's okay with you?”

“Moving in together? Isn’t it a bit soon?”

“No sooner than when you moved Seb in here when you stole him off the street.”

“I didn’t steal him, but I take your point.”

“I don’t know how to keep him though, you know, in case he tries to run off.”

“Do you think he’ll try to run?”

“I don’t know. If you'd asked me a week ago, I would've said yes. But this week he’s been more touchy, clingy.”

“You should be okay. He sounds like he’s in love with you, and that is the key.”

“Love? Really?”

“Don’t ask me, I’m just guessing. But that's how Seb was with me when he admitted it.”

“Huh. Good to know. Do I need to say it back?”

Dima looks at me with a flat face, no reaction. But I feel a wave of judgement in his aura or whatever you call it.

“Are you fucking with me or is that a serious question?

“I wouldn't ask if it was a joke.”

“Of course you tell him, I mean, do you love him?”

“What’s the checklist for being in love?”

Dima shakes his head and groans in frustration. I don’t know why he's so annoyed.

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