Page 64 of Devilish

I captured his lips in a reassuring kiss. “Tell you what. Since you’re in the mood to explore, why don’t you come with me to Libertine tonight?”

“Wait, really? Is that allowed?”

“You’re joking, right?”

He chuckled and held his hands up. “What am I thinking? You’re a very important someone at Libertine.”

“Damn right I am,” I said with a grin. “So, you in?”

“I’m in.”

“WELL, LOOK WHO finally decided to come home from his little Monaco vacation,” Benoit Olivier said as the elevator doors opened on the second floor of Libertine. “Tell me, how is our favorite prince faring in the face of so much love and celebration?”

Benoit knew damn well just how Theo would be taking the news of his brother’s upcoming nuptials, hence his sly grin. But just as I was about to answer him, his eyes caught on Kai, who was standing just inside the door, and any talk about the Prince of Monaco—either of them—was instantly forgotten.

“Oh, my apologies,” he said as he stepped inside to join us. “I didn’t realize you had company, Lucien.”

The doors slid shut behind him, and they were so shiny that they showed off the back of his designer cape as though he werestanding in front of a mirror. Similar to myself, Benoit had a fondness for fine materials and top-notch designers, but where I was more subdued in my colors, gravitating toward blacks and deep tones, Benoit had a flair for the dramatic. Bright colors and swirling capes were an everyday accessory for him.

I looked at Kai watching Benoit, taking in the vivacious man standing in front of him.

“Kai, this is Benoit.”

“Another brother of yours?” Kai said softly, and I couldn’t help but grin, because look at my boy catching on to the kind of men I associated with.

“From a different mother,mon cher,” Benoit said, holding a hand out to Kai. “That’s for sure.”

Kai reached out to shake Benoit’s hand. But instead, the cheeky bastard brought the hand up to his lips to kiss, just as the elevator stoppedagain.

“Jesus,” I muttered. “Is this thing going to stop at every floor today?”

“Why are you so grumpy?” Benoit said as the doors opened.“You just got back from vacation.”

I wasn’t grumpy, per se, but I had been trying to get to the fifth floor without a whole lot of eyes on us. The last thing I needed was a bunch of nosy assholes asking questions Kai didn’t want to answer, and with this lot, you never knew how far they were going to go.

“Well I’ll be damned,” Benoit said as the doors opened and the two men standing outside came into view. “If it isn’t Daddy FILTH and his PYT. My night just keeps getting better and better.”

While mine was getting more and more annoying as the handsome man in the impeccable suit greeted us with a smile and nod, then stepped inside the elevator with his boyfriend’s hand in his.

It wasn’t that I had anything against Archer Carrington—in fact, he was one of my favorite members of Libertine, along with Preston Abernathy. But right now they were seriously cramping my space…literally.

Kai shifted closer to me and mouthed,Daddy FILTH?

I leaned down and whispered in his ear, “Father I’d Like To Hit.”

Kai’s eyes widened as he looked between Preston and Archer. “That’s hisfather?”

A burst of laughter left me. Archer and Preston’s story was complicated, but one thing was for sure—they werenotrelated.

“No, no.” I pulled Kai in and pressed a kiss to his temple. “I’ll explain later.”

“Something amusing, Lucien?” Benoit said as the three turned in our direction.

“Nothing I’m about to tell you.”

“Hmm, fine. Keep your secrets. All of them.” His eyes swept down over Kai. “If you must.”

“I must.”

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