Page 24 of Fluttering Heart

“Are you taking me for soup?”Finn asks. He’s on his side, head leaning on his hand and his other hand busy stroking my chest.

I sigh in contentment, and nod.

“I think we should go tonight. I need to go to work tomorrow, and I mean, I could take you tomorrow night, but I don’t know if you need to go back to Crushville in the morning?—”

He kisses my rambling thoughts away, and leaves me a little dazed when he pulls back.

“How about I tell you what I’d like us to do and then you amend to what you’re comfortable with okay?”

“Yeah, okay.”

“So I’d like to stay here tonight, sleep next to you again?—”

“I thought that was a given,” I protest.

“Well, I don’t want you to feel obligated. I could get a hotel room.”

“You’ll do no such thing,” I say, louder this time.

“Okay, then I’ll stay here tonight. We can make soup or something simple for dinner. Then tomorrow when you go to work, I’d like to stay here and work a little myself. Then when you get back, we go to that soup place you’ve been teasing me with, then we come back here to... sleep,” he says suggestively and I can’t keep the giggle in.

“I like that plan very much so far.”

“That’s good cutie, but I have one more thing.”

“Okay. I’m listening.”

“Then on Wednesday morning, we drive over to Crushville and we can work from my place there, and then I can take you out to my favorite restaurant. How do you feel about that plan?”

“It sounds perfect.”

CHAPTER 13

Finn

Beau

Stop worrying about me, I’m fine.

Finn

You’re not fine, and don’t tell me not to worry, that’s stupid.

Beau

Focus on your new boyfriend and leave me alone.

God,he can be so fucking infuriating.

Especially when he’s half right. He always manages to make me feel like it’s a full win when he isn’t.

I should focus on Lou at the moment, I know that, but I also know I should be worried about Beau. Since I didn’t go back to Crushville with him yesterday when we got back from Vegas, I have no clue how getting home went for him.

Since Tanner is—or maybe was—his roommate, I told him he could stay at my place, and he even did me a solid this morning on the house front, but he hasn’t said anything about his loft. About whether Tanner is there or if Lu has tried to talk to him—the adultering meanie not my Lou, and the fact that their names are so similar would be creepy if I didn’t already know that they’re complete opposites.

Except maybe ithasbeen weird for Beau. God, I didn’t even think about that when I introduced them during the weekend.

But those are all things I should know, things I should be supporting my brother through. Instead I’m... falling in love.

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