Page 43 of Not That Complicated

“You’re not going to invite me to join you?” He shifted, putting his hard, flat belly in line with my eyes.

“For a threesome?” I whisper-shrieked. “No! This is our first date! A bit early to open up the relationship, don’t you think?”

Nash made a gagging noise. “Gross, Adam.”

Adam’s lips twitched. “I meant for a pint,” he said. He stuck out his tongue at Nash.

Nash shuddered.

“Nice to see you’re not everyone’s type,” I said, feeling oddly triumphant as I smiled over at Nash.

AtLiam.

Adam shifted again, drawing my attention back to him. “Interesting to hear that you’re up for a threesome so long as it’s after the first date.”

“I didn’t say that.” I sort of had, hadn’t I? “I did not say that.”

Adam pursed his lips consideringly. “It sounded that way to me.”

“You’re reaching. And you’re dreaming. I’d never have a threesome with you.”

“I know. You’d want all my attention to yourself.” Keeping his eyes on mine, he said to Nash, “He’s a bit of an attention ho, Liam. Very demanding.”

“Excuse you?” I said. “You were the one making all the demands, if I recall. And the reason we won’t all be jumping into bed together is because out of the two of us, you’re the attention ho.” I waved my hands incoherently at him. I’d shuffled around in my seat and somehow Adam had ended up standing between my knees, smiling down at me with an evil glint in his hazel eyes. Or soft. No, evil.Evil. “Look at you, in your...your—” I flicked his thigh, “—stupid tight jeans. And you’re wearing glitter, aren’t you?”

“Your jeans are pretty tight, Adam,” Liam said.

Adam ignored him. “I’m not wearing glitter. It’s youthful radiance, oozing out of my pores.”

I growled. “Well, you…”

“I…?”

Why? Why did my IQ plunge like this whenever he was near?

I groped desperately for the thread of our conversation. Attention ho. Right. “And as well as being an attention ho,” I said, “you are way too bossy for a threesome. That’s a given. You’d lie around, telling people what to do, giving them orders and making everyoneserviceyou or whatever.”

“I do like giving orders, Ray, but you know very well that I’m not the type to lie around.”

“You probably wouldn’t even let anyone else have an orgasm.”

“Let?” Nash said wonderingly.

“Could I stop you, though?” Adam said. “You do get yourself worked up.”

“You, me and Nash? Not happening. Right?” I said to Liam.

“Yeah,” he said. “But mostly because Adam’s my cousin. I’d have to arrest myself.”

“Oh.” I smacked Adam’s thigh. “Are you depraved? Stop trying to sleep with everyone, what is the matter with you? He’s yourcousin! Do you need help?”

“If you’re offering—”

“Adam,” Liam interrupted. “Go away, will you?”

I glanced over at Liam, suddenly and sickeningly aware of how badly I was behaving.

“In a minute.” Adam’s cool fingers caught my chin and turned my face to his. Startled, I held on to his wrist.

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