Page 123 of Insatiable Park Avenue Prince

“Is something going on, Gav? Did Joey blow you off again last night?”

My brother looked up at me from the bite of food he’d just heaped onto his fork. “Why?”

“Oh, I don’t know, you just seem a bit…pissed off at the world.”

Kelly snorted and shook his head. “So subtle, Donovan.”

“What? He does. I mean, Jesus, is it a crime I’m happy to see my boyfriend?”

“No, but it should be a crime that I’m going to have to hear you welcome him home for the next twelve hours,” Gavin retorted.

I was just about done with his surly attitude. “You know, if you hate living here so much, why don’t you move out?”

“Oh, okay, and where would I go? Back home with Mom and Dad? You’d love that, wouldn’t you?”

“Actually, that’s not a bad idea.” I fumed. “I’ve been begging Kelly to move in for the last couple of months, and you know what? I think he’d say yes if you weren’t here giving him such a hard time every time he stayed the night.”

“Okay, boys.” Kelly put his hands up. “There’s no need to bring me into this.”

“Tell me it’s not true, then,” I said. “Because I can’t think of any other reason.”

“Donovan, I told you—”

“That you weren’t going to move in with me right away, I know. But that’s because it was too soon and you wanted to make sure I didn’t get sick of you.” I reached for his hand and brushed his palm over my erection. “Does itfeellike I’m sick of you?”

“See?” Gavin pointed his fork at us. “This is what I mean. You can’t have one conversation without making it…sexual. It makes me—”

“Jealous?”

“Want to gag.”

“That’s not my problem.” I smirked. “But you might want to work on that for Joey.”

Gavin’s expression turned stormy then. His grey eyes resembled thunderclouds.

He was good and pissed. I couldn’t remember the last time he and I had gone head to head, but we seemed about due.

“You know what, you’re right. I do think it’s time we had a bit of space.”

Really?I mean, if he wanted to move back in with Mom and—

“Daire has a spare room. I’ll move in with him.”

My eyes widened, and then I burst out laughing. “Daire?Good luck with that.”

“I’m serious. He’s got a room. So, that’s what I’m going to do.”

I’d known Gavin was over Kelly and I being all heart eyes and handsy, but really? Daire?

“Gavin,” Kelly said. “I don’t want you to feel like you have to leave because of me. I don’t want to kick you out of your place.”

That Kelly was now apologizing for showing me affection made me want to drag Gavin out of there and kick his ass. How long had I been putting up with him and Joey? Granted, they weren’t the showy types, but that wasn’t my fault. If he wanted to engage in a little PDA, I wouldn’t stop him.

“You’re not kicking me out.” Gavin looked back at me. “You and Kelly are great together, but if you want to moveintogether, then I need to go.”

“But—”

“Ineedto go.” He picked up his plate and made his way around the counter. “I’ll talk to Daire later today.”

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