Page 103 of The Blame Game

“Yeah. Why? You don’t?” Nico asked.

Jonah shook his head. “Well, I’ve never tried it but I don’t think so. I mean, I guess it’s one thing if people overhear but –”

“Oh, we know that’s your kink. The whole damn team knows when you and Felix are having sex on the road.” Matty snorted. “We can hear it halfway down the hall.”

Felix grinned. “I still can’t believe we’re that loud.”

“Believe it,” Dom said, rolling his eyes and stabbing an asparagus spear. “So loud.”

“Seriously,” Nico said, looking around the table. “None of you have had sex with someone else watching?”

Matty’s ears turned red. “I mean, not unless they were joining us. And that was only that one time with Courtney that I don’t want to think about anymore. That’s in the past.”

“No, threesomes are different,” Nico argued. “I mean like … being on display. That’s why Auggie and I went to the sex club last summer.”

“God. You would want people to watch you getting railed.” Felix laughed, shaking his head. “Show-off.”

“What can I say.” Nico shot the table a sly grin. “I’m hot stuff and the world would be a sadder place if people couldn’t enjoy my gloriousness.”

“Yeah, yeah.” Jordan let out a derisive little noise. “So you claim.”

“No, it’s true!” Nico said. “It’s practically a public service. Oh! And get this. One time when we went to the club we ran into another NHL couple.”

Dustin blinked. “Who?”

“Well, I’m not telling you,” Nico protested. “I mean, the player is out and everyone knows he and his boyfriend are together but I’m not gonna blab about who gets up to what in the off-season.”

“Well, now we know Nico’s not the one leaking shit to the gossip sites,” Jonah said with a rueful grin.

Nico made a face. “Eww. No. People should have whatever privacy they want. I’m still not over the fact that literally everyone I know saw Skylar and I fuck on a balcony. My aunt has seen it. I mean, she swears she closed out of the tab immediately once it started playing but –”

He shuddered and everyone at the table did too.

“Holy shit.” Dustin blanched. “You ran into Trevor Underhill and Wade Cannon last summer?”

Nico stared, bug-eyed, at his captain. “What the fuck, D? How did you figure that out from what I said?”

Dustin made a face. “I was mentally running through the list of out players I know who have a boyfriend not in the league and I remembered that they went to Europe last summer …”

“Your brain is scary,” Matty said admiringly.

“Well, I can’t confirm nor deny anything,” Nico said, brushing his hair out of his eyes. It had grown long again, totally covering the scar from his brain surgery. “But I am going to say, watching the couple was smoking hot and the one guy and I might have given each other handjobs while we were getting railed.”

Nico smiled smugly, like he was feeling very pleased with himself. Dom, on the other hand, was starting to feel incredibly boring in the sack.

Jesus. Being involved with an escort was starting to seem downright tame.

“Yeah, no.” Matty made a face. “I mean, it’s cool if you and August are into that but no way for me and Antoni. No swapping with anyone.”

“We didn’t swap,” Nico protested, sounding indignant. “We just … let the moment take us where it felt good and included a little extra.”

“Isn’t that stuff you should have agreed to before you got into the situation?” Dustin asked with a little frown.

“We did,” Nico protested. “Auggie said he was comfortable with me giving a guy a handjob if I wanted to. We both agreed that if anything changed when we were, you know, in the middle of it or whatever, we’d tell each other and stop. Handjobs were the limit and we both agreed it wouldn’t go further than that. It sounded like, uh, the other couple did something similar. I don’t know! It wasn’t a big deal. It was hot but it’s not like it’s a regular thing. It was … one-off fun, you know?”

“Moving away from public sex,” Dom said because that was firmly in the ‘hell no’ category for him. “What else have you guys done?”

By the end of this, Dom was sure he was going to regret starting this whole discussion but it was almost morbidly fascinating at this point and if he was doing research he might as well try to learn something useful.

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