Page 46 of Lost In The Dark

I knew the answer he wanted, so I gave it, hoping to please him and keep that huge smile on his handsome face.

“Both,” I told him.

“Yes! I knew you were perfect, princess!” he declared excitedly as he smiled even wider, then hurried back to the kitchen.

“He’s a little crazy, huh?” I laughed as I looked up to Adam. He towered over me by almost a full foot. It was an odd feeling for someone who had always been one of the tallest girls in school.

“You get used to it,” Adam shrugged.

“He makes me smile,” I told him as the thought occurred to me. “You all do. It…it’s nice.” Even in the horror that my mind had become, being with the guys that surrounded me had made me smile more in the last week that I had in a month in my ordinary life. It felt foreign, but so very good.

“Then we’re at least doing something right,” Adam said as he helped me down onto the sofa and quickly grabbed a soft wool blanket which he wrapped around me. “Are you warm enough? I should crank the heat,” he added as he pulled his cell from his pocket. I knew they could all control the heat from an app, since Eli was always doing it when he decided I needed to be warmer.

“I’m fine,” I assured him. “The heat alone must be costing a fortune since I moved in here.”

“I think we can afford to make sure you’re warm, honey,” Adam scoffed, just as Jordan came back in with a huge tray, piled high with food.

“Jesus Jord. It’s almost midnight. We can’t eat all of that sugar,” Adam gasped, but Jordan just smiled as he started unloading everything. There were the two tubs of ice cream, along with bowls filled with candy and chocolate. There were also bags of chips and a whole mix of sodas.

“I can!” he told Adam delightedly. “And Addy here is gonna help me, right?”

“I have the chocolate covered,” I agreed as I grabbed a bowl and tucked in.

“Mi’lady,” Jordan said as he did some extravagant bow and held a can of my precious soda out for me. I wouldn’t ordinarily drink the caffeine so late, but I wanted to stay awake that night. The idea of falling asleep again terrified me.

“Thank you, kind sir,” I played along as I took the soda and opened it.

“What are we watching?” Jordan asked as he settled into the seat right beside me, so close our thighs were almost touching. I waited for the panic to come, but it didn’t.

“Don’t know. Let Addy pick,” Adam said as he handed the TV control over. “You good if I sit here?” Adam asked as he patted the seat on my other side and I nodded. As he sat I waited again for fear, but none came and I let out a sigh at the obvious fact I was coming to trust the two of them. It would make things easier for all of us if I were comfortable with everyone who lived in the house.

“What do you want to watch?” Jordan asked as he brought up a screen filled with movies on the huge TV which was opposite us.

“Something that’ll keep me awake. Maybe something action?” I suggested.

“Fuck! You really are perfect. Marry me?” Jordan joked as he batted his eyelashes at me.

“Sorry, I have firm plans to become one of those ladies who lives alone and has a million cats…or maybe dogs. Cats don’t generally like me,” I admitted with a laugh.

“I’m good with dogs,” Jordan shrugged.

“Then maybe you can visit me sometimes.”

“I like dogs too,” Adam told me, and when I turned to him, he was smiling brightly.

“Fine, you can visit too, but how am I going to be a lonely, crazy dog woman if you all keep coming to keep me company?” I teased.

“We are never going to let you be a lonely anything, Addy. You’re stuck with us now. We’re not going anywhere.” Adam leaned in and kissed the top of my head, and I knew I was blushing. That small gesture was so different when it wasn’t my brother doing it. The fact the guy who had done it was hotter than sin, wasn’t lost on me either, but I pushed the thought away. He was just being kind and I was about as far away from wanting a relationship as anyone could be.

“If you won’t marry me, you’ll just have to accept me as your friend,” Jordan told me dramatically when I looked back to him.

“I can live with that,” I nodded as I looked between them both happily. Friends. That was good. I was going to need friends in the coming weeks.

“Live with what?” Asher asked as he appeared at the foot of the stairs. Eli was right behind him. They’d both changed from their suits into shorts and t-shirts, and they looked so much more relaxed.

“I asked Addy to marry me, but she wants to be a crazy dog lady,” Jordan explained with an exaggerated sigh and an adorable pout.

“Dog lady?” Eli asked, looking confused.

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