Page 87 of Edge of Darkness

“Mother of all.” Kit took a big gulp of his coffee. “I may never leave the house again.”

“Naw.” Connie bumped shoulders with Kit. “You don’t have to worry. That’s why you have us. And we have a Hudson.”

Hudson nodded seriously. “I’ll happily torch anything or anyone that threatens you.” He even let smoke drift from his nose to make his point.

“I don’t know why you think that’s comforting,” Kit spluttered, his eyes wide. “But thanks. I think. Could be useful at a bonfire, I guess.”

The grin Hudson flashed Kit was positively evil. Eventually, his mate would figure out how useful he was.

Beckett joined them a few minutes later, and the conversation lightened up again. Audrey and Sheila said their goodbyes once they were done eating.

A few minutes after that, Kit also finished breakfast, so Hudson and Connie walked with him and Beckett to Beckett’s vehicle.

“Seven tonight, don’t forget,” Hudson said, patting Kit on the back.

“Casual,” Connie said. “Very, very casual too. Seriously, no one is going to side-eye you if you wear sweatpants. Did I mention casual?”

“Any particular color sweatpants?” Kit joked.

Hudson looked at Connie, confused. “Whatever color you happen to have is fine.”

Kit laughed. “Sure thing. I can do that. Yup.”

Connie shrugged as he opened Kit’s door for him.

“Guys, do yourselves a favor and Google men wearing gray sweatpants,” Kit said as he got into Beckett’s vehicle. “I’ll see you tonight.”

Beckett was laughing as he got behind the wheel.

Hudson waved as Beckett and Kit drove off. Connie was madly typing on his phone.

“Oh, fuck me,” Connie growled, handing his cell phone to Hudson. “What the fuck have we done?”

Hudson read what Connie had pulled up on Google, then looked at various pictures. Growling, he inhaled deeply, held it, then slowly blew out his breath.

Laughing softly, he handed Connie back his cell phone. “What’s this ‘we’ business? That was all you. And by the way? To save time, maybe you should wear your swim trunks in case hedoesshow up in sweats.”

“For a fire dragon, I’ve certainly spent a lot of time in the damn water.”

Tonight was definitely going to be interesting.

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE -CONNIE

CONNIE WAS still grumbling as he followed Hudson back into the house.

It was a good thing they had work or Connie would’ve probably spent the entire morning on the Internet looking at pictures of men in gray sweatpants.

How in the world had he not known this was a thing? He did social media, but apparently, he wasn’t doing therightkind of social media.

If Kit showed up in gray sweatpants, Connie was done. Toast. He’d spend the entire night in the damn pool, no kidding. Shit. On second thought, maybe his reaction and lack of control would convince Kit they were really interested in him—that was if Kit still didn’t know.

Or it could scare him to death.

Hopefully, the conversation they needed to have with Kit about Lennox wouldn’t kill the mood because Connie was really,reallyhoping they could be intimate with Kit in some form or fashion tonight.

THE MORNING went quickly, and lunch was approaching when Hudson got a call from Kage. Since Connie was in Hudson’s office, he overheard the conversation, of course.

“Kage is coming?”

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