Page 65 of Craving You
“Yes?”Ross sighs.
“Comparatively speaking, how wrong is it for you to be fucking your boss?”I ask.He opens his mouth to say something but stops, making Cam, Remy, and me laugh.Andrea smiles at him and he shakes his head.“Wanna know how I knew?”
“How?”Ross asks.
“When she made the comment about being in college and dancing before, it was the way you looked at her,” I say.“It’s the same way Remington and Cameron look at me.”
“I think my boss is a bit different than your brother, Lorelei,” he tries to argue.
“Mine is, what… A misdemeanor and maybe a fine?You’d get fired,” I say.
“Is she always like this?”Ross asks Remington and Cameron.
“A brat?Oh yeah,” Remy laughs.“Your secret is safe with us.”
“How did Matthew die?”I ask.
“He was hung,” Ross says simply.I can tell he won’t say anything else, but I do notice he said he was hung and not that he killed himself.So, another murder?Someone is desperately covering up their tracks.
“Get some sleep, guys,” Andrea says.When they go to the door, they stop when I speak.
“Are we good?”I ask.
“Yeah,” Andrea says.“It was a surprise, but you all are consenting and safe.If you get caught by anyone else, we didn’t know shit.Got it?”
“Got it,” I smile.“Thank you.”
“Yeah.Yeah,” Ross says, waving us off.He cracks a smile and winks before leaving the room, making us all laugh.I turn and hit Cam’s arm with a frown.
“Ow!What was that for,” he laughs.“You are the one who was screaming.”
“I was sleeping and minding my own business,” I say but giggle when he shoves me back on the bed and pins my arms above my head as he straddles my body.“I’m sorry I tried to trick you.”
“You actually did,” he laughs.“I didn’t know until you cussed me.”
“Well, damn.”
“We need to talk about this,” he says.
“Is that why you are holding me down?”I ask.
“Yes.Where is your head?”
“I’m going to say this as bluntly as I can… I love you as way more than my brother.You and Remington are my world.I want everything you have to offer, and I don’t care how crazy or twisted that makes me look.I don’t care that it’s forbidden; I just want you.I have spent so long shoving that down and scolding myself when I’d find you attractive or when I’d get happy when I saw you looking at my body… I just want to be happy, and you two make me happy.You can’t knock me up, so we can worry about the rest later,” I say.“Your turn.”
“It’s pretty simply, actually,” he says.“I love you and I have for as long as I can remember.I have known for a very long time that I wanted you, but I didn’t let myself go there.A few times I slipped up and… So, when you woke and thought I was jerking off to Tris… Yeah, that was to you.I had just turned because I thought Tris was awake.Turns out she was and saw that entire thing.”
“You and Remington are so similar,” I laugh.
“Can you really go without being able to publicly claim me?”I ask.“No biological children?”
“I knew I didn’t want kids when I realized I was in love with you,” he says.“As long as I can have you behind closed doors, I will happily look like a bachelor for life.”
“I wish Tris was here,” I say.“I miss her… so much.”
“Me too, sweetie,” he sighs and moves to the bed beside me.
“I’m not ready to say goodbye,” I whisper.“She should be here making incest jokes and making me feel better about this… She was the closest thing to a sister I had… and now she’s gone.”
