Page 25 of Marcus in Retrograde
“Jesus Christ.”
Running into the kitchen, I quickly filled the water and bowl, where Pollux was happy to occupy himself. I made sure the living room light was on, the doors closed and—locking the door—made a mad dash the ten feet to my apartment door and slammed it.
Marcus Chastain lived across the landing from me.
Fuck.
How had I not recognized his voice? I listened to those books at least once a week, and I didn’t recognize him!
Because he wasn’t whispering about stretching your pretty hole to fit his cock and tempting me with slick fingers over mine.
Holy crap on a cracker, the fly of my pants was making impressions on my dick. This was bad. This was really bad. My neighbor had one of the sexiest voices on the damn planet and now all I was going to do was strain to hear that when he was in the room with me.
I thumped my head back against the door.
Doomed.Dooooooomed.
Taking several long, slow breaths, I managed to calm my heart rate and get my erection to deflate. I could not be caught with that kind ofafflictionwhen my friends came over to help me move rooms.
It was probably better that I was moving my bed away from his living room wall.
Less chance of him hearing me furiously jerk off to one of his books.
Oh, God.
* * *
Kieran lookedbetween Noah and Uriah and back again. I tried not to laugh. Jace wasn’t so lucky, and Vin fell in right behind him.
“You’ve never seen identical twins before?” they chorused.
Kieran burst out laughing with Jace and Vin. “You did that on purpose.”
“Of course, we did,” they spoke together again.
“I like to call them Tomax and Xamot,” Maddox said, gesturing with his beer. “They do that creepy twin shit all the time.”
I could also see that Kieran was utterly star struck with Maddox sitting there on the edge of my couch. To us, he was just Madd, but to the rest of the world, he was Maddox Jones, the lead singer of Robot Servant. Currently, two songs on the charts and two gold records on his wall at home. He and the band were working on a new album that everyone was sure was going to go platinum.
I hoped it did. He deserved it after all he’d been through.
“I think the place turned out pretty well,” Vin said. “It’s a little weird to have to go into the kitchen through the bedroom, but at least the dog is further away.”
“I might actually get a full night’s sleep!” I clapped my hands in delight.
“That was very gay of you,” Uriah deadpanned.
We all burst out laughing. Everyone in the roomwasgay or bi, with the exception of Maddox.
Vin put his beer down, and stood. “I have to be the party pooper, you guys. I have a tough case coming up and I need to prep. I need a metric ton of precedent to get my client cleared, and I’m behind.”
“Ha, you said prep.” Noah giggled.
Vin rolled his eyes. “Yeah, this one is figuratively being screwed in the ass. I feel for this woman. I wish we had the resources of the other law team because what’s going down isn’t anywhere near right.” He let out a sigh. “Anyway, attorney client privilege and all that. I got reading.”
“Thanks for coming over, man,” I said, walking him to the front door. “I really appreciate it.”
“No biggie.” He nodded. “Sleep is important and you’re a nice guy for not making Butthead get rid of the dog.”
