Page 29 of Lords of Misrule
“I’m sure it was innocent. He’s so caught up on Sophia I don’t think anyone else even registers for him.” Finn dismisses it out of hand.
“Oh she fucking registers for him.” I’ve seen the way Hudson looks at her.
Finn’s smile flatlines, and he shakes his head, staring up at the ceiling. He never likes to say anything ill of Hudson. He’s the good one of the three of us. The least broken and the most put together on any given day. Finn won’t entertain the idea that he’ll ever do anything disloyal.
“Do we need to talk about this?” He waves a hand between us.
“We share her. If it becomes a problem, we talk about it then.”
Finn gives me a silent look of disbelief.
“Is it a problem now?” There’s a testiness to my tone because I feel like I’ve been more than fair.
“Just that you’ve never been much for sharing.”
“Not like we haven’t before. That one vacation we took where everyone was paired up except the one chick when we got snowed in. What was her name? Brandy? Britney?”
“That was under unusual circumstances.”
“And this isn’t? We need her. She needs us. And we all have to believe that we won’t fuck each other over.” I pour myself a glass of whiskey and offer him one. He takes it, sipping it slowly where I take a long swallow and pour another.
“You know you can trust Hudson and me.”
“And I can trust her more when I know where she sleeps and who she fucks.”
“Oh yeah. That definitely seemed like a real fucking chore for you. Her suddenly icing out the professor will also help our cause.”
“It certainly wasn’t a fucking chore for you, was it?”
“I like her. Did before all this. I told you that upfront. I’ve never hidden that from you.”
“So you want her to keep fucking the professor? Putting his grimy fucking hands all over her?” I try to derail this conversation. I don’t have time for it.
“I’m just saying if you have feelings for her, be honest.”
“I’ve always been honest with you. If I’m stupid enough to catch feelings over her, I’ll let you know. Right now I just like how tight her cunt is and the way her tits bounce when she rides me. You’re the one who wants to buy her fucking flowers.”
“I might.” A grin spreads over his face at the idea, and I shake my head. Another whisper of apprehension that I’ve driven the two of them together.
“Knock yourself out.”
“I’m gonna go say my goodnights to people and then check on her and make sure she’s okay after that.”
I nod and watch him as he disappears out the door. He can buy her all the fucking flowers he wants to. I have other things I’ll get her if I’m so inclined. Things only I can give her—like blackberries for one.
Seventeen
Finn
I’m waiting for her, leaning against the door frame when she gets out of the shower, and she wraps the towel tighter around herself when she sees me. Her eyes shift to me nervously and this is exactly why I came in here.
“Hey,” I say softly.
“Hey,” she answers. “I was going to go to your room after I changed.” She nods to the clothes she keeps in Rowan’s closet. Another power move on his part when she moved in.
“I wasn’t sure, and I just wanted to check on you.”
She turns her back to me as she pulls underwear, a tee, and shorts out of a drawer in the closet and then shifts the towel to start putting them on. I walk up behind her, grabbing the sides of her shoulders and placing a kiss on the right one.
