Page 18 of Never Too Late for Love
He switched to rubbing Tilly’s left foot after a time. Eventually, he heard the utility room door open and close. Whoever had returned hadn’t tried to be quiet this time.
Then the master bedroom door opened and closed.
Ah, my sweet Cristo.
After another long moment, the utility room door opened and closed again, but this time took longer, like someone had a heavily laden laundry basket in their arms and had to stop and turn to catch the door and pull it shut behind them.
And there’s Bob.
The master bedroom door opened, but didn’t close.
Cris finally reappeared in the living room and settled in one of the recliners.
“Work all done then, love?” Landry asked.
“For now. I might need to call in on the afternoon conference bridge.”
“He busted you,” Tilly said.
“Huh?”
“Technically, darling, you busted them for me,” Landry corrected. “I wasn’t even sure. I suspected you saw them, and then you came to me looking for a foot rub to keep me distracted. I simply guessed, and from your reaction, I knew.”
She stared at him. “Wow. You’re sneakier than I thought.”
“I have to be, with you three around. Otherwise, you’d all run roughshod over me quite easily.” He smiled. “Though I didn’t say I don’t enjoy the game, darling.”
Cris slowly shook his head, the handsome, amused smile Landry had first fallen in love with so many years ago creasing his face. “You’re something, Lan.”
“And did you have fun?”
Cris’ smile widened, and he nodded.
“Good. Love, would you like to tell him the plan?”
“Let’s get Bob in here first.”
Landry wouldn’t deny a little jolt of sadistic satisfaction when he knew from Cris’ face he—erroneously—assumed Tilly would be announcing a drop of that final restriction. Except that wasn’t something they’d discuss with KC around, obviously.
Bob joined them a moment later, looking adorably flushed in the cheeks, the way he always did for a short time after having had a couple of orgasms.
“Good, we’re all here,” Landry said. “Love?”
She looked up at Bob. “Landry and Cris are coming to spend the week in LA with us,” she said. “He’s got stuff he can do out there. Bonus—it means you have extra backup for KC and can spend more time with me at the office focusing on learning operations out there.”
Landry studied Cris as she made the announcement, glad to see a little disappointment on Cris’ expression that he quickly schooled into agreement.
Good.
Landry had wondered at first if Cris would have a problem seeing Bob with Tilly. Cris’ reaction had just confirmed to Landry that wouldn’t be the case. Add in the fact that being able to also play with Bob, once that restriction was dropped, would help bring them all closer.
As much as he wanted that restriction to end, he didn’t want it to fall at the cost of creating a chasm between any of them.
Now they simply had to wait Tilly out.
* * * *
Bob hoped Landry wasn’t too disappointed in them going off alone for a little while. It would be nice having him and Cris in LA with them, able to help with KC and help reassure him he wasn’t letting Tilly down.
