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Chris stood in the doorway and watched Shane sleeping peacefully on the bed. He couldn’t suppress his sigh of relief. It was the best sight ever. Chris said a quick thanks to all the angels as he toed off his loafers. After getting rid of an upset Tracy and firing his silly housekeeper, he’d almost gone insane with worry when he couldn’t find Shane. Chris’ only consolation was that he knew for a fact that Shane hadn’t left the house. After moving from room to room, he finally found Shane in one of the rooms…fast asleep.
Chris climbed into the bed and spooned behind Shane, wrapping an arm around Shane’s waist. His intention wasn’t to wake Shane up. He only wanted to feel Shane’s body close to his. Fuck, Shane smelled divine, Chris moaned. He almost groaned when there was a hitch in Shane’s even breathing, indicating that he’d probably woken up. His fears were confirmed when Shane began to turn around in his arms. Chris really wasn’t looking forward to the anger he knew Shane would have towards him. Who wouldn’t be angry after witnessing what Shane had? With a sigh, he got ready for whatever Shane had to say.
Shane wriggled till he was on his side, facing Chris. “Hey.” Came his sleepy voice.
“Hey,” Chris responded softly as his hand moved up to caress Shane’s cheek. “You okay?”
“Uh-huh. Your visitor gone?” Shane mumbled, watching the wariness in Chris’ eyes.
“Yes.” Chris sighed. “I’m sorry about that. I didn’t know…”
“That’s alright,” Shane murmured. “Just tell me one thing.”
“Shoot.”
“If I hadn’t been here, would you have…”
“Hell no,” Chris growled. “How can you even ask that?”
“I just wanted to know that’s all. Chill.”
“Well before…us, I would have done it without a thought. But not now.” Chris said quietly
“Okay.” Shane yawned.
“You’ve been sleeping for about…”Chris looked at his wristwatch, “forty-five minutes. What makes you think I didn’t fuck her?” Chris asked with a smile in his voice.
“You wouldn’t dare,” Shane growled, drawing laughter from Chris. “I trust you.” He added quietly.
“Well, you should. Because the mere thought of having sex with anyone else besides you turns my stomach. Trust me…I’ve tried.” Chris muttered.
Shane went quiet for a moment and then shocked Chris with his next question. “Do you like dirty talk during sex?”
“Whoa… I don’t know. I’ve never thought about it. Why do you ask?” Chris sounded curious.
“Your visitor…she was talking dirty. Don’t worry, she didn’t know it wasn’t you. She had a blindfold on.” Shane explained.
Chris chuckled. “Listen, I think I need to explain…”
“You don’t have to explain yourse…”
“Shut up, Shane.” Chris breathed as he pulled Shane closer to him. “I need you to listen. I can count the number of real relationships I’ve been in, on one hand. I don’t have time for the stress that comes with relationships so I hardly do relationships. Most of my encounters have been mere hook-ups.”
“You mean fuck-buddies.” Shane said dryly.
Chris shrugged. “I don’t mean to disappoint you but that has been my life. The kind of women who would settle for mere hook-ups or as fuck-buddies as you so crassly put it, are just crazy fun-loving girls who can say or do anything crazy during sex and get away with it. I don’t usually pay attention to what they say ’cause I usually just wanna fuck and move on. So I really can’t tell whether I like dirty talk during sex. Tell you what… Why don’t you try it one day? Talk dirty to me during sex. Then we’ll both know whether it rocks my boat. How about that?”
“Okay.” Shane chuckled. “Chris?”
“Yes, baby?”
“I promise not to stress you out in this relationship,” Shane said softly.
“Oh baby, you can stress me all you want. I ain’t going nowhere.” Chris drawled, making Shane laugh softly.
“That was one hot chic, by the way,” Shane murmured.
“Don’t tell me she turned you on,” Chris growled. “‘Cause she sure as hell didn’t turn me on. I was pissed as fuck.”
“Of course you would be pissed. After all, you didn’t know how your boyfriend was going to react to that.” Shane chuckled.
“God, I almost died when I heard her voice. I’m so sorry I put you through that. I’ve fired the housekeeper.”
“Why?”
“I’ve warned her not to allow anyone who doesn’t have a key to the house, into the house when I’m not around. Apparently, Tracy has been bribing her with money to allow her to come in. Can’t trust her now, can I?”
“People have keys to the house?”
“Kyle, Dean, Matt, and Mary, Michael’s wife,” Chris muttered.
“Your cousin. Why not the others?”
“I had only four spares. Had another set made two weeks ago. For you.” Chris said.
“Thanks,” Shane said quietly. “I don’t think I can ever enter your bedroom and not picture your visitor in my mind though.”
“Well, that problem can be rectified. You see, if we had gone round, you would have seen the real master bedroom. That’s not the room I’m using now. I only opted to use that room because I could see the…ladies who came to visit, actually catwalk to the house.”
Shane burst into laughter. “Oh my God, you’re an idiot.”
“You should see them walk. One lady wore heels so high, she fell flat on her face before she actually got to the door.” The two men roared with laughter. “I ended up cleaning her cuts and soothing her bruised ego. Didn’t get any that day but was not even disappointed. I laughed my head off when she left.”
“That’s rather unfortunate but still hilarious.” Shane laughed. “Why do they bother?”
“Do I even know?” Chris wiped the tears of mirth from his eyes. “So as I was saying, now that I don’t have to look at girls, cat-walking to my house to fuck me on that bed, I don’t see why I can’t use the real master bedroom. Will you tell your designer to come see me tomorrow?”
“Sure.” Shane chuckled.
“She can work her magic in there. And whilst she’s at it, throw in a Tantra chair.” Chris murmured, moving down to nuzzle the sensitive spot between Shane’s neck and shoulder.
“I knew it.” Shane moaned. “You have such a dirty mind.”
“But you love me anyway.” Chris kissed Shane on the nose.
“With all my heart,” Shane whispered.
“You know, you’re taking this really well. Too well actually.” Chris murmured with a slight frown. “Should I be worried?”
Shane looked surprised for a moment and then laughed quietly. “What can I do, Chris? I know you had a life before all this. I can’t expect everything to go away overnight can I?”
“You’re angry,” Chris stated quietly.
“No, I’m not. If I were angry, you wouldn’t be seeing me like this. Trust me on that.” Shane said dryly. “I’m fine. Really. You didn’t ask her to come and wait for you did you?”
“No, I didn’t.” Chris gave a deep sigh.
“There you go. If you were expecting me to whine like some bitch, I’m sorry but…” Shane shook his head slowly. “Not gonna happen.”
“I should have stopped her the last time she pulled that stunt.” Chris groaned. “I didn’t bother because you and I were not…” Chris trailed off.
“Hey, I understand.” Shane pressed a soft kiss to Chris’ forehead. “Don’t worry about it.”