Austin’s contractor was cash butt plug guy.
Chapter 15
Austin
Graham had been all smiles and politeflirting the last time we’d all met, but something had changed. As soon as he’dwalked in the room, it was like a switch had been flipped and he’d gottenuncomfortable. What happened?
I wasn’t the only one who noticed, either.Even Wade was giving me questioning looks like he wanted to know what washappening. Bradley had leaned over and asked me if I’d done something kinkywith Graham and Silas and hadn’t told everyone beforehand.
I’d shot him a dirty look but not becauseit was a bad idea. I was pretty sure Silas wouldn’t share, and I wasn’t goingto do anything to fuck up my relationship with him. Especially with someonewho’d always seemed really vanilla.
Right?
But the guy either had some kind of stomachissue hit right as he was walking in the door and needed a bathroom quick or heknew something about us or about Silas. But which was it?
Silas.
As Graham leaned over the rough sketches andnotes we’d laid out on the table, his gaze kept sliding over to Silas who wasstill waiting in the corner. He was even quietly playing on his phone, so itwasn’t like he was doing something outrageous for attention like I might have.
Graham fought to keep his eyes on the plansand he took a long slow breath that he probably thought was subtle. Why was heso worked up? Had one of the other guys done something stupid? Yeah, I was thebest bet for the person most likely to fuck up a meeting, but it hadn’t been methis time.
Had Tanner and Shane invited him over forsomething kinky?
Tanner could probably be talked into almostanything, but Shane didn’t strike me as the group sex type. I glanced over tosee if Dakota or Bradley looked guilty. No, they were just as confused as therest of us. Jonah too, although his worries seemed to revolve around Graham’sass because he kept licking his lips every time the contractor bent over.
Not that I could blame him.
If I didn’t have Silas at home, I’d havebeen leering too.
If we hadn’t done something then Silas had,or Graham was finally sliding into insanity after meeting with us too manytimes. Silas got knocked off the list of possibilities quickly because he wastoo blunt and if he’d fucked Graham, he’d have figured out a way to quietlyexplain it.
But there were other reasons he might knowGraham…
Work reasons…
BDSM reasons…
I wasn’t the only one who made thatconnection. Tanner started glancing between Graham and Silas, and so didBradley, followed quickly by Wade and Dakota. Jonah was still staring atGraham’s ass, so I wasn’t sure his big head was doing much of the processing.
Something was clearly up, but were wesupposed to ignore it?
I wasn’t willing to give up Silas or thecontractor, so something needed to change or I wouldn’t be able to bring Silasaround at all. But he had a lot of good ideas about the space, so it would be ashame to lose his insight.
As Graham started focusing on the plans, Iglanced at Wade. He was the emotionally intuitive one in the group. Mouthingquietly, I glanced down at Graham.What do we do? This is weird.
And for us, that was saying something.
Wade wasn’t any help at all; he justshrugged. So did everyone but Jonah. I still wasn’t sure if he’d figured outanything was wrong. Ignoring it seemed like our only option, but that justwasn’t sitting right.
Finally, after about twenty minutes ofawkward, stilted conversation, Graham’s phone beeped. “Let me go handle thisreal quick. I’ll be right back.”
Thank fuck.
Tanner spoke up as we all nodded. “Takeyour time.”
As Graham headed out of the building, hiswhole body seemed to vibrate with nervous energy. Would he be back? Glancingaround at the guys, I had a feeling they were wondering the same thing. “Okay,which one of you asked the hot contractor to spank you? I didn’t fuck this up,so it has to be one of you.”
Awkward chuckles rolled through the group,but everyone shook their heads. “What? You’re all claiming to be innocent?”
