I had to pull away a moment later. “Fuck, Uri. My sister is here, and we don’t have—”
“I know. There’s a reason I was waiting in here. I can’t touch you beyond that door, and we don’t have time to really enjoy this. But there was no way I was going to the bar without kissing the most amazing talent on Broadway right now.”
“Keep talking like that and I’ll make use of your mouth another way.”
He grunted, then stepped back. “Right. Bad idea.” His hand pressed against his fly. “Really bad idea.”
“Mmm hmm.” I nodded. “Help me hang this up and let’s get to the stage door before they riot and go to the bar without us.”
“They should.”
I held up a finger. “Sister is here and is going to be staying with me.”
“Well now where am I going to seduce you?”
“My place. She knows.”
He raised his eyebrows. “She does.”
“She and I need to have a conversation, but yes. She does know.”
Uriah stepped right up to me. “Can I stay the night?”
“I would love that…but…”
“But?”
“There’s kids. And I don’t want to say yes until she and I have the talk tomorrow.”
He looked so sad, and I felt awful about saying no. “I’m sorry, Uri. I haven’t seen her in eight years, and if we can repair our relationship, I need to. I don’t have my parents anymore—Austin, Aubrey and the kids are all I have.”
“I get it.” He smiled sadly. “Can I get a kiss for the seduction that isn’t going to happen this weekend?”
Stepping right into him, I wrapped my hand around the nape of his neck and pulled him into a jock-melting kiss. We were hard as rocks by the time I let him go.
“Fuck. Your sister better be understanding because there were promises in that.”
“I intend to keep them all.”
* * *
She was really sitting rightacross from me.
The sister I hadn’t seen in eight years, and had told me to fuck off five of them ago. She had a plain mug in her hand, and she was gazing into it like it held the secrets of the universe.
I could hear the kids in the sitting room, already hooked into the Nintendo Switch I never used. The start of the game sound pinged, and I smiled. They’d be occupied for hours.
Aubrey looked at me, away from her coffee.
“You really don’t have to put us up here, Austin, you know that? I can pay for the hotel. It wasn’t bad—”
“I have four completely unused bedrooms, for you and the kids,” I said. “Stop. You’re staying here until you’re good and ready to start over out there. Someone has to make use of this money.”
Her hand shot out and she grabbed mine. “I’m so, so sorry about that. I shouldn’t have ever told you to fuck off. You’re my brother and I love you.”
“What happened, Brey? You walked out of the house and that was it. You never came back. You became someone we didn’t know.”
“Gerry happened.” she sighed. “I thought I was in love. For the record, I wasn’t. Not even close. I was just fascinated by someone who was so composed and so sure of themselves.”
