SweetHarts (5 Book Box Set) by Kira Graham

Author:Kira Graham [Graham, Kira]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-24T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Achilles

I hear a whistle coming from my door and turn my eyes away from the ring I’m staring at to see Adonis and Zeus standing there, both with grins on their faces.

“That’s one good-looking ring you have there, Chilli boy. You planning to do something with that rock, or do you just like the way it looks on your pinky?” Zeus asks, flopping onto the couch with a full-bodied yawn that makes me think of the shit that I hear through Alex’s walls.

“I plan to think about using it, asshole. What the hell’s wrong with you?” I ask, replacing the ring in the box and snapping it closed with more relief than I want to feel.

Tossing it into the drawer, I shut it away and immediately feel a lessening of tension—and also a sense of disappointment. I wanted to look at the ring and feel the same excitement that Adonis felt when he got one for Cleo. I can now say, however, with no small measure of disgust, that I don’t. I don’t feel excited or happy or anything of the sort. I feel…afraid.

“Rosetta’s on a baby mission ever since she saw Alex’s belly. Not that I’m complaining, since it entails all the things that I love best about marriage, and life, and—well, every day of my life with Rose, but a man’s gotta sleep, too. How the hell she gets up, bounces out of bed, and works a full day without a nap is just a mystery,” Zeus whines, yawning so widely that I hear his jaw crack.

“Cleo’s the opposite. If I so much as nudge her toe while she’s sleeping, she bites. Like a rabid animal. So sexy,” Adonis says tenderly, his expression filled with affection.

Lovesick fucking sap.

Alex doesn’t move when she sleeps. It’s like watching a dead person in repose, and not at all cute. One time, I got so scared when she didn’t move for twenty minutes that I did nudge her. Nothing. The woman literally loses all consciousness when her eyes close, something that I don’t think is normal. Maybe it’s the babies?

“How’s Alex?” Zeus asks, his eyes closed and his arms folded across his chest—until Adonis rolls his eyes, sighs, and grabs the throw off the couch in order to cover him.

God help us, the man is like a baby when he’s tired, and can’t settle down unless he’s as snug as a bug in a rug. Mom says that it’s his wanting to nest and be warm when he sleeps. And it’s true that Zeus can sleep under the covers in one-hundred-degree heat—and does.

“Good. Her practice picked up three new referrals, so, according to her, we’re in the money,” I snort, wondering when it’s going to occur to her that I am in the money already.

A lot of money.

“These women are so freaking weird. Even Rosetta thinks of herself as having to live paycheck to paycheck. I think they like not having tons of money.”

“Not Cleo,” Adonis snorts, his eyes twinkling with delight.

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