Going Home (The Home Series Book 1) by Kris Ripper

Author:Kris Ripper [Ripper, Kris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-09-16T18:30:00+00:00

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Taking a walk had been a good idea. They were more natural with each other when they were moving, whether it was in a grocery store or on a sidewalk. Some of that tension eased away, and they fell into habit.

Which was, of course, the problem.

“I’m not sure where we go from here,” Geo confessed, after they’d exhausted the safer topics of their friends (who were, indeed, on their way to tour the fitness center where Teddy volunteered teaching self-defense courses).

“You mean sex?”

Geo looked over, but Rory was studying the ground in front of him with an intensity that suggested he was concerned a cavern might spontaneously open before he could jump out of the way.

“I mean—everything. But sex, yeah, if you’re interested. I mean, I guess I don’t know if you want to do that. Any of it.” Except for the night in the kitchen, they hadn’t alluded to the past, not like that.

“I didn’t try to find you because I missed your spareribs, Geo. I miss a lot of things. I really miss sleeping next to you, knowing you’re there.”

Oh god. “Me too.” Which felt like an inadequate thing to say.

“And some of the other, um, things we used to do. I miss them, too.”

Rory, Rory, Rory bound to the cross, high on endorphins, that glassy look on his face as he said, “Keep going. More. Please.” Geo bit down on his tongue.

“What? What are you thinking about?” Rory raised his eyebrows, finally looking up from the sidewalk, but they were passing a woman with a stroller and Geo could only blush in reply. “Oh,” he said, like he knew, exactly. “I think about stuff like that a lot. I’m happy I’m not still sleeping with D, or things would be awkward.”

“You slept with Demon?”

“We were pretending to be married, so no one could separate us.”

“Can slaves—sorry, former slaves—get married?”

“In some places. Here, we could, I think. But in a lot of places, people are pretty decent about acting like you’re married, even if the laws haven’t changed yet.”

“Oh. Well, that’s good.” Geo studied the architecture of the grocery store across the street, trying very hard not to think of Rory and Demon in a bed together.

“Good? Geo, are you jealous of D? Because I promise, nothing happened. She’s like my sister. My really annoying, overbearing, younger-but-thinks-she’s-older sister.”

“I’m not jealous. Well, I’m a little jealous, but I definitely don’t want you to think of me as your sister. Though speaking of Demon, this thing between her and Teddy is interesting.”

“Maizy said she can’t decide who’s less likely to get laid, because me and Teddy are so uptight. Er. I mean, not that we—not that we were talking about—um. Never mind.”

“Does Demon want to have sex with Teddy?” Do you want to have sex with me?

“Well, it’s not quite like that. I think she actually just wants to cuddle with him.” Rory looked over again, face acquiring that familiar undercurrent of steel. “You know about Teddy, right? You know he used to be a woman?”

“I don’t think he says it that way.

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