“V?” Killian said from behind me, and I gladly shoved aside my crazy to turn and face the couches, where Slade sat with the latest Rolling Stone, and Killian was watching me through narrowed eyes. “You okay over there?”
I nodded as I made my way to the couch I’d vacated, but before I took a seat, I looked toward his front door. Maybe I could head outside for a smoke and wait for Halo downstairs.
“You sure?” Killian said as he propped one of his ankles up on his knee. “You haven’t sat still since you got here.”
“I’m fine. Just got a lot of energy today, that’s all.”
Slade snorted as he lowered the magazine to his lap. “Funny, I would’ve thought you and the angel would’ve had trouble walking today.”
I shot Slade the finger as Killian let out a low, rumbling laugh and his front door opened. My head jerked up and my eyes immediately flew to the doorway, searching out Halo, but when Jagger stepped inside and waved, I frowned.
“Wow, that’s such a warm welcome, V,” Jagger said as he walked over and clapped me on the arm. “It’s good to see you too, man.”
As Jagger moved around me to take a seat, Killian grinned. “Aw, don’t be too hard on him, Jagger. I think he’s still coming to terms with the fact that—”
“He’s in looove,” Slade said, which had all three of them cracking up like a bunch of fucking morons.
“Yeah. Okay, okay. Laugh it up, assholes,” I said as I ran a hand through my hair.
“Mhmm. He’s been standing at the window pining for his… Wait, what do you call someone you date exclusively and love, again? I can’t remember,” Killian said as he stroked his fingers over his chin. Then he snapped his fingers and aimed a shit-eating grin my way. “Oh, that’s right. His boyfriend.”
“You can all go suck a dick,” I said, as I rolled my eyes.
“Just not Halo’s, right?” Killian said, which earned a fuck you glare from me.
“Speaking of Halo,” Jagger said, his eyes doing a quick sweep of the place. “Where is he?”
When three pairs of eyes landed on me, I shrugged and slipped my hands into my pockets. I wasn’t about to cop that he’d gone to his parents’ house to tell them about me. A. It wasn’t my place, and B. I’d never hear the fucking end of it. “He had something he had to take care of this morning.”
Jagger chuckled. “His poor, abused body? Come on, V. You knew we all had to get together today. Couldn’t you have taken it easy on the guy?”
I was about to tell Jagger to go fuck himself when Killian’s door once again opened and Halo finally stepped inside. With a smile on his generous mouth, he waved at the guys as he shut the door behind him, and when his gaze finally connected with mine, that grin widened.
Like a weight had been lifted from my chest, I started to walk in his direction.
“Is it just me, or do you feel like violins should be playing and this should all be in slow motion?” Jagger said.
I ignored him as I closed in on Halo, my eyes taking in every gorgeous inch of him as though it had been weeks, months, years since I’d seen him, instead of hours.
He was wearing a pair of my faded jeans and a black long-sleeved Henley, and the fact that he was dressed head to toe in my clothes had my heart and cock pounding even harder. Mine.
As though he could read my mind, Halo’s eyes all but glittered as I came to a stop in front of him, but before he could say a word, I reached out, cupped the back of his neck, and drew him forward to greet him the only way that would satisfy me. I crushed my lips down onto his, and Halo put his hands on my chest to steady himself, as I swept my tongue inside his sweet mouth and took a long, deep taste of him.
Halo moaned, and it was music to my fucking ears, but when the wolf whistles behind us began to drown out the delicious sound, I felt Halo’s lips curve against mine and raised my head.
“Ignore them,” I said, which made Halo chuckle, even as he shifted to look over my shoulder. “They’re just jealous.”
“Of me or you?” Halo said when his eyes came back to mine.
I smirked and ran my thumb across his slick lower lip. “Me. You’re the pretty one, remember? They wouldn’t kiss me if we paid them.”
Halo slid a hand up into the back of my hair and tugged on it. “Their loss. You’re the best kiss I’ve ever had.”
My dick jerked in response to Halo’s closeness and his words, but knowing the three yahoos on the couches behind us were watching, I made myself let him go. “You lose your phone today or something?”