“Is it going to be fancy?” I asked, fluttering my eyelashes at him.
Tate smiled. “Certainly.”
“So I should wear a nice dress, right?”
Tate curled his hand onto my buttocks, clad as it was in jeans. “Nice? No, baby. You’ll need to wear something so sexy I’ll want to rip it off you as soon as I lay eyes on you.”
The thought of the kind of sex Tate would have with me after a night of decadence in one of the world’s biggest cities sent a shiver of anticipation down my body.
Eric snatched the paper out of Tate’s hand and traced his finger down the list as he read over it. “We’ll figure something out that will work for all of us.”
I patted Tate’s chest. “Don’t worry. We’ll all have plenty of time together.”
ChapterTwo
Jack
As tiredness began to grip me, I made my way into the main bedroom at the plane’s tail end. I usually couldn’t sleep well on flights, given my height and the ridiculously puny seats they shoved you into in economy, so it would be interesting to get some rest in an actual bed.
Finding my two favorite people there was great. Royce was passed out and snoring, but Lou had her phone on and was typing furiously.
After undressing, I slid in beside her.
Lou’s fingers paused, and she glanced at me. “It’s safe to message my mum in mid-flight, right?”
Resting my head on my arm, I jerked up my chin. “Yeah, as long as it’s via social media and not your cell data. I’m assuming the plane has Wi-Fi.”
She bit her lip as she grinned. “I’m betting there’s not a whole lot this plane doesn’t have.”
As a stupid grin crossed my face, I looked past her to Royce. “How lucky are we, huh? Getting to share their lives like this?”
Lou lowered her phone and snuggled into me, but her gaze followed mine to our passed-out boyfriend. “It’s insanely awesome.”
While tracing my fingertips lazily across Lou’s arm, I said, “This trip is about more than seeing London for me. It’s about bonding and seeing how I fit into your lives.IfI do.”
Lou snapped her gaze to mine. “You do.”
“I’m the odd one out here. You have all our love, but me? I’ve got you and Royce, but I sort of have to prove myself to the others. Right now, I feel like an outsider,” I admitted, hoping she was right.
“Jack, you have absolutely nothing to prove. You arenotan outsider. The others don’t know you well yet, that’s all. You’re an acquaintance at the moment, but that will change.”She was trying to reassure me, but it would take more than words.
“For this to work properly, I need to feel like more than an acquaintance, Lou. I need to feel fully accepted by all the brothers.”
Lou rubbed my pecs with her soft hand, causing a shiver to run through me. “I know Harris and Tate are harder to crack. I’ve had a tough time with them too. It is their nature. It’s not about you at all, but it will happen. They see how much Royce and I care about you and how you are with us. Give them time. I also have it on good authority that Eric likes you.”
“I’m not so sure about Byron,” I said skeptically.
Byron was the toughest one for me. Although we had a conversation before Lou’s birthday when I thought we’d found common ground, and while sometimes he hung around me like a little brother who wanted to be exactly like his older sibling, other times, I’d see this embarrassment in his eyes. He kept to himself so much that he was a hard guy to get to know.
Lou stifled a laugh.
Arching back from her, I studied her smug expression and asked, “What?”
“You don’t need to worry about Byron.”
“Why not?”
Lou shrugged. “Let’s just say he’s totally on board.”