would tell.
What he did know for sure?
He wouldn’t be telling Dave and Lydia about his relationship with Lukas with Singer looking on.
John would have liked to say he’d managed to stay awake until Lukas arrived, but that would have been a lie. Last thing he remembered, he was watching some late-night comedian and running a hand over Ruby’s side where she lay curled up next to him, his empty beer bottle on the table in front of him.
The next thing he knew, Lukas was kneeling between his legs, lightly petting his bare chest.
Stretching, he grinned at the sexy eyeliner and the glitter on his cheeks Lukas was wearing. “Hey, baby. Have fun?”
“Oh yeah. Kevin says hi, by the way. He told all the guys at the club about how I was taken by a sexy bear, but he was available for debauchery. But then he turned down everyone who made a pass at him.” Lukas shook his head, grinning. His speech was a little fast and his body a little loose as he rocked in place on his knees.
John grinned and sat up straighter in the corner of the sectional. “Have a few drinks?”
Lukas laughed and edged closer. “A couple.” He leaned forward and pressed a soft kiss to John’s lips. “That not okay?”
“Fine by me,” he said, grabbing the back of Lukas’s thighs, just under his ass, and pausing. “What are you wearing, babe?”
“Oh!” Lukas jumped up from the couch so fast, Ruby huffed and stood too, stretching and then walking over to the dog bed on the other side of the room. Lukas stood in front of John and jutted his hip out with a saucy grin. “What do you think?”
The skintight jeans he was wearing had large tears in them—two on the front of each thigh—but instead of just skin, there was black fishnet crisscrossing under the holes. John groaned as Lukas turned slowly and bent forward, stretching the tears just under each ass cheek.
“Jesus Christ.” John wasn’t sure why it was so sexy, but it was. The tank top covering Lukas’s torso was black, but sheer, so you could see the beautiful contours of his chest and abs. “I bet Kevin was beating them off you with a stick. Fuck, babe. Why don’t you wear that around the house?”
Lukas laughed as he bounced back over onto the couch and crawled back into John’s space, straddling his thighs that time and leaning forward to rub their chests together. John palmed the back of his head with one hand and trailed his other down Lukas’s back and over his ass to finger the fishnets through the hole.
He could feel Lukas’s grin where he was pressing his face into John’s neck. “I think that’s the first time you’ve ever bypassed my ass.”
Laughing breathlessly, he felt himself hardening in his sweats. “Don’t worry. It’ll get plenty of attention.”
Snorting, Lukas pulled back and sat up straight, gyrating his hips a little to rub their erections together but looking like he was settling in for a conversation, not sexy times. Sure enough, he rested one hand on John’s chest and ran the other through John’s hair as he asked, “How was dinner? I didn’t receive any irate phone calls, so I’m assuming they took it better than we thought.”
John flinched and turned his head to the side, and Lukas froze above him.
“Oh.” He gave John a sad smile and started to climb off him. “I see.”
“Lukas—” He reached for Lukas, but he dodged his hands, giving him a tight-lipped grimace.
“It’s okay.” He nodded like he was trying to convince himself and stumbled over to Ruby, dropping next to her bed to give her a hug. “I’m pretty tired. Why don’t we just go to bed?”
“Lukas.”
Lukas’s face was buried in Ruby’s fur, and he refused to turn around. Sighing, John stood and collected his empty beer bottle. “Alright. We can talk in the morning. I’ll set the alarm. You two go on upstairs.”
He waited until he saw Lukas nod in acknowledgment, then sighed again and walked heavily out of the living room.
By the time he’d taken care of the bottle and locked up the house, Lukas and Ruby were upstairs in John’s king-sized bed. Usually, Ruby slept at the bottom near their feet or on the dog bed by the window seat, but she was lying pressed against Lukas’s front, and he had his arms wrapped around her. Fuck, Lukas was breaking his heart.
He almost stripped off his sweats like he always did