Never a Saint - Lila Rose Page 0,4
that, and I kept trying to tell myself it was for the experience of receiving my first blow job off a guy, but I wasn’t so sure. My head was a mess.
A knock sounded on my door. It was my door, even though I co-owned with Country, State, and Wreck, but they had an office on the top floor. We each took a turn at managing this local club and oversaw the other clubs via calls, emails, and videos with the others we’d opened.
“Enter,” I called.
It opened and in stepped Lucas, my brother. My eyes widened. “What are you doin’ here?” He’d never dropped into Polished before, why now?
“A little birdy told me that Kylo has his first job tonight.”
I snorted. “A little birdy? Do you mean that guy you call your boyfriend?”
“Maybe.” He smiled. It was good to see him happy. Never thought it would be with a brother, but Wreck proved he cared for Lucas as much as Lucas adored him. It was strange, but who was I to stop something that was obviously good for each of them? Even when I was pissed after finding out they’d been seeing each other behind my back, and that, at first, I didn’t trust Wreck playing with my brother’s heart. It took only moments to see Wreck was real about it all, which was after I’d hit him in the face.
Now they just made me sick with all the loving they had going on for each other.
“Why come here for Kylo?”
“The… idiot hasn’t been taking my calls or returning my texts ever since I found out he had an interview here. And this is after he told me at the first compound party I went to that he wasn’t really going to apply. I thought I’d catch him here since he’s also been dodging me everywhere else.”
“Bro, I don’t think here is the right place. What happens if you mess with his head and he can’t do what he’s gotta do?” Not that Kylo had an appointment for sex that night. I hadn’t booked him in for one, but he did have a date with a rich woman who just wanted company while out to dinner. Could I have made an appointment for him with a woman or man for sex? Yeah, we were picking up in that direction, but the others we’d hired would be doing that tonight. They’d had previous experience in selling themselves in the bedroom… well, except for West, Lucas’s friend from college, but he was another who would be just going out on a date for company.
“I’m not here to judge. You know me better than that. I just want to tell him to stop evading me. I don’t like it.” His smile disappeared and he looked to the ground. Yeah, Lucas wouldn’t like that happening. He didn’t have many friends and losing the ones he had would hurt him.
“All right, just sit tight. He should be here soon. He has to come in here for his appointment card.”
Lucas’s smile was back. “Thanks.” He’d made it to the seat across from my desk when another knock sounded on my door.
“Enter,” I called.
The door opened and West poked his head in. “Hey—Lucas,” West called, his voice higher than I’d heard it before. “What are you doing here?” West stepped through the door, closed it, and leaned against the wooden panel. He looked pale.
Fuck. Not another one who hadn’t said shit to people. Sighing, I dropped my head back and then stood.
“A-Are you working here?” Lucas asked.
West gulped. He looked at me, and I nodded toward Lucas, trying to tell him he needed to explain this to my brother. West rubbed a hand over his face and moved over to lean his ass on my damn desk as he faced Lucas.
“Shit, ah, yes, I’m working here. The job I had wasn’t paying enough and they cut my hours back. I needed a new job that paid well with hours that suited me. This was it.”
“But… you’re willing to sleep with people for it?” Lucas asked; then he noticed what he said and his hands shot up. “Not that I’m judging because I’m not. It’s just… I mean… um, that… ah, I thought you’ve only ever been with one guy.”
West smiled. “I have, but it doesn’t mean we didn’t do a lot of things. Things that I enjoyed. Plus, Saint promised he wouldn’t have me be with anyone shady.”
“We’re starting out slow,” I offered. “I’m only sending him