Lissa Kasey - Dominion 3 - Conviction Read Free Page B

to do as much for ourselves as we could. And though Jamie was hot personified, if you liked the muscular sort, which I did, he was no muscleheaded moron. He was smart and resourceful as well. He had gotten his RN certification just a few weeks back. He had a degree in sports medicine and did some heavy-duty financial investing. Now he just spent most of his time trying to help Seiran rebuild some of the strength lost in weeks of healing. I admired his devotion and wished my own blood family were closer. Jamie knew when to step back and let us do our thing, most of the time at least.
“If you get tired, let me know. I want to make it to the picnic grounds for a late lunch. There’s a fire pit up there that will be nice,” Jamie told us before taking off down the track and yanking us along. Sucking in a deep breath, I put my body to work to keep the larger man from pulling our weight.
The picnic area had to be only a little more than three miles, which on skis shouldn’t have taken us that long. Three hours later we slid into the park, and Sei nearly collapsed in front of the fire. He’d been pushing hard to keep up, and his hat was a sweaty sponge to prove it. He’d be really sore tomorrow.
His hands shook when he tried to pry off the gloves to warm his fingers by the fire. At least the bandages were gone, even if the shake wasn’t. Maybe we’d asked too much of him. He’d only been out of the hospital a few weeks. Jamie too.
“You okay?” I asked Sei, sliding in close.
As always he nodded. I glanced to Jamie who pulled supplies out of the bag he’d had strapped to his back.
“I have tea, Sei. I need you to eat, please. We’ll rest a bit before heading back.”
We all sat on a snowy log bench and ate quietly in the relative warmth of the bonfire. Hans had told us their maintenance guy came around a lot to tend it. I was glad he didn’t pop out of nowhere and scare us. Sei was already in bad shape. The tremor that had started in his hands moved all the way to his legs. He didn’t often get that bad anymore.
Sei downed his sandwich and half the thermos of tea without commenting. I didn’t know whether to point the tremors out by asking if he was cold or tell Jamie we should call for a ride back. Only Gabe could calm the shake when it got this bad.
Jamie didn’t look concerned. Instead, he held up a bag of marshmallows, a pack of graham crackers, and some chocolate bars. “Anyone for a chocolate fix?”
I laughed. Seiran’s eyes lit up. “Sugar is good.”
We found sticks to dangle the marshmallows near the flame. It took only a few seconds before the heat crisped up the outside into a dark shell with gooey insides. The chocolate oozed out of Seiran’s s’more as he stuffed one end in his mouth. The oversized bite had him looking like a happy chipmunk.
“Good stuff?”
“Heaven,” he mumbled through full cheeks.
I bit into mine and tasted the sweet chocolate and sugar rush. Jamie nibbled on the edges of his, eating it much slower than either Sei or I. He seemed to be silently laughing at both of us.
“What?” I demanded.
He leaned over and rubbed his thumb along the edge of my mouth, which came away with chocolate on it. “Saving that for later?”
I felt heat burn my cheeks. “Maybe.”
When he stuck his chocolate-covered thumb in his mouth and sucked on it, the heat left my face and fled right to my cock. I had to shift a little to keep my pants from biting into my erection. Sure, he had a habit of touching me, but I’d honestly begun to think it was just from all the lack of touching he could do with Seiran, since Sei wasn’t a touchy guy. That little display, however, had not been brotherly at all.
I wasn’t quite sure how to read the small smile on Seiran’s face. But if they were going to ignore Jamie’s apparent interest, I could man up and brush it aside too. For now at least. If Jamie wanted to play, I was game.
He grinned at me like the walls he kept up weren’t there for the first