True Perfection [Aspire 2] (Siren Publishing Ménage Amour) Read Free

to want her available at all times.
    “Warren?”
    “Yes, baby?” Haley was curling up beneath the covers, her long lashes drifting down over her cheeks. She looked well-fucked and absolutely lovely, and his heart swelled again and beat against the walls of his chest.
    “I need a nap.”
    Warren chuckled and bent to press a kiss on her cheek. She was asleep before he shrugged into a robe and went in search of Gordon. He found him in the kitchen, apparently examining the countertops.
    “What are you doing?” he asked.
    Gordon ran his hand over the butcher-block. “I think I’ll replace the kitchen with cherry cabinets and granite countertops. Maybe some stainless steel commercial appliances.”
    Warren laughed. “If she won’t get on board with the bedroom reno, then you’ll redo the kitchen?”
    Gordon flushed. “It’s an old house. Haley loves it. She says it has character and good bones. But the kitchen isn’t updated enough for her. She deserves a chef’s kitchen.”
    Warren immediately sobered. “She does, Gordon, but both you and I know that she’ll see it as pressure. She’s not ready.”
    “You’re getting perceptive, Warren. Who said you can’t teach old dogs new tricks? I’ll think on it some more. But I’m probably going to do it. I find I can’t do enough for her.”
    “Hey!” Warren reacted to the dog comment. “Pot and kettle, my friend. I’m still well on the sunny side of forty.”
    “Don’t remind me,” Gordon muttered. “Are you forgetting that I want a baby or two with Haley? And I don’t want to be confused as the child’s grandfather.”
    Warren immediately regretted his response. Gordon would soon be forty-three and had decided against having children in his last relationship, primarily because he had fallen for Haley, while Haley was falling for Warren. Warren wondered at how things had come full circle. He still wasn’t sure if he wanted children, but if he ever did, it would be with Haley. And he figured it would be fine to be a parent to Gordon and Haley’s child, and maybe he could learn how to be a good dad along the way. If Haley agreed to have babies. Life was much simpler when Haley did as he bade her, if not as exhilarating. Predictability was highly overrated, he had come to accept, but this adjusting and compromising tended to make him a little nuts.
    “Let’s take Haley on a vacation,” he proposed.
    Gordon looked interested then reluctantly shook his head. “She has just established herself again, and no way can she take time off. Besides, this is real life for us, and we need to find our way in this context. Things will work out, Warren. I have to believe that. Who knew that you and I would be sharing a sub full time? And that it would be running as smoothly as it has been?”
    “You were pretty goddamn quick to take advantage, buddy.” Warren couldn’t prevent some residual anger from colouring his statement.
    “I’m not going to apologize again, Warren,” Gordon advised. “Haley left you for good cause, and if she hadn’t come to me, then you might want to think about where she might have gone.”
    Warren pushed down his strong reaction and was able to answer in a fairly calm manner. “You can’t blame me for thinking that I would have tracked her down and made it up to her and she would have come back to me.”
    “And I think you subconsciously knew that things were going to change, Warren, so you arranged the threesome at the club to celebrate your anniversary. You brought us all together after a full year of not sharing her with me, even though I was your third with all your other subs. Anyway.” Gordon scrubbed his hands over his face. “It doesn’t matter what could have happened. If you feel betrayed or something, then spit it out and get over it, Warren. I won’t let it spoil what we have now.”
    Warren knew he was acting like that ass again. He had a future here, and it must seem like he was trying to push it away. “I did