Babes Stripping For Love

“You’re married,” Dillon’s voice broke the silence after a long awkward quietness in the car.

“Divorce, no kids, been over six months. Cassidy and I just started seeing each other less than a month.” Rowan answered easily while Cassie rolled her eyes when he backtracked their meet at Babes. Rowan chuckled when he saw her expression and blatantly took her hand to his lips and kissed it.

“Eww, PDA much?” Edmond fake gagged and was suddenly busy with his phone, which made Cassidy smile, and then silence surrounded the car once again.

“So, how’s school?” She asked after minutes passed, trying to switch the conversation from her thing with Rowan.

“Good, finals will be in a couple of weeks. I’m still in the chess club, and Dillon is swimming his heart away in the swim team.” Edmond snickered and then told us that his smooch buddy was the captain of the swim team. The teasing tone was given with brotherly love and Cassidy was glad that Edmond had no issue about Dillon’s attraction to boys.

“So this captain, does he has a name?” Cassie asked peering into Dillon’s eyes through the rearview mirror.

“Jett, and he’s not my boyfriend. We’re just hooking up.”

“So, you’re gay? bi?” Cassie asked lightly, trying to dig into his mind but not wanting to probe him too much.

“I don’t know. I’m young, maybe gay, we’ll see. Still not comfortable with labels.” He shrugged then back to tapping on his phone again.

“So you’ve been told that the basement is off limits for students.” She made sure he knew that she had discussed his situation with Mr. Whitlock.

“Yep,” he cut her next words then Cassie directed the conversation, asking about Edmond’s chess club thinking she’d discuss the issue later when they arrive at the house.

They stopped and had a late lunch at the small and trendy Italian place where they enjoyed pizza and sodas. Cassidy watched as Dillon took a couple of pictures of his pizza and then started smiling at his phone. The smile, Cassidy hadn’t seen that in a while. It made her look at Edmond, he nodded and mouthed boyfriend at his sister giving her a wink with an all-knowing expression for his twin.

Rowan noticed the silent communication and he let the siblings be and continue to enjoy his pizza. They all kept the discussion nice and simple, avoiding sensitive topics like the plague thinking they’ll talk it out at home.

But home was the place they didn’t go to when Rowan passed her street.

“Rowan?”

“It’s the weekend, and my place is bigger.” He dropped the bomb just like that and she gasped, Cassidy couldn’t believe that he was making a decision for them already.

He must’ve sensed the tension when he put his hand on hers and his thumb easily rubbed circles between her knuckles. The sensation was confusing enough that Cassidy pulled her hand away not wanting to let a moan slip from a simple hand rub.

“So, do you boys remember my place? I think you’ve been there a couple of years back.”

“Yeah, I remembered, your wife was there.” Dillon’s eyes met Cassidy’s, silently asking her what she was doing with the older guy. But she stayed quiet and this time it was her turn to play with her phone.

“Ex-wife.” Rowan reminded him.

The awkwardness stayed until they reached his place and Rowan helped Cassidy with her bag.

“So, you’re staying with him?” Dillon was pushing it with his questions and Rowan stopped to look at him when they were all inside the house and Edmond was peeking at his collection of books in the living room.

“She will stay in the guest bedroom.” Rowan didn’t like the sleeping arrangement but he didn’t want to parade their sexual adventure in front of her little brothers.

“Just like she did last night? I see her stuff was packed already.” Dillon guessed correctly, though neither Rowan nor Cassidy confirmed it. The older twin was being a pain in the ass with his questions and Rowan was starting to get annoyed.

“Do you really want the answer to that?” Rowan challenged him. Dillon just shrugged while Edmond looked at Cassie and Rowan like he was waiting for either of them to give them the truth.

“Your rooms are down the hall, you can put your bags there. And before I put your sisters’ bag in the other guest room, are there any more questions for me?”

“You’re twenty years older than Cassie. Is this one of those midlife crisis things? Why can’t you just buy one of those flashy Cadillacs?” Edmond finally popped the big question and suddenly Dillon was to his side as if he too was curious about how Rowan would answer him.

“I’m old enough to know that I want your sister. She’s a smart, beautiful woman. She will not be a plaything. I will treat her with respect. But yes, I am a man who knows what he wants.”

Cassidy couldn’t blush a deeper shade of pink which made Rowan’s hands itch to touch her but refrain to do so.

“Oh God, okay… okay, we got it, come on Edmond stop asking, the mental image of them together is already hurting my brain,” Dillon grumbled and Edmond finally backed off, Cassidy was still biting her lip thinking how did the day was turning messier by the hour.

But boys being boys their attention span was easily distracted the moment their eyes caught the backyard view.

“Woah… look at the pool, dude you should’ve brought your swim shorts,” Edmond said to his twin as he peered out to the Olympic size pool in the backyard.

“There are some swim shorts in the pool house if you boys want to take a dip, the weather is nice. There should be some sodas and snacks there too.” Rowan uttered to the twins, his hand circling around Cassidy’s waist then he planted a kiss to her temple casually as if he’d done it thousand times before in front of the brothers.

Whatever issues the twins had earlier with Rowan seemed to be forgotten when the boys ran outside to the pool house forgetting their bags and then within minutes cannonballing into the pool.

“Do you want to join them?”

“Maybe later, let them play. They missed their pool at the house, the school pretty much takes the fun out of playing in the pool Edmond once told me. Thank you for this.” Cassie turned to face Rowan, and slithered her arms around his torso, pressing hers onto his. She was feeling the warmth and smile when he rubbed her spine and his other hand caressed her lower back with such tenderness.Text © owned by NôvelDrama.Org.

She didn’t think she’d feel it but his closeness and easiness towards the twins was making her feel lighter and it seemed like the burden she had earlier was gone.

“Why don’t you put your bag in the upstairs guest room while I locked your playroom? I don’t want them to wander around and find the pole.”

“Upstairs guest room huh?” she teased but grab her bag anyway then follow him to the only bedroom located across the master bedroom.

“Yeah, you’re going to sneak into my room tonight. I’m not sleeping alone, not with you under my roof.” He tilted her head and demanded a kiss which she willingly and enthusiastically gave him.

“Right, okay,” he cleared his throat when the kiss got too heated and got dangerously arousing. “We should continue this later. I’ll join you in an hour or so. I need to do some adulting, office stuff.” He peeked at his wristwatch and knew that he needs to check on his business emails from his overseas clients before focusing on spending the rest of the day with Cassidy and her brothers.

Rowan also thought that an hour would be enough time for Cassie and her brothers to discuss their school situation and the new relationship thing between her and Rowan. Because honestly, he was telling the truth when he said that he wanted her.

It had been too long since he feels the kind of attraction towards women. Thinking back, he wondered if anyone had ever made him want them as badly as Cassidy.