“I think I partly did it because I wanted to prove to her parents I was worthy of her... Jill’s from a very wealthy, rather stuck-up family. But really, I loved it. I wanted it, but I think Jill started to feel neglected. That was the first time she cheated. She didn’t tell me until later, but she had asked to spend more time with me, which I now see was out of guilt.” He glanced in Bryce’s bowl.

“Stir a little faster, please. Anyway, so we tried reconnecting, when I didn’t even know what had happened. I realized we’d drifted apart, though, and I didn’t want that. I didn’t want my marriage to fail. Soon, she was the one with longer and longer hours. I never even considered that she would cheat on me until the day I came home and she gave me divorce papers. She told me she was moving in with her boyfriend, who I found out was her second affair.”

“Christ.” Bryce couldn’t imagine going through that. It made him thankful he’d never gotten serious with anyone before.

“Everything happens for a reason, Bryce. I didn’t see it then, but I do now. Two more minutes with that bowl and then I need it back. What about you? Tell me more about you and Christi.”

Bryce leaned against the counter. “We met in ninth grade. She was new. Started dating this guy who then decided he didn’t want to date her and told the whole school she gave him head under the bleachers.”

“In ninth grade!”

Bryce winked at him. “Not all of us are as innocent as you. So yeah, they gave her shit. Typical girl stuff. Called her a slut. I told them Devin was a lying sack of shit, that I was hiding under the bleachers skipping school and heard him ask her for a blowjob and she said no. He got embarrassed and made up the rumor, then everyone gave him shit instead of her.”

“Was it true?” Nick cocked a brow at him.

“Hell no. She blew him, but she thought he liked her, and he was an asshole for calling her out like that, so he deserved what he got. We’ve been best friends ever since.”

Nick walked over to him. “I love that story.  It’s things like that that I love about you. You’re a good man, Bryce Tanner.” He gave Bryce a quick kiss and grabbed the bowl out of his hands before walking away to finish the meal. Bryce just stood there wondering how in the hell he got so lucky, because he was in love with the man standing in the kitchen with him, too.

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO

They ate dinner together and talked about everything. Afterward, they showered separately. Nick made sure to take care of everything he needed to for their night, and he knew Bryce had done the same.

Before he knew it, they were naked in Nick’s room, their purchases from the day laid out on the bed. “I was re-tested,” Nick admitted.

“No shit? Me, too.”

“I didn’t want to assume, and I’m not saying we should go raw, but here, so you know.” Nick pulled the results out of his drawer and showed them to Bryce.

Bryce pulled his wallet out and grinned.

“You carry them with you?”

“I wanted to have it in case you needed to see and we weren’t home.” He unfolded the paper and handed it to Nick. “So, now we know.”

Nick nodded. “We do. There’s no one else for me, Bryce. You’re the one for me.”

“I already told you, you’re it for me, too.”

Nick loved hearing that. “There’s four dicks and a butt plug in the bed with us. This is another first for me,” he teased.

Bryce didn’t reply to that, just laid back and said, “Use the smaller one on me first. We’ll move up to the bigger one, and then hopefully I can take the real fucking thing.”

Nick had something else in mind. He leaned down and kissed Bryce, probing the other man’s mouth with his tongue before retreating to say, “You once told me you played with your own hole to get yourself ready for me. I told you I wanted to see, but you never showed me. I want to see tonight, Bryce.”

A big grin stretched across Bryce’s face. “I’m corrupting you, and I think I like it.”

“I like it, too.”

“You have to jack off, though. You want me to fuck myself for you, you at least have to jerk off while I do it. I want to see how much it turns you on.”

“Okay.” Nick grabbed the lube, coated his hand and started to work his cock. He didn’t take his eyes off Bryce as the man laid back and grabbed the dildo and lube. “Wait. Let me go to the other end of the bed. I want to watch it go in.”

He saw Bryce’s erection flex against his stomach. Obviously he liked that idea as much as Nick did.