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her taking the vein of someone he’d been friends with just cranked his shit right out.
    Plus the bastard was Qhuinn’s brother—so yeah, not a bloodline he wanted her to have anything to do with.
    Whatever. Sooner or later, his men were going to come up with something—they just had to. Because his new favorite toy was the kind of thing he wanted to have around for a very long time.
    As he opened the door, he started to smile. “Hi, honey, I’m home.”
     
     
    Across town, in the tat shop, Blay stayed mostly focused on what was doing on John’s back. There was just something hypnotic about watching that needle trace over the blue transfer lines. Then from time to time, the artist paused to swipe the skin with a white paper towel before resuming his work, the whirring sound of the gun filling the silence once again.
    Unfortunately, as captivating as it all was, he still had enough attention span left over to be very aware of when Qhuinn decided to fuck that human woman: After the pair chatted softly and swapped a lot of casual stroking down arms and shoulders, those astounding, mismatched eyes drifted over to the front door.
    And a moment later, Qhuinn strolled across and checked to make sure it was locked.
    That green-and-blue stare didn’t meet Blay’s as he came back to the tat station.
    “You doing good?” he asked John.
    When John glanced up and nodded, Qhuinn quickly signed, You mind if I get a little exercise behind that curtain?
    Please say yes, you do mind, Blay thought. Please tell him he has to stay here.
    Not at all , John signed. You take care of yourself.
    I’ll be on it if you need me. Even if I have to come out with my cock out.
    Yeah, if we could avoid that, I’d appreciate it.
    Qhuinn laughed a little. “Fair enough.” There was a heartbeat of a pause; then he turned away without looking at Blay.
    The woman went into the other room first, and given the way she was working her hips, she was as ready for what was going to happen as Qhuinn was. Then Qhuinn’s big shoulders shifted as he ducked out of sight and the veil fell back into place.
    The overhead light in the room and the curtain’s anorexic fibers provided plenty of get-a-load-of-this, so Blay got a distilled picture of Qhuinn reaching out and pulling her by the neck against him.
    Blay redirected his eyes to John’s tattoo, but the refocusing didn’t last. Two seconds later he was locked on that peep show, not so much watching it happen as absorbing the details. In typical Qhuinn fashion, the woman was now on her knees and the guy had his hands bunched into her hair. He was working her head, his hips flexing and releasing as he drilled her mouth.
    The muted sounds were as incredible as the visual and Blay had to shift in his seat, his body hardening. He wanted to be in there, on his knees, led by Qhuinn’s hands. He wanted to be the one whose mouth was full. He wanted to be responsible for making Qhuinn pant and strain.
    Not going to be in the cards.
    Man, what the hell? The guy had fucked people in clubs and bathrooms and cars and alleys and occasionally in beds. He’d done ten thousand strangers, men and women and males and females alike . . . he was Wilt Chamberlain with fangs. To be denied was like getting shut out of a public park.
    Blay took another shot at looking away, but the ripple of a deep moan once again brought his eyes to the—
    Qhuinn’s head had turned so that he was staring out of the curtain. And as their eyes met, his mismatched stare flashed . . . almost like he was turned on more by who was watching him, than who he was hooking up with.
    Blay’s heart stopped. Especially as Qhuinn dragged the woman up, spun her around, and bent her over the desk. One yank and her jeans were to her knees. And then it was . . .
    Jesus Christ. Was it possible his best friend was thinking like he was?
    Except then Qhuinn pulled the woman’s upper body against his chest. After he whispered something in her ear, she laughed and