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Good. She didn’t want to add any more alcohol to this situation. That seemed like a bad idea. This evening had already gone off the rails in unexpected ways, and she wasn’t sure where it was going to go from here, but she didn’t want to be drunk for it or even tipsy.
“Thanks!” Her voice came out a little squeakier than normal. She really needed to get herself together.
Zeus
This was not how Zeus had expected his Friday night to go, but he was enjoying himself. The show was really good, proximity to Yas was good, the dogs were happy, and the food smelled great. Maybe he’d needed a relaxing night in more than he’d realized.
Sure, he had plenty of nights in, but somehow, they were always filled with things to get done—work he hadn’t finished, stuff around the house, fitting in an extra workout if he didn’t have anything else to do. He couldn’t remember the last time he’d just chilled out and eaten food that was terrible for him. The few times he and Noelle had stayed in hadn’t exactly been relaxing, either. She’d always needed his focused attention, and she had the tendency to talk through anything they were watching.
It hadn’t bothered him too much, but it also hadn’t been relaxing.
Hanging out here with Yas tonight was different.
He felt acutely attuned to her presence, and at the same time, he was more relaxed than he’d been in a long time. He felt… looser.
“Nope.” Putting his leg in front of Tiger, he prevented the dog from jumping up onto the couch where he would be between Zeus and Yas. It was one thing while they were just watching the television, but now there was food involved, and Tiger was a little sneaky sneak about human food.
Zeus had given him dinner before they’d come over, but that wasn’t going to matter.
“Sit, Tiger,” he ordered.
Tiger sat, his tail going a mile a minute, thudding against the leg of the coffee table.
“What is that noise?” Yas asked, coming back into the room with a curious expression. She laughed when Tiger’s tail started wagging even harder at her presence, practically pounding against the coffee table leg. “Oh, my goodness, his tail is like a whip.”
“It really is. Thank you,” he said, as she put a glass down in front of him.
“You’re welcome. I’ll be right back with the plates.”
Zeus spread things out on the table, putting the pizza boxes on top of each other. He peeked inside the other containers to put the wings, cheese fries, and mozzarella sticks on the table, and the desserts to the side. As he was doing that, Yas came back into the room and handed him a plate before sitting back down herself.
“What kind of pizza did you get?” she asked, reaching for the boxes.
“One supreme with everything, one with just pepperoni.”
She paused, hand outstretched toward the boxes as she turned her head to look at him.
“Is one for me and one for you?”
“No, but you said you like everything. I don’t mind that, but it’s not my favorite, so I got pepperoni, too. We can both have some of both.”
“When I said I like everything, I meant you could get whatever; I didn’t mean you had to get everything,” she said with a little shake of her head as she returned her attention to the pizza boxes and opened the one on top. It was the supreme. “I would have been happy eating just pepperoni.”
“Yes, but you like everything, and this way, there’s both.”
Obviously, Yas was used to making things easier on herself. And considering the fact that she took two pieces of the one with everything before settling back against the couch, rather than getting a piece of pepperoni, she did have a preference. She might have been fine with just pepperoni, but she wanted the one with all the toppings.
“Okay… ready to keep the show going?” she asked with a little smirk at him.
“Sure.” He was curious where it was headed. Other men didn’t really turn him on, but he could appreciate the Russian's Dom vibes and the storytelling about how the couple was coming together. And he wanted to keep watching it with her. He wasn’t ready for tonight to end.
Yas lifted the remote up and restarted the show.
Chapter 16
Yasmine
“So… how do you want to do this?” Yasmine asked as she spread out the array of girlie spa night options she’d brought. She and Zeus had paused the show after the second episode to walk the dogs, and when they’d returned, she figured it was the perfect time to start the skincare portion of the evening.
