Bring the Boots - A Core-Four Fic Based on this pic. (Patreon)

  A very long, very much unedited core four fic - Read at your own peril. Avi wasn’t home when Felix returned from his Vogue photoshoot, b

The story is based on this insanely well done edit by @MulvaneyMedia on IG. If you love Necessary Evils you should follow her or you're really missing out. A very long, very much unedited core four fic - Read at your own peril.Avi wasn’t home when Felix returned from his Vogue photoshoot, but Asa and Zane were. Asa was still in his home office, playing God, designing another sky high building that would safely house thousands of unsuspecting people day in and day out. Zane, as always, was at Felix’s side from the moment he got home.Well—technically—he was on his knees… in front of Felix…gagging on the hard length of Felix’s cock as it nudged past his tonsils while he looked up at him teary eyed. Zane was so many things. Smart. Talented. Sweet and soft and pretty. But above all that, he was so obedient. He loved being on his knees… for Felix, for Asa…hell, sometimes even for Avi. They could get Zane to do anything as long as they praised him for it. As long as Asa praised him for it.Not that Felix would take advantage. He loved Zane. He loved everything about him, even his submissive side. Especially his submissive side. In their house, when sex wasn’t involved, all things were equal. Well, honestly, all things skewed in favor of Felix and Zane. The twins were easily bent to their will. They loved indulging them and Felix and Zane were happy to let them. After all, they earned it.But when the clothes came off, Zane instantly went into sub mode, wanting to be babied, wanting to be praised, needing constant reassurance that he was safe and loved and wanted. It was no hardship. They did want him. All of him. They didn’t work without him. They didn’t work without any one of them missing. So if Zane wanted praise, then Felix would give him whatever he needed. Especially if he kept sucking him like this.He groaned. “Fuck, baby, your mouth feels so good.”Felix sat on the edge of his bed, reclining back with his weight on his hands, Zane perched between Felix’s spread thighs. Zane gave a little whimper at Felix’s words, re-doubling his efforts while taking Felix’s hand and guiding it to the back of his head. Felix smiled, scratching blunt nails across his scalp, before his fingers tangled tightly in his dark curls, holding him in place so he could fuck himself between his lips. “You look so pretty like this, baby. Looking at me with your mouth full.”Zane gave another pretty little sound, his hands curling in the leather encasing Felix’s thighs. He wasn’t sure whether he wanted to tip his head back and enjoy the tight pull of Zane’s lips as he sucked loudly, or whether he wanted to continue watching his cock disappearing between Zane’s lips, saliva coating his chin as he let Felix use him. God, he was so fucking pretty like this. This time it was Felix who moaned, the coil of lust twisting tighter inside him, all but delirious from the pleasure.Felix hadn’t anticipated sex with Zane, though maybe in retrospect he should have. Sex with Zane came as naturally as breathing, as watching television. It was a lovely way to kill time before their husbands were willing and or able to play with them. Felix had just thought Avi would be there, waiting, especially after their text conversation.For once, the Vogue shoot hadn’t been showcasing Felix’s designs, but Felix himself, showcasing some of his favorite designers. It was how he had found himself perched on a lounge chair in a long flowy pink top and nothing else but thigh black stiletto boots and three gold chains. Avi had seen the picture and instantly demanded Felix steal the boots with promises of what he planned to do with him in those boots.Ironically, when Felix had let Vogue know of his husband’s…enthusiasm over the look, they’d been amused, the designer offering up the shirt and boots as a gift. The jeweler hadn’t been so accommodating. Even though Avi hadn’t asked Felix to bring the necklaces, he’d bought them anyway, handing over his black card without blinking. The jewelry—three long necklaces, one gold, one pearl and one a combination of both—completed the look and Felix would never go unaccessorized.Unbeknownst to Avi, he’d paid fifty thousand dollars to ‘wear Felix’s thighs like earmuffs’ and then wasn’t even there to do so when he’d arrived. He claimed he was stuck in a meeting with some manufacturer out of China, but Felix had been a bit disgruntled nonetheless.But Zane was there to cheer him up. Zane had helped him strip, had slipped Felix’s arms into the gauzy pink fabric that hid nothing, he’d let his palms run over it, cooing over how pretty Felix looked with his long hair flowing over his shoulders. Zane had gently placed each necklace just so. Zane had sank to his knees to slide the boot on Felix’s foot. And that’s where things had gone…sideways.Zane had slipped Felix’s foot into place, then lifted his leg, soft lips skimming over the delicate bone of his ankle, then his calf, his knee, up, up, up, until those soft lips were grazing his inner thigh, the zipper closing behind him. Felix had smiled softly, pulling Zane in for a quick kiss, just a tiny press of lips, before watching him sink to give the next leg the same treatment.By the time he’d finished, Felix was hard and Zane was pressing open-mouth kisses to the skin of his thighs, dangerously close to his now hard cock. Close enough for Felix to feel his breath against his skin. Zane nuzzled his nose against the base, pressing into the curls there, murmuring against his skin. “You look so hot, Lix. Can I?”Felix had pressed his face deeper against him for a moment. “Can you what, baby?” he’d teased, canting his hips.Zane whined, dragging his lips along his hard length, before letting the head of his cock lay on the flat on his tongue, making eye contact with Felix as he’d closed his mouth around him and sucked.Felix's eyes rolled, heat sparking in his belly at the wet warmth. “Fuck. Yes. Yes, you can.”And that’s how they’d ended up in their current situation, with Zane sucking the soul from Felix’s body, his hands locked in Zane’s hair as he rolled his hips, getting closer and closer to spilling himself into Zane’s sinfully perfect mouth.“Oh, yeah. That’s good. That’s so good. Good boy. I’m so close.”Zane gave another reedy whine and Felix let himself relax into it, fire licking through his veins, each pull of Zane’s lips feeling like it was connected to some euphoric source deep inside.Felix heard the click of the knob turning, and the door opening slowly, rolling his head in the direction of the sound. Zane didn’t even falter, just continued to bob his head, tongue doing that twisting thing that made Felix hear color and see sound.Avi stood, leaned against the frame in a pair of joggers and a hoodie, feet bare. Felix wasn’t a foot person but there was something so domestic about seeing his husband barefoot. It didn’t make any sense but it made his heart feel like it was in a vice.Avi didn’t make any move to join at first, seemingly content to watch, the only indication he liked what he saw was the heavy lidded look and the erection slowly filling out, tenting his joggers. Avi’s cock was hard to miss, even at a distance.Zane suddenly took Felix to the back of his throat, swallowing around him causing him to gasp, then moan, fingers flexing in the other boy’s hair.Avi smirked, murmuring, “Hey, kitten.”“Hey,” Felix managed, breath stuttering when Zane pulled off, dipping his tongue into his slit, then giving a satisfied little purr sound, like sucking Felix was the highlight of his day. His pretty little Zaney was so perfect. “Come play with us.”“Yeah?” Avi asked, arching a brow.“Is that okay, baby?” Felix asked Zane.Zane pulled off with an obscene pop. “If it’s okay with Asa.”“He’s fine,” Avi said, as if they’d already discussed it. Which, to be fair, they may have, whether out loud or with their freaky twin thing. Felix didn’t know. He also didn’t care. He just wanted to play with them together. Felix knew Asa would join them soon enough.Avi pushed off from the door frame, yanking his hoodie off and tossing it blindly as he sauntered closer. He dropped onto the mattress beside Felix, gently carding his fingers through his hair before turning his head so he could kiss him, sucking his tongue lewdly before pulling back to say. “You look so fucking hot, kitten. Even hotter than in the photo.”Felix felt his pulse quicken at the compliment. Avi’s compliments still did something to him, affecting both his heart and his dick. But he didn’t tell him that. “You always think I’m hotter when someone else is getting me off.”“Oh, that’s not true,” he said, capturing his mouth in a slower, dirtier kiss. “I think your hot regardless of who’s getting you off.”Felix leaned into Avi’s space, his fingers tracing the scars that formed his name. Marked for life. Felix’s for life. He kissed the scar, then sighed when Avi’s lips began to run along the slender column of his neck, biting and sucking at him until he was sure he would be as marked up as Zaney.Zane.Felix ran his nails down the back of Avi’s neck. “Zaney’s been so good to me. His mouth feels amazing. Doesn’t he look good on his knees for me?”Avi smiled, reaching down to pet Zane’s cheek. “He does. You both look so pretty. But you promised me that you would sit on my face. Zaney can keep sucking you off but I’m afraid you need to relocate to VIP seating.”Avi used Zane’s hair to tug him off Felix’s cock, chuckling when Zane whined, trying to go back. Zane really loved sucking dick. He was amazing. Avi pulled Zane to his feet, shocking a gasp out of him when he pulled him close. Felix’s cock throbbed as he watched his husband lick the wetness from Zane’s chin, then plunge his tongue into his mouth. Avi groaned, nostrils flaring as he pulled away, practically growling as he said, “You still taste like him.”Felix was two seconds away from wrapping his palm around his dick and taking care of the problem himself, impossibly overwhelmed by the sight of Avi and Zane touching each other.Avi stepped back. “Come on, Zaney. Let’s play up here. Get naked.”Zane gazed longingly at Felix’s cock, making a sad little squeak like someone was holding his favorite toy just out of reach. Avi’s head jerked back to Zane at the sound. He pinched his chin, forcing his gaze upwards. Avi clearly liked the noise. His husband was—at his core—a predator and Zane couldn’t help but make himself prey.“You make such pretty noises,” Avi said absently. “Makes me want to do things to you.”Felix wasn’t going to last ten more seconds if he had to watch his husband and best friend make out again. He was too horny for this. He’d passed the point of no return.“Do things to me first,” Felix said, yanking Avi’s head towards him with a pout.They both undressed at lightning speed.When Avi was naked, he hooked a finger through one of the delicate gold chains around Felix’s neck. “Fuck, kitten. You look good enough to eat.”Something clenched hotly within him at the reverence in his husband’s tone, but Felix kept his expression bored, his tone admonishing. “That’s the point,” he sulked. “Someone promised they were going to—what was it?—Oh, yeah. ‘Wear my thighs like earmuffs’.”Avi grinned, falling back onto the bed, his feet still touching the floor. “And I stand by that. Come here, kitten. Hop on.”Felix and Zane exchanged a look, shaking their heads at Avi’s lack of romance. Still, Felix crawled onto the bed, throwing a leg over until his leather clad calves framed Avi’s face. He suddenly had a flashback to the first time they’d ever done this. That night in Aiden’s cabin, after he’d cut Avi. It wasn’t like they hadn’t done it since, but something about this felt like the first time.Felix sucked in a breath as Avi hands palmed his ass, kneading the muscles, before spreading him open, the air cold on his most intimate places. Zane curled up on the bed, head on Avi’s thigh, seemingly content to watch for a while. It made sense, Zane had done most of the work until then.Avi’s hands suddenly released him, then gripped his hips hard enough to bruise as he barked, “Sit.”Normally Felix wasn’t one for taking orders, but he let Avi pull him down until he could feel his hot breath against his skin. Once more, rough hands spread him open, making feel wildly exposed. Felix didn’t have any time to feel too embarrassed. Avi was already pressing kisses around the perimeter, rubbing his face against him like a dog, his lips on his skin almost reverent. Felix’s nails bit into his palms as he tried to force himself to be patient. Avi had only just started. Felix had gotten a pretty big head start with Zane.But Avi seemed determined to tease, biting at his cheeks, licking from just behind his balls to just before his hole then stopping blowing cold air on the slick skin there, hands kneading and massaging until Felix was writhing in his grip. “Avi,” he whined. “Stop teas-”Avi’s open mouth settled over his entrance, sucking the sensitive skin there. Felix moaned loudly, throwing his head back, pre-cum leaking from his cock and onto Avi’s stomach. Zane’s eyes were practically black pools as he watched them, his own dick ignored where it pressed flushed and pink against his belly.Felix went to wrap his hand around his own cock just for a tiny bit of friction, but Avi snatched his wrists pulling them behind his back. “Uh-uh. Not yet,” he said, words vibrating against his hole in a way that made him shiver.Avi ate him out, like he kissed, slow, methodical, thorough, like he had all the time in the world. He licked over him with the flat of his tongue, like a kid with an ice cream cone, laving at him again and again. Just when Felix didn’t think he could handle it anymore, Avi would spear his tongue against the delicate skin until Felix was whining, his hips rolling, attempting to get more pressure, more friction, more anything. Avi was rock hard, cock flushed and wet at the tip, but when Zane rose onto his knees, he didn’t go for Avi, he leaned forward, palms on either side of Avi’s ribs. He dipped down, sliding his tongue through the mess of precum on Avi’s stomach, gathering it there before crawling closer holding it out to Felix like an offering.Felix couldn’t help the sound he made, as he sucked the taste of himself from Zane’s tongue. “Put your mouth on me,” he pleaded, trying to wrestle his wrists free from his husband. “I need your mouth.”Zane’s eyes lit up, head dipping, but freezing when Avi chided, “Not yet, kitten.”Felix huffed out a frustrated whine, dropping his full weight onto his husband’s face, half hoping he suffocated down there. Instead, Avi just doubled his efforts, his tongue working hard to get past the tight ring of muscle, making a pleased sound when he was granted entrance. Felix’s breath hitched as Avi tongue fucked him, the sensation making him rock against him, trying to get more of him where he needed it most. But there was just no way. It felt good, so good but it was doing nothing to quell the ache deep inside his core. “Oh, fuck.”Zane’s gaze caught and held Felix’s. He watched as Zane wrapped his hand around Avi’s cock, gripping him tight, then sucking the tip into his mouth, moaning around him. Felix felt Avi’s surprised breath punch against him, smiling as Zane took him deeper, almost to the base, before dragging his lips back up slowly.“Christ,” Avi managed, his words muffled pleasantly against his skin. “He could suck a golf ball through a garden hose.”Zane blushed, glancing shyly at Felix like they weren’t currently in the throes of sex. Before Felix could think too much on the matter, Avi returned to tongue fucking him with vigor.Zane went back to sucking Avi off, his head bobbing his head, eyes closed, expression blissed out like he was having a religious experience.That’s when the door opened for a second time. Asa made eye contact with Felix who smirked. Zane clearly didn’t hear him, too caught up working Avi’s cock, mouth already spit sloppy from his enthusiasm.Asa’s hand closed around the back of Zane’s neck, pushing him down, down, down on Avi’s cock until he gagged, then moaned, eyes going hazy from his husband’s touch. Asa draped himself over Zane’s back, holding him in place as tears formed in his eyes. “You do know that’s not me, right, Lois?” he teased. One of his favorite jokes, whenever they played like this.Zane breathed rapidly through his nose, tears breaking free and drool forming at the corners of his lips. “You like choking on my brother’s cock? Does he taste like me, Lois?” he taunted.Zane whimpered, oxygen starved enough to start struggling. Asa released him and he pulled off with a gasp, dragging in pained breaths, strings of saliva still connecting his lips to Avi’s cock. “Nobody taste’s like you,” Zane panted, craning his neck to look at Asa over his shoulder, gazing at his husband like he was the sun and Zane had a vitamin D deficiency.“Good boy,” Asa praised, gently kissing his shoulder, then sinking his teeth into the scar tissue on Zane’s shoulder until he wailed, his fingers spasming along Avi’s thighs, digging blunt nails into his skin, which in turn caused Avi to groan against Felix’s hole like this insane feedback loop of pleasure.When Asa unclenched his jaw, he licked over Zane’s wound like he was a wolf licking his mate. Felix didn’t quite get it, their need to pain, for violence. Their love was brutal. Feral. There were nights when Asa would literally drive Zane to the country house, strip him naked and set him loose in the woods, before hunting him down and fucking him in the dirt until he cried. Zane would come home limping and bloody, covered with bruises, looking absolutely besotted with his maniac husband.Avi liked pain too. But he saw pain as a pressure release valve, a way to burn off the never-ending supply of energy he seemed to have. Nothing like Zane. He loved the ferocity of it. He’d said it a hundred times, in a hundred interviews. Every time some sad eyed reporter questioned him like he was a victim, eyes brimming with sympathy as they assured him it was a safe space if he needed help.But they didn’t see what Felix saw. He’d seen Zane stand in front of the mirror, pressing each of his bruises, lids heavy with longing and a small smile on his face. Pain was how he and Asa connected. Asa needed to hurt him as much as Zane needed to be hurt. Zane firmly believed the day Asa stopped hurting him was the day Asa stopped loving him. And honestly, their relationship was kind of beautiful.Felix didn’t get it, but he also knew Zane was sincere. He loved every mark Asa left on him and mourned their loss when they faded, whining and begging until Asa took him upstairs and gave him new bite marks and bruises to poke and admire. That’s why there was now a permanent impression of Asa’s teeth in his shoulder. Zane had begged him to bite him there over and over again until the mark was permanent.Even now, Asa was biting hard enough to leave imprints deep enough for a dental mold along Zane’s shoulders, his biceps, even the skin just below his ribs. Zane was blissed out, high off of it, pupils dilated even as tears streamed down his face and sharp cries cut through the room.“You’re being so loud, Lois,” Asa teased. “Maybe this will quiet you down.” Asa gently pushed Zane’s mouth back down onto Avi’s cock. Zane made a happy sound, swallowing him down eagerly, using Avi like a pacifier. Avi squirmed beneath him, his tongue vibrating against Felix’s skin every time he moaned from something Zane did.He was so busy working Avi’s cock, he didn’t even notice Asa stand, or strip, then walk naked to Avi’s side table, pulling the lube from the drawer, then returning to drop down onto his knees behind Zane.  Felix stared at Asa’s thick cock, so similar to Avi’s but just slightly different, a shade shorter, a bit wider. Wide enough to split Zane open in a way that made him scream.The thought had Felix whining, rocking back on his husband’s tongue, wanting more. Asa slapped Zane’s ass hard, the sound reverberating through Zane’s skin making the meat of his ass jiggle enticingly. So Asa did it again. And again. Zane moaning and crying on Avi’s cock.“Avi, if you don’t let me come soon, I will make sure you don’t come for a month,” Felix said, his frustration finally hitting its peak. He’d been getting edged for what felt like hours, even if it was maybe only minutes. His cock ached, every nerve ending was on high alert. Every swipe of Avi’s tongue along his entrance only seemed like a punishment, never deep enough to quell the empty ache deep within him. He needed to be fucked.Asa sank his teeth into Zane’s reddened ass cheek making him gasp, tears and snot and drool coated his face as he gazed at Felix, mouth stretched wide around Avi’s cock. He looked so fucking hot.Finally—finally—Avi released his wrists and Felix pitched forward, gripping Zane by the hair and tugging off his husband to give him a messy kiss, crawling down Avi’s body to hover over his cock. Zane’s lips found his skin, licking and kissing and sucking whatever he could reach. Felix’s thighs, his hips.“Can I borrow that when you’re done,” Felix asked Asa, nodding towards the lube he was currently pouring into his palm.Asa grinned, closing the top then tossing it to Felix who looked at Zane in askance. Zane gave Felix his hand, letting him coat his fingers before guiding them back between his cheeks, moaning when they circled his entrance. Felix’s lids fell closed, excited to feel something deep inside him. Desperate for it, really.Zane’s pained cry echoed through the room, causing Felix’s eyes to open just in time to see Asa breaching him without prep. Felix took advantage, sinking onto Zane’s three fingers, using him to work himself open. Zane’s head fell onto Avi’s leg as Asa yanked his hips back to meet every harsh thrust, setting a brutal pace that jostled the whole bed, putting Zane’s fingers just where Felix wanted them, glancing against that tiny bundle of nerves every third thrust.Felix couldn’t take it anymore, he pulled free of Zane’s fingers, then moved a few inches back, slicking up Avi’s cock, then settling over it, hesitating for only a moment before he sank down, groaning at the delicious stretch and burn of his husband inside him.Avi’s hands gripped Felix’s hips tightly, holding him in place so he could drive up into him a few times as the sound of skin slapping skin filled the room. Zane wasn’t talking, wasn’t even moaning anymore, he was deep in his sub space, just lying there, lids heavy, drunk off the feel of Asa’s cock driving into him.That didn’t stop him from pitching forward and wrapping his lips around Felix’s cock once more.Felix’s breath caught in surprise. “Oh, fuck.”“What’s happening,” Avi asked, breathless like he was on the treadmill instead of pounding himself up into Felix’s hole.“Zaney’s sucking my cock while Asa fucks him. They look so hot,” he said, tangling his fingers in Zane’s hair, fucking past his lips until Avi gave up and let Felix take over. That’s when everything went hazy, every movement provoking these knife sharp spikes of bliss. Avi filled him up so well and Zane’s mouth was heaven, so tight and warm and wet. Sometimes he wondered if this is what it would feel like to fuck Zane. They hadn’t done it yet, but Felix suspected eventually Zane would cave on that boundary too. But if he didn’t, Felix was more than happy with what they had now.Still, he couldn’t help but dream about it, fantasize about it. The way Asa was grunting, fingers gripping Zane’s hips tight enough to bruise as he railed him into the side of their mattress, there was no doubt that he enjoyed being inside him. Sometimes Felix wanted that too. Maybe just once to know what it was like.But for now, he’d settle for his pretty mouth, his plush lips wrapped around his cock, his fingers teasing at Felix’s hole, feeling where Avi fucked into him on each thrust, the pads of his fingertips teasing over his entrance even as Felix rode his husband, bouncing without thought of anything but finally coming. Finally getting the release he’d been craving all day. It was right there, so close, he could no longer control the way he moved, driving down onto Avi then up into Zane’s mouth.Zane doubled his efforts, head bobbing faster, moaning like a whore around his cock, the sensation shooting electricity along Felix’s spine until he was whimpering, his hips stuttering, his fingers tightening in Zane’s hair, gripping him tight, holding him in place as he came hard, crying out as Zane sucked him through it then pulled off, Felix’s cum dribbling from the corners of his mouth before he swallowed the rest loudly.Felix dragged him upwards, then leaned over to kiss him, licking his face clean.“Is it my turn?” Avi teased.“Yeah, how do you want me?” Felix asked.“Can I keep fucking you? Are you too sensitive?” Avi asked.“No, I’m good.”“Then I want you on all fours, kitten.”Felix prowled forward, his hands inching down the mattress and into Zane’s space until his elbows were on either side of Avi’s thighs, watching as his husband disappeared out from underneath him. When he was on his knees behind him, Felix made a show of widening his legs and arching his back, quickly grabbing the lube and spreading it over his fingers before reaching back to swipe it over his hole. “There you go, baby. Fuck me. Fill me up.”Felix hissed as Avi slammed home. It wasn’t painful, just…sensitive. To his credit, Avi wasn’t trying to drag it out. He had his hands on Felix’s cheeks, holding him spread wide as he pounded as deep as his body would physically let him, punching breathy little sounds from Felix’s lips each time their hips connected.Zane’s lips found his, but they were both being jarred too much to kiss properly, content just for their mouths to slide together as they breathed each other’s air, fingers threaded together as they let their husbands take what they wanted.Surprisingly, it was Zane who came first, untouched, just from the way the comforter had worked over him while Asa fucked him. Avi came next, hips falling off rhythm with a hoarse shout, then grinding against him like he wanted to make sure he was as deep as possible before he filled Felix up.As usual, Asa was not far behind Avi, groaning long and low, before falling over Zane’s back, panting. “Damn, Lois,” he said, just loud enough for all of them to hear him.Felix grimaced as Avi pulled free of him, then flopped onto his back on the bed. Felix laid down beside him, curling onto his side, then letting Avi fold around him. When Asa pulled free, Zane crawled onto the bed and into Felix’s arms, gesturing for Asa to come snuggle him.Once Asa was wrapped around him to Zane’s liking he yawned wide enough to make his jaw crack.“That was nice,” Zane said, still a little out of breath.“Yeah, I’m going to leave a glowing review of those boots,” Avi promised. “The necklaces, too. I don’t think they’re going to let you return them after what we just did.”“Don’t worry, I bought them,” Felix assured him.“Oh, good. A worthy investment.”“I’m not so sure our accountant will think so,” Felix teased.“Well, she’s not the boss of us. It’s an investment in our marriage,” Avi said around a laugh.“A big one,” Zane let slip.There was a long stretch of silence. “How big?” Avi finally asked.“I gave them the black card,” Felix said as if that answered the question.“And how much did you put on said black card?” Avi asked, hand creeping up under the gauzy top to pinch his side.“A couple thousand,” Felix hedged.“Oh, that’s no big-”“Fifty thousand,” Felix blurted.“Fifty thousand? Dollars?” Avi echoed.“No Russian rubles,” Felix deadpanned.Avi fell silent, staring at the ceiling. “That was a fifty thousand dollar rim job?”Felix turned to glance over his shoulder. “Are you trying to say my ass isn’t worth fifty thousand?”“Tread lightly, bro, that is definitely a trap,” Asa said around a laugh, gathering Zane to his chest and burying his nose in his throat weirdly scenting his husband once more.“Your ass is worth three times that. Just maybe we lie and say it was a birthday present.”Felix gave him a pissy look. “My birthday is in December.”“I know that. But does she?” When Felix continued to stare, Avi deflated. “Fine. An anniversary gift?”“You took him to Greece for your anniversary three months ago,” Zane reminded him.Avi groaned. “I can’t tell Madge Millbrook that I just spent fifty k so my husband would look sparkly with my tongue up his ass. She looks like Ms Frizzle but she’s a five foot demon from hell. That’s why my father loves her.”“You didn’t put it on the corporate card. Do you really owe her an explanation?” Zane asked.Asa scoffed. “Dad is going to want an explanation. You know he monitors all our spending.”“Well maybe if you two didn’t insist on living off his money like freeloaders despite having successful companies of your own, we wouldn’t need to explain fifty thousand dollar rim jobs,” Zane admonished.Felix nodded, threading his fingers with Zane’s then squeezing. “Zaney’s right, this is your fault. Nepo babies.”Zane gave a firm nod. “Let’s take a nap, Lixie. I’m sleepy.”“What are we supposed to do?” Asa whined.“Go get us dinner,” Zane said around another yawn, wriggling free of Asa’s arms to curl into Zane’s. “Something expensive,” he joked.“You hate rich people food, Lois,” Asa said, nibbling his shoulder for a moment before rolling to his feet, Avi mimicking the gesture. Felix’s heart did that squeezy thing it did, as Avi gently took off Felix’s boots, setting them next to the bed, then forced the two boys to untangle their limbs long enough for him to take off the necklaces.As soon as Avi finished, Zane snuggled back into Felix’s arms, his thigh slotting between Felix’s knees, his head tucked under his chin, voice sleepy as he said, “So find me a gold plated hamburger.”“Go,” Felix said, waving the boys off as Zane wiggled, burrowing deeper against him. “Forage. Bring home sustenance.”“Sometimes I get the feeling we’re just here to provide food and shelter,” Asa griped as they got dressed. Felix watched through slitted lids as they grabbed their wallets and phones.Avi bumped Asa’s shoulder looking back towards Felix and Zane curled up together on the bed. “But it’s worth it.”Asa chuckled, opening his phone and snapping pictures of the two without asking permission. “This might be my new phone lock screen.”“I’ll kill you in your sleep,” Zane said, voice muffled against Felix’s chest.“You’re no fun, Lois. Can I at least make it my wallpaper for my home laptop? Please?”Whatever Zane said was lost on all of them. Felix buried his nose in Zane’s curls, letting the scent lull him to sleep. This had been a really good fucking day. He had a lot of those lately.As the door shut behind the two ment, Zane whispered, “Night, Lix.”“Night, Zaney,” he said, kissing his head.