Out of Nowhere (Balls and Brawn Bodyguard #4)

32. Chapter Thirty-two Seo-jun

Chapter Thirty-two: Seo-jun

“ I f I never see that son-of-a-bitch again, it’ll be too soon,” Colt said irritably as they left Jase, West, and Logan’s office after a debriefing on a recent case they did together.

Seo-jun had to agree. Roman Petrov, the billionaire they’d been hired to protect over the weekend, had been a real asshole, particularly to Colt, who, unlike Seo-jun, always went out of his way to be nice to everyone. As they were passing the tech office, Seo-jun paused in the doorway. Dex sat at his desk with the new guy, Salem Maddox, their heads bent close together as they looked at the computer screen.

From what Seo-jun had seen, Salem seemed nice enough. In his twenties, he was what Seo-jun would call unconventionally attractive with long, wavy, nearly black hair that he usually kept off his face and neck with a clip, striking features that likely came from a mixture of nationalities—Asian, judging by the shape of Salem’s deep blue eyes; and perhaps Mediterranean by his tan skin, thick, dark eyebrows, and long, distinctive nose.

“Jealous?” Colt whispered in Seo-jun’s ear, to which Seo-jun gave him an implacable look before knocking lightly on the door with his knuckles. When Dex turned around, a beautiful smile bloomed over his face, and Seo-jun’s heart sped up. For a moment, they simply stared at one another until Colt cleared his throat, breaking the spell, and moved past Seo-jun into the room.

“Hey,” Dex said.

“Hey,” Colt said easily, perching on the edge of an adjacent desk. “What are you guys working on?”

Seo-jun noticed the tips of Dex’s ears reddening, which happened when he became embarrassed…or aroused. Swallowing thickly, Seo-jun forced his mind away from thoughts of fucking Dex.

“Actually, Salem was helping me to work the kinks out of Gary,” Dex said.

“Must be working. The lights are still on,” Colt said, and Dex’s ears got redder.

Seo-Jun, who had still been standing on the threshold, walked in and placed himself between Dex and Colt.

“You almost ready to go?”

Dex was coming back to his place and spending the night.

“Uh, yeah. I think so.” Dex looked at Salem. “All right with you if we call it quits?”

“Yeah, I need to head home. I still have a lot to pack,” Salem said.

“Need some help?” Colt offered. “I don’t have to work tomorrow. I don’t think Sean does, either. We could follow you and help you get everything moved.”

“Are you sure? It’s about a four-hour drive,” Salem said.

Colt was already tapping out a text message. “I’m sure about me. I’ll check with Sean.”

Dex shut down the computer and stood, slipping his hand into Seo-Jun’s, warm and comfortable.

Colt’s phone pinged and he grinned. “Sean says he’s in.”

Dex and Seo-jun said goodbye and walked into the hall.

“I thought we’d go out to eat,” Seo-jun said just before Dex manhandled him into the bathroom and shut the door. Then Dex’s soft lips landed on his, and Seo-jun lost himself for a while.

“Mm,” he murmured when they finally slowed down. “Keep this up and we’ll have to skip the dinner and head straight to my place.”

“That’s okay with me. I missed you,” Dex said. He planted a kiss just behind Seo-jun’s ear, then licked it. “I haven’t seen you all day.”

Seo-jun pulled Dex in closer, chest to chest and groin to groin, suggestively swiveling his hips. “I could order pizza…after.”

Grinning, Dex said, “Sounds good to me.”

An hour later, lying in Seo-jun’s bed, the sheets damp with their sweat, Seo-jun sighed as Dex lightly ran his fingers through his hair. Seo-jun was accustomed to living alone, having wrapped privacy around him like a protective blanket over the last ten years after Haru, but having Dex there with him felt right. So right, Seo-jun never wanted to leave.

“Move in with me,” he said, the words out of his mouth before he really thought about it. But after saying them, he realized it was exactly what he wanted.

Dex shifted on the bed so he could see Seo-jun’s face. “What?”

Seo-jun met his gaze and said more slowly this time, “Move in with me, Dex.”

Dex searched his face, and Seo-jun hoped he would find what he needed there.

“Isn’t it a little soon?”

“Well, we could go on for a couple of months with you coming over here every night and more and more of your things winding up here, or we could just do now what is going to happen later.”

Dex’s face flushed and his gaze drifted away from Seo-jun’s. “You might get tired of me in a couple of months.”

“Hey.” Seo-jun turned Dex’s face back to him with a gentle nudge. “That’s not going to happen. I’ve told you I don’t go into relationships lightly. I know what I want. The question is, am I what you want?”

Dex’s eyes went wide and darkened, the brown mixed in the green becoming more prominent. “Of course you’re what I want! How could you not be? You’re…you’re perfect !”

Seo-jun let out a small laugh. “I’m an anti-social perfectionist who is going back into therapy and doesn’t have much to offer a sweet, sensitive guy like you. I’m lucky to have you in my life.”

Dex’s expression softened and he leaned in and kissed Seo-jun with so much feeling, Seo-jun’s heart caught in his throat.

“I said you’re perfect. Don’t argue with me.”

Dex smiled, and Seo-jun couldn’t help but smile back. Their next kiss was interrupted by the doorbell.

“Pizza,” Seo-jun said, rolling out of bed and pulling on the first garments he could find in the basket of clean laundry. When Dex joined him in the kitchen, Seo-jun turned to find him smiling broadly.

“What?”

“You’re wearing my pajamas,” Dex said.

Seo-jun looked down and realized he was wearing green cotton drawstring lounge pants with dinosaurs printed all over them and a Star War’s T-shirt. Definitely not something he would normally wear.

“You look cute,” Dex said, approaching and sliding his arms around Seo-jun’s waist. “I like you in my clothes. Makes me want to rip them off you.” He kissed Seo-jun, tongue swirling inside his mouth, and Seo-jun let out a soft moan.

“You never answered my question,” he said when he pulled back. “I want to go to bed with you every night and wake up with you every morning. Say you want it too.”

Dex’s eyes crinkled in the corners at the same time that they filled with tears. “I want it too.”