Their Serenity (A Reverse Harem)
Then his voice, soft: “Piece by piece.”
I didn’t even realize my hand had found his under the table until his fingers tightened back around mine.
Lunch turned into coffee. Coffee turned into wine. We laughed. We bickered. Nadei roasted everyone’s palate. Arsen got pulled into a heated debate with Jade and Alexei about whether Spider-Man could beat Batman. At one point, Nial told a story about Nikolai as a teenager that made him threaten to drown him in the pool. And through it all, Aurelio stayed—steady, quiet, almost whole.