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bathroom and a laundry room behind it.
     
    “We just bring all the laundry down here. It’s probably the least convenient place, but there’s no basement in the building, so it’s about the only place where the washer and dryer fit,” Dru said and seemed to notice that Skye’s posture went rigid at the words. “Had to say it so that you know there isn’t one,” the blond said quietly as he walked back to the main part of the house.
     
    “Go check out upstairs too so Skye can leave his bag there. But be back in ten minutes or I’ll let the food burn,” Thom said while they were passing the kitchen and heading to the stairs.
     
    They walked up, and Skye looked around the open space.
     
    “So this is your mess, then?” he asked in a slightly teasing tone that made Dru duck his head and shake it.
     
    “Damn, you two will give me a hard time over this, won’t you?” Dru asked and stopped walking toward the hallway when he saw that Skye was interested in something.
     
    “What is it?”
     
    “Just… I know what kind of a business you run, but I can see at least five computers here. Seriously, Dru?” Skye grinned.
     
    “There’s a backup laptop and a backup desktop and… well, that’s Thom’s old laptop, and then there’s a spare one that’s a Mac.”
     
    “Because all that makes sense.” Skye shook his head.
     
    “You can have the Mac if you need a computer to use. I don’t really do much with it anyway, use it for surfing the web when I want to take a computer downstairs or something.” Dru shrugged, and Skye looked at him wide-eyed. He should’ve remembered the casual way Dru, who had been born into money, handed over things he didn’t need. It had happened so many times when they were kids that Skye had gotten used to it.
     
    “Okay… we’ll see about that,” Skye just said and gestured towards the hall for Dru to go on.
     
    “So, this is the master bedroom, we knocked down some walls to make it big enough and to have that walk-in closet over there.” Dru pointed at an open door from the bedroom doorway. “The house is a bit funny in the architectural sense, so there’s this hall with rooms on one side only,” he said and pointed at the wall with windows high up near the ceiling opposite the doors to the room.
     
    “That’s the master bathroom, but there’s one smaller one on the other side, crammed into the corner here,” Dru said as he walked to the door at the end of the hall. He opened the door and flicked on the lights before stepping away to give Skye some room. “And this is your room. The bathroom is through there.” He pointed at a door, as he had said, near the corner.
     
    Skye walked to the middle of the room and looked around. There was a window seat on the back wall near the headboard of a bed that looked king-size. He liked the idea of natural light during the day.
     
    “This was meant to be the master bedroom, but since the bathroom was next to it, there was no way of expanding it, so we made this the guestroom and had another bathroom added for everyone’s convenience,” Dru said from where he was now leaning, his back against the door frame.
     
    “It’s really nice. I like the colors too,” Skye said and smiled, looking around again. The colors were rich chocolate brown and light blue with hints of other colors that mixed perfectly with the warmth.
     
    “There’s the dresser and the desk. I was going to put a little couch in there, but it turned out cramped. If you want to change something, just say so and we’ll do it.”
     
    “Oh no, I like it as it is,” Skye said hastily. The room was perfect, so comfortable and homey. It was probably the nicest room he had ever been in, and now he would get to live in it!
     
    “Of course we need to figure out some more clothes for you to actually put something in the dresser. We could make a trip to the city, the mall, in a couple of days or when you feel ready for it,” Dru said, pushing