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moved to something less…less what? They weren’t really
discussing anything. Just two guys wearing nothing but pants sweating in a
kitchen yapping at each other was all they were doing. Will sat in the chair
he’d claimed as his and laid one of Levi’s fancy linen napkins in his lap, to
hide that he needed to adjust again. His dick wanted out to play. Damn. “Of course
I had insurance. What am I, stupid?”
    “And
are they working with you?” He’d forgotten Jude was a lawyer and these were
perfectly reasonable questions coming from a lawyer. This felt too much like
small talk over dinner before heading back to a hotel for dessert.
    “Yeah,
they paid enough to rebuild. I didn’t have much inside just some basic
furnishings and clothes. I wasn’t home much and never got around to making it
more than a place to crash.”
    He
filled his plate with the steaming cheesy noodles and grabbed a couple slices
of bread hoping food would fix what ailed him.
    “Unlike
Levi.” Jude looked around the almost painfully gorgeous kitchen. Matching
cookware. Matching dishes. Matching towels. Art on the walls from the same
French Quarter artist. He’d been with him the day Levi found the canvases.
Impressionist renderings of New Orleans everywhere Will looked. Reds and
yellows were the main colors.
    “Every
room in this house has a theme. That should have been my first clue.” Will
stabbed a forkful of food and tried to absorb himself in the flavors hoping his
roommate would take the hint and eat in silence.
    “I
bought the place while he was still playing up in Minnesota, he had some sixth
sense that he was going to end up here I guess. I picked up the sectional on
the second floor and the bed in the front bedroom. I didn’t need much to get me
through the last year of law school and my clerkship. There were three bedrooms
and the one bathroom way up on the top floor. When I moved out he’d just moved
in and we ripped down the wall between the two back bedrooms.
    This
place was pretty much just bare bones and leaky plumbing when I left. I haven’t
been back since.” Jude shifted, pulling one leg up onto the seat. He rested one
long arm over his knee and leaned back in the seat. Not eating, just sipping
his water. “So what do you do next, as far as your house is concerned?”
    Will
caught himself watching the almost graceful movement of the man’s hands.
“I…ah,” he cleared his throat of the hastily swallowed bite of food. “Excuse
me…Clean up, I guess. I need to find someone to remove the debris and the
remains of my car. And I guess clear it down to the foundation.”
    “Sounds
like a solid plan. I used to know a couple of really reliable companies, but
that was before the storm. I’ll look and see if they’re still in business. Mind
you I said reliable, not cheap. They do the job quickly and honestly. But it’s
going to cost.” Jude watched him with those whiskey colored eyes that were so
much like his brothers while he picked at his food. Up close like this, Will
noticed the differences in the two brothers. Levi was a bit more square in the
jaw while Jude more angular. His nose just a little sharper. His lips thinner.
Not pouty like Levi’s. His face still had that same heart shape that Levi’s
had, just not the same . Jude’s wrists
were thinner, his fingers longer. “How’s the mac?”
    “Good.”
He speared another fork-full and waved it toward Jude. “Why aren’t you eating?
    You’re
like Levi with the eat-like-a-bird thing. And then mostly junk food.”
    It
was as if Jude had forgotten there was food on his plate. The face he made, and
the quick scoop of mac and cheese onto his fork. “Just letting it cool down,”
he said, but somehow Will wasn’t buying it. Didn’t matter. The Brody brothers
were both a bit strange, and he didn’t have the time or the want to figure
either of them out. “What about rebuilding? Is there enough structure left or
will it be a complete redo from the ground