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This was a gorgeous story. I love it!! No need to rewrite my review, I still love this story just as much as the first time around. Thomas, Boris and Hans. They're kind of my favorite MMM couple so far because they're complicated and gritty. Not to mention wild and more than a little crazy. It's a perfect story.

“A man cooking for another man is… untraditional.” The word wasn’t in Hans’s vocabulary, but it sounded almost identical to the English word. “Still, you are all untraditional men here. I suppose it’s better that you cook for Boris than nobody does.”
“Thank you, Ivan Nikolayevich,” Hans replied after sorting out the Russian in his head.

“In Russia,” Ilya said casually, “we have public baths. Banee, where men relax together. You would enjoy it.”
“I would?”
Ilya shrugged. “Well, I may be wrong. I assumed, since you were living here with Boris and Thomas, you were like them.”
“Wealthy?”

As Boris passed Hans, he looked at him pointedly, though Hans wasn’t sure how to interpret it. Was he pissed at him because he hadn’t kneed Ilya in the groin when he’d pulled him in for a hug?
Ilya winked at him when he went by, which just irritated Hans more.

Ooh Ilya, the hot older brother from Russia. Now it's getting really interesting.

As soon as Thomas came home, things went back to normal, but if Hans wanted something from Boris at lunchtime, or even when they were having sex, he had to figure out how to ask for it in Russian. This was far from easy, since he was still at the level of “This is a cat. The cat is black. I like cats.”

Their rule about rewarding Hans' Russian language learning with anal sex is interesting. He'll be fluent in no time, LOL.

“We’ll get some supper, maybe roll around in bed for a bit—I could really use that, if you don’t mind—and then I’ll insist we go over your lesson before bedtime. All of us together.”


I totally love this book but there are moments when it seems Hans is a glorified sex worker for them.

“The one you have to watch out for,” Boris went on, “is Ilya, my older brother.”
“Why?”
Thomas answered for Boris. “Because he’s beautiful. No offense to my handsome husband, but Ilya is gorgeous.”
“No offense taken,” Boris said. “It is true. He is beautiful and he is charming.”

Boris, of course, did not have a cellphone. When Hans had suggested it could be useful to him, he’d said he might consider it if Hans could find him one shaped like a butt plug, so he could really enjoy it when someone called. That had ended the conversation.