“It’s not,” Crush said. “You make me smile like no one else can.”
Killian couldn’t wrap his mind around that.
“We probably shouldn’t have gotten distracted,” Crush said after a moment, checking the time on his phone. “We should start heading out.”
It had been such a long fucking day. All Killian wanted was to go to bed. “I was probably going into heat anyway,” Killian said. “Better here than on the road.”
“True.” Crush sighed into Killian’s hair. He ran his hands up and down Killian’s arms, then over his throat and into his hair.
“Are you scent marking me?” Killian blurted.
“Yes,” Crush growled. “Mine.”
Killian blushed; it went halfway up his rabbit ears. “You can mark me whenever you want. It’s nice.”
“Good omega,” Crush purred, rumbling in his chest.
It made everything in Killian unclench. “How do you do that?”
Crush petted Killian’s chest, then his ears. “How do I make you relax? Mostly by trial and error. Seeing what you like.”
This still surprised Killian, that Crush liked him enough to do that. “No one has spent this much effort on me before.”
Crush narrowed his eyes. Then he hugged Killian more tightly. “You’re mine now. I’ll give it all to you.”
“That also sounds like a line from porn.”
Which was possibly the least romantic thing Killian could say. He groaned.
The alpha laughed. “Anythingcan be a line in porn if someone wants it badly enough. One of the dragon brothers, Zenith, he writes books. Not too long ago, he showed us this thing he had written.”
Something in his voice made Killian curious. “It... wasn’t good?”
“It wasterrible,and he wrote it into a sex scene just to see if he could. He was so fucking proud when it got published.”
Killian frowned. “Why would he be proud of it?”
“Because no other sex scene would have lines like that.” Crush laughed, unlocking his phone. He opened up a chat and did a quick search, before showing Killian his screen. “Tell me I’m right. It’s a terrible line, isn’t it?”
Zenith
Y’all, check this out. I’m gonna be so famous.
Bruiser
Famous for what?
Zenith
Patience, young lizard
Bruiser
For the last time, I’m not a lizard!
Uriel
No, you’re a gecko. Prissy and show off-y but ultimately a scrawny reptile.
