“Okay, don’t wait then.”
“You sure? We can’t go back after we—”
“Oh, we’re not going back. You’resostuck with me. I don’t care if you are a dragon. Not going back. We’d just have to have a very serious discussion about birth control, because I am not cut out to be a dad. Not on the wish list. Um, not that there’s anything wrong with kids if you—”
“I don’t want kids,” Uriel said. “But I’m going to try my best to knock you up.”
“Annndthe sparkle again. Let’s make like Santa and hit the sack.” Joe groaned and dropped his forehead to Uriel’s chest. “Oh that was bad. Linus would be so disappointed in my pun skills.”
Uriel thought the pun had merit. He lifted Joe’s chin with one finger and stared into his mate’s eyes. He definitely wanted to hit the sa—
“Um, Uriel, why is there a disco ball where your chandelier was a second ago?”
Uriel groaned as Marvin Gaye’sLet’s Get It Onbegan blasting through the speakers of his sound system. He may not like watching television—didn’t own one in fact—but he did enjoy music.
Joe bit his lip. “Um…that’s….”
Uriel gave up. He scooped Joe into his arms and carried him toward the bedroom. “Enough talk.”
“Oh, there will never be enough talk. However—”
Uriel lowered Joe onto the bed. He flopped back and made a snow angel on the blankets.
“—I’m ready to talk about other things now. Like why you aren’t taking off that really nice sweater that I plan on borrowing.”
Uriel took off the sweater. “You already borrowed a sweater.”
“Yeah, it’s going to be a thing that I do.”
Uriel reached down and took one of his slippers off Joe’s foot. Then he removed the other before sitting them on the floor by the bed.
“I need slippers by the bed, Uriel.”
Joe sat up and tugged his shirt over his head. He tossed it at Uriel’s chest. Then he reached for the button of his jeans and shimmied out of them.
“You can have anything you want.”
Uriel’s stereo began blasting a new song.
“Oooh, baby, baby. Baby, baby. Get up on this!”
“Uriel, if you don’t get naked, I’m going to start asking questions.”
Uriel stripped, then climbed onto the bed. He covered Joe’s body with his own and stared down at him. “Goddess, you’re—mmmph.”
Joe lunged up and covered Uriel’s mouth with his own. The kiss said it better than Uriel could have. He gave Joe all the bottled-up joy he’d kept inside for the past few hours.His mate.
He wasn’t expecting Joe to tremble in his arms seconds later. Joe groaned and pulled away as his body tightened and then released. Uriel only thought Joe was beautiful before. Coming apart in his arms? Perfection.
Joe groaned and opened his eyes. “All your fault,” Joe huffed.
“How so?” Uriel said, lowering himself to the side but still covering Joe with most of his body. He ran a hand over Joe’s ribs, earning another shiver out of his mate.
“You edged me for hours. What did you expect?”
“Edged?” Uriel frowned. “How so?”
“‘Mmm, stew.’”
