Renley:No need to take it over the top.
Theo:Come on, you like it. You can admit it. Don’t be shy.
Renley:I’m about to turn my phone off.
Theo:Don’t! Talk to me.
Renley:What do you want to talk about?
Theo:I don’t know, how you wish I was over there in your bed right now.
Renley:Despite your annoying tendencies, I do wish that.
Theo:I can be annoying, but I’m also fun and I’m a good snuggler.
Renley:I can believe that given how you held me in the pond after.
Theo:See? And I checked on you to make sure you’re okay, which by the way, are you still okay?
Renley:I’m fine. Maybe a little sore, oh, and I already have hickeys on my neck from you.
Theo:Not even sorry. Maybe sorry about being sore, although there’s nothing I can do about that. But marking up your skin, I did that on purpose.
Renley:I’m going to have to cover them up.
Theo:Or you can wear them with pride and when people look at you, you can say that I gave them to you, as well as one of the best orgasms you’ve ever experienced.
Renley:The best orgasm.
Theo:It’s not a good idea to inflate my ego, love.
Renley:Just being truthful. I’ve never experienced sex like that. I don’t want to say it because you won’t let me live it down, but…you really blew my mind.
Theo:Jesus, I’m not going to be able to fit through the door. Renley, you’re making me puff my chest with pride.
Renley:I know, and like I said, normally I wouldn’t inflate your ego in such a way but tonight meant something to me, and I just thought you should know.
Theo:Thank you. It meant something to me too.
Renley:Do you think we can just keep it between us for now? I fear if we tell the butler and the gelding that they’re going to be weird and obnoxious about it and that’s not what I want. I want to enjoy this with you, not fight off insanity.
Theo:I want the same thing. We can keep it between us. I like a secret.
Renley:Will you be able to be normal about it?
Theo:Absolutely. You don’t have to worry about me.
Renley:Are you sure?
Theo:Positive.
“Morning,” Theo says as I step outside my house into the balmy air. It’s supposed to be hot today, so it’s the perfect day for us to go to the store and get paint supplies and things we need for wallpapering, as well as flooring.
“Good morning,” I say as I walk down the porch stairs, excited to see Theo. The need to jump right into his arms and kiss him so freaking?—
“I can’t believe you two did it!” Rupert says, nearly flying out of a bush, startling the ever-loving shit out of me.
“Jesus…Christ.” I press my hand to my chest as my mind registers what Rupert just said. “Wait. What?” I ask, my eyes flashing to a very guilty-looking Theo.
