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“Well did you agree to keep it casual before you did it?”
“It just happened. There wasn’t really a lot of talking.” Rowan felt himself blush.
“Horny dragon.”
“Ruben!”
He snickered. “Just talk to him. Establish the parameters. Hookups happen all the time. Maybe he’s not even bothered.”
Which rubbed Rowan the wrong way. Was Milo agonizing over this like Rowan? Or was it a ships-in-the-night situation for him and it hadn’t even crossed his mind?
“He wasn’t there this morning when I woke up.”
Ruben brightened. “That’s good news. He knows the one-night stand etiquette. I think you’re all good, honestly.”
Rowan swallowed hard, losing his appetite.
Ruben noticed. “Unless, of course…you don’t want that.”
“I don’t know. The whole thing is confusing. He drives me insane!”
“Those are the hottest ones,” Ruben said sagely.
Rowan scowled at him and bared his teeth. “Don’t go near him.”
Ruben laughed, holding his hands up. “Calm down, baby bro. I don’t even know who your mystery man is. How am I going to claim him, huh?”
Rowan continued to glower.
“It sounds like you’re not ready for your little tryst to end, so why don’t you suggest something casual?” Ruben took a bite of sausage.
“How?”
“Well, you open your mouth and words come out,” he said dryly.
“How illuminating,” Ruben growled. “I meant how do I suggest that when I don’t even know if that’s what I want?”
“I don’t have the answer to that, Rowan. But your freak-out over a tiny hookup is amusing me to no end, so do keep me updated.”
“What if he brings it up?” Rowan asked frantically. “What do I say? Or what if he doesn’t? How am I supposed to act?”
“Rowan, I’m gonna hold your hand when I say this.” He did not reach out to hold his hand. “You’re a moron.”
“That’s not helpful.”
“I didn’t say I was gonna be helpful, it’s just a fact that needed to be stated,” Ruben replied. “Did you like what happened between the two of you?”
Ruben flushed, the phantom warmth of Milo’s cock on his chest bringing memories too impolite for public thought to the surface.
“I’ll take that as a yes,” Ruben said. “Would you mind if it happened again?”
“No,” he mumbled.
“Then it doesn’t have to be more than that. You said you had to keep seeing him. You said this time it just happened with zero talking about it. It sounds simple to me.”
“What, just wing it?” Rowan asked.
“You’re a dragon. Should be easy.” Ruben winked. “You keep seeing him for whatever reason you need to. And if things end there again, enjoy it. If they don’t, then they don’t.”
