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Royce sighed into his neck “This is really fucking with my head, Haydn”

There was a long silence, Haydn’s fingers raking over his scalp in a lazy, absent the situation in his pants

“Same,” Haydn said “This is not—this is not normal, yeah?”

“Yeah,” Royce said, catching the skin of his pale throat with his teeth and sucking Haydnsweeter Royce inhaled greedily, feeling like an addict inhaling his favorite drug “This is fucked-up”

“Uh huh”

“It makes no sense”

“Yeah”

“Part of me still can’t believe I’ve had sex with another alpha”

“It wasn’t sex,” Haydn said His scent was tinged with e else “You were still affected by the full ether”

Royce snorted “I hate to break it to you, but sex is an act of people getting off together”

“You knohat I mean”

He did, of course Except yesterday wasn’t the only time they’d had sex “What about the blowjob?”

“It wasn’t a blowjob!” Haydn sounded a little strangled “It was—it was just the tip”

Royce laughed, and after aat Royce’s hair a little “Shut up, that’s what you said,” he said defensively, still chuckling

“Right,” Royce said, thu Haydn’s hipbone He paused, unsure when his hand had sneaked under Haydn’s belt “I’m sure I don’t need to tell you that an alpha in rut would say the stupidest shit to stick his dick where he wants it And it doesn’t change the fact that I had my cock in another alpha’s mouth Your mouth”

Silence descended between theed