misdirection_hex: (genuine smile)
Vandelin Emith ([personal profile] misdirection_hex) wrote 2017-09-19 07:53 pm (UTC)

The idea that furnishing the place nicely would make Kit a target for robbery is not one that would have occurred to Vandelin on his own, one more thing that the Circle has left him unprepared for, but he keeps his chagrin about that to himself. Surely, he thinks, there must be other ways to make the house more comfortable. And if there aren't, he'll invent them. He follows Kit up to the bedroom, still just a little giddy about the privacy himself.

"If I need something stronger?" he echoes, teasing gently in the face of that anxiety. "You think I need to be liquored-up to enjoy your company? If that were the case, I wouldn't have come and found you again."

He gives himself the credit for that; if there's any way Vandelin can phrase a statement so that all the agency in it is on his part, he invariably will. But the underlying sentiment is no less sincere for that, and he reaches out to encircle Kit's broadly muscled waist with an arm, pulling him close and flush and nuzzling into his jawline in the way he's been talking himself out of craving for weeks.

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