Brannal laughed. “That’s the exact opposite of a nap.”
Perian started tugging Brannal towards the bedroom.
“It’s exactly what I need,” he told him.
Brannal was eying him with an odd expression that Perian couldn’t quite decipher. “It is, isn’t it?”
Perian grinned at him. “How can it not be, when you’re so hot and tempting?”
Brannal rolled his eyes, but he was smiling now, and he allowed himself to be pulled.
And itwasexactly what Perian needed. A nap might have worked too, of course, but Perian would much prefer Brannal bringing him to a very satisfying orgasm and coming deep inside him.
“That’s the best medicine ever,” Perian said with satisfaction.
Brannal let out a bark of laughter as he wrapped his arms around Perian. “Oh, should we suggest it to the doctor?”
Perian snorted. “I can see how that would go over. But if we’re talking about an application ofyoufor anyone who’s tired, then that is a definite ‘no.’”
Brannal was still chuckling. “I suspect that would be a full-time job.”
“I suspect that there would be a lot of people suddenly suffering from fatigue if you were the solution.”
Brannal pressed a kiss to his cheek. “You are very absurd.”
Perian grinned and snuggled in closer, relishing the skin-on-skin contact, that buzz of connection that was better with Brannal than it had ever been with anyone else.
“Yes, I am.”
Brannal kissed him again. “I wouldn’t have you any other way.”
They might have gotten distracted a second time, but then Brannal’s stomach rumbled, and they agreed that they really had better go for dinner.
“Wouldn’t want either of us to get ill because we were too busy having sex to eat,” Perian said cheerfully.
Brannal snorted. “I would definitely not want to explain that to the doctor.”
They pulled their clothing back on, Brannal so practiced with his many layers, getting through the underthings, shirt, trousers, padded tunic, leather vest, pauldrons, arm guards, sword belt, and variety of weapons before Perian managed his much more common outfit—but he spent most of his time watching the other man’s hands as he buckled and strapped things on and slid knives into place.
Brannal raised an eyebrow. “Am I being inadvertently seductive again?”
Perian grinned and nodded.
Brannal suppressed a smile. “That reminds me. Our things arrived today and were put away. Your new belongings are here.”
Brannal pointed them out on the vanity. Perian hadn’t even noticed, probably because he’d been totally focused on Brannal and gettinginto bed.
“Wonderful. I’ll make sure to give Renny her present tomorrow.” He eyed the book, and for a second, he almost mentioned how Kee wanted to see it, but he didn’t want to break their confidence. “That gives me so many ideas.”
Brannal’s lip curled up. “Something for us to try, or did you want to invite Molun and Arvus to look as well?”
Perian felt a shiver go through him, and Brannal apparently saw it. He took a step closer. “You’d like that, wouldn’t you?”
Perian could only imagine the joint arousal if they were all looking at that book together, and it was definitely an alluring image.
“If you’d like it, too,” Perian said.
Brannal smiled at him, eyes dark and heated. “I would definitely enjoy that. We should show them how much we enjoyed our time away, shouldn’t we?”
