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need me to fetch you some water?”
“No, thank you, sir.”
“Hugh.”
“Yes. Hugh. Old habits.” Finch offered him an apologetic smile. “I’m neither hungry nor thirsty.
I’m simply tired. I’ve never… with anyone. It’s more exhausting than I was led to believe.”
“It is quite physically taxing,” Hugh agreed. By now his knot was receding, so he pulled slowly
out of Finch and lay at his side. Finch moaned in disappointment when he withdrew, but it was
for the best. Rest was essential. When Finch’s heat picked back up, they’d be glad they’d spent
some time apart. “I’ve entertained a few omegas through their heats over the course of my life,
and I have no idea how they ever got by without the help of modern medicine. But I suppose
biology doesn’t care. Reproduction eclipses all, doesn’t it? As long as offspring are being
reliably produced, it doesn’t matter how inconvenient the method of conception.”
Finch snorted. “I’d like a word with evolution.”
“You and me both.”
A comfortable silence followed, during which Hugh plucked a loose coin from the sheets and
teased it between his fingers, wanting badly to run it along Finch’s skin or place it in a dip
somewhere on his body. Even when Finch’s heat wasn’t in full effect, he wanted to drown the
man in gold, blanket him in billions, and bejewel him with finery even kings and queens would
envy. But for the moment, the best thing he could give Finch was a nap.
“I’m off to take a shower, sweet,” Hugh told him, then kissed him on the forehead. “I’ll bring
back more water and some snacks. You may not be hungry now, but the same won’t be true
after the next wave of your heat strikes. Rest while you still can. I shan’t be long.”
Finch, whose eyes were closed and whose body was blissfully relaxed, hummed in agreement,
so Hugh left him in his hoard and went to shower. Like he’d promised, he didn’t take long, but
he was delayed in the kitchen while Emma fussed about his shoddy diet. Hugh came out
victorious, however, and left the kitchen in possession of a platter of leftover petit fours.
Expecting to find Finch in the throes of heat, Hugh popped a Funfetti confection into his mouth
on the way back to his hoard, but when he arrived, Finch was asleep, and the scent of his heat
had faded away.
Don’t get too excited,Hugh told himself as he returned to the bedside and placed their snacks
