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Chapter 27: If I loved you less I might be able to talk about it more.

Lavender and brine and… something else. Something uniquely him. Something Edmund wishes he could bottle and keep with him forever just so he can always be reminded of this exact moment.

He’s sure Aures could tell him for days on end about the nose and how exactly smell triggers memory and how it’s the strongest sense the human body has – if he wasn’t a little, uh… preoccupied with her brother.

Edmund’s lips find the pulse point beneath Aidan’s ear and he doesn’t even attempt moderation when sucking a bruise into the skin there. Beneath him, Aidan ruts upwards with a strangled moan that Edmund swallows with a kiss a moment later.

Every tiny sound and involuntary motion in response to Edmund’s ministrations serves to intensify the heat setting Edmund’s veins aflame. Aidan is feverish and wanton and completely overwhelmed, and he won’t let Edmund stop for even a second. Not that Edmund has any intention of doing so much as slowing down.

He can’t.