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BY THE TIME EVERYONE leaves, it’s late and Victor’s kitchen is a mess. In the morning, long before Liam has any intention of being awake, professionals will come and clean it, taking away the rental glassware and everything else. By the time Carly shows up for brunch, because Victor likes to putter around and make them omelets in the mornings after Liam stays, it will be as if the whole thing never happened. Until then Victor is, Liam knows, likely to be his usual slightly irritated and insomniac self. And for now it’s just the two of them.
“I don’t understand why you have these things at your house if you hate the invasion so much,” Liam says, settling himself on Victor’s couch. Victor pulls the blinds closed on the big sliding glass doors, shutting out the night.
They have been havi
