Chapter 5Mars
“Mmph.” Mars was half-laughing into the kiss, breathless and dizzy because this, this, was everything he’d been hoping for without even knowing it. Like those eighteen years since they’d last talked were only a few days. Like the ways they’d changed since then—all they’d learned and grown up to—didn’t change a thing about the way they connected. He quit thinking pretty soon.
It wasn’t until Pax pushed himself up, saying “Let’s take this to the bed,” that Mars fully realized what he wanted.
Telling himself to hold that thought, because they had a lot of work and a lot more talking to do, he rolled off the couch and followed Pax to that nice big bed. “Best thing about hotel rooms,” he said, pulling back the covers.
“King size? Oh yeah.”
They both snickered. Mars emptied hi
