“Oh, my God.” Neil slumped against their closed apartment door. “I don’t know how you do it.”
Albert raised his brows. “It?”
“You know, all the superhero-meets-spy stuff. You dealt with it like it was business as usual. Meanwhile, it was all I could do to hold myself together.”
Albert huffed a soft laugh. “Hardly business as usual, but yes, I suppose over the years I’ve gained enough experience I usually know how to proceed. This time…” He sighed. “It was complicated by my concerns for you.”
“Oh.” Neil straightened and walked into Albert’s arms. He sucked in a lungful of Albert’s scent, then instead of nuzzling at that enticing neck as he would otherwise have done, he peered into Albert’s eyes. “But you made the same decision in the end, right? That you would’ve done if you hadn’t been
