Aiden’s eyes fix on his, round and startled. “Really?”
“One day, yes. Not right now. But I’ve thought about it.”
“You’ve thought about it?” Aiden repeats as he runs his hands up his sides. Beto gets the impression he is holding his breath.
Beto nuzzles a kiss to his cheek. “I have.”
“Tell me.”
Oh. Tell Aiden about all the scenarios he has played out in his head already, imagining some cozy domestic future with him? Well, he asked. “A house or apartment, somewhere on one level, anyway. Somewhere with a yard, because you like this place out back,” Beto says, nodding so Aiden knows he means his courtyard. “But an easy to maintain kind of thing. I think I’d need some guidance. I don’t even have a house plant.”
Aiden gives him a flicker of a smile, nodding for Beto to continue.
“We’d nee
