Page 48 of How to Rescue Your Surprise Baby

“Aww, how gallant.”

Mav shrugged. “It’s better than listening to you bitch when you wake up sticky in the morning.”

Telos stopped breathing. Mav took one look at him and frowned.

“I didn’t mean that in a bad way,” Mav said quietly. “You know what you’re like.”

Well, Telos did. He’d said a lot of scathing things to keep Mav away and protect his own heart. And he would’ve gone back to that, if Mav had scoffed at him for bottoming.

When he looked down, he realized that he wasn’t covered in dried cum like he should’ve been. “Did you... clean me up?”

Mav was looking at everything but him. “Least I could do.”

Telos blinked rapidly. “Here I thought you hated me.”

“I...” Mav wet his lips. “I don’thateyou. You just get under my skin. A lot. It’s easier to be mad at you.”

Telos wasn’t sure what to feel about that. He leaned over the edge of the bed and grabbed the discarded covers, pulling them over himself.

Mav grabbed the other side of the covers and tugged them over his own shoulders. He took more than half, actually.

“Hey!” Telos pulled the covers back, more than he needed.

Mav gave him a stink eye and muscled the covers over to his side of the bed. More than half.

“You seem to have trouble with dimensions,” Telos sniped. “Can’t tell where the middle is?”

“You can’t, either.” Mav kept tugging on the covers until he had most of it. “It’s like you don’t know how toshare.”

“I’ll show you ‘sharing’.” Telos lifted the covers, shoved Mav onto his back, and lay on top of him, facing the ceiling. “Now it’s all mine.”

Mav snorted. “Are you sharing your ass, too? It’s right on top of me.”

Telos had been hoping Mav would miss that. He wasn’t about to swallow his pride and ask for Mav’s cockagain,but...

Before he could come up with a reply, a tiny voice babbled across the room.

“Estie!” Telos leaped out of bed, accidentally elbowing Mav in the stomach. Mav grunted. “Crap. I can’t believe I forgot about you. Have you been awake this whole time?”

“She woke up in the middle of the night,” Mav said.

Telos glanced at him, horrified.

Mav shrugged. “You were sleeping deeply. I had Hilly-Billy come in to give her a diaper change and formula.”

“He stuck around andhovereduntil we were done,” Hilly-Billy said smugly from elsewhere in the suite.

Telos wanted to be mad because Mav had made him miss his first time waking up to care for his daughter.

“We have a mission to complete today,” Mav said simply. “You need to be well-rested for it.”

Telos scowled anyway, scooping Estie out of her crib and giving her several morning kisses. But Hilly-Billy’s words lingered in his mind. He turned to Mav and said, “You want a baby.”

Mav shrugged, looking away.

“Why don’t you have a baby yet?”

For a long moment, Mav just scowled. Then he finally said, “No one feelsright.To have a baby with.”

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