Page 83 of Broken Ice
“I’m sorry for telling you to call Freddy. I should have…fuck, Beau—”
Beau kissed him on the edge of the mouth. “It’s okay. It’s kind of funny when you think about it.”
“Funny?You thought I was giving you to another Alpha, to that fucking—”
“All right, okay. Yeah, no, I can see what you meant when you said you’re crazy about me…stress on the ‘crazy.’ ”
Emilio glowered. “This isn’t a joke, Beau. You threw up.”
“Mmh. Yeah. And I was really sad. But I’m not now. So. Get the fuck over it.”
Emilio groaned loudly.
“Also, you haven’t kissed me since you confessed your undying love for me, so. Get to th—”
Emilio cut him off, flipping them and taking Beau’s mouth in a biting kiss.
“That’s what I’m talking about,” Beau mumbled through the press of their lips.
“I can’t believe not even a kiss will shut you up,” Emilio pulled back to complain.
“Yes, you can.”
Emilio considered that. “Yeah, I can.”
Beau laughed, rising for another kiss.
He’d known deep in his gut that Emilio couldn’t have been giving him to someone else. He couldn’t imagine a version of Emilio that would ever let anybody touch Beau like this—especially against Beau’s wishes.
Even his addled heat brain hadn’t truly been able to make sense of it.
“Wait,” Beau said, pushing Emilio away. “I have a question.”
Emilio quirked his eyebrow expectantly.
“Before I was traded here…that game you covered your nose. You said it was because you were overwhelmed. Is that still, like,an issue?” Beau asked. It didn’tseemlike one, but he was done with just assuming things about Emilio.
“I mean…not in the way you think it is. When we were rivals—Beau. You get that your scent drives me crazy, right?”
Beau frowned. That didn’t sound good. “Crazy in what way?”
Emilio huffed. “Crazy as in it’s so fucking good that those first few times I smelt it, I couldn’tthink. All I wanted to do was pull you close and just…I covered my nose so I didn’t fucking lose it in the middle of a game.”
Beau gave himself some time to process that. “Oh.”
“Yeah. So. Sure, sometimes I catch your scent and I just want to fucking…” He dipped his head, slotting his teeth on Beau’s neck.
Beau shuddered, craning his throat to give Emilio access to more skin.
“Wanna fucking mark you and scent you.” He unclenched his jaw from Beau’s throat and rubbed his stubble there, making the skin underneath flare.
“Yeah?” Beau said dazedly.
“The first time I smelt you, every fucking cell in my body said, ‘That’s mine.’ And you were some mouthy rookie on theWarriors, causing trouble everywhere you went, and I didn’t know what to do with myself,” Emilio confessed, apparently on a roll now.
Beau scratched his nails down Emilio’s back lightly, humming for Emilio to continue.
“You know how fucking embarrassing it was to have Pavel chirp me because I turned into an idiot every time you were nearby?”
