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“Oh, like Mother?”

“Yeah. It was boring.”

“It’s not very exciting, but it’s better than some jobs.” Vali led him into his room and pointed at his shelf. “It’s mostly fiction. I have parchment in my desk drawer there, and you can see the quill and inkwell.”

Azriel ended up on the bed next to Vali with a collection of murder mysteries, and he whispered after an hour. “I think the Master Steward did it.”

Vali had read that one, and it was the Master Steward, but he wasn’t saying that. “You’ll have to find out.”

“What’s the Master Steward supposed to be for? It seems like he hangs around a lot and doesn’t do anything.”

“They get rents and taxes for the lord and do tasks like that.”

“Oh.”

They grew quiet again for a while. Vali’s nonfiction book was an account of the life of Noah, a King of Camaday from a long time ago. Sometimes, he wondered if Noah had been gay because he seemed way too close to his male friend and guard, Morgan.

The book said they had been really good friends, but did Morgan need to sleep in Noah’s bed every night and live in his rooms? Did they think someone ready to kill the King might be lurking behind the curtains or under the bed? Didn’t the Queen get annoyed or ever want to sleep with her husband even if she preferred having her own bedroom?

It said Morgan was quite a skilled swordsman, and he’d helped Noah to improve his skill with one even though he’d preferred the axe. Vali had a feeling those two might have been playing with the swords between their legs in private.

It must have been easy to get away with that kind of stuff for a King as long as he was well-liked and not too open. He took a glance at Azriel who was fiddling with a piece of his hair while he read, and he remembered having the angel’s cock in his mouth.

Fuck. Azriel hadn’t asked to feed, but it was surely good for him to have his pearls, although it still seemed like angel candy to Vali. He tried to focus on reading again for a bit, but he kept thinking about sucking the angel’s cock. Next to him, Azriel’s wings kept shifting slightly. He must have been close to finding out who the murderer was.

It wouldn’t be gay if they kept doing stuff as long as the angel was fine with it. If not, Vali would be stuck with his own hand again. He was used to that, but it had been nice to have someone else touching him.

“I knew it,” Azriel whispered to himself after several more minutes.

He must have found out it was the Master Steward who had committed the murder.

Vali shifted uncomfortably as he tried to make his erection go down. Azriel set down the book and gave him a quick side look. “I need the privy. Damn it.”

Vali bit his lip to keep from laughing as Azriel hurried out. He wouldn’t have time to fist himself to make his dick calm down, and maybe he should just ask.

Azriel sighed when he returned to the bed, and Vali lowered his book. “So…um, do you need to feed?”

“I don’t need it.”

“I thought you said everyone does that. Are you hungry?”

“Yeah, but I’m not doing that anymore.”

Vali squinted at him. “I understand if you didn’t feed anymore to get used to it, because I doubt most humans would be fine with a horned angel that makes smoke when he fucks, but, er, it doesn’t bother me. I mean, if you have a limited amount of time, you might as well do it.”

“I can’t use you like that.”

“It’s not using me if we’re fine with it,” said Vali. “If you simply don’t want to, I get it, but just say so. It seems more like you’re worried about me for some reason.”

Azriel bit the tip of his thumb. “I used you. I think that’s pretty obvious, and I shouldn’t have done it no matter how hurt I was.”

“What if the other person is telling you they’re okay with it? That’s not using me. I also don’t feel used, and I get that you were injured. You’ve grown up in a different realm with other beings who have different needs in some way, and I don’t see a problem if we both agree now. I wouldn’t mind sucking your dick, and if we get each other off, I guess you could argue that we’re using each other, but I’d say that’s pretty fair.”

Azriel squinted at him and seemed to be considering it. “You’re not some magic source for me to use when I please like-like a town well.”

“Maybe I’d like you to use me whenever you feel like it. ”

Vali’s face warmed because he couldn’t believe those words had even come out of his mouth. But he couldn’t help it because the idea was so insanely arousing, he was pretty sure he’d just leaked pre-cum in his drawers.

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