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“You bought that so you could kiss me?”

Teddy nodded.

“But you can kiss me anytime you want to.”

There was a wicked glint in Teddy’s eyes.I’ll hold you to that.

“I kind of think you should be kissing me right now, and maybe moving your cock inside me…”

Teddy kissed Ollie softly as he rocked his hips back, then thrust inside. He started off slow, considerate even, but then it was clear he needed to let go and take Ollie how he needed to. He lifted his head to look down at Ollie.

He thrust in and out until Ollie didn’t feel real anymore.

Ollie was fuzzy again, soft around the edges, and warm enough to melt away.

Teddy was looking at him in that way again. The way that made words burst in his head, words like baby, like love, like soulmate. Romantic nonsense. Or that’s what he’d always thought.

“Baby?” he breathed because he couldn’t help it.

Teddy pressed their foreheads together, nodding slowly, letting his nose slide against Ollie’s.

“Love?”

Teddy kept nodding and sucked on Ollie’s top lip.

“Soulmate?”

He felt Teddy’s smile before he pressed it to Ollie’s mouth. His beard tickled Ollie’s chin and neck.

Ollie pulled his mouth away so he could whisper, “I love you.”

Teddy nodded, but his brow contorted and his eyes looked sad.

He would never be able to say it back.

But Ollie saw it in the way Teddy gazed at him.

He saw it in the distress he showed at not being able to say it himself.

“And you love me?”

Teddy’s nod turned more enthusiastic, and he snorted, pushing his nose to Ollie’s cheek, then kissing his chin, the tip of his nose, his forehead.

“You love me,” Ollie repeated, and Teddy opened Ollie’s mouth up with a kiss while continuing to nod. It was wet, and smeary, but it was the best kiss Ollie had ever had, and he smiled into it as he wrapped his legs around Teddy’s back and crossed his ankles.

“Your butterfly until the day I die.”

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Epilogue

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Ollie held his breath, watching through the window of the café.

They’d travelled a long way to get there, but the place meant something to Teddy.

It meant something to his sister, Anna, too.

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