I didn't question why I woke up with Dion pressed to my chest that morning. I didn't want to question it. I just wanted to revel in how nice it felt.

He made a small sound and then looked up at me with heavy eyes. I didn't even think, I just moved in and kissed him. I felt him smile against my lips before he kissed me back. He lifted his hand and trailed his fingers over my cheek, before they ran into my hair.

"Good morning," I murmured.

"It is," he whispered back and kissed me again.

My stomach kept turning on its head and I couldn't focus on anything but how soft his lips were. I couldn't suppress this weird as hades sound. It sounded like a very content dog.

Dion didn't stop though. He intensified the kiss, kissing me harder. He moved closer pressing himself at me.

"Dion," I murmured.

"Yeah." He was panting and pulled back, looking up at me.

"Not now." I clenched my jaw. "Not yet."

He took a deep breath and nodded. "I don't want anything but this." He moved in and kissed me again. My heart fluttered and I kissed him back. Passionately. And it was getting hard to not move this along. Especially because he was still so close to me.

My arm moved on its own, curling around him and pressing him to me.

"Fuck, you sure you don't want this?" Dion laughed and pulled back a little, his brown eyes looking slightly more amber in the pale morning sunlight.

"No," I chuckled. "Not sure at all."

"Let me make it easier for you." He placed a very chaste kiss on my lips, winked at me and then swung his legs over the edge of the bed. "What are you doing today?" He stretched his arms over his head and looked back at me.

"I need to go talk to the boss. About yesterday. Fill out some paperwork and stuff."

"Oh, that sounds boring." He rolled his eyes.

I lifted up, supporting my head on my hand. "It's a bit boring. Wanna come? Then you can see how it all works and after we could... Go... On that... Date." I had such a hard time getting that last bit out at the end.

Especially because he was looking at me with such a heart-warming smile. His cheeks flushed a bit and he turned around, scooting down to me again. He pushed me on my back and kissed me. Very passionately, deeply and as if he'd die if it stopped. He dug his fingers into my chest and back. My hand slipped up on the back of his head, cradling it, careful of not touching his horns.

"Yeah," he breathed against my lips. "I'd like that."

I opened the door for Dion, and he grinned at me as we walked into Euphoria. We found Achilleus in one of the booths, surrounded by paperwork. I dumped down in one of the chairs across from the little sofa he was sitting.

He looked up and smiled a little tiredly. "Hey."

"Did you get claustrophobic in your office?"

"Yeah and the view is nicer down here." He nodded towards one of the bartenders named Helena. And she was indeed pretty with her chestnut coloured hair flowing a bit past her shoulders that matched her skintone and the horns of a deer curling up towards the ceiling.

"So, there was some problems yesterday?" he asked and shifted his eyes between Dion and I.

"Yeah," Dion said and sighed, sitting down too. "The guy was a creep and he got rough. It's mentioned in my bio the horns are off-limits right?"

"Yeah, I made sure to put that in there." Achilleus looked through a couple of files and then found Dion's. He handed it to the faun and Dion opened it, reading through it. I glanced at it, catching sight of the picture they were using for his profile. It was nice.

"Okay, I just don't want it happening again."

"I'll make sure to ask if they've read the rules," I offered, and Dion looked up. His tense expression softened, and he nodded.

"Thanks, I'd appreciate it."

"You two still working well together?" Achilleus looked at both of us with an intense look.

"Yeah, Arlo is a peach. I feel a lot safer with him around."

"Dion's easy to work with."

Achilleus nodded and looked back down at his papers. "Well, glad to hear it. You're both getting a couple of days off as per protocol. Don't party too hard, 'kay?"

Dion and I shared a grin before we left Achilleus to his paper mountains.

I had been eating out with Dion at least five times, but this time it felt different. I also took him to a nicer place this time. But it wasn't about the setting. It was about the fact that Dion's fingers were loosely fitted in between mine on top of the table.

"I've been wanting to come here since it opened, but... I never had anyone to bring," I tried. My voice was shaking a bit.

"It seems like a nice place." He looked around for a bit before settling those brown eyes on me again. "It's my treat too. I was the one who said it was a date. And... I owe you."

"You don't owe me anything."

"I do, Arlo. You didn't have to take me in or be this nice to be me. Not after I... Not after everything." He looked down at our hands and sighed. "Not a lot of people are this nice. So, let me be nice back."

"Okay. I'll let you be nice." I smiled and he did too.

Slow jazz was playing on a comfortable volume. No one was loud, but there was a buzzing of conversations from other people in the restaurant. The lighting was a soft orange, and everything was just really pleasant and comfortable here.

And Dion looked so beautiful. The lights hit his cheekbone in the prettiest way. His hair was slightly ruffled, and he had done something to his horns, so they were more shiny than usual.

"It was nice of Achilleus to give us some days off. You have any plans?"

I moulded that over. "Maybe we should go on a trip?"

"Sure! I haven't actually ever been on a trip before. Where would you go?" He smiled widely and shoved some green beans in his mouth.

"I don't know. Maybe... Home?"

"Home?" He arched a brow at me.

"Yeah. My home."

He dropped his fork with a clang and leaned back. "You want to take me to hades?"

I shrugged. "Maybe not then..." I muttered. "How about Mykonos? I hear it's nice this time a year."

"That sounds awesome. I've always wanted to visit the islands."

"Then we'll go." I smiled widely.

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