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Elias shackled Lucky’s fucking wrist. “No.” He bit out the word quickly before his mind changed it to a  fuck, yes .
    “I want to seduce you.” Lucky bit him, teeth sinking so Goddamn deep into his skin, Elias almost came. “Let me seduce you.”
    Damn it. Elias tilted his head, giving Lucky better access as he rubbed on his fingers. He was gonna lose his Goddamn mind if he didn’t stop this. “Lucky.” His voice was a hoarse mess. He cleared his throat and tried again. “Lucky, we’re not doing this today.”
    Lucky stiffened then pulled away to look up at him. “Oh?” He narrowed his gaze. “Tomorrow then? Yeah, when you’ll be off wherever, to fuck whoever?”
    Elias took a calming breath. Then another. In total he took about five. “You deserve better, Lucky. Find someone who can give you something better than this shit. You don’t want this.”
    Lucky blanked his features, but Elias didn’t miss the heartbreak on his face, in his eyes. “Okay. Yeah.” He shrugged then moved away. “Alright, so I’m gonna go and you’ll—” He waved a hand. “Do what you’re so good at. Disappear.”
    “Stay. Spend the night.”
    Lucky shook his head. “I can’t— I can’t.”
    “Please.” Elias went to him, took his face in his hands. “Stay with me tonight.”
    Lucky bit his lip. “How long will you be gone this time?”
    “I don’t know.” He wasn’t lying about that.
    “Promise me something.”
    “Anything.”
    “Promise me you’ll come back,” Lucky whispered. “Promise me you’ll keep in touch. A postcard, a fucking homing pigeon.”
    “Lucky.”
    “Don’t Lucky me.” He swiped at his eyes. “I need to know you’re okay. I don’t have to know where you are or any details, but I have to know you’re alive.” He clutched Elias’s shirt and speared him with those eyes. “Promise me.”
    He could do that. Elias nodded. “I promise.”
    Lucky sniffed. “Okay.” He pulled out of Elias’s hold and walked to the kitchen entryway. “Well, come on then. Once again we’re spending the night together in this house.”
    Elias went to him, taking Lucky’s hand. Together they walked to the air mattress. He kicked off his boots, Lucky did the same and they got on the bed together. Lucky put his head on Elias’s shoulder and he pulled the burgundy blanket up over them.
    “I can’t believe you kept this,” he said softly.
    “Of course I kept it,” Lucky murmured. “But, I do wash it so you don’t have to worry.”
    Elias laughed. “I wasn’t worried.”
    “Good.”
    They fell into silence in the darkness. Comfortable, similar to that first night years ago, but different. So different. Here, Elias didn’t have to sleep with one eye open, with a gun always at the ready. Here, he had safety and Lucky.
    “Tell me about Scotland,” Lucky murmured.
    Elias had to force himself not to stiffen up. He managed a laugh. “The only thing I know about Scotland is that my birth certificate says I was born there.” He stared off into the distance. “I got out as soon as I could.”
    “But you must remember something. What about your family?”
    “I grew up in an orphanage.” Elias shrugged. “Never knew who they were. Lived on the streets until I got a better offer.” He’d thought the offer had been the best thing that could happen to someone like him, but pretty soon he figured out there was always a cost.
    He should have stayed selling his ass for room and board. At least then he wouldn’t be swimming in blood.
    “What else does your birth certificate say?” Lucky asked.
    “Nothing worth knowing.” He didn’t want to tell Lucky to stop with the questions, but Elias definitely wasn’t up to answering anything.
    Lucky touched his stomach, palm flat against him. “Not even your last name?”
    Elias grunted. “Not even that.”
    Lucky went silent for so long Elias figured he’d nodded off.
    “The next time you come to me, I’m seducing you,” Lucky spoke in a voice