12. things you said when you thought i was asleep [Xerac and/or Kaithan, because greedy reasons :D]
I’m drawing a blank on Xerac. D: Mostly because Xerynn doesn’t sleep. :p
ALSO, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HOOKER.
Kai woke up with a crick in his neck, face planted in the pillow. He yawned and rolled over, facing an amused Ethan. He squawked and scrambled back, nearly falling from the bed.
“Shit! Holy crap; let me wake up first,” he muttered.
Ethan merely stared at him, snickering and barely hiding a smile.
Kai stared back. “You okay?” He patted Ethan’s forehead. “You sick?”
Ethan laughed this time, shaking his head. “You talk in your sleep; you know that?”
“No I don’t!”
Ethan rolled on his back, pillowing his arms behind his head. “You do. And in some detail.”
Kai sat up, glaring. “The hell I do. I’ve never talked in my sleep!”
Ethan reached up and tweaked his nose. “You do. Well, you did.”
Kai sat cross-legged and scratched his lower back. “Well . . . say I did talk in my sleep. What might I have said?” Not that he did. He’d never done that! Ethan had to be making it up.
Ethan’s fingers drummed warm on his knee. “You said, ‘Honey, the badgers got into cake batter again.’”
“You’re totally making that up!”
Shoulders shaking, Ethan grinned up at him. “Nope! When I asked you what you meant, you patted my face and said, ‘I love you, badger.’”
“Aw, man! That wasn’t how I wanted to say that!” Kai buried his face in his hands. Of course he had to be nonsensical when he told Ethan he loved him. Wouldn’t be him if he didn’t.
Ethan’s fingers stroked his wrist, pulling his hands down. “I love you, too . . . cake batter.”
“Oh, you think you’re so funny,” Kai groused, a grudging smile forming as Ethan pulled him down.
“Naw, I just want some of that cake batter,” he smirked, slapping Kai’s ass.
“You’re such a dick,” Kai laughed, curling into Ethan’s arms.
The other man kissed him, holding him tight. His gaze softened. “I love you,” he murmured.
Kai’s heart thudded. “I love you, too.”
“Next time, pick a better pet name than ‘badger’, okay?”
“How’s ‘asshole’?”
“Well, I do like yours so I guess that works.”
“Pervert.”
“Not as fun.”
Kai laughed again, burrowing into Ethan’s chest. So, okay, maybe he did talk in his sleep. At least it was only slightly embarrassing this time.
