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He lowered his torso, curling his body into Kai, pressing his cheek against Kai’s broad chest. Kai began rubbing his back in long, soothing strokes. There. That was much better. Warm and cozy. Safe.
“I can’t get demon-married with The Real Housewives playing in the background. It’s too tacky, even for me.”
Kai’s eyes gleamed at he looked him over. “But you look good enough to eat, zaychik.” Sascha considered Kai’s sharp teeth. “I’m a little worried you mean that literally.”
I bind myself to you, body, heart, and soul. To be parted from each other only by death, and that parting merely temporary. My soul for my mate, and my mate’s soul for me in turn.”
Sascha could feel him. Kai’s soul, it must have been. A solid, warm weight in Sascha’s chest that screamed safety.
Kai stroked Sascha’s cheek. “My precious mate. I’m going to take such good care of you.”
Kai tucked his face against Sascha’s hair, smiling into it. His sweet, perfect mate. Kai could feel him, secure within his chest.
Should he just goggle it? He tried painstakingly typing out “need bagels for mate,” but nothing useful came up.
He muttered to himself the many failings of this realm, “No hot rivers. No fine oils. No fresh kills…”
“See how sweet you are to me?” he crooned. “My perfect mate.”
You won’t be left alone ever again.” Sascha collapsed against him, all his restless energy leaving him in an instant. “I think my codependent heart just skipped a beat,” he murmured.
“We’re already bonded for eternity, but you’re worried it’s too soon to say those words?” “Yes?” “Sweet Sascha,” Kai crooned. “Now you say it back,” Sascha told him. Kai laughed, grabbing Sascha’s hand and leading him to the front doors of the warehouse. “Humans are so strange.” “Yeah, but now you say it.” “So very strange,” Kai mused. “Kai. Now you say it.”
But if anything, Kai seemed delighted to stay put. He’d taken to… Well, Sascha could only describe it as nesting, like he and Sascha were newlyweds and Matteo their new baby.
Apparently Sascha didn’t need a maid service anymore—he had a house husband instead.
“You’re my mate,” Kai said, suddenly insistent. “The bondmate of my soul. It is beyond words. Beyond human love.”
“Then I love you, my sweet Sascha,” he crooned. “Better and more deeply than any human could.”

