Phinneus was smart enough to understand that offering to come to the palace to be snuck into the prince\'s quarters now would be a bad idea... but he wanted to. Still, it didn\'t pay to exhibit all the patience he had over the past weeks in order to seduce the boy, only to start rushing things once some actual momentum had been built up.
"Mmm, me too," he agreed, rolling onto his back and dragging Hew with him. When faced with a delectable-looking collarbone, he lathered the dip beyond with attention, flicking a playful tongue before nipping the top of his trapezius muscle hard enough to leave only vague teethmarks - it made him giggle when he looked at it. "Now that I\'ve tasted you," he said pointedly, looking up into Hew\'s eyes with a sly grin, "it\'s painful being alone."
He wanted to tell the boy that he was always alone whenever he wasn\'t there, but it wouldn\'t strictly be true, for he\'d been left quite frustrated at the start of their relationship and had accepted a couple of offers that he normally wouldn\'t. Even though that was a while ago, he knew it was best to just let Hew know that he was usually alone, without overdoing the \'missing him\' side of things.
Truthfully though, the slumlord wasn\'t the sentimental type, so it wouldn\'t come off as genuine, no matter how good his acting was; he\'d do better explaining that he\'d generally abstained from sexual interactions until Hew came along, whereupon he\'d been inspired to indulge rather than simply teasing and toying as he mostly did but... even that would be too much. In the end, he settled for silence. And kisses.
