Harm laughed along with Trick, though he thought he heard nerves that cut his boyfriend's sounds of amusement short. What he said wasn't wrong. They hadn't even been together an official week and already Trick knew his two great passions. "Damn, I feel so exposed right now," he chuckled, throwing a playful pout over his shoulder as they approached and then snuggled beside one another on the couch. Harm sat cross-legged, facing Trick. His hands flitted between his leg, Trick's leg and stroking the smooth, warm flesh of his boyfriend's muscular arm.
When Trick encouraged him to reveal his surprise and smiled at him like that, he found himself gulping. Partly it was trepidation about saying the vampire's name and partly it was the light striking Trick's astounding eyes. Their ice water blueness never failed to look through him and into him at the same time and he was drawn forward for another quick kiss, helpless to resist Trick's magnetism. As he pulled away, he sucked in a large breath, hoping it would be followed by another, more celebratory kiss soon.
"I called Ben Samson tonight. I told him two weekends ago that I'd let him know how things worked out with you. I'm pretty sure he didn't really care how upset I was over you leaving that night, he was just hoping that we'd hook up again but he wasn't fazed when I said you and I were together. I told him we were going away and, uh," Harm faltered, colour rising on his cheeks and his hand lifting to scratch at his nose. He didn't know why he was embarrassed. Maybe because it felt like he was being offered something exorbitant in exchange for nothing at all and it made him feel vaguely like a whore? He hoped to fuck Trick didn't see it that way, he'd be mortified.
"Well... he offered to fly us to Europe on his husband's jet and said we could stay in any of his homes over there for as long as we liked. Without charge. If we wanted. He has places all through Europe - including a castle, apparently - so I guess they're pretty fancy places and we wouldn't have to pay anything for accommodation at all, if we didn't want to. I-I said I'd talk to you about it and, uh, let him know," Harm finished quietly, forcing his hand away from his face and fluttering his eyelashes at Trick like he was calmly waiting for his verdict on what television show he wanted to watch after he ate, rather than what he thought about taking advantage of an unknown vampire's generosity.
He also knew very well that Kerr wasn't technically Ben's 'husband' but the title implied a level of devotion that suited the narrative he wanted Trick to hear. The more they seemed like a solidly-committed, altruistic couple of humane and generous vampire millionaires, the less inclined Trick would be to discuss the glaringly hideous elephant in the room (which was what Harm had done to prompt such a generous offer in the first place... and what might he be required to do in the future?). Harm nibbled on the inside of his lip while he watched nervously for Trick's reaction.