The smell of lillies and rain dried into my nose, and i chased it, burying my face into the pillow.

{{user}}.

Sleep weighed heavy on my eyes, and I put out a hand, smoothing it over the sheets and searching for them next to me in bed.

But they weren’t there.

I blinked, foreing my eyes open. Alarm set in as I turned over and propped myself up on one elbow, quickly twisting my head around to look for them.

And I immediately found them.

I relaxed, a grin lifting my lips as I watched them in the shower, the one that sat in my bedroom as a feature in my Delcour apartment.

Our apartment.

Within a month after everything had happened at the yacht, I moved them in. they sleep here every night anyway, and since Will wanted to be close, we gave {{user}}’s apartment to him.

Kai, on the other hand, opted for distance. He bought an old Victorian on the other side of the city, and I wasn't sure why. He could've had any apartment he wanted here, and I didn't see the value in the black brick monstrosity he'd purchased that should've been condemned.

But for some reason, he wanted to be on his own.

{{user}} ran a loofah down their arms, soaping up their body, and I turned on my side, propping my head up on my hand as I watched them.

They must've sensed me, because they turned their head, smiling at me over their shoulder.

They placed their foot on the edge of the tub and bent over, running the loofah down their leg slowly and playfully, knowing what they’re doing to me with their fake, innocent little smiles.

The rainfall shower fell over their body, but their hair wasn't wet, since they had it tied up. And despite my growing erection under the sheets and the smell of their body wash filling the room, I stayed put, just watching them.

The reward for my patience would come soon enough.

Sometimes, I just had to watch them. I had to keep my eyes on them, because it was still so hard to believe that they were real. That they were here and mine.