ridoc didn’t do commitment.

he was all for a good time. a hookup. stress relief. but relationships were a whole other complication he had no interest in dealing with. so much drama, so much work. it was so much easier to wake up in whoever’s bed he wanted.

but god, he wanted you. he had hooked up with the same person twice before, but never seven times. he couldn’t stop crawling back to you, practically begging you to pull him into bed and hold him until he couldn’t remember his own name. he wanted to be in your arms when it was cold. in your mind when he wasn’t with you. he was whipped, and he was terrified to admit it.

sawyer, rhiannon, violet, and even some of the marked ones didn’t miss the way he looked at you. they had all caught on to the feelings he reserved for only you. aotrom teased him nonstop. xaden and violet paired the two of you up for things sometimes.

rhiannon, sawyer, and violet teamed up and basically bullied poor ridoc into coming to terms with his feelings and telling you. he reluctantly agreed, cursing himself for letting it get this bad.

it took a lot of convincing. a catastrophic amount of convincing. he begged and pleaded with aotrom for hours, hoping his dragon would cave and agree. which of course, he eventually did.

ridoc then convinced you to sneak out of basgiath in the middle of the night with him. sure, it was irresponsible and stupid, but if he was going to admit his feelings to you, he wanted it to be a grand gesture while doing something fun. he helped you up onto aotrom’s back behind him, and his brown dragon launched into the sky. he relished in the feeling of your arms wrapped snugly around his waist, letting out an amused chuckle as aotrom soared above the ground.