Page 7 of Damian & Jun, Episodes 13-16

Jun shrugged. “I like living with you.”

“If you could never go back to Seoul?”

Jun shrugged again. “I don’t know. I don’t miss it—yet. Sometimes I miss the food but you and Émeric keep a lot of what I like around. I’ve always missed my mother. There’s more here to remind me of her.”

“Richard is still looking for her.”

Jun nodded. “I don’t know what I would do if I saw her again, now. We’re not the same people. I won’t get those years back. That’s something I keep thinking about—years—with my father, with your father. It’s something some people have and we…we just don’t.”

“Not to make it weird, but we have Richard.”

“And Émeric.” Jun chuckled. “No, that’s not weird. Alice says they have daddy energy, but they aren’t our dads.”

Damian shuddered. “Gah, no. Thank gods.”

Jun laughed. This was good, being with Damian, being relaxed. Feeling fucked out. Clean. He tangled his fingers with Damian’s.

“We have them, but we don’t have fathers, not in the true sense.”

“It would have been easier if we just didn’t. If they had died early.”

Damian nodded. “We wouldn’t have met,” he mused, playing with Jun’s hand.

“We might not have needed each other,” Jun whispered. “If they had been good men, we might not have met, but we would have been different people.”

Damian clasped his hand around Jun’s. “I need you.”

Jun smiled, gripping Damian’s hand in return. “And I need you. I want you more.”

Damian smiled back. “I’ve always wanted you.”

“Even when I fell asleep next to you in the club?”

“Even then.”

Jun shook his head, giggling, his hair dragging across the covers. It felt good, so he did it again. “I feel silly.”

Damian moved closer, hooking his leg over both of Jun’s and wrapping him in a hug. “That’s good. Richard is coming in a while, when Kitten wakes from his nap.”

“I still need to fuck him.”

Damian snorted. “Someone is looking forward to that.”

Jun stuck out his bottom lip. “I’ve never topped before.”

“We’ll supervise.”

Jun rolled his eyes but snuggled closer. It was nice to know that he wasn’t going to have the chance to mess up with the family kitten. Collin was too sweet. “I should check on the guys, just once.”

Damian found Jun’s phone. Jun put on his leader hat for half an hour, checking in on Yohei, Geun, Jaewoong, and Su-jin. He touched base with Mi Hi last. Everyone was well. Most of them were taking the weekend off as he’d suggested. Jaewoong was working at editing video from the shoots into various clips. The main edit was almost done, but there were teasers and mixes to make. Jun scolded him, but Jaewoong sent back a GIF of himself sticking out his tongue. Jun left him to it. Jaewoong was blossoming. He seemed to be running a high off of making the music video the likes of which Jun hadn’t seen him have in a year or two. Almost as if he had re-ignited his creativity.

Mi Hi sent back a picture of herself lying with her head in Gigi’s lap in a room he didn’t recognize. They were both toasting the camera with bottles of rum. was the caption.

Jun showed Damian the photo.

“They better not be drinking and playing,” Damian frowned. He leaned forward, looking at the photo.

Jun rolled over, frowning, and took the photo back. On second look, those were rope marks on Mi Hi’s wrists.