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He was a full-blown witch now.

He was good at what he did.

And contrary to everything he’d spent his life thinking, he felt himself thrive on it.

“I don’t remember consenting to you being this late to dinner.” Kit’s voice came from behind him and Lorin whipped around, eyes wide as he looked at his familiar and mate sitting on his desk in the pathfinder room with a cheeky smile on his gorgeous face and angular amber eyes filled with mischief and love just for Lorin.

It wasn’t what he’d thought his life would be.

It was so much better.

“When did you…” He walked closer, looking around himself. “And how?”

“Don’t ask questions you don’t want answers to,” Kit said, hopping off the desk and walking closer.

He pushed up onto his tiptoes when he reached Lorin and threw his arms around his neck.

“Pretty sure I do want to know how you managed to find your way into a room you should not have access to without me.” Lorin tilted his head and Kit smiled that infuriatingly vulpine smile at him.

“You have your ways, pathfinder,” he said, voice haughty, “and I have mine.”

“Do you now?” Lorin asked, wrapping his arms around Kit’s waist and pulling him closer. He knocked the breath right out of him for a split second, diving in to steal a kiss from his lips.

He felt Kit melt against him as he walked him backward until they met the desk. Lorin bent down to pick Kit up by his thighs, placing him on the desk again and letting him wrap his legs around his hips as they kissed.

Nothing else mattered.

Not a day filled with clients coming from all over to ask the pathfinder for help.

Not the stuffy little room he had come to see as his own sanctuary despite spending years swearing he wanted nothing to do with his witch heritage.

Not the annoyance of his day running long or the soft thump in his temple that would usually drive him insane.

All he cared about was his mate, his familiar safe in his arms, kissing him back with reverence and so much love Lorin could drown in it.

“Missed you,” he whispered to Kit between kisses.

On days when he didn’t need his familiar to boost his power, he didn’t have an excuse to drag Kit to work with him. Maybe that was also why he was so irritable.

“Missed you too,” Kit said, breaking the kiss, much to Lorin’s chagrin.

“Wait, no.” Lorin chased after his lips with single-minded intent, pouting when Kit put his palm on his chest to keep him ever so slightly away from himself.

“We’re late,” Kit said.

Lorin frowned. “Yes, and I’m very sorry but…”

Kit shook his head, dodging his mouth gracefully and pushing him farther away. “Everyone is waiting for us.”

Lorin’s brain finally decided to engage fully. “OH! Dinner!”

“Yes, dinner.” Kit looked amused.

They had a dinner planned with Lorin’s grandma and Kit’s entire family. It had been in the works for weeks, all of them too busy to find a time when they could all attend. Even with Kit’sfamily moving to their community to keep the skulk together, it was a logistic nightmare to get everyone together at the same time.

They’d finally managed it tonight, and Lorin was not only late, but he had almost forgotten completely.

“Grandma is going to kill me,” he groaned, head falling onto Kit’s shoulder.