Isn't this just fun?" Dylan whispered, not quite daring to hope the hound had come to the same conclusion."That depends," Tracker replied. "Is that all you want?""No," he breathed. There was so much more he yearned for. He could almost understand why his friend in the tower used to risk falling in love.

You ever wonder what our lives could've been like if we were nae like this?"Darshan frowned. "You mean if I was not myself? Or if you did not have to keep an integral piece of you secret from the wider world? Which one are you trying to ask?

Happened?" he echoed, one brow attempting to lift further. "And how does that just 'happen'? You two were naked together and you-what?-fell on him? Repeatedly?

Preference," Hamish grumbled. "I've never liked that word. It always comes with the intonation that another option is still viable.

That is not how it works, Dylan. The desire you felt was already within you. All I ever did was help you see what you have been denying to yourself.

An aviary gives a bird more room to fly, but it does not mean it is free.