Epilogue

Helio

H elio groaned, the sound muffled by Benny’s bountiful assets.

He tugged Benny down more fully, effectively suffocating himself as he speared his tongue into his hole.

It was heaven.

Especially with the sound of Benny’s breathless encouragements, his groans and moans given more freely now that they were back where no one could hear them.

Helio finally had Benny to himself again.

They’d finished the summer and stayed through fall in Seacliff, then endured two months of winter snow before Benny had broken, declaring himself ready for “a fairy vacation.”

Helio had carefully chosen an unexplored pocket of the realm, one that was an almost perfect replica of that first island. He could have found something new and interesting, but he supposed he was feeling sentimental. They would have weeks of bliss before any potentially troublesome meddlers noticed their presence.

“Gonna come,” Benny gasped, grinding himself down against Helio’s face. He spurted all over Helio’s chest a moment later, his channel clenching rhythmically around Helio’s tongue.

He didn’t dismount fully, only slid down to let Helio breathe, wrapping a strong fist around Helio’s erection and jerking him efficiently to completion.

It didn’t take long, not when Helio had just endured the exquisite torture of Benny’s full, muscled weight on his face.

He’d have to ask him for another fantasy soon. This one had proved…delightful.

Helio was only allowed a few minutes of a lax, satiated Benny before Benny perked up again, asking, “Can we go for a swim now?”

Helio groaned.

But they did. Of course they did, Helio floating lazily in the nude while Benny did laps in the glittering water. Afterward, they lay out in the lounge chairs, soaking up the fae sun.

“It’s nice to have a break,” Benny said, his eyes closed behind his shades.

It was. Helio had learned Benny kept himself somewhat busy when he wasn’t on an island vacation. He had his YouTube videos, of course, but then he also insisted on keeping up his bouncer duties at the bar once a month and made himself available to help neighbors with tasks around the house at every given opportunity.

Maybe it wasn’t too much by human standards—it still left plenty of time for Helio to bend Benny over every available surface in their Seacliff home—but it was very different from their schedule in the fae realm.

Helio brought up something that had been niggling at the back of his mind for months. “Benny…you don’t actually need a rich boyfriend, do you?” He turned on his side in his lounge chair, Benny doing the same until they were facing each other. “You own your house outright,” Helio pointed out. “You continue to work almost the same as before.”

Benny grinned at him. “I don’t do as many odd jobs as before, but…no. Not really.”

Helio considered it. “You tricked me,” he said with surprise.

“I thought you’d like a fair exchange,” Benny told him with all sincerity. “You seemed a little nervous about leaving the villa. Plus, you provide the fairy vacations.” He waved a hand, encompassing their current setting. “Those are nice.”

It was Helio’s lot in life now, wasn’t it, to be smitten with a human who referred to his home realm as “fairy vacations”? A human he’d kidnapped, expecting an easy time of harmless torment, and had now been dating for six months.

Helio cleared his throat. “When you said it before, you said it was because we were ‘all in love and shit.’”

“Yep.” Benny had turned onto his back again, his eyes closed, smiling up at the sky. Helio would have liked to believe he was being coy, but he knew better.

Still, Benny hadn’t said the words again.

“ Do you love me, Benny?” Helio asked, pained at having to ask such a direct question.

But Benny—his sweet, perfect pet—opened his eyes at once, answering simply, “Of course I love you.”

“Why?” The question left Helio’s lips without his permission.

Benny shrugged. “You make me happy.”

“You were already happy,” Helio accused. There was evidence of it everywhere in Seacliff. The friendly townspeople. The beloved cousins. The way Benny moved through his life with such guileless ease.

“Happi er , I guess,” Benny amended.

Helio sat up in his chair. “I want a new bargain.”

Benny yawned. “I promised Seth I’d be back in three weeks, so you’re not allowed to kidnap me for eternity.”

Helio moved to Benny’s lounge chair, manhandling Benny until he was on Helio’s lap, the comforting weight of him a grounding force all its own. “I think you’ll like this one. You promise to love me forever, and I put a ring on your finger.”

For once, Benny looked properly surprised, blinking at Helio. “You want to marry me?”

“Yes, Benny, I want to marry you.” It wasn’t as delicious as kidnapping Benny for all eternity would be, it was true, but it was more or less the human version of it. Or as close to it as was possible without disrupting the peace of their courtship.

“Oh.” Benny’s grin was brighter than the fae sun beating down on them. “Cool. I accept.”

Helio grabbed Benny’s hand, placing it on his chest. He closed his eyes and leaned back, his Benny sprawled on top of him. “Cool,” he murmured.

The End.