Page 73 of Dragon AU

“Milo?” Ray said.

“I did a stupid thing!”

There was barely any pause. “To be expected. Would you like to go into specifics or…?”

“You are so mean to me,” Milo whined, jumping when his phone pinged with a new text. “OMG no.”

“What?”

“I texted Rowan. He’s away for work and I texted him something totally stupid that was a result of a train of thought that went off the rails.”

“Those are the only kinds of trains you have, so…” Ray said, and Milo chuckled despite the chaos of his life because the only other option was to cry. “What did you send?”

“I asked if there were naked dragons there,” Milo mumbled, and Ray sucked a breath in through his teeth.

“Did not see that coming. Is there something you want to tell me?”

“Oh…um…” Milo floundered, realizing he’d never actually mentioned sleeping with Rowan to Ray. He had told him about trying to find his breed and all of the other stuff, but that detail, conveniently, had slipped his mind. “So…you know how he’s been teaching me to shift?”

“I do, yes.”

“Yeah, so…turns out I wasn’t very good at it,” Milo said. “And the way it worked is if I, um…got turned on. So we kinda…y’know…turned me on…regularly.”

“You’ve been sleeping with the guy who’s tearing down your building?” Ray asked.

“Well, when you say it like that it sounds wrong,” Milo whined.

“I’m just asking, Milo. I don’t really have any room to talk about questionable partners,” Ray said. “So you slept with him and now he’s away and you asked about naked dragons?”

“That about sums it up, yeah.” Milo nodded.

“Why naked dragons specifically?”

“I just had a bad morning. And I started thinking. He’s away for work and, like, they have a lot of money, so he’s probably at a nice hotel with a pool and a sauna, and people are usually half-naked around a pool or in the sauna, so…”

“Your brain should be studied,” Ray said. “So you asked him if there were naked people there. Did he reply?”

“Yes.”

“What did he say?”

Milo shrugged as if Ray could see him. “I’m scared to look. I don’t want him to think I’m crazy.”

“Babe, honey, sweetie, you met him while you were chained to a tree and then proceeded to bite him,” Ray said. “I guarantee he already thinks you’re crazy.”

Milo let out what could only be called a meep. He meeped. He wasn’t a meeper. Usually.

“I’ll read it,” he said.

“You do that.”

“Wait here,” Milo added and Ray hummed.

He pulled the text up and opened it before he could talk himself out of it.

Rowan: Why would there be naked people in a finance meeting?

“He asked why there would be naked people in a finance meeting,” he recited to Ray.