Nik thinks about that for a moment. No, actually it wasn't the first time. Wasn't even like it hadn't become second nature. But when those words come with that gaze, Nik feels it through his entire body like electricity along the nerve endings of his body.

There they are, standing over a dead body that could get them thrown out of the program and into federal prison and Nik isn't thinking about anything but the beauty of Adonis' mouth and the knowledge that he's the reason for the corpse between them and he thinks that is sex as hell.

"When you think about flirting for real, let me know."

They hadn't talked about the growing attraction between them, or he hadn't been sure it was growing between them. Now it's hitting him that it definitely is.

"They should. Not like the royal children are going to do it. Hell not even their golden children of Ex and Meridian who just went off the grid to do who knows what aren't doing it."

Not that he knew they had, but that had been personal and not like theirs.