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Aemond woke up slowly and sighed, snuggling deeper into the warmth of his sheets. He felt well rested and his body felt the lethargy that came from a good workout. Although, he thought to himself with a smirk, it wasn't exactly the kind of exercise he usually did at the gym.
It was inevitable that they would end up like this. He and Luke got into arguments over the smallest issues, always drawn to each other since they were children, unable to let go despite family and personal feuds.
He reached out to reach for the body next to him and found only the sheets. The empty sheets. With a sinking feeling he raised his head so that his one good eye could see what his other senses were already telling him.
There was no one in the room with him. Aemond swallowed the urge to call out his name. The bitterness was less easy to swallow. Of course he'd gone like a thief in the night, as if Aemond were nothing more than a drunken romp to be avoided in daylight. Would he also try to pretend it hadn't happened the next time they met?
That was very typical of Lucerys. He took what he wanted without thought of the consequences, without thought of Aemond.
Anger began to cover the pain of rejection. Why would he have expected anything different? Perhaps for Luke it had been enough, he put Aemond out of his mind and discarded him like trash.
He dropped onto the sheets and closed his eye. Idiot, he was an idiot. He had gone to sleep cuddled with Luke and had expected to wake up the same way. As if that was something that happened in the real world, as if that was something that happened to him .
Aemond cursed, not for the first time, the way Aegon had had the room built. Noises didn't filter through and he had no way of knowing what time it was or being distracted by noises outside. A perfectly soundproof room that allowed total rest, a perfectly cold room like Aemond's life.
He felt restless, bad, despised. He should get up and take a bath, remove any traces of previous activities in the same way that Luke had probably already removed him from his thoughts.
Well, Aemond would do the same.
Aemond rose from the bed. He took the fluffy bathrobe in his arm and his soft slippers and walked purposefully through the mess of the night before. Every time a bitter memory or thought arose, he would resolutely put it aside. Luke didn't affect him, no sir. He would take a long, warm bath and not think about the boy he had been pining for for years.
He wouldn't think of Luke looking at him with those big, beautiful eyes. He wouldn't think of Luke moaning into his mouth. He wouldn't think of Luke kneeling between his legs asking him ' do you like this' . He wouldn't think of Luke smiling only at him . Nor would he think of Luke leaving soft kisses on his jaw and moving up to kiss lovingly and apologetically the scar and the sapphire he wore as a prosthetic.
Nope , Aemond absolutely wasn't thinking about any of that.
Near the door was a discarded midnight blue shirt. Amond stopped. Luke had that shirt on last night. Aemond had removed it between kisses while stroking all the skin that was being discovered. He really liked that shirt and how it looked on Luke, he had been part of the problem last night and how they ended up the way they did.
Aemond, the formerly completely and without a doubt determined Aemond, hesitated for a second. He drummed his fingers twice and dropped the slippers to pick up the shirt Luke had left behind in his haste.
Following the impulsive part of him that had gotten him into more trouble than he wanted to admit, he sniffed the shirt. Aemond sighed happily. He smelled exactly like Luke. He breathed again wanting to live in that smell.
Before he could change his mind, he shoved the shirt into a drawer, only to return to it later. If Luke could let him go, Aemond could have a prize. It was good for him to go like this. And if no one else ever saw Luke in that sinful shirt again that was a bonus in his books.
He picked up his things again and finally left the room.
As always the noises filtered in a bit disorientingly. There was the traffic that could be heard through the window, the parakeets that the neighbor upstairs kept in a cage on her balcony and… the sound of something frying?
Aemond moved forward, following the smell of bacon and fried eggs. His heart jumped with joy and he felt childish butterflies in his stomach. Once he reached the kitchen the smell of freshly squeezed orange and the sound of Lucerys humming softly as she scooped out some bacon and turned off the burner added.
Luke turned away depriving him of the view of his ass in those tight pants and the hickeys Aemond had left on his back, but that was okay because Aemond had left many more on his chest and neck and it was always a delight to see the beautiful look Lucery's face.
His… lover jumped when he saw him almost dropping the plate he was holding. Aemond smiled at him, part amusement and part wonder at his incongruous presence in his kitchen.
"Hey." Luke blushed deeply, color filling his cheeks and rising to his ears. His chest also seemed to have turned a little red, a detail that Aemond did not notice in the dimness of the room, "I... I was going to wake you up..." Luke looked at Aemond's crotch and then at his face as if reminding himself where it wasn’t rude to look. "I made you the…" He looked away from Aemond's face again " Breakfast!" The last word came out as a shriek, and Aemond laughed at his haste.
Luke covered his face with his hands and spoke through them.
“I wanted surprising. I was going to take him to your room and wake you up. It's not fair.”
Aemond dropped his robe on one of the kitchen chairs and dropped his slippers. He didn't need any of that now.
"Well, I'm pretty surprised." He pushed Luke's hands away. The younger one smiled at him a little nervously but it was also one of the widest and happiest smiles he had seen since they were both adults. Very and happily surprised.
" Yes?" Luke put his hands on Aemond's neck and began to play with the loose and probably very messy locks, "but it's not so romantic or sexy that we eat here instead of in bed."
Aemond very gently pushed the retort that he didn't like breakfast in bed, he could spill something or leave crumbs on the sheets, that was disgusting. Instead he pulled Luke closer until their hips were fully pressed together, Luke's pants the only thing separating them.
" Do you need me to be sexy?" Luke's breath hitched visibly and Aemond wanted to strut at the clear show of interest. "Or more romantic?"
Careful not to turn his face completely away from Luke Aemond reached for a fork and almost blindly grabbed at some of the egg which Aemond now saw was not fried but was scrambled with various of the vegetables Aemond had had in the fridge.
He held it close to Luke's face and obediently opened his mouth, smiling around the fork. Heat pooled in Aemond's belly as he remembered something else Luke had smiled about.
Luke took his fork from him and grabbed some bacon to hand to Aemond. His hand trembled slightly. Aemond ate and hummed at the taste, a little crunchier than he liked but still good. Before I could say anything to him he had a bit of egg in front of his face. He ate it too, savoring the extra kick of the vegetables.
" Okay?" Luke sounded a little breathless and Aemond didn't know if it was from his nerves that he'd like him or from the closeness.
“Delicious.”
Luke's smile widened a little before he looked away self-consciously . Aemond would have none of that. He wanted Luke's eyes on him whenever possible. He lifted her chin and caught her lips in a short kiss.
" Food and then a shower?" Luke asked with a mischievous smile. His hands had come down, one to his bare chest and the other dangerously to the small of his back.
"Food and then a shower" he agreed, returning the favor, grabbing him by the buttocks to bring him closer until they were practically grinding each other.
Luke groaned and kissed him again.
"Let me go, it's going to get cold."
“We can have a snack first.”
"No." Luke pouted. “I liked before. Feedme.”
Aemond laughed and kissed his spoiled boy's pout. He could wait as long as he kept Luke around.