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He continued to the next rohere he found his targeteasily down a row of reen leaves, to a collection of bright purple vervain

Tori was hunize In front of him was a small cart that held a variety of tools and instruments for his trade Here and there, he stopped and pruned a bit of dead groay from a vervain plant with a set of shears or trimmed off some of another plant and placed those bits into a jar to be used in potions and spells

Baldeas completely enamored There was a soft smile on Tori’s face, and his shoulders were finally loose and relaxed He absolutely radiated happiness Nestori Taavi was finally hoed in the world

“Are you lurking, Baldewin?” Tori’s voice rose in the quiet greenhouse

Baldewin started, blinking at the e for a moment “How did you knoas here? I haven’t made a noise”

Tori place the pair of pruning shears back on the cart and turned in his direction He gave a little shrug, the s even wider “I don’t know Just sort of felt you”

Oh, he definitely liked the sound of that He loved the idea of Tori being able to sense him, to feel him in some way

Dressed in a pair of jeans that hung wonderfully low on his narrow hips and an olive-green T-shirt made of the softest cotton, Tori had a casual sexiness to hi to slip his hands under that shirt and explore all the lean muscles he kneere hidden He wanted to push those jeans down and lick his way over every inch of the sexy man before him

And h stolen moments of physical pleasure in his life Not that Baldeas too upset over that fact He rather liked being Tori’s first in everything He liked to think that all those cries of pleasure, blissed-out sighs, gasps, andincredibly possessive when it came to Tori, and he couldn’t find it in himself to care

“What are you working on?” Baldewin asked as he strolled closer He’d shoved his hands into his pockets to keep fro for Tori

“Just a little pruning I a potion we’re planning to work later this afternoon,” Tori replied as he continued down the row He snipped away another section of dead growth and tossed the branch into a waste receptacle on his cart “What are you doing here? I knoe said that we’dhall It can’t be that late already”

Baldewin shook his head “My s finished early, and Alric is deep in conversation with Rodrigo, Cameron, and Dieter I wasn’t needed at the ates a tour of the castle”