"Am I to be added to your list of hobbies, then?" he asks, not minding in the slightest if the answer is 'yes.' There are worse things he could be considered, he knows.

He bends further to oblige her, nosing briefly at the hinge of her jaw before sliding his lips over her neck, kissing her carefully, chaste as first as always and then slowly growing less and less so, his mouth hot and wet on her skin as he tastes her sweat beneath his tongue.