At Your Service- A Royalty Solangelo AU

Chapter 36

CW: Non-explicit spice

It had been over a week since he had seen the familiar gates of the palace which now blended into the dark night as Nico led his horse up the main road of Aruma. As expected, the building was deserted, not a soul awake to welcome him home once he stabled his horse and made the tedious climb up the stairs to the palace. 

He padded quietly through the deserted halls, weaving his way through the familiar great corridors to his room. Through the crack below the door, Nico could see the dancing light of a flickering candle that remained lit in his room. Only one person would do that. 

With a smile, Nico gently pushed the doors open, slipping quickly into the bedroom where he was met with his favourite sight. As soon as his entrance was noticeable, the blonde head was across the room in front of him, grabbing his face with his hands and pressing their lips together. 

Nico allowed himself to sigh into it, feeling the comforting warmth wash over him, cleansing the stress from his body. The kiss was languid, slow, as though they had all the time in the world to be together, but mixed with the bittersweet taste of I missed you. 

When they pulled apart, a smile lingering on Nico's lips, he opened his eyes and was startled. Fresh tears were glistening on Will's face who looked utterly distraught. 

"Will, what-?" He asked, scared by the sudden change in emotion. 

"Where on earth were you?" The blonde cried out. 

"I-" 

"No, Nico. They wouldn't tell me where you were, I spent all week looking for you and no one would help me. I thought you ran away, I thought you got hurt. Nico what if you had gotten hurt? Where were you?" The man spoke in a panicked rush, words tripping over one another as they tumbled out of his mouth. Seeing him so utterly distressed was tearing his soul to bits with every passing second.

"Hey, hey, come here," Nico said, pulling Will into a hug. Despite being shorter than him, he did his best to wrap his arms around the blonde, guiding his head to wrest on his shoulder. 

"I thought you were gone forever," Will croaked out as his tears continued to stain Nico's shoulder. 

"I'm not, I'm right here," He whispered into the mop of blonde hair, hand traveling up to rest on the back of his head soothingly.

Will made a noise of discontent as he continued to lean into Nico. 

"But what if-" 

"No, no what ifs Will," Nico said, pulling away to look at him fully. "I promise you, that I would never, ever, leave you like that."

"You can't promise things like that, Nico," Will's quiet voice pulled at his heart. 

"I can, and I will. I promise you Will, that I will not leave you. I won't hurt you." 

"Really?" His blue eyes looked back sadly, though a trace of hope was starting to catch in them. 

"Yes, love, really." 

Will smiled back at him softly before leaning into bridge the gap between them once more, pulling Nico into an intoxicating kiss that neither was willing to break. This one held more than before, it was heated, a build up that neither knew for sure where it would lead.

Nico let his hands wander across the other mans body, tracing their lazy path down to the hem where he tugged impatiently. Will laughed against his mouth, pulling apart just enough to slip the fabric over his head and toss it into a heap at their feet before he was diving back in, drunk on it. He was chasing the high of it, entranced in the way that Will's skin broke out into bumps wherever he let his fingers gently brush over. And the same feeling was happening to him.