It had been a day like any other, except that he'd been waiting for Stephen to do more than say something about the fact that he wasn't married any more. He knew Stephen, better than he knew himself in some ways, and yet the other man had surprised him the night by doing absolutely nothing once the annulment was finalised.
He really had to do something about Stephen's workaholic tendencies one of these days.
Therefore he was somewhat relieved a day later when he heard Stephen and leaned in to the kiss without any resistance, thinking that this was more familiar territory. He was surprised at how different it did feel but then Azriel had never liked the extra complication of marriage. It reminded him of his own family's matrimonial issues and Azriel had never liked thinking of his own family or finding any similiarity between himself and his father's mistress.
"Much better," he said truthfully. "Although waiting a full twenty four hours to celebrate was stretching my admittedly questionable patience very thin."