Russ leaned over and kissed him gently this time, "You must have been among the very best then to be chosen for the Krypteia." He ran his hand along his lover's thigh.
"Royalty is highly overrated." He didn't care that Carrick was from a different class and a different time. They had more in common than not and he was sure it was the strength and cunning as much as lust that drew them together. "Most Royals are pampered, useless brats or power grubbing politicians." It was a world from which Russell had divorced himself over the years.