"It's driving me crazy, just being able to see you like this," he admits, looking at Marius with dark, hungry eyes. For the rest of his life, he's never going to forget what it looks like, all the various ways he's been privileged to see Marius like this.

Even as he says it, he can feel Marius' gaze travel down his own body, catching sight of his need and Rat's stomach lurches a little with the thought of it. How good it would be to exhaust himself in Marius' arms.

"More?" he asks, even as he gives a careful thrust upward of his fingers.