Summary:

He's getting good at this game: sneaking his questions between advances, keeping Shane in that warm state of mind where he'll actually answer them, and stifling the panic rabbiting in the base of his skull. 

“So, this is thing?” He asks, tilting his head to try and catch Shane's eye. “You are most charming murderer.”

“Don't be a dick,” Shane huffs.

“Me? Never.” Ilya ducks to kiss Shane's cheek, then his nose, then the opposite cheek, pressing their faces together. He can't help kissing Shane again, on the temple this time, before he continues. “I must be lucky,” he says, “to know you are most boring man alive.”

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Ilya goes to Shane's place for the first time since discovering he's a murderer.