Rio's Fire by Lynn Hagen Page B

But before he could say a word, Rio was answering.
    “We were discussing taking a field trip to the art museum.”
    They were?
    “I thought the children should be exposed to such great artists as Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Giotto di Bondone, and Alessandro Botticelli, just to name a few. It’s good to expose their minds at such a young age.”
    Fire was lost. He didn’t have an inkling of who any of those people were. But he did plaster a smile on his face and nod his head enthusiastically. “Yeah,” Fire agreed. “Need to crack those heads open to expose their brains.”
    Rio glanced at him with a be quiet look in his eyes. Fire curled his lips in, shoving his hands into his back pockets.
    Mr. Fishman was staring at Fire strangely. “That sounds like a wonderful field trip,” he said slowly and then turned to Rio. “Have the secretary draft up the permission slips. Just make sure you give her a two-week advanced notice.”
    Fire pulled his hand from his pants and gave the man a thumbs-up.
    “Not a problem. If I borrow a truck, Mr. LeBlanc and I can fit the kids in the back with no problem.”
    Rio clears throat. “Great sense of humor, Mr. Veneto.” His mate narrowed his eyes at Fire.
    Now what did he say wrong?
    Mr. Fishman left the classroom.
    Rio turned and stared at Fire incredulously. “You want to transport students in the back of two pickup trucks?”

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    “How else are we going to get them there?” Fire asked emphatically. “On our backs?”
    “Just where did you go to school?”
    “I was homeschooled, duh,” Fire replied as he pointed to his ears that he kept covered with his long hair. “Fey don’t send their offspring to human school until they are old enough to attend college.
    They think it’s too dangerous before our children are adults.”
    Rio snagged the back of Fire’s neck and pulled him close, giving him a quick peck on the lips. “We have school buses, darlin’. One will take the kids to the museum for us.”
    Fire could feel his face heating up at something that should’ve been so obvious but wasn’t. “If you stopped kissing me like you were fucking my mouth then I wouldn’t lose my mind. We wouldn’t have gotten caught either. Now we’re stuck going on a field trip.”
    “It’s not that bad. I’ve got a feeling you’ll enjoy it.”
    Fire highly doubted it, but if it meant spending a day with Rio, he was all for going to a boring museum. He had thought Rio an uptight stick in the mud when he first met him. The kids weren’t the only ones growing on Fire. As he stared into Rio’s eyes, Fire knew without a shadow of a doubt that he was falling in love.
    He wanted to make Rio proud of him by righting the wrong he had done. Somehow he was going to fix the mess he had created. Fire had taken everyone else’s opinion with a grain of salt. But he cared about Rio’s opinion of him. He didn’t want his mate looking at him like he was a fuckup. He wanted to see pride in Rio’s eyes when he gazed at Fire.
    Rio mattered to him.
    “I guess we have a field trip to plan for,” Fire said as he started to squirm under Rio’s intense eyes.
    “Come on, darlin’. I brought both of us lunch. Let’s go sit down and eat together.”
    Fire followed behind Rio like a lost puppy, his eyes glued to the man’s nice, tight ass. His teeth began to ache for just one small bite.

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    Fire also wanted to smack Rio for getting him all hot and bothered when the man knew full well that they couldn’t do anything to slake their need.
    “What did you bring us?” Fire asked as he entered Rio’s classroom. Now that the man had mentioned lunch, Fire found his stomach grumbling. He was famished.
    “Just something I put together last night.”
    “After we ate dinner at the diner? Do you always eat that much?”
    Rio winked at Fire. “No, but I thought it would be nice to have lunch together. So after I dropped you off, I went home and made something nice for