Jace tilted his head, considering it. "If we hadn't been parabatai, I probably absolutely would have told you. We'd already taken the bond, I was terrified they'd de-rune us both." He sighed a little, and nuzzled along Alec's jawline. "You do keep me safe," he agreed.

"With magic," he said dolefully, looking for sympathy. "I know. And we can still do that if there's things we want to try out, too. I just didn't want to make it more awkward and make you look at more porn." He laughed. "Yeah. I can ask Magnus. Or make Ragnor tell me, he wants to be so informative."

"Thus the best Alec ever," he pointed out. The kiss was good, exactly what he wanted, and he tugged Alec a little closer, curving his body into Alec's, still stroking up and down his back lazily. "Good. Fucking finally," he teased, kissing Alec again.