No one had ever said anything like that to Tony. Hell, he had never expected to hear anything like that in all his life. Yet he knew it was true. They were together. They were with one another.

"Yeah well, I'm here, so stay with me. You can have your own room, a lab, an office. Whatever you need, but make it here," he said, leaning down to kiss him again.

He needed this so badly that it made his chest hurt. His damn heart actually hurt thinking about close he had come to losing this perfect man beneath him, and he would never take that chance again.

Not if they could somehow avoid it.