But these were private doubts and concerns the mutant didn't let register on his face. He was too good an actor to let that doubt show. Instead, he smirked blandly into the kiss.

"You can make it up to me later." Daken assured him at a near purr.

The younger man shrugged languidly and prowled across the living room to look outside where the wave of humanity huddled down in coats and jackets flowed along the street. "Mostly uneventful, the kid gloves only had to come off once or twice." Which was to say he'd only had to resort to subtle violence a couple of times while spreading his criminal empire currently at a stranglehold over most of LA.