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"If I wanted access to your nation's secrets, I would have already seduced them out of you," he growls, hating the clear excitement in Wilbur's eyes. "I wouldn't be kneeling on your doorstep, begging for sanctuary from the man who destroyed my career, and my body with it."

A lazy smile tugs at the older man's lips, revealing canines just this side of sharp for a human. "There he is. Alexis Quackity, the illustrious, hot-headed prodigy with an unmatched talent for finding the right words."

OR

Alex Quackity escapes Schlatt, Wilbur is intense when it comes to his feelings, and this turned into a way longer project than I anticipated.