"Sorry. She gets loud sometimes." It's why he carries her on the left, so he forgets how loud it is to others.

"I know. I've never been safe," he admits. "So I'm used to it." Ronan had thought he was. At least until he was a teenager. Noah had until he'd been murdered. "I'm not taking a lot of chances, just a few." Like a close friend and lover who was another Dominant.

He nods at that. "I put a clause in the contract like that. Someone said they wouldn't always but it's worth trying, right?