Rainbow Snippets: Cold and alone

Rainbow Snippets is a Facebook group for LGBTQ+ authors, readers, and bloggers to gather once a week and share six sentences from a work of fiction–a WIP or a finished work or even a 6-sentence book recommendation.

Being a sequel, In Love and Death is set directly after In Pain and Blood. Some snippets will contain spoilers of those events.

Following on from last week’s snippet…

None of them had been there to see him at his weakest, though. They hadn’t been the ones to hold him without judgement as he bawled like a child fresh out of the nursery, hadn’t made him feel safe enough to face his grief.

It had to be the unexpected tenderness behind the hound’s touch that he craved so much. With all the conflicting emotions flooding his thoughts—the anger, the grief, the growing numbness—his mind had taken the ache of empathy and mistaken it for his attraction to the man.

Dylan hadn’t realised he’d been missing that closeness until last night, when he’d found himself lying alone, embraced only by his cold blankets.

I’ll be back with more from In Love and Death next weekend. In the meantime, check out these other snippets.

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