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But he wanted to prove that even if he was broken, he was still worth something.
and he did not want a mate. Or perhaps, something deep inside him whispered, he did not think a mate would want him.
He would be her shield if that kept her safe.
“I forget we’re so different sometimes. I must seem so strange looking to you.” “You are quite ugly.”
“You’re not really making these sound good,” she said with a soft laugh. “Wet and salty isn’t on my list of things that I like to eat.” He opened the next one a little harder, and his claw thunked against the metal floor. “I am wet and salty.”
Because I want to keep you for myself. Because if I keep you, feed you, bring you everything you ever dreamt of, maybe you’ll give me a chance. Because no one has made me want them as much as I want you.
Every part of his body screamed that he needed to consume every drop of what she was and beg for her forgiveness later.
“I want to find someone who doesn’t fear me. I want to know that when I come home, there is a soft place to rest my head, and someone who cares if I had a hard day, or if I am upset. I want someone to take care of, and who takes care of me in return. That is what I dream of, kalon.”
He would have told himself to sever this connection and break free from her siren call. But now? Now he knew what it was to stand in the light of her smile and bask in the glow of her joy. He would trade the entire sea for a few moments with her.
“How could I? When your hair is the color of the sun on a cloudless day? When your smile warms the entire ocean around me? When I touch you, your soul is so familiar to me. It is like I have known you in a hundred lifetimes before this, and some part of me that I’ve forgotten wishes to bury itself inside you. It tells me to cling to the curve of your waist, to clutch at the feeling in my chest that lingers when you are near. My soul wishes to keep you and never let you go.”
“That is what you have given me, kalon. Wherever you are, I am home.”
