This… thing with Adam is consuming me so rapidly, so ardently, that I’m going up in flames. I don’t stand a chance at withstanding his onslaught. If it was purely physical, I could walk away. (I couldn’t, actually, but I’d like to think I had more of a chance of withstanding him that way.) But it’s not. It’s everything. Every moment, every gesture. It’s the way he comes to fetch me after every single Alchemy shift, even though his chef Kamyl let slip the other day that he’s usually early to bed and early to rise. It’s the quiet times when I’m draped over him in his beautiful library and we’re
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