Hazelthorn

by C.G. Drews

“You should’ve called for me. If you put my name in your mouth, I will always listen.”

I’d split my bones, I’d open my throat, I’d do anything to be near you and have even one second with my mouth against yours.”

think when you get overwhelmed, your brain shuts down to give you a break and the garden takes over. And the garden just really fucking hates Lennox-Halls.” His laugh is flat and breathy and pain slices at his mouth.

“God was stronger than me when he made Adam and didn’t fall in love with him.”

This is what it is to kiss a wretched boy of a god down amidst the soft green rot of a locked garden.

Laurie murmurs something that sounds like “I told you, right from the start, I wanted Hazelthorn.”