The second he breaks my skin, a muddle of joy and pain shoots into my veins. But that’s Dair—a study in contradictions. His light is so much brighter because it’s surrounded by so much darkness. Like lightning—so brilliant against his thunderous backdrop. His love, his trust. Striking the deepest piece of my soul, electrifying it. Giving me pain and heat and joy and wonder before blinking back to a dark velvet night. I might have been afraid of it before. But now, his midnight is the safest place I can imagine.
