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Am I attracted to Elethior? Oh. Oh, fuck no. I have a fairly masochistic personality, but that’s taking self-flagellation too far, even for me.
Heat creeps across my face. Not rage this time. Something … definitely not rage.
The way he’d groaned. The clench of his fingers in my hair. How he’d seemed relieved I’d kissed him, like he’d … like he’d been wanting it.
“What if I want to talk about it,” he repeats, “because I can’t stop thinking about it?”
“Another of mine is that I don’t share. Even if this is only physical, I won’t be fooling around with anyone else. And I don’t want you to either. For safety reasons, and because I’m a possessive fucking bastard.”
it’s oxygen after being submerged, it’s something I missed. How could I have missed it? I’ve kissed plenty of people and never craved it as it was happening, never felt it trigger some otherworldly hunger that possesses me in a rage.
“Please,” I relent, tugging at his arms, his neck. “Please, Thio, fuck me. Fuck me, own me, ruin me—” He kisses me to silence. Eats the last few garbled words. “Oh, I’ll ruin you,” he tells me. “But you’re mine, so I’ll always put you back together again, too.”
We’re both broken, though. And our jagged pieces don’t exactly fit together, but we know how to move around the sharpest points of each other’s, how to adjust and make space so no one bleeds.
He faced my parents’ ridicule without flinching. He made sure Orok was okay, too. I need Thio to be happy. I need him as happy as he makes me, as supported, as safe.
Thio winces, breaks with a panting gasp. “I love you so much.” I yank back from him. He teeters, not letting go of me. “You dick,” I snap with no bite whatsoever. “I wanted to say it first. I almost did say it first, but you cut me off.” Thio grins. An unhurried, delighted smile, it bathes over me, settles the last of the worry. “I win,” he declares, eyes teary, and before I can get
