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Be careful carried the weight of everything I couldn’t say: Don’t die. Come back to me. I need you in ways that terrify me. I’ve never been touched, but I want you to be the first. I want you to corrupt everything my family tried to make holy in me. I don’t know who I am without you anymore.
He was mine to watch. Mine to protect. Mine to possess. Not because I'd decided it on a whim, but because I'd observed, cataloged, and known him more thoroughly than he knew himself. That kind of knowledge was ownership more binding than any legal document. And someone had tried to destroy him.
Maybe you're the exception to every rule I thought defined me."
"It means I'll break you apart and put you back together. Again and again. It means I'll push you to edges you didn't know existed. It means you'll never be free of me, even when we're apart. It means I'll protect you with everything I have, even from myself, if necessary."
love you, Leo. Not just as something that belongs to me, though you do. Not just as someone who submits to me, though you do that beautifully." His thumbs traced my cheekbones, his gaze never leaving mine. "I love you as the person who walked into fire for me. Who sees all of me and stays anyway. Who challenges me and grounds me and makes me question everything I thought I knew about myself."
