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because Tom had been kind to him in a life that had been very bare of kindness,
“Or, he needs a lot of money fast. He’s given me till Friday to come up with the five thousand.”
letting intense physical sensation block out sensitivities to things Crane couldn’t see and memories he was glad not to share.
Just stop trying to stand alone when you don’t have to. Accept some damned help, now and again. The rest of us do.”
“Funny, now you say that,” said Merrick. “His ladies usually just pined after him, in the stories. They didn’t usually die.”
“Chance, or someone trying out a new toy?”
“I am forever at your service,”
The anitu, or spirit of the dead that has the capacity to animate another body
Peyton was watching. “Bad news, Lord Crane? I do hope your plans for the evening haven’t been spoiled for any reason.”
you might think you’re treating someone as an equal, but you ain’t.
He wanted to pull Stephen into his arms, hold him, kiss the fear and the loneliness away, and then fuck him till he forgot any ideas he might have of ending things between them.
“He reeked of malice.
a rattling, scratching sound.
I’ve known him risk arrest, disaster and the destruction of his professional reputation.
“Typical. Of course you can’t just be unnatural like everyone else. Go on, get this overgrown magic lantern out of my way, this is a surgery, not a circus. Out!”
the strongest and the best man I know.
Having too much power drives you mad and so does having too little.
“I like to make you know your master,” Crane said. “It’s only fair. The rest of the time, you’ve got me so thoroughly enslaved, I might as well be wearing a collar with your name on it.”
I’m fairly sure you have no idea just how glorious you are, which is fortunate for me, because the more time I have with you, the more aware I am of my own very obvious flaws.
don’t run away from me, please. Don’t disappear.”
My life changed four months ago, and I utterly failed to understand that until just recently, and therefore...I may have omitted to tell you that I love you.” He took a breath. “That’s all.”
I’m too frightened to believe this, you and I, can last because if it doesn’t, I don’t think I can bear it, so it would be easier not to start, but it’s too late now.”
Oh, hellfire. I love you, Lucien. It wouldn’t be so nerve-wracking if I didn’t.”
returning home to him,
“Everyone can do evil. Some people can be forced to it, and some fight against it, and some don’t even need an invitation. I imagine Mr. Cryer made a choice initially; I don’t suppose he understood the consequences of that choice any more than Pa and Lo and Rackham did.”
“You won’t need to,”
and I will always give you exactly what you want—”
“Always start with the fanatics.”
without the knowledge, under his own helpless fury, that his quiet, determined, implacable lover was there, fighting for him once again.
