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“Trust me, Danny, I am not getting the raw end of the deal.” I wrapped my arms tight around his middle, pulling him closer. “I get you.”
“I think you are the only being alive who would ever consider my voice anything other than hideous.” “Hey.” Danny’s hand smacked my side weakly, and I wanted to smile at his indignant defence of me—even against myself. “Nothing about you is hideous. You’re the best.”
I wasn’t sure he would appreciate me just killing them all so the path was clear. Maybe I’d gently suggest it when we were closer.
A reason why the very essence of me had strained for him, desperately reaching out the moment I had seen his face for the first time. I had imprinted on him without conscious thought in that moment, my blood pounding for him. He was mine. He was always supposed to be mine. I had just needed to wait for a long time to find him. But the wait had been worth it.
“If it looks like you are in any danger whatsoever, I’m murdering them.”
A pointless waste of life, but humans had always been strangely cavalier about the lives of others, while remaining terrified of death themselves.
“You know if I tell anyone all the sweet shit you say to me, no one’s gonna be scared of you anymore.”
It made me forever grateful that he wanted to be with me, because the thought of him falling prey to anyone who would take advantage of his gentle nature made me want to murder things. All the things.
My sweet, murderously protective monster boy…ugh I love Wyn sm 😭😭
The realisation that I might get to have this for the rest of my life made my throat ache. I held him closer and pressed my nose and mouth to the top of his head, content to breathe him in for the hours that he slept.
“Yeah. Our good deed for the day is done.” Danny kept his arm around my waist as we started walking, glancing back at the nask. “Don’t get eaten, little guy.” “We’re supposed to do a good deed every day?” I muttered.
“Wyn, you’re everyone’s elder.” I huffed at that and fell silent.
Father Time
I would never admit it out loud, because he would gloat, but this was more than nice. This was… wonderful. There had never been—and never would be—another being in the universe who I could be this relaxed and content around. Not even Edin, who I trusted with my life. Danny made me feel peaceful.
“We just fucked in a religious place? You had your tongue up my ass on sacred ground?” I huffed and pulled him closer to drop a kiss in his hair. “My sweet, it was a joke.” I would just have to make sure he didn’t see the shrine when we left.
But now that I had Danny… now, it felt like I had everything to lose. And it made me afraid.
“My sweet.” I cupped Danny’s face, trying to keep my voice as patient as possible. “I wanted this more than anything in the universe. To be with you always.” I leaned in and kissed him. “You haven’t taken anything from me. You’ve given me a gift.”
“We will be tiny, wrinkly bags of bones together when we are old.” Danny grinned up at me, resting his cheek briefly on my shoulder. “Is it weird how happy that makes me?” No. It wasn’t. Because the thought of it made me disgustingly happy too.
And then when I’d seen him, it was like some part of me that had always felt lodged or slightly out of place, even though I’d never noticed it, suddenly shifted. I felt whole.
