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proving her absolutely wrong: there weren’t even any slightly-moist details on those pages let alone juicy ones.
There she went, saying his name again. The first time it had been on her tongue, she’d been sobbing, but even then it felt too visceral, too intimate, and shortly after she had repeated it as a soft plea, and that had—well, fuck, it had done a number of things to him, none of which he cared to think on too long. Very few called him by his given name, but even now as she chastised him, it was like she were whispering it directly into his chest, making the muscles there tighten around her voice and hold it still so it couldn’t escape.
and there was a moment, however brief and absolutely mad, he would have given her anything she asked for then.
Infernal darkness, he should not under any circumstances like that, and yet there he was, enjoying not even the touch but the accidental brush of a woman who had probably never even set a fire that wasn’t meant to be lit.
Damien gestured back to Amma sitting on the single, narrow cot, which had been a complete waste of an only-one-bed situation and managed to somehow heighten the frustration he was feeling.
nothing else mattered. The world let her be, her duties back home ceased to exist, and the terrible past and future that waited for her evaporated into nothing, like a curse suddenly broken. All that was left was the night, the warmth, and Damien, who was just a man, after all, holding her.
but for Amma he would of course do it.
He couldn’t believe it, not for a moment, even when she said it herself, that there was a single soul in the realm that she couldn’t convince to fall in utter and unconditional love with her.
“I want to kiss you endlessly, Amma, and never stop.”
The kiss Damien actually gave Amma was only a gentle press of his lips to her forehead, barely a brush at all. An accident, really. She wouldn’t know, thank the basest of infernal beasts, but he would, and that was good enough for now. Bad enough too.
