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“You kept it,” he said.
“You gave it to me,” Luca whispered, as if that was explanation enough, and held the book as tightly as if it were his most prized possession.
“Did you ever read it?”
“Over and over.”
“Would you like me to tell you a story, angyalka?” Imre closed Shardik and set it aside on the glossy oak end table, and stretched out a hand for Luca’s book. “Or read you one.” 🥹

Imre coiled the earbuds atop the laptop, then smoothed Luca’s hair back from his brow. He lingered a moment, letting his fingers slip through hair as dark and shimmering as the gleam of a still black pool on a moonless night.
“Sleep, my angyalka,” he whispered.

Everytime Imre calls Luca “angyalka”😩🥹🫠

“I’m gonna grow up and I’m gonna be tall and handsome, and then you’ll love me too and we’ll get married.”

“The problem,” Imre had said, catching his hand, swallowing it inside his own until Luca’s fingers and the ring disappeared into a thick palm, “is that I already love you, angyalka.”

Stooooooop 😩🥹🥹😍🫠