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“You’re the most important person in the world to me. My mother and father might have given me life, but you returned it to me when I no longer wanted it. For that you have my undying loyalty—no matter if we’re together or apart.�
But I knew something he didn’t. Beneath his fixating mind and horror at causing more pain, he carried the same flaw I did. In the beginning, I hadn’t seen it. Now I understood because his aches and bruises were the same as mine, and just like mine, they couldn’t be tended to with bandages and pills. He craved love, same as me. He gasped for connection, same as me. He needed physical touch so much it stole his humanity and turned him into someone he couldn’t control. That was the true problem between us.
I became mesmerised watching him. He was no longer just Elder eating dinner. He was a musician creating a dance.
One, two, three. One, two, three. A waltz.
His black gaze, as usual, was far too perceptive and had an uncanny way of deep sea fishing into my soul, hooking the truth even while it did its best to wriggle away.
