mardi 27 juin 2017

Sleep is my lover now

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Alarm bells were going off, faintly, in his mind as his hand moved to her waist. Not the mortal peril kind, the serious kind. The ‘This Sort Of Thing Is Not Done, Remember?’ kind that he got whenever he was tempted to let himself be a little too vulnerable— which was usually almost never. Oh, he let himself get involved, get attached; did that all the time. Let his hearts get broken again and again. But he gave them the universe, the stars, all of time and space. He didn’t give anything of himself. That wasn’t how he operated. That all stayed locked away, safely out of sight.

Around River, the alarm bells were pretty much constant. They’d deterred him at first, but he barely heard them anymore; he certainly paid them no mind.

Words: 1912, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 59 of Long Night in the Blue House

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