( warm breath against her ear, fingers gliding carefully along her side. her humiliation is the sharp, briny taste of unshed tears, tempered by the coppery throb of her pain.
he has shunned the Empathy bond since learning of it, wary and unsettled at the thought of being so open; and he regrets it, now. regrets not knowing how to use it in a way that could help rather than hurt. so he focuses, instead, on the heat and on the hunger and feeds that feeling as best he can, hoping to overwhelm the pain.
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( warm breath against her ear, fingers gliding carefully along her side. her humiliation is the sharp, briny taste of unshed tears, tempered by the coppery throb of her pain.
he has shunned the Empathy bond since learning of it, wary and unsettled at the thought of being so open; and he regrets it, now. regrets not knowing how to use it in a way that could help rather than hurt. so he focuses, instead, on the heat and on the hunger and feeds that feeling as best he can, hoping to overwhelm the pain.
a messy solution, but a solution nonetheless. )
Rey, let me. ( he swallows, then: ) Please.