Chapter 17They continued this pattern for the next few days. Latham would disappear for hours at a time to complete some unknown work, leaving Elis alone to study Latham’s books, testing his growing ability to decipher Latham’s blind language. But as the days went on and Latham ran out of any possible work he could perform, stranded in the country and so far away from the city, he began to spend more and more time with Elis. They spent every meal together, either in the dining room or the privacy of Latham’s room; even eating breakfast in bed one morning, feeding each other, resulting in a messy but delicious bout of f*****g.
It was bizarrely domestic, spending so much time together, talking, touching and kissing casually, sometimes spending moments of just silent companionship in bed, or
