“I’m very sorry I was such a fool,” said Harun, his deep voice soft, even melancholy, though his smile was warm. He reached out and brushed his fingers along Kelwyn’s cheek. “I tried to pretend I didn’t love you, but that was folly.”
Kelwyn’s eyes went wide, and he felt his heart twist in his chest as if it were trying to start beating again. Love? “I…Oh, Harun…” He sat up, reaching to Harun, pulling him in to kiss him again, deeply, sweetly. The warmth of it flooded through him. The heat of Harun’s body against him was wonderful, and the scent, the taste of him was amazing. Yet even as he soaked all that in part of him was noticing that the reason he wanted that warmth was because his own body was cold now. That he could smell Harun because his senses had changed. And the taste of him…Th
