Chapter 35: Akton
Everything about the place was far nicer than Akton could have imagined or figured he deserved. The space he and Talfryn were allowed to keep to themselves was larger than his entire family’s home back in the mountains, back so long ago. He didn’t know how to feel about it, and it frightened him how easy it was to fall into a calm, unhurried routine. To find all this normal.
Talfryn had no such issue. From the moment he woke the day after their bath s*x, he’d extracted himself from Akton’s arms and proceeded to the library. Akton watched as he gave hours and hours to the texts, hungrily gobbling them up, barely pausing to do anything else. It became Akton who had to bring him food, Akton who made him take a walk, Akton who initiated s*x.
“Get up,” he said, grabbing a b
