“Ow! Ow! Ow!”
Elias sighed as he lightly touched Thomas’s face, applying a thin layer of ointment. “Can you stop complaining?”
“You are hurting me! They hit me, in case you didn’t notice. I may be a policeman, but there were two of them—big guys, too.”
“Oh, I saw it. I told you to let it go. I know those assholes. But thanks…”
Thomas remained silent a few seconds before speaking. “I don’t care. They didn’t need to talk to you like that. Or touch you. I mean…not…” He looked at Elias, trying to detect whether what he was saying had a meaning for him too, or if he just looked like a jealous i***t and Elias didn’t feel the same way. But in Elias’s eyes, there was a new light, similar to the surprise he had seen before in the pub. Thomas decided to continue. “You’re mine, okay? Is that clea
