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"R-Raaf?"

Even when he's wearing a half-mask of his own, I can't be mistaken I know it's him, and he's just seated there on the couch like a beautiful king waiting to be delivered his entertainht

"You can let her go now"

The boy does as he says, and just like that I am free

Or am I, really?

Raaf pats the empty space next to him "Come here, my dove"

"I don't understand"

"I will explain everything to you," he ht now, you must come here"

The urge to yell at him threatens to overwhelm my senses

WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING, FOR GOD'S SAKE?

But the urge only lasts for a second, and in the end, I still find ifts me with a smile of approval as I claim the space next to him

It's a sexy little smile, and while it still h

"Tell me now, please" My voice, already strained and scratchy fro I've done, beco the past few minutes had been

He answers me with tords, and while I hear theest them

Is he seriously saying that the hell he's just put h—-

"And it's only just begun, I'm afraid"

—-is merely an extreme version of not mainstream?

I squeezeinside of me is painfully familiar, in the worst way possible I want to believe there has to be so about all of this, but whenthose minutes when I couldn't even bear to think of the reason why no one could hear me scream—-

I thought he was dead!

Dead!

Soain, and before I realize what I', my lips have already parted, and the words tue and hurt

"Fuck you"

But he doesn't even flinch, doesn't even blink, for God's sake All he does is stare at me with those eyes that are so deceptively blue like Paul Newman's - they're just so wonderfully blue that it's almost impossible to believe how much depravedness is hidden under its brilliance

"You said it yourself"

The cale, and I barely e to spit at him

"I ahtmare—-"

"FUCK YOU!" Does he really have not have a heart? Why now? Why now of all tiainst me like that?