[He doesn't think anyone's ever said they needed him his entire life.
With a silent display of willpower, he made himself make eye contact, at shyly up through his pale lashes. Even if doing so made him feel like his heart would collapse in on itself.].
You're very eloquent.
[It's a miracle he managed that much. He can't say how such astuteness leaves him feeling equal parts horrifyingly unguarded and achingly known, how he's heard a million variations of I want you but never anything so blunt and sincere and seemingly free of baser motivations. How he wants very badly to be less prideful like that, even if the logical, cautious part of him warns against it with a man he's only spoken to in two occasions.]
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With a silent display of willpower, he made himself make eye contact, at shyly up through his pale lashes. Even if doing so made him feel like his heart would collapse in on itself.].
You're very eloquent.
[It's a miracle he managed that much. He can't say how such astuteness leaves him feeling equal parts horrifyingly unguarded and achingly known, how he's heard a million variations of I want you but never anything so blunt and sincere and seemingly free of baser motivations. How he wants very badly to be less prideful like that, even if the logical, cautious part of him warns against it with a man he's only spoken to in two occasions.]