Anger flared up, white hot and vitriol and his lips curled back in a disbelieving smile. He wanted to lash out, to let his anger uncurl like the raw wire it was to wrap around the man he loved.
Naive?
He knew better than anyone else alive save for his family exactly how cruel the world was. Exactly how little it cared for the weak and the kind. He'd spent centuries fighting alongside this man to protect people from that cruelty and now Joe calls him naive?
His hand darted out to catch Joe's wrist, grip like iron and his voice just as cold.
"I am not naive and you know that well. I have done horrors this world has not even dreamed of and I've seen worse by tenfold. I love you with every ounce of my being, every breath in my lungs...but do not ever call me 'naive' again.
"Do not mistake my love for this family for weakness or stupidity, Husband. If he has betrayed us again and you come to harm because of it, I will drop him in the ocean myself."
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Anger flared up, white hot and vitriol and his lips curled back in a disbelieving smile. He wanted to lash out, to let his anger uncurl like the raw wire it was to wrap around the man he loved.
Naive?
He knew better than anyone else alive save for his family exactly how cruel the world was. Exactly how little it cared for the weak and the kind. He'd spent centuries fighting alongside this man to protect people from that cruelty and now Joe calls him naive?
His hand darted out to catch Joe's wrist, grip like iron and his voice just as cold.
"I am not naive and you know that well. I have done horrors this world has not even dreamed of and I've seen worse by tenfold. I love you with every ounce of my being, every breath in my lungs...but do not ever call me 'naive' again.
"Do not mistake my love for this family for weakness or stupidity, Husband. If he has betrayed us again and you come to harm because of it, I will drop him in the ocean myself."