#Chapter 205: I Can Handle Any Pain

With our lovemaking finished, we lay together, naked and tangled on the floor. Nyktos is flat on his back, staring at the ceiling. I’m on my side, tucked up against his chest, with his arm securely wrapped around my back. With a gentle, barely-there touch, I trace my finger along the path of one of the tendrils of poison marring his skin.

“You could stay on,” he says again now. He’s said so many t