Chapter 46

PIERRE POV

“Care for a little ride?” Sebastian’s voice was just a whisper above a purr as he took my hand in his, looping his fingers with mine and holding me in a tight grip before navigating through the throng of students, me trailing behind him like a toddler.

We had fallen into our little routine of him picking me up after every class and flaunting me around like some sort of prize. I didn’t know how to feel about it at first, but the idea of being acknowledged and not regarded as a dirty little secret was far more revivifying than anything I have ever known. It was so freeing to finally be that little piece of something that fits in the puzzle of society, instead of being a triangle and trying to fit into a square. And all it took was some serious acknowledgment instead of being shunned and called names.

With time, I found myself relaxing more around him, because his energy was just too impossible to resist. He was the calm kind, the one you would run to whenever you had problems