MINE TO BULLY
The ordinary parts especially.
Me too, I said, and meant it more completely than I'd ever meant anything in my entire life.
That night, after he'd finally set aside his blueprints and joined me in bed, I found myself thinking about how far we'd traveled to reach this exact, ordinary moment. From a bullied teenager and his tormentor, through five years of separation and heartbreak, through blackmail and kidnapping and a dying father's tangled confessions, to this. Two men, finally free, finally choosing each other without fear shadowing every decision.