Promises We Never Forget
"Talk to me."
Adrian sat across from him, he needed the distance, needed something solid between them while he said all he had to say, sitting beside him would torture him too much. "I don't know how to explain it," he started. "I've spent years being a very specific kind of person. Adrian Cole, Who always had things under control, who doesn't get flustered. Who doesn't..." He stopped, jaw tight.
"Who doesn't whimper," Kai said, not unkindly, though there was the faintest smile at the corner of his mouth.