Taboo: Ties and Sins - Fetishes
“I see the two of you. You’re like… very polite business partners. You share a space. You make decisions. But I’ve never seen you touch each other. Not really. I’ve never heard you laugh at anything that wasn’t superficial irony.”
The observation hit him like a punch to the stomach. It was precise. It was raw.
“Love… matures. It transforms into other things. Respect. Companionship.”
“Companionship?” She let out a short, humorless laugh. “Leon, my father—the biological one—was an idiot. A failed, drunken artist. But he and my mother devoured each other. They fought, screamed, broke plates, and then locked themselves in the bedroom for hours. It was noisy, it was sick, it was alive. What you h