[The answer comes without hesitation, quietly searching her features with his eyes. Like he's seeing her under a new light, like he's trying to find something he's never seen before. Maybe it's the way she looks at him, how he never really thought about it. He can see it now, of course. She likes him, could love him, and he feels whatever a demon's equivalent of it could be.
(Never love. Only the desire to possess, to consume. One day it will hurt her, but Petre doesn't think about it. He doesn't see that.)
His hand brushes on her cheek, clearing a strand of hair.]
No one else means the same.
[Obviously there will be no reference to a monogamous relationship, as he pointed out before. He needs to be with people all the time, different people who offer him different things. But only Jem can give him this.]
Us seeing other people, but always coming back to each other. Can you promise you'll always come back to me?
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[The answer comes without hesitation, quietly searching her features with his eyes. Like he's seeing her under a new light, like he's trying to find something he's never seen before. Maybe it's the way she looks at him, how he never really thought about it. He can see it now, of course. She likes him, could love him, and he feels whatever a demon's equivalent of it could be.
(Never love. Only the desire to possess, to consume. One day it will hurt her, but Petre doesn't think about it. He doesn't see that.)
His hand brushes on her cheek, clearing a strand of hair.]
No one else means the same.
[Obviously there will be no reference to a monogamous relationship, as he pointed out before. He needs to be with people all the time, different people who offer him different things. But only Jem can give him this.]
Us seeing other people, but always coming back to each other. Can you promise you'll always come back to me?
[Envy comes too easily. It's true.]