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Chapter 52

He couldn’t say that. Not when he didn’t know what Colby wanted; not when he’d just fallen apart mid-take. He wanted to cling to Colby until he could breathe.

“…yeah,” he finished, just for something to say, hopeless and in love and exhausted from emotional trauma and character bleed that he knew was really the opposite: his heart bleeding everywhere on its own, right into Stephen, not the other way around.

He kept his arms around Colby, because for some unfathomable reason Colby had voluntarily chosen that.