“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
Alec’s friends were gathered all around him, and his family, and it was one of those moments when he remembered the desperate loneliness of when he was younger, hopelessly torn between fearing for what he might never have, and what he might lose. Alec secured his hold on Magnus’s waist and felt a small incredulous starburst of happiness in his chest: that he could have all this.
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