Desire: (An MM Paranormal Romance) (The Fallen) by Julie Mannino

Author:Julie Mannino [Mannino, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

Tiras

“Hey.” Tiras gently took the spoon from Esai’s grasp. The Pastor looked ready to break down as he kept stirring.

“The oats…”

“Take a minute.”

Tiras had put on Esai’s cloak so his chest wouldn’t be on display. With his bare hand, he pulled on the swinging hook set in the stone of the fireplace so the oats wouldn’t burn from the heat. He wrapped his arms around the Pastor.

“I’m not really supposed to touch people unless I need to," Esai said in a small voice.

“I think you need to. Not all touch has to be sexual, and it’s not wrong.”

After a second, Esai broke down completely as Tiras held him. Life wasn’t always fair, and it wasn’t right that the demons were stuck in a war with no end in sight, but at least Tiras had been able to live the way he wanted in some ways. He hadn’t dared to bond with anyone in case the war killed one or the other, but he’d slept with who he wanted, and he never feared that people would reject him as a person. If anyone did, they could go screw themselves.

It wasn’t fair that this human feared his own sexuality and what everyone would think of him, or that he had to hide it because someone might react with violence and disgust. It also wasn’t fair that he felt he had to hurt himself physically because the mental pain told him that he was filthy.

“Do you want to sit down for a minute?” asked Tiras.

“I want-”

“What?”

“I just want to be fixed. My life would be so much easier.”

Tiras led him over to an armchair to sit and crouched in front of him while Esai hurried wiped at his face. “You’re not broken, and you don’t need to be fixed. Most demons where I come from are gay or they like both. The angels are like that too.”

“That doesn’t help me feel better when you fell from God’s grace.”

Tiras tilted his head. “Okay, but I personally didn’t fall from God’s grace. All of those from before Noah’s time are long dead. I’m a descendant. I didn’t choose for my soul to be born in this body in that realm. You didn’t choose to be born as a human here.” He could have mentioned Asgardians and the fairy realm but figured he could save that for another time. “You could have been born there, and I could have been born here. How do you think God chooses?”

“Um, I don’t have an answer for that. God knows us before we’re born, and I don’t know how we end up wherever we are, but we have free will to be good or bad.”

Tiras pursed his lips. “Why would he make someone’s sexuality like that?”

“As a temptation. Everyone has something to bear at some point.”

“So you think he put something on you that you can’t change, and you’re expected to live like that? For your whole life? What harm is your sexuality doing to anyone else? Was anybody

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