Beneath the Surface by Shea Balik

Author:Shea Balik
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: MM Romance, Gay Romance, LGBT Fantasy, Gay Fantasy, Gay Paranormal, LGBT Romance
Publisher: Shea Balik
Published: 2021-04-09T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

It had been impossible to look at Teagan as Hrafn admitted the reason his da planned the raid that killed most of the male population of their village. He was sure there would be revulsion in those grey eyes when he found out it was all Hrafn’s fault that so many had died that day.

Yet, when he’d finally gotten up the courage to look him in the eye, what Hrafn saw had been so much worse. For there was no denying the pity staring back at him. That was the last thing Hrafn wanted, especially from the man fate had given him to love.

“Hey,” Teagan’s thumb and forefinger gripped Hrafn’s chin just enough to force him to keep his head up when he’d tried to look down again. “What is it?”

Hrafn didn’t want to answer that. Seeing the pity was bad enough. The last thing he wanted to do was talk about it. Ever.

All he ever desired was to find a person who could love him, broken and all. Teagan’s pity would put any feelings he might have for Hrafn under question. How would he know if Teagan was being nice to him because he actually cared, or because he felt sorry for him?

It was that thought that pushed him to say, “Please don’t feel sorry for me because I’m slow. I may not always understand everything but I couldn’t bear it if you were only nice to me because of what my da did to me.”

He winced as he said that last part because he knew it wasn’t entirely his da’s fault. “I mean, I was already not that bright,” he admitted. “Technically, that last beating just made it more of a challenge to understand certain things.”

“Fuck,” Teagan swore. This time it was Teagan who looked down at the ground for several seconds. But when he lifted his head again, there was determination and something else that Hrafn had never seen directed at him by anyone in his life.

Love.

Or, at least, he thought that’s what it was, as it was how his friends looked at the men they’d fallen for over the past few months. Sure he was wrong, for there was no way Teagan could have those feelings for him, Hrafn desperately wanted to run as far from the man as possible before he ended up humiliating himself further.

His legs actually twitched to do just that, but he found it impossible to look away from those pretty grey eyes. His whole life, Hrafn had prayed for someone to gaze at him like he was worthy of love. How was he to walk away from that?

“I’m not sure how to say this right, but please hear me out before you assume I’m meaning something I’m not, okay?” Teagan waited for Hrafn’s answer but he honestly wasn’t sure what to reply.

In the end, he nodded, even though he really would rather have told Teagan he’d like to go back home and not speak about any of this ever again. He feared the worst.

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