Three words.
Just three words were enough to throw him off balance.
It made no sense, and he had no chance to process it, because Chuuya’s hand closed around his wrist—soothing the itch under his clothes and bandages, replacing it with a tingling that spread through his body—and yanked him up the stairs, tripping him.
No one stopped them.
No one questioned why he was there.
“Angel,” Dazai called him.
“Not here.”
Dazai barely noticed his surroundings, not with his heart threatening to burst out of his chest and his head throbbed blurring his vision. He hoped he wouldn’t faint; it would be humiliating, given the circumstances.
Three words.
Three damn words.
As soon as the door closed behind them, away from prying eyes, death threats, Dazai stumbled, and Chuuya pinned him against the wall, holding him by the neck. A pitiful sound escaped his lips, and the pain that shot through him blinded him for a few seconds. Even so, he couldn’t control the smile that crept up the corner of his mouth.
His angel was very predictable in his unpredictability.
“Don't mess with me,” Chuuya warned him in an angry hiss.
His right eye crackled, like burning wood, devouring his iris and staining his sclera. Dazai gasped in awe. Beautiful. His angel’s grip tightened, fingers digging in like claws, cutting off his breath.
“What the hell are you doing here?!”
“I missed you,” he whispered, barely more than a breath.
Chuuya growled low, and the sound rattled the walls.
And it went straight to his crotch.
“Don’t lie to me.”
“I wouldn’t dare,” Dazai insisted, curiosity soaking his words. But black dots began to fill his vision, and the idea of passing out while Chuuya was here—a natural disaster, a thunderstorm—twisted his insides and left a bitter taste in his mouth. “Angel, if you don’t mind—”
He patted his wrist.
“Don’t take on my family, or you’ll die,” Chuuya barked, loosening his grip but pressing closer, one leg between his, their bodies flush together, and his scent—intoxicating, devastating—drowned his senses. “You’re doomed. All of you are doomed. Don’t you get it!? You can’t win!”