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Ness's shoulders are shaking. “Why the fuck are you here?”
He looks awful.
And horribly beautiful.
Even like this, with red-rimmed eyes and spit-shined fury on his lips, he still manages to look lovely in a way that makes Isagi ache. Goddammit. Maybe both of the duo had broken him.
“I just thought…” Isagi rubs the back of his neck, awkwardly. “Maybe you could use a friend.”After Michael Kaiser’s sudden death, Alexis Ness is drowning in silence, guilt, and headlines. Yoichi Isagi shows up at his door. Not to fix him, not even knowing what to say, but simply unwilling to leave him alone in his grief.
What starts as comfort becomes something Ness never expected: a slow-burning warmth, a quiet place to rest, the beginning of something tender. But the weight of the past is heavy. Paparazzi swirl with theories, the world watches too closely, and Kaiser’s ghost lingers in the corners of every kiss.
This is a story about mourning and rediscovery. About the ache of loving someone new while still grieving someone gone. About choosing to stay, even when it hurts.
Sometimes, love doesn’t come after grief. Sometimes, it arrives tangled inside it.