Chapter 225: My heart dropped out of my chest with the Captain
Captain Rhys Thatcher was a man known for his logic and reasoning skills. Sure, there were times where things went...off the tracks, but that could be forgiven. He was an S Class, after all, and that came with some weird side effects.
His mood swings were one of them.
He still hadn’t fully figured out what influenced them. Was it his lust? Or lack of it? He wasn’t quite sure, but he did know that Kellen had always had a way to affect him. In good, and bad ways.
On the front lines Rhys would admit that he had turned into a monster. Kellen played a role in that. For 7 years the two of them had danced around each other and Rhys wasn’t sure if it would have been any better if he had acted. He felt that if he had tasted Kellen too soon he would have ruined him, and ruined the new relationship that they were developing.
It was so...precious, and new, and so unlike anything Rhys had had before.
He wasn’t going to call Kellen a prude, but the man was stubborn. If he wanted something, he would focus all of his attention into that one thing for as long as it took for him to accomplish that task. Rhys admired that drive, but it did mean that Kellen ended up neglecting a fairly major part of his life.
His romantic life.
Rhys wasn’t complaining. He liked being practically the first of everything Kellen had experienced, but he also knew that it wasn’t good for the part of him that was a damn monster.
The part that never wanted to let Kellen go. Lock him up somewhere ’safe’. Clip his wings. Keep him in a cage. He can still be beautiful even if we smother him.
Most days, that voice was pretty quiet, but for some reason, it wasn’t as quiet today. It might have to do with Kellen’s slightly odd behaviour in the morning. And that Kellen was leaving the Guild on his own to visit Guiding Centers.
The same places that took Kellen away from him in the first place.