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It is so embarassing that Silver got me at the end, I neef higher standards...

“Did you happen to lock the door when you came in earlier?”
“Yes, why?”
“Because I want you to fuck me and I don’t want someone walking in on us while you do it.”
A strangled sound traveled up Silver’s throat. “I take back what I said earlier,” he told him as he carried Nuri over to the desk and set him down on it. “You’re incredibly romantic. Don’t change a thing.”

~ Who would've thought he could be funny

“What’s it going to be?” Nuri tossed the N.I.M. an inch in the air and caught it. “Are we playing or not, Emperor?”
“It isn’t fair,” he sounded like a petulant child.
“It’s no different than the offer you made me at the start of all of this,” Nuri pointed out.
Ah.
Nuri was teaching him a lesson.

~ Insane power move 10/10

He quirked a brow. “I haven’t forgiven you yet.”
“But will you?”
“It’s under consideration.”
From anyone else, that might sound like a teasing gesture.
“I’d really prefer if we left business speech out of our intimate relationship,”
“And I’d really prefer that you hadn’t lied all—”
“Okay! Never mind. Talk however you want. I love the way you talk. I love the sound of your voice. No matter what you’re saying.”

“I’ll give you whatever you want, Nuri,” he latched onto that, a glimmer of hope shining through. “If you don’t want Royal Consort, I’ll give you something else.”
“Do you want me to be Royal Consort?” the way he said it hinted there was a test somewhere in that question.
If this had taught him anything, however, it was that Silver was better off just being honest. “Yes. Yes, I do. Badly. So badly.”

~ Cute

Nuri made as though to pull away and Silver held onto him, refusing. “I’m only trying to turn around.”
The fear told him not to trust it, but if he wasn’t willing to trust Nuri, how could he expect to be trusted? Especially when he was the one who needed to earn it in the first place?

~ REALLY!?!? THIS IS THE ONE THAT LEARNS BOUNDARIES AND RESPECT!??! Kazimir type arc... I miss my pookie

This was his own damn fault though and Silver knew it. If he’d only been honest from the beginning, if only he’d sat Nuri down when he’d discovered he’d wanted to resign a year ago and begged him to stay like he was begging him now…Maybe things would be different. Maybe he’d be more believable at the very least. “Nuri, I love you.”

~ Diabolical and true

I’m not trying to keep you because you’re my secretary, Nuri. I’m trying to keep you because you’re you. Because I want you, and I’ve always wanted you. Because you’re literally the only thing I have ever cared about on this entire planet and possibly in the whole universe. All those times I said you were mine, I didn’t mean you were my employee. I meant it exactly how it sounded.

~ Okay he got me

“What’s—” Nuri seemed to be struggling as well, “What’s going on? Are you…Are you crying?”
He sniffled in response and tightened his arms even more. “You don’t do that,” Nuri said. “You didn’t even cry at your father’s funeral.”
“My father was just my father. You’re you.”

~ Its actually cute... I'm gonna kms

“I’m sorry,” Silver said, the apology rushing out of him. “I was selfish. I was wrong. I’ll never do it again. Just please. Please.” He pressed his face against the small of Nuri’s back, only realizing that he was crying when the material instantly began to soak from his tears. He couldn’t even muster up embarrassment, still too overcome by the suffocating feeling of grief and loss and fear. “Please.”