TrashConnoisseur’s Reviews > Mercy and Starlight > Status Update

We both drift off to sleep like this. Suspended in a state of warmth and worship. Temporarily escaping the realities of our timeline. In love and nearly out of time to experience the depth of it.

I rest in the hollow of his clavicle, burrowing in like a nesting dove.

With each thrust, our breath becomes more shallow. Our words are more scarce. Our existence in this sliver of time is only to give and receive wave upon wave of pleasure.

“The man so beautiful that even his scars are golden? His tears silver?” I kiss the scar on his cheekbone, tiptoeing as I do. I take a step forward, he follows my lead.
“The man so kind that even his skin reminds me of stained glass cathedral windows?” I kiss the jawline of his slightly silver-stained, iridescent skin.
He’s pressed against the wooden bedpost like a flower into a diary entry.

“How could I not love you? The man made of crystalline cicada wings that remind me of home?” I ask, taking his hand away from my cheek and pressing my lips to it.
He exhales and closes his eyes as he leans into the affection. He unwinds his other hand from my hair and rests them both against the small of my back as if we’re dancing on the ballroom floor once more.
“The man so beautiful that even his scars are golden?

“I have not known peace since the moment I met you, Mercy,” he says, shaking his head. “Not a single moment. Yet I feel so rested when you’re near.”

“You are so loved, Mercy. You don’t even realize the severity of it,” Evander whispers through grit teeth.
He bunches the velvet tighter in his fists before continuing, “How deeply you make me feel. The forest you’ve created here from your heart of hearts doesn’t dare compare its roots to mine.”

"He’s pressed against the wooden bedpost like a flower into a diary entry."

The writing is so beautiful

Mercy and Evander are so soft yet intense with each other it's killing me