Christine’s Reviews > For Certain Values of Family > Status Update

Memories surfaced, unpleasant and unwanted, of what it was like to be a child, trapped in a world of adults with incomprehensible rules and demands that could never be satisfied. Anger he couldn’t control welled up

It wasn’t that he minded lying—far from it. Lies were what kept life smooth and easy. However, the idea of lying because he felt obliged to, rather than because he wanted to, that was something different.

“Warrick’s “serious conversation” voice normally gave Toreth a reflexive urge to leave the building as quickly as possible. The urge was dampened, in this case, by the fact that he was naked, and that Warrick had spent the last half hour massaging him into a boneless heap of pure relaxation. Maybe that had been the point.”
(First paragraph and how I’ve missed them so. I love their dynamic at this point)