"You're never scary to me. Being cared about is... I don't know. Scary? But not." He pressed his head into Dorian's hands, because it felt good and he wanted Dorian to keep doing it.

"You're not acting like a nurse maid. You're acting like..." Cole hummed and closed his eyes. "He's not fragile, but he's fragile compared to them, under the muscle and armour he could break so easily, I could break him. But you won't break me. You want to make sure life doesn't break me."

He didn't know if he was saying the right things. He hoped he was.