No stitches! Butterfly bandages changed twice daily and some heavy duty antibiotics and antibiotic cream and I am standing on guard duty (since I can't really sit) in order to protect the Devil, who, like a classic abuser, couldn't help it, didn't mean to, and will never do it again. Oh, and he'll make it up to me. Also I make him into a monster.
Of course it's all my fault. She believes him. I don't. I can't swim for upwards of three weeks to come. He may have ruined my birthday. Probably on purpose. I gave every safe word I had. All four of them. The gentleness in the beginning should have been heralded for the violence to come but I thought we were doing good. I thought he learned his lesson last time.
I won't let Lochlan hurt him and I won't let them banish him either.
Ben wasn't in the mood for negotiation. He looked at me for the longest time and then said,
Then it's time somebody bites him back.
They can fight it out, then. I'm not allowed any more input and I'm not allowed to leave Lochlan's sight.