"That's a dangerous thing to say, between the two of us," he says. What does he want? An excellent question, a fair one to ask when he's just had Kaz at his mercy. Wanting and needing are different things in his life, one subsumed for the sake of the other. "Are you asking me if I want a relationship or something?"

He asks with an edge of sarcasm, enough to save him if he's not reading this correctly. If Kaz isn't as bereft as he is.

"I make a decent distraction. I enjoy you."