A sneak peak of another prompt. “He Looks Good Covered In Red.”
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“You are impossible,” I said, voice tight with disbelief.
His gaze settled on me again, calm as before, unchanged by the moment that had just occurred as though it had never been particularly remarkable to begin with. “You look good like that,” he said.
I stared at him, then at the blood on my hand, then back at him, as the full absurdity of the situation settled into place. “That is not a compliment,” I replied.
“It is,” he said simply.
And when I looked at him again, truly looked, I realized with a quiet, unwelcome certainty that the worst part was not the blood, or the intrusion, or even the impossibility of his presence.
It was how naturally I had begun to let him stay.