"You love me," Ronan insists. Oh, he is so certain of that. He can feel the love that helped to shape him, all these details drawn from a thousand lingering gazes upon the beauty of Ronan Lynch. Kylo sculpted him from longing. "You want more than anything to keep loving me."

Kylo's hurting him. Coiled in those desperate arms, Ronan's shaking now.

He pleads, "Kiss me. I won't go anywhere. Stay in bed with me and I'll be everything you always wanted. Remember when you first dreamt about me? That's the life we'll have now."