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Nocturne took a deep breath in before replying. This was the answer that would seal his fate.“I plead guilty.”“Why did you break the rules for a human?”The ruler of the underworld thought of his first encounter with Leo. Now that he was dead again he thought about it in a different light. Maybe it had been love at first sight. “When I met the human in purgatory and he begged for his life, I felt something. I felt alive,” he admitted.“You are dead,” the entity pointed out. “You cannot feel alive.”“I felt alive whenever I was with him.”He knew the entity was not impressed with him. At this point, it didn’t matter. He was going to die again anyway.“I am not going to remove you from your position here in the underworld,” the entity stated. “Your soul will not enter the reincarnation cycle this early on. I think you might like that prospect too much. Instead you will suffer here.”Nocturne’s blood ran cold. He wasn’t going to die and not have to think about Leo’s death again, he wa

Nocturne put that journal down and picked up the journal that Leo had written in a past life.There wasn’t much to read in there. It appeared that Leo had not been interested in documenting his life as the ruler of the underworld. It made sense knowing that they spent most of their time together and Leo couldn’t exactly write about his secret dating life.The handwriting didn’t feel familiar either. The Leo he had known didn’t write in cursive like this. He traced his fingers over the loops and curves nonetheless.“I am going to do it. It does not matter if I get punished,” he told himself resolutely. “I just need a plan.”Potentially he could get out of the throne room and out into the wilderness and somehow find Leo’s soul out there. That wouldn’t be enough. He had to get back and get Leo’s soul back into the cycle so it could be reincarnated. He had to do all of this before he was caught by the entity.There was one thing the entire situation had shown. The entity hadn’t known abou

“I’ll take it then,” Leon replied and held out his hand for the teddy.Nathan handed it over and their hands brushed past each other. Leon didn’t seem to be bothered by the skin contact. He was too busy arranging the teddy bears together on the bed.“The bathroom is through that door over there,” Nathan added and pointed. “It’s an ensuite so you aren’t disturbing me at all. Remember to set your alarm. We all have an early start tomorrow and you’re going to be picked up at six by Dave outside this building.”Leon dug around in his bag and eagerly pulled out an alarm clock.“I’m on it now,” he said. “Goodnight and thank you for letting me stay.”“You don’t need to thank me. I’ll try to get Celia and Dean sorted out again,” he said and withdrew from the bedroom. “I’ll see you in the morning. Sleep well.”He closed the door and walked back down the hallway. Was it strange that he had someone else that he was in charge of in his spare bedroom? He reminded himself that he was doing it for t

Things made more sense to Nocturne now. He had never had the impression that Nathan was going to act on his feelings for Leon. The move had to come from Leon himself.He felt turmoil in Nathan’s heart as he processed the question. The record executive took a moment to work out how to answer.“What makes you think there is a chance of that happening?” he asked in a tone that indicated he found the question boring.Leon simply looked at him in a way that made Nathan feel like his brain was open for mind reading.“I’m not dumb. I know that you like me.”Nathan’s reply came out as a nervous splutter. “I don’t like you any more than I like any other member of your band.”“Why do you never meet my eyes when we pass each other?” Leon enquired archly. “You don’t do that to Celia, Dean or Mary.”“That doesn’t prove anything.”Leon finally paused the movie and came to stand right in front of him. He gently tugged on the book Nathan was still trying to pretend to read. The older man let it go.“

Everything fell apart over the next month. The one good thing was that Leon’s album release was financially successful and was well received by the music critics.As Nathan had predicted the staff at the record label suddenly paid them both close attention. Men who would be happy to share the elevator with him or chat with him at the vending machine would practically flee at the sight of him. “I’m not interested in your ass,” he muttered under his breath one morning after the elevator rapidly emptied out at the sight of him.Who knew that straight men felt so fragile at the sight of a gay man?He knew it had to be worse for Leon when he overheard a conversation at the vending machine.“How often do you think Leon sucked Nathan’s dick to get that solo album? The producer he used always makes hits and is hard to book,” one man said a little too loudly.“I bet Dean is mad to know that all he had to do to stay here was to flirt with Nathan,” another man laughed.Nathan turned round the co