He wasn’t in his right frame of mind. That much was obvious.
It didn’t even seem like he had registered Bai Ruyi’s frantic calls for him to stop. The moment Briar saw him, it was as if his brain had short-circuited and he could no longer process anything rationally.
All he wanted to do was to reach him and feel that sense of contentment again. It was too painful to suddenly be bereft of it just because he had woken up from his dream. Even while awake, for always, he wanted to feel it. He wanted to keep Ruyi in his arms and never have to let go again.
With both hands, Briar reached out.
At the same time, as he looked at him, tears of pain and helplessness fell from Bai Ruyi’s eyes. “Briar, stop…”
What followed was the inevitable.
With nothing solid to grasp, Briar’s hands passed righ
