It made him a little dizzy. Almandine felt his heart seize in his chest, and he swallowed hard, giving a little nod, tongue darting out to lick his lips in an instinctive gesture.
"Okay," he said softly, and tried to resist the urge to press himself closer and kiss Arachne until he was breathless, because that sort of felt like it was defeating the purpose of what Arachne was telling him. "But it's - it's not...because you don't want to. It's not because you don't want me."
Arachne had said as much, but Almandine was mostly just confirming it aloud for himself.
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