"Tease,' he said, mouth brushing Isaac's tenderly, not even pushing and rushing for more. Just enjoying the contentment between them, that he had this kind of romance with anyone, nonetheless the two of them. He still felt a kinship with Isaac though he thought he might never find anywhere else.

"No." He shook his head. "I don't want to that be something with us. I mean..." He sighed, gnawing at his lip. Damn but emotions were still hard. "I don't use against people for good. It's humiliation, and pain and my job and while I don't have to do that... Dammit, if I want to use my hands on you, I don't want it to be to make you obey me."

And not once thinking about the ways he might use it for them both, to try and make things better in his own mind and between them. Just knowing how he had used his mesmer hand for centuries.