"So desperate for love." It sounded more like an observation than mockery and Barty kept on stroking him, going slowly and waiting for things to build up. Nathan wasn't someone who lasted very long, he could tell that much already. He let go of him before he could blow it - literally.

Then he suddenly used the shard he was still holding to drag a bloody line down Nathan's side. A shallow cut, but that would still burn and it would bleed as well. "You want to be at the centre of someone's world. Shame that you are nowhere close to that."