None of it is wrong. For all that he keeps telling himself he's not allowed to be mad at Malcolm, he is. He's furious and hurt for reasons that have nothing and everything to do with Malcolm not being angry enough.

He wants to burn Mathias down. He wants to go home. He wants to have someone to curl up with at night, someone who's his, just his, someone he can care about, someone to get him outside his own head.

He loves Malcolm. In so many ways.

And he wanted him for so many of the wrong reasons.

"Fine," Neal says softly. "I don't forgive you. And I won't go home with you. I'm not going to be your after-Mathias consolation prize."