[Ace makes a sound that is suspiciously close to a squeak, and he doesn't know what to say to any of what Smoker has said at first. Because it's too good, too real sounding, too hot. It screams out protection and loving sex and a level of emotional depth and pleasure that Ace was not really equating into things. Things that Ace does not feel like he deserves, and if he was any drunker or any further into his stay here he'd throw himself into a situation that he's really not ready for.
Nor did he really know how much he'd be affected by hearing things like that.]
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Nor did he really know how much he'd be affected by hearing things like that.]