Do You Think It's Kinda Weird For Cheated To Receive Affection?

Do you think it's kinda weird for Cheated to receive affection?

I mean, like Cold is born from violence, and violence is one of the only things he knows, The only thing Cheated has ever known is pain.

And whenever good things do happen, it's usually followed by something terrible, or their are strings attached.

"It’s par for the corse."

So when everything is said and done and their all free from the cabin, the freedom is unusual for him.

Does he feel like this is all temporary? Does he have intrusive thoughts that the rugs gonna be pulled out from under them at any given moment, and they'll be back in the basement with Razor because that's just his fucking luck?

Does he instinctively flinch or shrink away from being touched because he's just expecting it to be painful? When he receives gentleness, does he feel uncomfortable and expects their to be strings attached?

Then he starts to feel guilty because it's not fair to others to just assume things like that.