To be fair, it's much more complicated for Jamie. It's not just living well.
"And because it takes the form most abhorrent to him. A lover, a child, a life, a place: all these have I found, a man's life, forever away from him in which he takes no part. It is not merely that I have a life I will love well. It is that it is precisely what he has always feared he would lose me to, his greatest nightmare. It is all he could not prevent with all his machinations and all his tricks and all the dead boys he laid at my heart."
There's more than one way to twist the knife.
"And most important: I know you will help me protect it from him."
There's a moment when the image of him wavers and smears, not quite contained or described by the world, and then the little cat is jumping into Jamie's arms - or rather onto his chest, happy to hold on with claws if Jamie doesn't manage to catch him - butting his head against Jamie's chin, purring with a loud, bone-rattling rumble.
Jamie will catch him with a bright laugh and when the little creature snuggles into him, he will only hold him closer, and pet his fur with such reverence.
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"And because it takes the form most abhorrent to him. A lover, a child, a life, a place: all these have I found, a man's life, forever away from him in which he takes no part. It is not merely that I have a life I will love well. It is that it is precisely what he has always feared he would lose me to, his greatest nightmare. It is all he could not prevent with all his machinations and all his tricks and all the dead boys he laid at my heart."
There's more than one way to twist the knife.
"And most important: I know you will help me protect it from him."
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"Yes, yes, may I scritch your chin?"
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"I hope you do," he says without an ounce of regret.