"We can do this," he said, his voice soft and gentle as the kiss barely broke. Liking the feel of his lips against Arthur's, of the hum of the things they shared. "Yeah, we have this life now but we can have us. We can have what we never admitted we wanted before. I'm not letting that house take that from us. The house gave us this, and I won't let that go."

Without the house, who knew if they ever would have admitted how they felt. He wasn't giving that up for anything. Even the insanity the house sent for them.