#lyoray

Summary:

When a person comes in contact with a painful stimulus, before they can even say the word ouch, an automatic spinal reflex is instantly initiated in order to protect itself from it. Within the span of a single second, their pain receptors detect that which is inflicting harm upon them and immediately relay that information from one neuron to the next until their muscles finally contract, forcing them to pull away at once to avoid the chance of getting hurt.

It’s an innate survival mechanism called “withdrawal reflex.”

And the sight of Lyon standing at his door with his back to him – like a dagger stabbing directly between his ribs and twisting – it was precisely the kind of pain that triggered that reflex, whether Gray liked it or not.

A pain that commanded: Don’t let him go.