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Ilay & Tay should have been reincarnated into an omegaverse genre given how Ilay goes feral wanting to mark, cum, literally impregnate Tay if he could. Just look at that man, He's never SATISFIED. Lmfao & even after all that he says he's not sure if he likes or loves him. And he MOCKS Tay when Tay ask Ilay if he likes him. (if i remember the novel correctly)
Maybe Ilay keeps being in denial too because his feelings are not pure & naive enough to be called love. He doesnt know what love is or the right way to like or love someone. His way of loving Tay is unhealthy, toxic, obsessive, like the kind where he'd literally chain him up or is the type where he is HELL BENT PASSIONATE on making him his irrespective of whether Tay accepts it or nah. (Some might say that's not love, but i use the word love loosely because Ilay's brain don't function like a normal person but that of a psychopath. Given how he came to the conclusion that he has to know that Tay is his for him to feel assured & Tay's body has to know it too.) Make it make sense. ╮(￣▽￣)╭
It can't even be called love in an innocent, pure or traditional sense so Ilay probably gets confused & all he can say is, 'YOU'RE MINE.' because he probably can't comprehend what loving or liking someone is or justify that just because he wants Tay & Tay drives him crazy, it doesn't make it like or love in his book. If that makes sense? (〜￣△￣)〜