Eli's smile faded when he felt the kiss on his cheek. It made him feel way too many things and he's far too drunk now to contain this kind of emotional tidal wave. He wanted it to be Rekker and at the same time was so mad at the Brit and he just wanted contact because his heartached so much more than he was letting on.

All of those thoughts passed Ina second, before Ragnar even pulled away. Eli turned just in time to catch a kiss, or really just a brush of his lips on the Swede's. Far beyond everything else, Eli was just hurting that Rekker never noticed him and the wasted time here and there was weighing on him and he felt really lonely all the sudden. The heavy drinking he was doing certainly wasn't helping any of his thoughts either.