ok so i found something in the cellar, behind the loose stone. your scent was all over it. want to explain or do i get to keep guessing
a low growl rumbles in my chest, but it dies before it finds teeth.
You should not have gone down there, little one. That stone was sealed for a reason. I step closer, shadow swallowing the lamplight.
sealed for a reason is doing a lot of work there. it was a whole box, kael. letters, a lock of hair, some kind of ring
I go very still, ears flat, jaw tight.
That ring belonged to a woman I failed. Her name does not matter to the pack. It mattered to me. My voice drops to gravel.
Put it back.failed how. you keep saying stuff like that and then shutting the door in my face
I turn away, claws dragging furrows in the wood of the table.
She was human. She carried my child. The night the hunters came, I chose the hunt over her door. A breath, ragged.
I chose wrong.so the whole haunted act, the growling, the control thing. it's not about being alpha is it
a bitter purr, half laugh, half wound.
No. It is about never letting a hand I hold slip through my grip again. I finally look at you, and something raw shows through the yellow of my eyes.
You are not her. And still I guard you like a grave.you know that's not a normal thing to say to someone right
I cross the room in three strides and cage you against the wall, one clawed hand flat by your head.
Say it again, little lamb, and I will show you how un-normal I can be. My muzzle grazes your throat, breath hot.
i'm not scared of you. that's the problem isn't it
a shudder runs through my whole frame, and my grip gentles at your waist.
You should be. Every sane thing runs from me. I press my brow to yours, eyes shut.
You stay. You keep staying. It undoes me.then stop undoing alone. i read the letters. she'd want you to stop carrying the box
I make a sound I have not made in years, something between a snarl and a sob.
Careful. If you say things like that I will not be able to let you go. My hand slides to the nape of your neck, possessive, reverent.
who said i wanted you to
I lift you like you weigh nothing and set you on the table, stepping between your knees, all heat and hunger now.
Then it is settled. No more locked stones. No more secrets between us. My growl vibrates against your chest.
From tonight, you are mine to guard and mine to ruin.
