Accept me

There was a short pause until he asked his inquiry, a moment of serenity and total content laying beside him in her nook by the willow tree. And when he finally asked his question, her reply was almost instant. Unlike the time before, she didn't process the question entirely. She didn't consider her options, her possibilities. She didn't doubt or second-guess herself. She didn't think about her family and pack and their opinions. It all seemed so irrelevant. She just knew, and said that one, powerful word. Like him, it just slipped from her mouth, though she knew it was the truth. Thinking about it only created doubt and a tendency to lie. "Yes," she replied in a breathless murmur, burying her head in his chest before looking up into his bicoloured gaze - the eyes of the man who she wanted to spend the rest of her life with. This was what she wanted, and she was certain of it.