we need to have words

She felt herself deflate even as she uttered the words to him, but he’d been so open and honest with her she didn’t feel right keeping anything from him. While he’d been caught up in Hanako she was here, relying on a man who had no reason to give his loyalty beyond a short deal they’d made. She was much more like her mother than she realized. Deathbelle’s contract with Archon, a short deal that turned into much more. Her love for her Warlord, despite the growing feelings for another.

Venom was lost, but if she wanted to get lost like this with anyone it was Azure. He pushed through the dark emotions she had seen growing in his gaze and he wrapped her up carefully and pulled her close. Was love enough to pull them through all the complication they brought on themselves? She knew that she loved Azure, the way he held onto her, and reminded her with every touch how much he wanted her.

The young Empress pressed against him, ”I want it to be. I..” She whispered into his fur, finding her emotions suddenly uncontrollable at tears began to form in her eyes. Her voice seemed to quit on her before she could utter those critical words and Azure was speaking again. ”I don’t know,” she whispered back. ”I thought you were, but...” Now that he was here she didn’t want him to let her go. Had this feeling been what he had been holding in when she’d asked him to stand beside her? ”Does it feel like your heart is torn in two?”