You've Gotta Understand

Viper still looked slightly miffed, but she welcomed him anyway. Taking the invitation, the huge brute moved forward. Chimera lay down beneath the trees and used one paw to pull Viper down with him. He curled his big body around her, pressing her to his belly and chest. In a very un-Chimera-like manner, he nuzzled into the back of the woman's white tipped ear with his speckled nose.

Chimera didn't like all of the tension on the island. He just wanted all of the women to get along. They didn't even have to be around one another aside from sleeping on opposite sides of the den. If it made him happy, how was it a bad thing? Viper and Ali would both receive his attention, his affection, his protection. He just needed different things from each of them. To him, it made complete sense. To Viper, it obviously didn't.

Holding the woman close with his powerful forelegs, it took Chimera a moment to sort his thoughts and find his voice. Being open and vulnerable was hard. "Viper," he began in his typical, growling purr. "If I didn't care about you, you wouldn't be here." There was something in the woman that drew him to her and to this day he couldn't really pinpoint what it was. Viper had something in her that Chimera needed. "All that I had growing up was Siren." Siren was the only constant in his life. Siren was Chimera's beating heart. "When I find a wolf that calls to me, I need to keep them close." It was no secret that he was filled with anger, hatred and disdain for most wolves.

The brutes big arms gave the pregnant fae another squeeze as he spoke. "I need you, Viper. I need to keep you safe and close." This would be the hard sell and he honestly wasn't sure how she would take it. "But I need Aliana as well. And Siren. I need you all in different ways, for different reasons, but I love each of you. Do you understand?" Chimera said the L-word. He was baring his fucking soul here. Would she bare hers as well or would she throw his voluntary vulnerability back in his face?

"Speech"