Life on a Fishing Line

Kane had wanted to remain upset at her for what she'd done. He didn't want to just forgive this breaking of her word so easily and give her the impression that things were fine. But when he felt Tamsyn shift closer until her body was pressing to his back and her forelegs tried to feebly wrap around his bulk, he couldn't help but feel his heart ache for her. Her face buried in his scruff muffled her words, but his ears still barely managed to catch her mumbled apology. He sucked in a deep breath, held it within his lungs for a few moments, then released it in a long sigh. He was tired of feeling like he couldn't compete with a wolf he hadn't even met before. He thought for sure that if Tamsyn was over him as much as she'd said she had been the last time during the summer, then staying away from Sirius would be an easy ask. Surely if she loved him, she'd pick him over Sirius. As it turned out, that hadn't been the case. She'd run off to see him, and whether it had been to yell at him or not didn't matter. What mattered was that he didn't trust Sirius around her, had asked her to do one thing to make him feel comfortable, and she broke his trust.

Tamsyn muttered about how he was right and that she wished he didn't have to be, that she didn't want any of this. He scoffed under his breath. Right... because that's why she sent him a message in the dead of night and ran out to see him wherever as soon as she heard he was coming. That thought made his stomach churn, and as much as he hated himself for suspecting anything, he had to know for sure. Kane rolled over after her apology, wrapping a strong foreleg around her side and back and holding Tamsyn tight to him while he pressed his nose gently to her forehead. He drank in her scent, sampling it and then moving his snout down the side of her neck, then her shoulder, each time breathing in her smell. She didn't smell of any other wolves, so she hadn't been cheating on him at the least. Before tonight, he never would have even suspected Tamsyn of such a thing. After tonight, catching her sneaking out in the middle of the night while drunk to find the brute she'd angry messaged at midnight, his suspicions of infidelity weren't exactly unfounded.

When he was satisfied that she hadn't done anything with Sirius, he breathed a relieved sigh and relaxed his foreleg around her, allowing her to slip away if she wished. He remained lying towards her now so she could bury her face in his chest if she wished. She looked exhausted and ill and just overall like she was having the worst night of her life. "How can I trust that you're sorry when I can't even trust you to stop seeing a toxic wolf who's hellbent on hurting you?" he asked, his voice never raising above a husky murmur. "How will I know you won't keep running off to him every time he comes by or calls for you? It's like he has some sort of possession over you, Tam, and you just... give in to him every time." Finally, he had to ask the question still lingering in his mind, something she had confessed to him that made his stomach to anxious flips. "Do you still love him?" Intense hazel eyes stared at her through the dark. "Answer me honestly, please."

"Kaneonuskatew"