What You Mean to Me

Chimera shared his feelings with her. He peeled open his chest and showed the woman his beating heart. And in the end... she didn't reciprocate. Aliana didn't say that she loved him in return and for some reason that hurt. She didn't even seem to react to his confession. Granted, his attention was either on the ground or on the strange glowing crabs, but he would have liked her to say something. Anything. Anything to still the harsh beating of his exposed heart.

In the end, Aliana merely told him that she was pregnant. He wanted to pull his paw away from hers and build up that wall once more to keep himself safe, but he didn't. Chimera continued to hold the woman's small paw in his own, his gaze moving to stare at the difference in size just so that he could look anywhere other than her face, lest she see the hurt in his pale pink eye. Unlike her, he would respond to the statement that she'd made. "I know," he admitted quietly. Her heat scent had faded, he could hear her retching in the morning, he noticed how little she was going out these days. He knew.

What did the man feel about his lover being full of his children? This time there was no thrill. No excitement at seeing his seed take hold within her. If she wished to keep them, these would be children of guilt. Every time that he looked at them, Chimera would remember what he had done to create them. How much he had hurt their mother to plant them within her. Despite her crying and begging, he had given up all sense of self control and had taken her anyway and because of that, she couldn't tell him that she loved him. That was what they would remind him of.

The stillness had stolen both of their attention, forcing both wolves to stare at the frozen, eerie ocean life. Aliana pressed herself against his side, questioning him and Chimera released a low growl of warning to... whatever was happening. Whatever this was, it need to stay back. Stay away from the man and his woman. His growl did nothing in the end. Absolutely nothing. Gradually, movement happened. At first it was just one clicking crab leg, then another. Then all at once, the pair of wolves were getting rushed by the small creatures. Chimera quickly found his paws, pulling Aliana up with him. He placed himself between the clouded fae and whatever this strangeness was. "Run home, Aliana," he ordered. There was something otherworldly going on and he wouldn't allow it to touch the woman that he loved.

"Chimera Klein"