Last night like this

He waited, patient and still. As if she were a wild thing in need of taming. Never mind that the choice was an illusion, that he would never let her leave. He would keep, and hold, and smother her. In that moment, he didn’t push, and she came to him. Stepping into his embrace, and his waiting paw. He pulled her in tighter, wrapping a paw across her shoulders. Breathing her in, because she belonged to him. Body and soul.

“How can I deny you?” he whispered softly back. Because yes, her heart did belong to him. It would always belong to him. His caged little bird. He pressed his mouth to her neck, and then her teeth. Nipping at the skin beneath her ear. He pressed her gently to the ground beneath them, snagging a coat and chucking it under her before her back touched the cold surface of the cave.

He kissed her neck, tugged on her necklace. He kissed her chest, her elbow, her thigh. “My beloved.” He whispered into her fur.


"Basilisk & Ignita"