Gone Too Long

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Her eyes watched her dear Amalia as she slipped into the den, only to hesitate and come to a standstill, leaving Athena laying alone. She blinked with surprise as Amalia voiced her fears. Wrong? Was it because of Vereux? Her gaze softened and her ears flicked back, immediately feeling guilty for making Amalia feel like her feelings were wrong, like she shouldn't be feeling this way. At the same time the girl's words confirmed what Athena had been suspecting and in that way it made Athena incredibly excited. So she hadn't been imagining things after all, Amalia really did care for her. Athena brushed away her thoughts about Vereux, deciding that she would tackle that hurdle later. She was in a den with the girl she had been craving to see for so long now, she wasn't going to let anything come between them, even just for a moment.

Athena rolled back onto her paws and closed the small distance between the two of them, her gaze warm with a small, understanding smile on her muzzle to match. "I don't think anything about this is wrong," she said softly, settling on her haunches just in front of her girl.
"I care about you too, Amalia... I care about you a lot. Yes, I love Vereux and yes, he is my husband, but... I don't think there is anything wrong with loving two wolves. I'm already married to my brother and having his pups, how much weirder can my love life really get?" She chuckled, trying her best to lighten the mood between them. "My father had children with probably a dozen different women, It's not strange to love more than one for me... and I do love you Amalia."

Her split tone gaze watched Amalia while she let her words sink in, leaning forward after a moment to place a gentle kiss on her cheek. She wasn't entirely sure what she was doing. She had never known anyone that had fallen in love with someone that was the same gender, but she couldn't deny that flutter she got in her stomach when she saw Amalia's gorgeous gaze or the way her heart pounded when they touched. She would just have to figure it out as they went along because every word that she spoke was true.