Duncan's eyes meet hers, he sees the fear and lust and longing but cant help leaning forward and pressing one of the tiny blue buds in her hair.
"If you ever change you're mind pretty girl, you know where my cabin is" Duncan whispers softly against her ear and he quickly kisses her cheek before exiting the mess hall.
What he means to say is I love you.
What he means to say is don't leave me I can't lose you.
He means to tell her exactly what she means to him, that she is the only one who understands him.
What he means to say is that it would kill him to she her with Alejandro, but he would do it because it made her happy.
In the end that all he wants, he just wants her to be happy if even it means he can't be.
She watches him watch out of the mess hall and tightness grows in her chest. She doesn't want to hurt him, but that all she's seems to do.
She wonders if she made the right choice and see stares to Alejandro's green eyes. His arms are around her waist and vaguely she recognizes that he holds her like she is something precious.
He holds her like he'll never let go.
And that's all she wants.
Alejandro doesn't like that way Duncan looks at Gwen or the way she looks at him. He isn't use to feeling jealousy, this cloying tightness in his throat.
He wraps his arms around her, pulling her against his chest, which doesn't make him feel any better but the motion of it soothes him.
At the end of the day he only knows one thing.
He's never letting her go.