The figure of a young woman bent across and over the edge of the large bed. Picking up her corset from the floor. Her hips ached a little after the previous nights activities.
"What's the rush?" A smooth, masculine voice coming from across the bed. A strong arm wrapped around her stomach. Pulling her back. She allowed herself to be pulled back towards him.
"Don't look," She said with an undertone of annoying "I'm barely dressed..." He chuckled lightly.
"You're being modest after what you did last night?" He pressed his lips to the back of her shoulder, and held her close to his chest.
"Hey... You were saying his name again, when we were... you know..." She mumbled out.
'Just like you do every time...'
He moved to rest his chin on her shoulder and nuzzled in to her neck.
"Oh.. I'm sorry." He pressed a soft, open mouthed kiss to her slender neck. "Sometimes... sometimes everything just gets so overwhelming... and I just miss him so much... but I have you now."
'You just LOVE him so much...'
Him being so affectionate tore down her defences and ripped up a part of herself along with it. It still hurt. Even if the way he used her numbed her to most of the emotional abuse she suffered because of him. She was always just a toy for him to play with whenever he needed physical comfort.
"And, Lottie... you know I love you."
'No. You never did. You never will.' She reached up and tangled her fingers into his black hair.
"Yeah... I know you do." She muttered. He always knows how to break her down. How to destroy her defence against him. He just knew how to get right under her skin...
A sharp knock at the door.
"Just ignore it." He whispered against her ear. Hand continuing to trail across her body...
"Gilbert!" The voice of a young boy came from behind the door. "This is important, please let me in!" More knocks on the door.
He sighed in frustrating and pulled himself away from Charlotte.
"Fine! Come in..."
The door opened to reveal one of Glen's new messengers. Upon opening the door the young boy's eyes immediately went to Charlotte's exposed figure, and a deep flush spread across his face.
"Hey, kid!" Came the older male's voice. "Why are you here?" Gilbert's voice held a certain tone of annoyance at being interrupted by a young boy, who seemed to only have come knocking to stare at his woman.
"G-Glen needs to see you!" The slightly startled boy spoke. "It's urgent! You're the only one he called for." With that the boy made a swift exit, knowing he had already irritated the raven enough for one morning.
Gilbert stood up from the bed and walked towards the wardrobe. Slipping back into the clothes from the previous day, he made his way towards the door.
The raven found his master, Glen, in the courtyard just outside the main building. By now Gilbert could barely contain his irritation at the entire situation.
"With all due respect, what could possibly be so important that I needed to be called so early?" He restrained himself from shouting at his master. For a moment, gold simply stared into calm violet.
"I thought you should be the first to see this." Glen said, and began leading the raven further into the mansion gardens.
"There. I thought you might want to see it..." Gilbert could hear that Glen could barely contain his amusement at the situation. But before he could react, the sight before him made his blood run cold.
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