"I was charmed from the start. I had just graduated high school and was in the middle of my first year at University. Kouga had just started on at the police department and his partner was Jirōbō. It's cheesy when I think about it, but that one song had it right. He had me at 'hello.' He wasn't scared of my purity, despite his own youkai heritage."
She couldn't look at Sesshoumaru as she told the story and so instead focused on the wood of her coffee table, even as she wished desperately she could stop. It hurt so much to think about those times, when she had been happy and all had seemed right with the world.
"It was date, after date, after date. From morning brunches to late lunches and even later dinners; movies, walks in the park, coffee at a café. I was in love with him. My family was happy for me, supported me 100%." She bit her lip, thinking back to those times she and her mother used to sit in the kitchen over tea and talk about romance and all its titillating details. "I was so desperate to be loved as a woman that I didn't stop to think when he proposed to me."
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