Because there has always been heartache and pain
And when it's over you'll breathe again
You'll breathe again
When you feel all alone
And the world has turned its back on you
Give me a moment please
To tame your wild wild heart
"Will I see you again?" Shalimar asked the older man. Shalimar could tell as soon as she looked up what he was going to tell her. He wasn't staying, and not only that, he was planing on being noble and self-sacrificing. Adam had always harbored this strange need to protect his fellow formerly uncaring colleagues and all those he considered his charges.
"If I'm lucky." Adam told her simply. No pretence. He knew he might not survive whatever challenge he was about to face. Silently, with her eyes, Shalimar told him that she would always be there if he needed her. She had told him that she was in love with him by following him though this whole escaped. She had left her pack, her family for him.
Adam's eyes were full of love and pain. She had never seen this mix of emotion before though. This was caring, loving, and strangely desire. Adam was gone seconds later, but Shalimar had seen the look in his eyes. Adam was in love with her, and now, she may never see him again. Shalimar slumped into her covers, the heavy duvet comforting her in her confusion and pain.
Shalimar's expression hardened as she made a decision. She would have one opportunity one chance if she saw her again. One shot at admitting what she felt for her Adam. She had had chances before with Charlotte Cooke, the trial, and with her fathers' return to her life. She had let them go even though, what was it Emma had told Adam when he was choking her?
Emma had said that he was "choking the one person in the world who would do anything to protect Adam. Who loves Adam more fiercely than anyone else." Well, that had been true. Shalimar did love him more than anyone else and she would do anything to have him wrap her in his arms one more time.