AN: I know, I know... We never really saw Marina on the show, but she was there having an old-fashioned throwdown with Little Suki when she found out that Alec was cheating on her (episode 2x11). Take it as my way of trashing Alec a little. After all he wasn't a saint... (even if he looks like an angel).
Subb: Thank you again for your support and your reviews. You've been such a wonderful reader. I'm glad I had made you think and not to be the only one who's into introspection. J About Marina, I thought Alec might got afraid of getting too close to her and that's why he cheat, throwing away any chance for them to be together. But this is only my opinion...
Chapter V. Marina
He had never lied to her; she'd give him that. He was good enough with words to get his way without the need to lie. He knew what to say, when to say it and exactly how to say it to take whatever he wanted of her and, even then, never actually lie.
He never said that their relationship was exclusive, never told her that she was more than entertainment for him, and never said the important words…
She guessed it was a matter of pride for him. He is high on that too. Way too proud to use the cheap ploy to get what he wanted, to let it be part of his game.
He seems to need to play it without compromising himself. Maybe that's his twisted way of being able to look at himself in the mirror every morning. To tell himself he hasn't done anything to be ashamed of, because he had never lied.
She feels like a fool to have fallen for someone like him, a man who cheated on her and used her like a toy. Someone manipulative who's main interest is his own satisfaction. Who doesn't seem to care for anyone but himself.
And the worst part of it for her were those last days they spent together, when everything was almost perfect, like a little miracle…. She thought they were going somewhere, she thought they were connecting, that somehow he had let her into his life. But it was just a mirage, or maybe he became afraid of something that had become too real, too touchable, for him to be comfortable with it.
Whatever it was she doesn't care anymore. She doesn't want to see his face again, ever.
No, he hadn't lied. He never said "I love you." But he made her hear it in every whisper, in every caress…