character&universe. Cullen&Diana, The Laughing Wall.
"Why?" Cullen asks softly, fingers trailing down her skin, down the hair scattered through his pillow and skin.
Diana doesn't smile for once, eyes closed and breathing evened. "Why not?"
"Why me?" Because he is a man with all the answers on his hands. Because she is a puzzle with no solution, knots and curves within curves.
And she could answer, say how Cullen is everything she isn't, how this is so wrong that it is almost, just almost right. Instead, the mage leans over and presses one lingering kiss on his lips. "Because."
Because together, she is not jailed.