[A/N] Prompt: Chicken/Coward Pairing: CrossAnita [A/N]
He was not a man who loved, he was a man who lusted.
He came and he went, and never left without what he wanted.
He was a strong man and the only fear he had was the fear he gave to others.
Men despised him and women adored him — he got whatever he demanded and nothing less than the finest quality was what he deserved.
And the highest quality was what she was.
Men tripped over themselves just for her. She stopped them dead in their tracks in the middle of a crowd. Her laugh plucked at their hearts and her words destroyed their minds.
She was the most beautiful, the most gorgeous.
She was delicate, yet she did not come with fragility.
No, no, she was a strong woman. A strong woman trapped in a helpless position.
She had fallen in love with him.
But he did not love, he did not know how.
So he came and he went just as he always had and suffered from this greatly.
For her heart ached at every memory, and this strong woman could not stop the tears from trailing down her soft pale cheeks. She would never have him, and this was something she had to tell herself constantly.
She would never have him, but forever she would love him.
And he would never remove her from his thoughts.
She was the one woman who had trampled over his emotions, though it was something he would never admit.
That time that he had come and went, it wasn't as it always was.
For this time he'd done something he'd never done before.
He left something there before he disappeared in his shroud of mystery and allure.
Something he would never return for, because he was too afraid to do so.
She had given him his first fear, and he had no one he could give it to.
He had become a coward at the hands of this woman and he would never be able to get what he had lost.
The part of him that was so irrevocably in love with her.