Kel grimaced as she stepped out of her door and made her way to the King's Own Mess Hall, preparing herself for another meal of torture. Or maybe torture was too harsh a word to describe it. Oh yes, she liked Doms brother well enough and was flattered by his attention. It definitely wasn't that he was ugly, far from it in her opinion – and those of those court ladies who were hanging around him yesterday too, Kel reflected. She looked over at him from her place in the queue to get breakfast as he waved cheerily to her. Her problem was that he just wasn't the right brother. She didn't feel warm or special when he flirted with her. Flattered yes, but nothing else. She didn't feel weak in the knees when he smiled.
These feelings confirmed her earlier suspicions. She loved Dom. She hated to admit it, even to herself and it saddened her to think it true, but it was the only explanation.
Kel sighed wearily as she plonked herself down very unceremoniously next to Neal.
Matters of the heart were just too confusing, a battle field was one thing she could deal with calmly and with a clear head, but this just confused her.
Sh well, she thought as she dug into her porridge, bracing herself for the flirting she knew was going to come, at least I don't intend on telling Dom, that would just make things even more confusing and probably wouldn't be able to look him in the eye again out of embarrassment – which would just make matters a whole lot worse.
Little did she know that she would do that exact thing, however indirectly…
A/N I know that this is a very very short chapter, but Dom (finally) and the next one will be following very soon. I would put in more, but its my birthday today and I am being told to get off the computer.