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Prompt: #85 – Apart | Words: 177
It wasn't until a half-year after their first meeting that Kouga saw her again. During that time he'd certainly thought about her often enough—the fledgling miko who'd had the gall to smack him, heir to the eastern okami-youkai clan, not once but twice. A tiny slip of a human who Kouga could have easily crushed between his claws before she could even think to protect herself, and yet she hadn't smelled like fear.
She'd confronted him with a voice as steady as her heartbeat, her scent thickening like the air before a storm, and Kouga becoming enthralled had been inevitable. His brothers, Ginta and Hakkaku, thought he'd been joking about his marriage proposal.
But Kouga wasn't so sure that he had been.
Surely, if he'd been joking, he wouldn't have spent so much time thinking about her.
Surely, if he'd been joking, his heart wouldn't have climbed to his throat when he saw her again nearly six months later.
And surely, if he'd been joking, his first thought when their gazes locked wouldn't have been mine.
A/N: To be continued. Thanks for reading!