AN - MINI CHAPTER - chapter 16 will also be added tonight! - M
He paused for a moment as the door slid closed behind him. He could still feel her fingers in his hair, her kiss-swollen lips warm and fevered against his. He could hear her voice murmuring his name, the angry and broken look in her eyes as she confronted him – "You're hiding", "You were wrong", "It breaks my heart."… "I'll be here". She was maddening, captivating, rebellious, and there was something so very lonely about her. The tiny cracks in the façade she had been forced to wear all these years were few and small. She kept her mind closed to him it drove him mad to be kept in the dark. He had to take hold of each word, every movement and touch, and the few thoughts she allowed. As someone who was used to taking what he wanted and ripping the thoughts from others, he had been unsettled by his hesitation to do the same to her. He wasn't sure of the exact moment it happened but she had become more than one of the faceless drones, when he began to want – he wasn't even sure.
It was becoming less and less of a need to be on even ground and more of a desire to understand her. She was diving so deep into his memories and getting so close, it disturbed him that she still remained a predominantly unknown entity. And still, he could see the way she looked at him, the few slips in her mask revealed patches of her past and there was something about the way she spoke to him, how she moved in sync with him and responded to him exactly as he needed. Moments flashed through his mind –
He watched her as she stood by the window in her quarters, staring out at the stars "You're selfish too" - - Breathless and clouded by anger, she stared back at him as his hand tightened on her neck and she spoke his true name, his heart stopped - - Her hand slid across his cheek, her eyes locked with his, water and blood streaming down her body and over her hands, His fingers knotted in heavy wet fabric - - Her stare was deadly "I am not your enemy"
He closed his eyes for a moment and sighed, he knew he was avoiding, but she was too and he had work to do.