[ The first impulse is not dissimilar to what had come at the party: wanting to touch her everywhere, all at once in a great rush of attention.
It has been so long since then that he knows the bite marks he put on her thigh will have gone. And if he dwells on it, the tangle of miserable, irritated feeling will come back, what he felt looking up to see Kirigan with his mouth at her throat.
Instead, he takes her face in his hands again. Kisses her softly, coaxing her closer as the kiss deepens. Close so he might say against her mouth, ] You are so beautiful.
[ It is true. That Nikolai senses she needs to hear it doesn't change that. ]
Moya tsaritsa, [ is followed by a second kiss. ] I never wanted to leave you.
[ But the monster had swallowed him anyway. Did it matter how sated he kept it, if it could simply break loose that easily? ]
Let me atone, [ is a little playful, bittersweet. ]
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It has been so long since then that he knows the bite marks he put on her thigh will have gone. And if he dwells on it, the tangle of miserable, irritated feeling will come back, what he felt looking up to see Kirigan with his mouth at her throat.
Instead, he takes her face in his hands again. Kisses her softly, coaxing her closer as the kiss deepens. Close so he might say against her mouth, ] You are so beautiful.
[ It is true. That Nikolai senses she needs to hear it doesn't change that. ]
Moya tsaritsa, [ is followed by a second kiss. ] I never wanted to leave you.
[ But the monster had swallowed him anyway. Did it matter how sated he kept it, if it could simply break loose that easily? ]
Let me atone, [ is a little playful, bittersweet. ]