[private] I hate you because I think of you

[Obscene]

I can see through you, see your true colors
Cause inside you're ugly, you're ugly like me

He had made sure to drag all her flaws before her eyes and refused to let her turn away from them. What he had never done was bring out all the other things that had captivated him instantly that night he had found her in the Meadow. There were plenty of beautiful young creatures in Beqanna and he had sampled a few of them. It took more than long lashes and attractiveness to lure the dark Fae in and even more than that to keep him wanting more. Aela had caught him with her ambition but had kept him at her side for as long as she had simply out of the mutual darkness they carried, born from disappointing childhoods. They had never spoken openly about it but there had always been something mutual in their past that had seemed to click instantly when she had sought him out amongst the wildflowers. Revelrie had entranced him with her wild brokenness, sharp pieces of her that he could pick up with his fingers and smile in understanding as he watched the blood leak from where they pricked him.

Cherie had always been something else entirely.

When he had first laid eyes on her he had been overwhelmed in his need to break her, to dim her shine. And then he had discovered the rough diamond beneath her pretentious exterior and no matter how hard he had tried to remove it, she only seemed to shine all the more brilliantly for it. Amongst the hatred that had flowed so purely between them stirred something else, something much more insatiable.

It rages through him now as her gaze softens in the wake of his quiet admission, as his cardinal eyes bore into hers and tries to penetrate past the sparkling quartz adorning her head and see what exactly she was thinking. Alas he doesn’t have the skills to see the choices around them like her cousin Reave, can’t sense the energies that spiral around them like Aela can, can’t see the future like she does.

He tenses before her as she opens her mouth to speak, fully expecting more resistance. Instead she complies. However her voice doesn’t hold the teasing bite he had hoped for as she dips her swan-like head and he follows the arched curve of her neck as his own voice rumbles like threatening thunder. “I’m well aware.” Her mouth hovers close to his and those brilliant red eyes become stained with wine as they darken. As he becomes sensitive to how easily he might steal her lips with his own as he had once done long ago. ”One way or another.” She says as she leans in. As she pulls away.

It is not the first time she has made a fool of him and he doubts it will be the last.

As she tucks her muzzle back into herself he releases a slow breath, one he hadn’t been aware of holding, as tantalizing delight pulses through his bloodstream, peppered with a little malice that flickers behind his eyes. There is a subtle twinge of relief as well that lingers gnawingly on his brain. That she had not kissed him. Not when he was still so confusingly tangled within Aela’s golden web, not when he was still certain that Cheri was merely taunting him. That such a kiss could only be a lie. “Where is Prayers anyway? Or did he get lost again?” He asks her, a tinge of smugness on the knowing smile he gives, that wicked expression settling back across his gold-dusted features.

obscene

@Cheri