Unspoken Promises
“I’ve kept them with me ever since… waiting for the day, the right time, to give them back. Now put them on so you can get back into my arms.”
His expression is pure innocence, but his words are anything but.
The rest of the flight home is absolutely perfect. Even though the physical tension between us simmers just beneath the surface, Damian doesn’t cross that boundary. We just lie in each other’s arms, talking. Really talking, and for the first time, we share the truths that have shaped us; the past traumas we both usually keep buried.
He tells me about his mother. How an arranged marriage to one of the Familia’s Romancers destroyed her spirit. How her depression consumed her until, when D