@enigmaticbarcn cont. from here
It wasn’t the agreement that had been made with her father, it wasn’t an agreement to have any form of intimate contact with her and yet, as he glanced out a dust filled window, he could hear her shifting within the sheets. He’d only fallen asleep beside her, could have taken her for his own, but he hadn’t. Regardless of what many thought of him, that was not who Quinn was. The tattoos along his back had only told part of his story, there was and had always been more to the baron.
A slight glance over his shoulder was given before he turns fully to face her, eyes narrowing only slightly. He began to question why she would request something so simple to most of him. Who could blame him for questioning? Most wanted him dead and yet she seemed to want something different of him. No one, aside from Lydia at one point in time wanted him and not wanted it to be of gain to themselves.
Nonetheless, he submitted and slid in beside her. “Why?” He asks, his emerald hues looking at her questioningly .
She was no stranger to his reputation, rare were the people who didn’t know him or at least what he was known for, but when he had fallen asleep next to her, it had been like all what Bedelia had heard had suddenly disappeared from her memories. While most would have probably been scared, she had felt safe; their difference of size had only made even more that way. There had been no doubt in her mind that he could break her in a split second, leaving behind him a broken doll, and yet...
Raising her head ever so slightly to look at him, unafraid and eyes almost kind, she moved to leave some more space in the bed. Perhaps was it because she missed his warmth and this feeling of safety he gave her whenever he was around, or perhaps had she started taking a liking to the man, no matter his past and his reputation. One had never been entirely black or white, she knew she wasn’t, but she wasn’t sure that he knew it as well.
It took her quite a lot of willpower to not simply curl up against him, a reaction that surprised even herself. ❝It’s nice to have you here.❞ An answer that was simply the truth.
