❝ i may not regret my actions, but i do regret that they were necessary. ❞ isa @ fletch :^) the regret is . debatable,
❝ MY DEAR, NECESSARY IS a term used by the desperate. ❞
they are two hands on a chessboard and all of the pawns are gone. isa has proven a worthy opponent — the first he has met in a very, very long time — but worth bleeds into irritation when the interference upends a balance he has worked quite hard to create. her motives, true motives, deep motives, still evade them. this is what puts them on the back foot.
snip. the shears trim a rose from the arbor. amari has sent persephone and hector away, but they stalk the perimeter in case isa gets any silly ideas.
he does not go into what happened. instead: ❝ tell me, how is your little cafe doing? the exterior design is astonishing... ❞ if a little pedestrian, they don't say, allowing the second half of the sentence to hang unspoken in the air.