❛ you heard me. i'm leaving you. ❜
HER BRASH DECISION LEAVES HIM in a stunned silence. his vicious vixen has turned on him at last & he’s at odds with how to handle it. feelings akin to those of someone who has befriended a wild animal only to be hurt with some kind of surprise mingling with questioning when the aforementioned bites them for the first time ( yet it is he who should be rightfully crowned wild animal; the man with no conscience when it comes to the beings he considers the scum of the earth ).
SHALL HE REACH OUT TO TOUCH HER to, perhaps, try to gain her trust once again? to say ‘see, i’m not the vicious thing you so despise; i can be gentle!’. shall he attempt to deal with her once more, to make her understand that what he does is to make their child stronger? their whole world a better place? NO, instead of moving at all he stands completely still. his delicately handsome features turn into something of a questioning look. his mouth is dry as he opens it to speak.
no words spring to life. he’s left there gaping.
& she’s breaking his heart standing there looking at him with such a fearsome malice in her eyes.