with @lestrange-dangereux || continued from x
Electra raised her own glass in imitation of the gesture that he had just made, but it never quite made it as far as her lips. Despite this being her engagement party, she had not touched a single drop of champagne all evening, wanting to keep a clear head. What she hadn’t counted on, however, was the smell of Rodolphus’s cologne, which was much more potent than any alcohol she could have possibly consumed. Even just standing there beside him, her head was spinning, and it was crowded by recollections of their last rendezvous.
“Oh, I’m sure I’ll manage somehow.” Her voice was impressively light, considering. The slight curve at each corner of her lips suggested that she might be laughing - at him, at his suggestion that she couldn’t handle his brother? What an absurd notion. But still, she laid her hand upon Rod’s arm and looked up at him from beneath her lashes, her eyes dark and wide and rapturous. “After all, you’ll be around to help me, won’t you? I mean, you’re not going to just abandon me the minute the wedding is over ... Are you?”
Surely not.












