❝ i'll always protect you. ❞ from colin
Katerina's eyes watered. When she had told him about Nikolai, and Nadia- she expected him to cast her out. To discard her as 'used' like so many men spoke about doing to women that were no longer pure in their eyes. She expected him to be disgusted with her... yet his anger was brief and seemed more focused on that it had happened to her, rather than it had happed. He wasn't mad she lost her virtue, he was mad it was taken from her without her consent.
The flash of anger he's shown faded the moment he turned his gaze back to Katerina, and she found herself looking into the eyes of a man full of so much love and determination. When he spoke, it was soft, but firm. A promise he truly believed he would keep.
Brows knitted together and she found herself drawn to his arms, seeking comfort in him that she had never gotten anywhere else.
She pressed her face into his shoulder and breathed deep of him for comfort. After a moments time, she turned her head so that he could hear her when she spoke-
"I love you, Colin..."
















