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a moment between two characters i hope to write much more of soon :)
cw: suggestive, implied cheating
“You know, I think you look best from this angle,” he says from his spot on the floor. She knows he says it because he looked at her like this when they first met, to make her wonder if he's been wanting this for that long. It can't be true, he's a gentleman, but a part of her hopes that he felt something similar to what she did when they first locked eyes—that he felt the threads of their fates tangle the moment her heel sank into the muddy green during a ball. She prayed that as he knelt to pull that heel out of the muck, he was filled with the same inexplicable desire to know this person in every capacity of the word. She’d snuck out for a moment of peace, to escape her husband, guests, and royal duties she never asked for, and suddenly he was there. Then, he was on his knees for her, and she knew he’d be trouble.
Again, he kneels before her as she tries to deny him the satisfaction he’s found by seizing control of her thoughts. Again, the glint in his eyes suggests he's found it anyway. She tries to keep her voice light, trying to pretend he doesn’t affect her the way he does. “Likewise.”
“I've wondered how this leg feels,” he says, and starts removing one shoe. “Is it soft, rough, bumpy, smooth? Muscular or plump?” He pulls one stocking down painstakingly slow and lifts up her dress. “Amore mio,” a kiss to her shin, “Cuore mio,” another to her knee, each one sending a jolt through her strong enough to know he could ruin her, but she remains where she is, caught in the expanse between wanting and refusing. But she's wanted this, him, for so long and it feels so good to have him. “Tesoro mio,” he stills on the last one, and presses his face against her. “You'll never know the lengths I’d go to keep you in bliss. Will you let me try, the best way a man knows how?”
[ a collage i made for them ]