I humd quietly as I moved in tandem with Alessia to the silent beat that only I could hear. One of her arms was laced around my waist, while the other was close by with her fingers interlaced with mine. The constant contact had my skin tingling with tantalizing fire. As we slow danced, my heartbeat grew heavy, and I found my face flushing.
I wasn't nave. I knew what these feelings were. This wasn't the first ti I've had feelings for soone, and it's not like I hadn't explored relationships with the sa gender. I just hadn't expected to fall in love this hard. The worst part is, I don't even know why. Perhaps the drinks were making like this, or maybe the drinks dredged up what I had repressed.
"What is it, Empress?" Her words teased gently from my thoughts as I shifted my head to look up at her. Her golden eyes stared into mine with all the adoration I could hope for. My heart lurched slightly in my chest as I fell into her gaze.
Each heartbeat felt like it took an eternity as I stared at her. The heat rose in agonizingly slowly. "Nothing."
A sly grin crossed her face as she tightened the grip on my waist and hand and pulled closer to her. Not that it was a bother to . But quite the contrary, I really enjoyed it. But I struggled with expressing myself as much as I should, and this situation really reinforced that issue. I was an emotional wreck. "What are you thinking about, Alessia?" I rested my head against her shoulder as we danced further on.
"Well, doing this with you reminded of the last ti we did this."
Whatever sense of euphoria I was having was swept away by a tide of guilt and sha. I had almost forgotten what I'd done. I've changed her mories and everyone else's. "Tell about it." I didn't even believe it when she told she didn't hate .
"We were dancing together, much like this. Laced around each other in silence." She guided along a path of her own making, and I followed along, working on eating away at my sense of reservations.
"Alessia, do you truly not hate ?" Our pace increased slightly, and I closed my eyes to fight the wave of nausea that was growing in strength as my world swam.
"I would never hate you. I've told you this before." She pulled close, and our faces were inches from each other.
"I know, but then I think back to what I did to you, and I can't help but think that so part of you does." Curse alcohol and its effects on ; I'm never usually like this.
"You gave a life to live, a purpose to fulfill. That is sothing that I can never hate you for." Our dance ca to a pause, and we held each other.
I didn't understand why I was like this. Why was I falling for a spirit? But I stood at a crossroads now. The biggest problem that I saw was that if I pursued this if sothing went wrong, then I'd risk our entire relationship. But yet, the wine that I'd had drank earlier was pushing in the opposite direction. After all, was it so wrong to take what I wanted? I stared into Alessia's eyes as my thoughts went wild, as a handful of emotions slamd into like a hamr. "What do you feel then?"
"That depends on you, my dearest empress. What do you want to feel?" As the words left her mouth, I realized that she had just thrown the ball back in my court.
She wanted to make that choice. Since it's been clear from the start how she felt. Was this a romance of my doing? I crafted her with my own hands, and I guided her along a path of my making. So did this make it right? Was I forcing her to have feelings for ? Was it fair to her? The questions mounted in my mind one after the other, though, with each passing second, my mind beca murkier as I tried to fight through the growing haze.
"Did I tell you how that mory ended?" She broke the silence and brought back to reality.
"No. How did it?" My breath hitched in my throat as she closed the distance between us. My mind begged for what was to co, yet I was still nervous. I wanted nothing to go wrong. Yet If it happened, I knew it would take us past the point of no return.
"How do you think it did?" Her words were sweet as they slithered into my ear. Her lips were re inches from my mine, so tantalizingly close. She kept throwing the ball in my court, which drove nuts.
A sigh escaped from my lips, and I pressed my forehead against hers. "I don't know what you see in ." I shifted my arms to rest across her shoulders as I carefully enunciated each word to stop myself from slurring them.
Her arms fell to my waist as we danced on. "I see a woman who cares about her people. Soone who puts her people's needs above her own. One who is beautiful, caring, and the kindest woman I've ever t. You draw in every passing day, and even though the mories I have may not be true, I can't help but fall for you."
The admission of emotion was a relief to hear, and her words rekindled the fire in my chest. "Alessia, is this what you want?" My eyes wandered to her lips as I forced my body from eting hers.
"More than anything else in this world." Her fingers dug into my back, bunching the fabric and searing the flesh underneath with the loving heat.
"Alessia, there will be no going back. What I'm afraid of most is if our relationship falls apart? I don't want to lose what we have now." I rested there, with my forehead against hers, staring into her eyes.
Her response was pressing her lips into mine, silencing whatever complaints I may have had. At that mont, all that mattered was the sparks that flitted in my heart and the heat that threatened to lt . Her lips were cold, but the heat from mine lded them together perfectly enough. I pulled her into as I sank into her embrace, and the last bit of reservations faded away into the back of my mind.
"Alessia, I'm not going to lie to you. I'm needy, obsessive, compulsive, and above all else, I'm greedy, and I don't like to share." I pulled away after what felt like an eternity to catch my breath.
"And I am all yours. Forever bound to be by your side." Without a second thought, she pulled back into another earth-shattering kiss, and for once, I felt complete. I finally have a purpose. Perhaps this wasn't so bad after all
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