Bitter Eyes

A whisper, rustle of clothes or flickering of candle. Things that did not wake anyone up from sleep until they were lost in thought had a strange effect on Elara that night. As she laid beside Cedric and stared at his bar skin, glistening with the layer of sweat and shining under the soft glow of moonlight. She couldn't help but feel restless.

And sleep was the last thing she would be worried about in that case. She had told him last night that she would leave once she would heal. He had frozen and she saw fear in his eyes. She could never be wrong about that feeling since she had felt the same.

Fear that he would not care. Fear that she would be abandoned even when she was the one leaving. Fear that his coldness and brutality would shred her. But that did not happen. He looked so hollow in that second that she wanted to jump on him and inform him that she was lying.