Confinement Room

"Who are you to call love pathetic?" Dominic asked, his eyes burning with intensity and Darcy let out a rueful chuckle, shaking her head.

"If it's not pathetic then what is it?" she sighed, her face drained of all the happiness and only sorrow could be seen.

"No! Love is anything but pathetic. Darcy, love is incredibly powerful. It ruins people and yet it makes them too. Your mother loved a man, she loved Mr. Raven with all her heart. That man too, who died for your mother's sake loved her dearly and--" Dominic swallowed; he had been warned not to mention his feelings ever again, but he just could not take it anymore "and I have been in love with you for a long time. It was the love that kept me alive while I was under that vile man. I would have killed myself if it wasn't for you."