His Promise to Her

Ravenna suspiciously eyed Alaric as he closed the distance between them. Her hand instinctively went up and blocked him from kissing.

"What do you think you are doing?" She thought he would be fuming, maybe scold her, punish in all the he could, but this was the first thing he wanted to do?

"What does it look like?" Alaric held her hand to his lips and kissed her knuckles, then tried to kiss her, but she avoided it.

"I don't think we've any kind of relation that gives you the right to do so." She had broken off everything with him and even rejected him as her mate, but it seemed what she felt for him never faded away.

Alaric traced his other hand on her cheek, his lips rising up to for a subtle smirk, "It's you who left. I never broke up with you."

Ravenna swallowed as fragments of those painful days revisited her mind. Her eyes fluttered for a moment, but she composed herself quickly.