Just a contingency plan (5)

Theodore's heavy breath, a product of his hesitation stirring with his desire, mixed with Callane's soft panting. 

"Don't deprive me of it, just out of your worry for how I will feel about it in the future, mkay?"

Her words rang out into the air, adding yet another stimuli to excite the young noble's mind, stirring it as her meaning counteracted his hesitation, throwing the whole mixture out of the balance. 

'This might be the last chance ever I get to be with her!' 

'That would only end up hurting her long-term!'

'How will her relationship with me be, once all my memories vanish, leaving me to be an entirely different person than I am now?'

A series of thoughts shoot through Theo's mind. And yet, as those doubts reinforced the walls of hesitation and restraint he built around his mind…