She could see the fight he was holding out against, felt it in the way he cradled her dearly with soft touches and the press of his lips to her forehead. He wanted her, this she knew, but Vittoria began to see just how much Kilien was fighting against.
Then she remembered the tea. The ritual...
Vittoria liked the feel of his lips kissing parts of her that never had been kissed before, but Kilien had done so many times now she knew the paths he followed. Even when his kisses were along her coat, she felt the memory of them on her flesh from all the times before. Intimacy was one thing...
This moment was their own and no one would come down this path at this time. Vittoria felt at ease to lean into this security of safety Kilien gave her.
A giggle left her, her body shaking lightly from it. "Billiards?" She pulled her head back to narrow her gaze and search his gaze. "That does...
Everything felt right in this moment. She did not need to hear him say the words when Kilien had always made her feel this way for him. To tell him the exact feeling she experienced for him was just a confirmation that he created a world for her to exist in where she could learn to be softer...
In his embrace, she was safe. She could feel his affection as his arms wrapped around her and pulled her in. In his embrace, she could feel all her tension leave her. In his embrace, Vittoria began to soften and wrap her arms around his neck to rest against him.
She felt safe enough to come...
The way he looked at her, she could see how he knew what she was struggling with. That perhaps he had been wanting to hear her say it for a while now, that it was important she be the one to say it. He had always left everything up to her, not just out of respect, but because he was...
Vittoria held onto his hand in a tight grip, for if she was ignoring the sand falling in the glass of time, her body was not going to let her forget.
"A spell?" She mused, leaning into him as they both took on a slow walking pace. "I think I would like to see this. You certainly have a way of...
Vittoria turned to look up at Kilien. The compliment he gave her stirred something inside her. She could not determine if it was pride or not. Leaning into him, Vittoria craned her neck to whisper near his ear. "And you too. This has been quite a... glimpse into a future that could happen in...
"Green would look lovely on you, Killy." Vittoria stared at him a moment before the seamstress wandered over to him and wound her measuring tape around his neck and measured his chest.
"A flattering colour on him, I would say. You mentioned he would wear black? Gods, you two would be quite the...
He left her to stand with a hot flush as he made her heart beat erratically, and even the coldness that clung to her now that he moved away from her, nothing stopped the need for wanting him close again.
Vittoria turned to stare at him, not seeing the store owner now become the seamstress she...
Those sensations returned, the very ones that she never felt before until Kilien. From all the books she read, and certainly those heavily on the romance genre, she knew her attraction to him was being presented physically. Vittoria reveled in the way he made her feel, so much as letting her...
They were afforded some private moments while the store owner went about collecting several rolls, all being stored on the steps of the staircase.
Vittoria leaned into Kilien, liking the feel of his solidity behind her. He brought out a smile from her, and she turned her head towards his...
"Sea green, if you have it." Pride welled inside her when Kilien recalled the colour she was after, and so soon after their talk about names and family, it was important to Vittoria that the name Larrainth was remembered for who she was. "We can get away with a dark emerald... or bronze. A rush...
Vittoria experienced a strange fluttering as he brought their interlaced hands and pressed his lips to the back of her hand. Her eyes watched his lips for a few seconds after, breaking away after he began to speak. She liked how tender he treated her, when she was capable of a devastation of...
She was quiet a moment, taking in what he had said.
Put with her own thinking as of late, Vittoria could agree with Kilien... but two years since her father passed and Vittoria never wavered in carrying the greatness of the name Larrainth. "I think... I would like to make my family name...
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