Cronan is angry. Angry that after years of waiting, he's mated to the one wolf he never wanted.
Fen is stuck. Stuck in a state of purgatory that he doesn't know how to escape from.
After learning of his mate's crimes, Cronan never expected to see h...
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Cronan was being distant.
He'd been this way for the past two days now. I thought I was just being dramatic at first, but it was clear to me that he was avoiding me. One, he was slowly starting to sleep in different rooms from me. Two, our conversations would always be short sbd straight to the point. Three, I hadn't kissed or touched him in any manner in the past two days. The faintest brush of my arm against his was enough to send him running.
In short, Cronan was avoiding me and I had a feeling it had to do with what I told him recently.
That I loved him.
I meant those words. Of course, I did and I thought he'd be ready to hear them after everything, but maybe he wasn't. Maybe I had accidentally rushed him.
I opened the door to his room and saw Cronan sitting on the bed peacefully. I approached and watched as subtle surprise seemed to coat his face when he saw me.
"Can we talk?" I asked him.
"About what?"
"Us," I explained. "You've been pulling away recently."
"I'm not—"
"You are. I just want to make sure we're okay after what I said the other day."
He nodded albeit a little stiffly. "We're okay."
Were we really though?
"Can we talk about what I said?"
"Fen—"
"I meant it," I cut him off. "I meant it when I said I loved you and I don't need you to say if back if you aren't read, but can you at least give me some kind of clue as to what's going on in your mind?"
He sighed, running his hand over his face. "We have a nice thing going right now, Fen. I don't see why we have to change it. I don't want things to get complicated."
Wow. Hearing him say that hurt much more than I expected.
"Me loving you is too complicated?" I quietly asked.
Cronan still didn't look at me. "This is what I wanted to avoid."
Cronan continued to look at everything except at me which only fueled the hurt and disappointment I was feeling. I knew he probably wouldn't say it back, but to say love is too complicated...? That hurt more.
I blinked a few times, trying to pull myself together but it's hard when Cronan won't even look at me. I instinctively reached out for him, but he pulled his arm away gently.
