Connected - Kylo Ren Love Story (Editing)

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Angry didn't even begin to cover how Kylo felt. Betrayed. Abandoned. Hopeless. Scared. Unforgiving. Annika sat on the floor crying her eyes out from disappointing her Master. The second he had begun to yell at her, she sunk to the floor. Apologizing in between sobs.

"Annika please stop crying" he yelled trying to think over her sobs.

"I'm sorry, Master Ren, I thought you would be happy I secured the alliance" she sniffled.

"Happy? You thought I would be happy that you left me without a word and gave no warning of when you would be back?" He roared.

"I just knew you were so stressed, I just wanted to relieve some of your stress" she sighed rubbing her eyes.

He went to comb his fingers through his hair, but his hand collided with his metal mask. He groaned frustrated as he struggled to remove it. "Here" Annika said softly rising from the floor "Let me do it" she gently removed his mask. Kylo's face was void of emotion. "I swear Master, I will make this up to you" she insisted.

"Do you have any idea how worried I was about you?" he asked. She looked at him stunned. "Worried? About me?" she asked. "I thought something might have happened to you, and then I thought you had fled to the resistance" his words turning from soft to bitter.

She took his hand in hers, "Kylo Ren, I will never leave your side. It is my duty and my honor to protect you. I'm not going anywhere" she said boldly staring straight into his eyes. He studied her eyes for sign of dishonestly but he found none. "Annika" he began softly. "Before any more arguing, we must eat, I'm starving, I'll pick it up from the kitchen" she said heading to the door. "You're not going out like that" he told her.

She looked at her outfit and she realized she was wearing the same outfit from the morning. "Oh, right" "You can wear this" he slipped of his robe and tossed it to her. She caught it.  She slipped it over her clothes. 

His cloak was slightly too big for her, the sleeves hung past her arms and the robe folded on the floor, because she wasn't nearly as tall as him.  "How do I look?" she asked posing. The words caught in Kylo's mouth, "Y-you look fine" he said flustered. She smiled brightly at him as she spun around , showing off the robe. Her foot caught on the excess fabric and she nearly crashed onto the floor, but Kylo caught here. 

His arm wrapped tightly around her waist pulling her into him. Her face was inches away from his, her sweet intoxicating scent nearly overwhelmed him. Her eyes turn brighter as she stared into his. "Thanks for catching me" she said pulling herself out of his grasp and upright. "I'll be right back" she said pulling the hood over her head.

He meant to say she looked beautiful.

But that would mean he saw her more than as his inferior. Which he didn't obviously. She was his adviser and nothing more. Except perhaps his friend. But that was it. That was the extend of their relationship. And yet a tiny part of him longed for more. And a slightly bigger part of him hoped she felt the same. But that was all.