DYAD'S PROMISE: Clouded Agreements of the Most Divine

Chapter 15

Rey awoke from the bed she shared and sat up to see Kylo's figure shadowed by the brighter light of a star. She could still feel the remnants of a dream running through her mind and her own breath caught in her throat as her gut ached for more of whatever she had been enjoying in sleep.

She moved from the bed her bare feet making no noise as she approached his tall dwarfing figure.

She found he stood erect with his arms behind his back and his eyes gently close.

Not wishing to disturb his calm meditation she turned.

"No, stay," he said his voice low and husky. Her stomach clenched again at the echo of it in her head.

She turned hesitantly. "I don't want to break your -" she was about to say solitude but she had been cut off mentally and she could not verbalize the word. The truth was she wanted to talk.

He remained as he was, standing tall with his eyes still shut. "I find your presence soothing," he whispered now.

His words felt like a spell echoed through the fabric of time itself. She stood transfixed on his profile and thought of how strange he was. But even in his darkness, there was something handsome and compelling about him besides his obvious strengths and attributes when it came to a force user.

She smiled a little and turned to adopt his stance. "That is strange," she whispered. "I don't find you calming at all."

She noted a smile out of the corner of her eye and she broke her concentration and looked on him as he was obviously struggling to maintain his own concentration.

"Arousal and anxiety?" he tried to probe into her unguarded mind and she clamped her mind down.

She glared at him. "Arousal?" she scoffed.

He turned and nodded. "Is that why you find me so disturbing?" he asked.

Turning she left the window and she gasped when his bare hand touched her own bare arm and again they saw each other.

But instead of the other leaping from the contact, they held it a moment letting the vision wash over them.

A moment later he released her gently and took a shaking sigh. "You will say yes." he turned on her squarely.

She shook her head. "It is just a vision. It is not surely going to happen."

He looked at her angry. "You would deny yourself, family, when you have the chance?"

Rey turned and looked away from him ashamed of what she was about to say.

"It could be a trick, the dark side tempting me, as it did in the cave," she confessed.

Turning to her, he responded. "You are afraid of the potential of our pairing," he observed. Furrowing his brow he leaned forward. "I feel it, what is between us is something I cannot describe, you can't either," he said with a frustrated shrug. "We cannot ignore it."

She crossed her arms thinking. "Perhaps if we had more distance?" she asked. "Maybe we could take time and be more sure."

Kylo's shoulders dropped. "That is it? That is your answer? you want away from me already?" he asked.

Finding herself without words again she realized she had hurt his feelings and she felt shockingly sorry for it.

He moved from her angry and agitated. "I could have had you many times at this point but I didn't. I wanted to Rey," he said running his hand through his hair. "Distance..." he whispered and his hand clenched as he dressed himself in silence.

"Where are you going?" she asked.

He did not answer as he put his Kylo Ren armor on.

"Ben," she said seriously. "Ben!"

He shook his head. "I am not Ben, and I will give you your wish."

Her heart pumped wildly in her chest and suddenly she was worried that he was going to do something drastic.

Running to the door as he moved to exit she felt tears spring into her eyes. "Ben please, where are you going?"

He squinted at her confused. "Why are you so worried. You wanted distance." his tone no longer making her belly clench in want but turn and flop in fear.

"When are you coming back?" she pressed.

Pushing her aside his nose flared. "Don't wait up," he said simply and walked from the room.

Shutting her eyes tightly she tried to will the tears away that misted her vision. She had not meant what she said...or did she?

Lately, she was unsure of what she wanted but when they touched she could see their future, it could be a happy one, but there were shadows at the edges. A threat lay, woven in the seams of it. But he never mentioned the dark feeling that permeated the very color of the vision it's self casting a dark pallor even on the happiest of moments.

Going to the bed she sighed as she went back to lay down. Might as well. He had said don't wait up. he would just have to deal with her being wide awake all night to explain himself.

She would also apologize and explain her fears to him better. If he would but listen.