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She might not know it yet, but that achromo was his. And he intended to take her.
Oh, how he adored that expression. She wanted to fight him. He could see that. She wanted to reach into the water, rip him out of it, and gut him just like he’d gutted the fish for her. Thankfully, it would take a lot more than her meager claws to do that to him. Still, he couldn’t help but goad her.
And oh, he hated that he had the momentary thought that she might even be lovely.
She was... lovely. Damn it. He hadn’t wanted to think about it, but she really was.
“Again,” he said, swimming a little closer so he could watch her lips. And then... Oh, his gills flared in excitement even though he was embarrassed to make such a display for her. Because he heard her name, and it was a word that was similar to another in his language. Mira. For his people, it meant hope. “Mira,” he repeated, and watched as a smile stretched across her face.
He hated it. And adored it at the same time.
She had trusted him to touch her, even wore that smile on her face, and he was... humbled. She’d let him touch her. And oh, it made him burn.
He had only wanted her more. Wanted to dig himself into her skin and coil around her heart until he was wrapped so firmly around it that he knew it would only beat for him.
“This doesn’t.” He squeezed her fingers in his and then drew her hand over his chest. She could feel his heart beating, though it was a strange beat compared to her own. “Neither does this. Nothing ever hurts when you touch me.”
“I just want a few more moments, Mira. Just let me remind myself that you are fine.”
I cannot let you go. I would be denying my heart the reason it beats.”
“You hold my soul, kairos. Keep it safe for me.”
“Feral creature.
“Fuck, woman. You shouldn’t react like that when I tell you I murdered someone for you.”
You hold my soul in your chest. Wherever you go, I will never be far from you.”
