(Kaelen)
Dorian doesn't beg cleanly.
That's the thing about it — it doesn't come out the way begging looks in the version of this I've imagined. Not dramatic, not falling apart. It comes out sideways, in pieces, while the wolfsbane works through him and he's still on one knee in the wet grass and his face is doing something he doesn't have full control over anymore.
"I was wrong," he says.
Just that, at first. Looking at the ground. Not at me.
I stand with the dagger at my side and I wait.
Theron is at the barn entrance somewhere behind me. I heard him come around the side of the building and I felt him stop when he saw the scene — Dorian on the ground, me standing, the dagger — and he hasn't moved closer. Giving me the space. He always gives me the space.
"About the bond," Dorian s
