~RAGNAR~
Celine stayed silent longer than I'd expected her to. Considering the kind of person she was, I imagined she would look shocked, yell at me.
She loved her home…her…husband. And I had just told her I was going to destroy the same place she's spent her entire life in and has been desperate to go back to.
Yet she was so silent.
The moonlight caressed her features with an ethereal glow, accentuating the delicate curve of her cheekbones, the fullness of her red lips, the compulsive greens in her beautiful eyes.
I couldn't bring myself to look away, same way I couldn't continue to let her believe she didn't matter.
I didn't want to lie to myself, hell! Even Lilja could see through all of the s**t I've been trying to mask.
I was following a path I never thought I'd take with
