You Think I Won't Talk?-Chapter 546

[ I would have loved to share most of this day with you, my prince.

A pity it is that our hands could only graze each other in a brief greeting... The restrictions and the eyes... This temporary discretion... it takes my breath, the frustration...

Nevertheless, I am delighted to see your distinct frame most of all. To meet your eyes every time I look for you... Blessed I am... to have blossomed where I could meet you. ]

"Gh... bloody... what is this..."

A shiver travelled his body infusing troubled entracement, turning his spirit fully ecstatic at the words he read over and over again. Feeling breathless as he could not understand the numbing sweetness his love possessed when writing such small and yet such overwhelming letter for him to resist his never resting yearning.

’Love... how could you do this to me when I am fighting my everything so helplessly...? What is this endearing piece you left me...? Were you aware of how lovesick I would become once imagining your dreamy sound pronounce these... these lovesome nothings that make me want everything?’

Blush was almost concerning in his expression as he breathed the sheet, weak to its effect. Only lowering it so it could come closer to his heart, feeling with his hand how his chest kept its wild beating chained as he thought of what could have been of their meeting if only allowed to be alone.

[ — Marianne. ]

"... Marianne... even this little drawing..." — Zeleskiaz whispered while looking enamoured at every letter making her name, amused by it as she had told him what it represented at a time. — ’Was it drawn because you knew it would beat again once reading this...? My heart, oh love... what have you done...’

Letting himself drown in the infatuation, his body ached to steal her caresses again even if seemingly lawless... Silly and playful even... as he also tried not to daydream much about her touch as the impulses were threatening to ignore his determination.

Zeleskiaz breathed in once more hoping to beg his nature to clear this hazy state he had fallen into, welcoming the fidgety impatience it summoned wanting to catch a glimpse of her being after getting these words to sink into the simple heart he owned. Saving the piece of paper inside his vest, close to the throbs... so perhaps the letters would sympathise and keep its beating as vivid for as long as it was close to it.

’I should not let this be the sole exchange we get today...’ — The prince conceived, excited to find his way next to her at some chance destiny may hand. Ignorant of what he could accomplish yet expectant of what the spontaneous urges could manage so her detail would not be lonely... so it was not only the lady who managed to nurture attraction in his being when he wanted her to love him as strongly.

And yet... entrancement was meant to be brought to the grounds.

"? Your Highness?"

"..." — In quiet and now nonchalant demeanour... any hint of happiness disappeared at this sudden appearance. Invoking annoyance as he felt the thrill become cold and uninvited.

"... You were here... I am sorry to bother you."

"I am leaving." 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

"! It seems we are meant to meet each other where we less expect it, don’t you think?"

"No. What I think is that you are untimely and unpleasant because of this." — Avoiding the touch of her hand that came forward to stop his departure, Zeleskiaz frowned irritated to see the woman who had interfered with his love’s confession before. Growing his instinctive menace as her actions solely appeared suspicious and revolting, telling him that what she said was meant was in truth made. — "Try to place your hand on me again and you will lose it. Was I not clear before?"

"Oh... I wasn’t trying anything... I am sorry if you misunderstood-"

"Talk formally, I am not and don’t want to be close to you. So address me as you should, woman."

Aggravated at her informal speech Zeleskiaz gritted his teeth, looking at the exit with annoyance as she had decided to stand before it, making it impossible not to graze her if he wanted to leave.

"Move aside. You are in the way."

"Y-your highness, it is not what you say, I would never disrespect-"

"Shut it. Don’t even talk if not demanded. I told you to move."

"... However... I do not want the crown prince to think badly of me..."

Remaining in her place, looking at him innocently, the woman’s visage demonstrated worry with its youthful beauty, touching her chest delicately in what could be a gesture of compromise to her intentions, being them the purest as she told or the lustful as her gaze and approach implied... Only deepening his repulsion.

"Nothing could I ever think of you. You are that unpleasant, woman."

"His highness is being unfair. Ever since that night, I have only thought about the things I did... troubling you. Does the prince not remember?"

"You..." — Clenching the abysm of rage living within him, Zeleskiaz fumed at the audacity to twist their encounter to her convenience. Pushing back the violence he has wanted to pursue ever since as he thought of the many consequences one small satisfaction could bring to his future and to who he was devoting it. — "Erase any mad idea you might have crafted from that encounter. The sole mention of it is a call for death you are making, ignorant filth."

"! What are you saying... you have always-"

"Always?"

"..."

"What always? Regrettably, this is our second meeting. If you hadn’t shown your disgraceful being in front of me today never would I have even cared to recall such a nauseating scene you made of your own." — Enraged by her confidence, Zeleskiaz hissed. Trembling inside by the needs of a bestial deity was also condemning the woman... who even appeared entertained at the menace. — "You keep wanting to touch me... yet do you know what these hands would do to you?"

"... Of course... I would know..."