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”I‘m not stopping you, y’know.”
“Does that matter so much? Is that the only reason you wish me to stay, why you cannot bear to lose me?”
Mordred swallowed, realizing his words had yet again failed him and he’d used them in the wrong context. “No because I-” he pauses, “because I love you.”
“You — you can’t possibly — ” Except, of course, he did. She could taste it, unfamiliar and so tempting. The knowledge shocks every other emotion out of her. From pale, she colours, ducking her head. Too many responses tangle on her tongue, leaving her speechless, able only to give him a pleading look.