“You’re a cop? Wow, thanks for letting me know, otherwise there is no way I’d know that information already.” Sloane rolled her eyes, quite unlike the twenty eight year old woman she was and more like the eighteen year old who’d done the same thing to Khal when he’d been over working on a case with her mom and taken a good natured jab at her. Something back then she would have followed up with a laugh, but not this time. Instead she just drank the dregs of her martini and considered ordering another. “What makes you think I see the world as sunshine and rainbows? You think I’ve never seen how messed up the world is? I’m the one who lost a mom to it Khal, not you.” God how she wished she did still think the world was all about the frivolous things only, life was so much easier then. She missed those days of being in high school lamenting over the boy or how she was going to get her hands on the newest shade of Dior lipstick. Not anymore. Sure her opinion of those things hadn’t changed, others had just been…added, other things that were more literally life and death.
☆゚*·゚LOOKING AT HER from underneath his eyelashes, he glared. She was so different from the girl he once knew. Khal understood though. Life wasn't easy, and everything she'd been through absolutely shaped her. But that didn't mean that he didn't still want the best for her. The more she spoke, the more he sighed. He made sure he faced her, looking directly at her. "I know that. I'm not discounting your feelings, your pain, or what it did to you. She was important to me too. Have you ever thought about that? Your mother put her whole entire trust in me, all the time, and trusted me enough to meet you. It was such a joy in my life, getting to watch you grow up." Khal didn't know how to explain this to her, or how to show her how much he actually cared about her and her well being. "Don't ever think I don't know how completely fucked up the world is. I've known you since you were so little. I can't help but be protective."
















