it’s been a long time coming. his hands take hers, weaving their fingers together. charles adjusts them both in bed, making it so her head rests heavily on his chest. “i feel as though i’ve been tricked into genuine emotion, but you earned it, didn’t you?” there’s a mumble in his voice, close against the top of her head, face buried in her hair. they’d been thick in animosity once. before their child, charles’ children. before lorna had been discarded and anya made sole consort. “i’d ask how you did it, but i don’t think i want to know.” // @coreczka









