#decadentscribe

the initial urge to ask back 'what does it look like i'm doing' comes and goes in the blink of an eye but the way he's got his tongue halfway out should have indicated exactly what it was he was partaking in. ❝ n... othing? ❞ was all he could really say, knowing it's hardly convincing to the person who's watched him this whole time.

there is a knock on his hotel door, and it causes jason to jolt in a way that is uncharacteristic for a man that has prepared himself for anything. a guest is simply not one of them, not when he is so far from where he had been, not when there is only a very limited of people that know where he is, and neither of them would show up unannounced. neither has he ordered room service and he does not nearly make enough noise for there to be a complaint called in against him. so he is slow to rise, feet dragging across the floor and shoulders squared as he approaches the door and opens it with caution, hand at the ready to grab the gun that always is within an arm's reach.

"i'm not going out of my way! i just wanted to be sure that we were on the same page," faye insisted, arms crossing over her chest. her jaw dropped for a moment before she quickly composed herself. "no, absolutely not. that is far from the case," she shook her head, "i still find you as intolerable as i always have."

"oh i have plenty of better things to do but right now i don't feel like doing any of them." and it didn't really concern her anymore what he was doing with his life. granted, the same could be said with the shoe on the other foot but he's already here and in her business and there's not much she can do to get rid of him now that he is. "me? threatened? you're joking, right?" genuinely, he's not. didn't even think that the guy that walked past him was even that attractive. "you really lowered your standards, you know."

"you didn't — i don't know, think to mention this to me before now?" ione had known that there would be things that would make a relationship with victor complicated but she hadn't quite expected something like this. "can you even do that? if it's been planned for so long?"

❝ We shouldn't be doing this. It is wrong, -- I am to become someone's wife in months to come. We can't be together, and you deserve to be much more than someone's side piece. ❞ If it had been up to Eleanor she'd pick him. He'd be her first choice, but she knows it is too late for that now. Everything is already set in motion for her big day. She can't let her father down. || @decadentscribe ||

❝ This marriage will only be in honour of our parent's wishes. ❞ Ellie couldn't stand to be in the same room as him longer than a few hours a day. Though she knew it is something she'd need to get use to since they're to be wed in only a couple of months. || @decadentscribe ||

❝ Do you know what it is like to never be able to make mistakes? To feel like a million eyes are always watching you. Just waiting for you to screw something up so that they can tell the whole country about it. ❞ When the stress gets too much for him, Fletcher tends to find himself venting to her. || @decadentscribe ||