Chapter 10 of Great Inaudible Feelings by invisibledaemon (citizenscully)
He was really frustrated now, with her or with the world she wasn’t sure – probably both.
“I don’t care about my soulmark, I don’t care. I’ll have the fucking thing surgically removed. I just want you.”
His eyes were pleading, hands fisted at his side. He looked desperate to get closer to her but gave her space, for which she was grateful. She couldn’t say what she knew she had to say if he was in her space. It was difficult enough as it was. He was so tempting.
He was offering exactly what she had been afraid to admit to herself she wanted. But she couldn’t do that to him. Because yes, they would be happy for a while, for weeks or months if she was lucky. But eventually he would meet his soulmate. And whatever he’d feel for that person would have to be stronger than what he felt for her, even though her own feelings for him were so strong she felt as though she were choking on them. Then he’d either leave her for his soulmate or stay with her out of obligation and grow to resent her.
She could not live with either option.
