Unspoken Promises
Her voice at last shattered the silence, low, hesitant, a quiver of naked exposure running through every word. "Victor… why? After all this… why now? After all these years…"
He closed his eyes for a second. Let the cool night air calm down the crazy feelings inside him. When he opened them again they shone with a decision, a balance between what he wanted and what he thought was right. "Because if I stay in this relationship, with you Sasha I would be pretending to be something I'm not. I would be fake. That is not what you deserve. I just can not do that not now I am not ready to be what you need Sasha." His voice came soft, tinged with regret, longing, and vulnerable honesty. "But that doesn't mean I don't care.". That doesn't mean that I don't… He hesitated, between impulse and control, before recovering the substance in his words, determined, unflinching, with the unthinkable in every vowel.
