Swiftcurrent Creek your kiss, my cheek—i watched you leave

Only something that had been one sided.

His mouth remained in a firm line, knowing to speak such a thing would devastate the she-wolf in front of him. Eshe’s self confidence lacked so much he knew saying anything about his accidental feelings for Riverclan’s Sharpfang would ruin anything that had been stemming between them.

How much truth was too much truth?

“I ended… things… with her before I began to court you. I wanted to be someone who deserved you… Who could meet your expectations.”

And in that, it was very possible he failed. Three children—gone. Two older children, gone.

Eshe wanted children. He didn’t know if he was cut out for fatherhood.