Two Rivers Isle Hide away

Burke eyed to the side at Malice, her speech about something broken that could still be beautiful wasn't helping. The male let out a bit of a sigh. Malice continued, openly admitting that she loved him. He heard her mutter it but now she said it, full on, out in the open. Burke's face looked a bit pained for a moment, mostly because he didn't know what to do about it. He was old, he didn't want her to go through that heartbreak.

However then she spoke about ignoring it, and that has been something he had done since they traveled away from Black Feather. Malice fell quiet, not sure what to say. The male inhaled sharply. He didn't want to ignore her, because that would make her sad. He didn't want her to be sad. He wanted her to be happy. He couldn't ignore her. So that meant that there was at least some love for her from his side. He was just too hesitant to go for it. Burke realized that his silence wasn't doing anything good.

"No," he grumbled softly. "I just. I am not an easy man to love, Malice. I thought I loved the wolves at Black Feather, and in a way I did, but now after a few weeks, that care is gone. All that love I thought I had for them." With his brother it took way longer than that, so that must have gone deeper. Maybe he was just scared for his own hurt. He looked at her and then looking down shaking his head. He was not sure what he felt for her. He loved Meldresi, but he never got a chance to love her. A month after their mating she had been missing and once she was back it was only her being sick. He never was in a healthy relationship. Maybe Malice could show him that. "I don't want to leave you or ignore you," he spoke then, trying to make up for his hesitation.

How did he even know that it was love. He looked over her face. Young and beautiful. She might not think that with the scare but it didn't matter much to him if she had it or not. She was still pretty to him. He tipped her head. "I'm old. What if I die within a year. You will be sad," he pointed out. His father made a whooping 9 years, at least that is what he heard, so he hoped that he would had that in his genes too.