Northstar Vale hold out for june

They are SO SOFT and I adore it.

She sobered quickly when she saw the contemplative look currently in residence on Maxim’s face. Towhee fancied she could see the cogs turning there. Patiently, she waited him out. She supposed it was possible he wouldn’t accept her apology, though she knew him too well to be nervous about that.

Right before he made his declaration, his face softened. Hers did the very same. Oh lort, he’s about to get sappy, she thought with secret glee. The first five years of her life had been starved of any semblance of romance, and now she glutted on it.

-“I know,”- she replied, reaching up to poke his cheek. -“I love you too. I’m glad you’re my husband, even if I still hate that term, and even though it’s not required anymore,”- Towhee observed with a little laugh, leaning in to snuffle in his ear before fixing the angle to smooch him right below his eye.