Northstar Vale Ima be a love you 'til the day I die kinda man

She quieted after those words—the sharing of her hope something that was not spoken lightly, for the fear that within months from now, she would be alone once more, clung to her. That it was all for naught.

Her own demons, apparently.

She curled closer in to him, feeling the quickening of her heartbeat while doing so. A tentative kiss was placed upon him as she tilted her head upward, her nose grazing across his throat—tentative, uncertain of his reaction to such an intimate act.