Ocean's Breath Plateau sistersun [m]

Ever the gentleman; but Marina was too frayed, too much reduced to raw shivering emotion, to echo the sense of propriety with which Chakliux spoke. There’s plenty of space in my bed, She murmured in gentle invitation. What did she mean by it?

Marina herself was uncertain. She knew only that she felt safe with Chakliux’s arms around her, that he had been steadfast in his support and warm in his affection, undemanding but not unavailable. And she was done with uncertainty. It was not in her nature to dance around her true wants, or to leave it to fate to bring her the future she desired.

What she wanted was stability. What she wanted was conviction, passion, dedication. All of these things, she saw in Chakliux.

What she wanted was him.