Duck Lake They wanna keep it PG

There was a heavy greif, buried deep inside of him. But he could not show it. Not here. Not now. 

She made her choice. I did not make it for her. I did not do that to her, He answers after a long moment, voice harder than he meant it to be. 

Sovereign hadn't said it, but he knew the question lingered in her mind. He would not leave it unanswered. 

She wanted to save her pack... her family. Who was I to call her selfish? To tell her to stay? Would that have only made me selfish instead? Either way, there was a fault he held. And he'd never let the guilt go.

I was broken, that day—when she left.

Again, silence. But only until his voice rises, hard and gravelly. 

She was my life. My heart... my soul. And now she's gone. He couldn't say those words. But they rang in his head, every single damned day. 

You are all I have left, Sovereign. Eventually, the truth comes. The defeat. The desperation. In him, in this moment, he is showing total vulnerability. And it is only for her to see. None else. Just as he'd been with Fury. Only she knew his deepest emotions. 

It would stay this way, for all eternity. None again would ever have this passage to what remained of his withered heart.