#took me 5ever but it turns out final chapters are scary...which I wouldn't know as the one-shot/ficlet queen lmaoooooo

[blutopaz15]

call it what you want, chapter 5

chapter 5/5 2.7k rated m (sandwiches; don't like, don't read!)

Callum and Rayal spend their first night on the road navigating the weirdness of their...whatever-they-are.

Excerpt:

It’s daybreak when she and Callum wake, and for the tenth day in a row…Rayla isn’t sure what they are.

But…it’s okay now, she thinks, lovesick like she’s been since dawn, looking at him lying there beside her—so very handsome, so uninhibitedly happy.

She may not know what they are—not a thing like they’d been before, not the couple the innkeeper had teased last night, probably not even lovers for long now that it’s morning—but it’s more than just trust that he still holds for her, more than just keeping her comfortable and at home there at the castle, more than just wanting her safe and happy and here.

Whatever they are…Callum loves her.

She knows that much at least, from the familiarly-fond haze in his stare, the slight, sideways smile he’s had since sunrise, the comforting weight of his bare chest against her back, the echo of his hands and lips and body on hers last night, showing her so…

He loves her—still.

…even if he can’t quite say it again just yet.

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