we could make a game out of it. where's waldo: greer edition. i get a prize of your choosing if i find you.
[ he already knows what he wants, but it matters more that she wants, if she wants any of this at all, or if it's just all in his head, a fantasy he's been holding onto that he can't move on from. she's happy with ash, so why would she still want him? ]
what, you don't trust me to behave?
[ but she's right not to. ash is the one always in control, never with a hair out of place. embry is a slave to everything he feels, including the rampant jealousy coursing through him. it's not an unfamiliar feeling — it prickles at him at every diplomatic dinner where he has to watch greer dance with other men who try to get a little too handsy, a little too close, and that wolfish, possessive part of him stops caring about the optics of perception and just wants to put his fist through someone's face. and ash isn't here to drag him back by the scruff of his neck. ]
i want you to have a good time. and i want you to be safe. if anyone's not letting that happen, then what kind of person would i be to just sit by and watch?
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i get a prize of your choosing if i find you.
[ he already knows what he wants, but it matters more that she wants, if she wants any of this at all, or if it's just all in his head, a fantasy he's been holding onto that he can't move on from. she's happy with ash, so why would she still want him? ]
what, you don't trust me to behave?
[ but she's right not to. ash is the one always in control, never with a hair out of place. embry is a slave to everything he feels, including the rampant jealousy coursing through him. it's not an unfamiliar feeling — it prickles at him at every diplomatic dinner where he has to watch greer dance with other men who try to get a little too handsy, a little too close, and that wolfish, possessive part of him stops caring about the optics of perception and just wants to put his fist through someone's face. and ash isn't here to drag him back by the scruff of his neck. ]
i want you to have a good time. and i want you to be safe.
if anyone's not letting that happen, then what kind of person would i be to just sit by and watch?