Chapter 47: Chapter 47 : Unrelentless

~VANNIE~

She woke up to the dark depths of Sin's eyes.

He was unabashed, smiling like she hadn't just caught him watching her sleep. She felt her own lips tentatively move to reciprocate, but she knew it was a sad version of the original. "Isn't it funny? The minute you regain consciousness, I lose mine."

He laughed. "Yes. We have to stop doing that to each other."

She turned to lie on her back, wondering why waking up beside him like this wasn't strange at all, as though they had done this a million times before. "I feel very weak. And not the kind of weakness food can heal."

He sat up immediately. "I'll get Zara to make you an elixir. But you'll still need to eat. Do you want anything special?"

She smiled, this one coming out more naturally than the last. "You don't have to do any of that," she replied, when what she really wanted to do was ask him not to leave her. "I just want to lie here. With you."

"Yesterday still feels surreal?"