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[b][color=E8A7AB]Time:[/color][/b]Evening
[b][color=E8A7AB]Location:[/color][/b]Home
[b][color=E8A7AB]Mentions:[/color][/b][@Tae] Marius[/center]

[center][color=078b83]”Silly girl.”[/color] [/center]

Millie's head shot up, unburying her face from her hands in an instant as his voice filled the kitchen. The blood drained from her face and she could swear her heart had stopped beating at that moment. She had not expected him to be home already. How much had he seen? His reaction to the spell's removal had been a moment she had lived in her dreams countless times yet she had never even given a thought to what could happen if he caught her in the act. Dread filled her and made her skin prickle as if an icy chill had come over her, numbing her brain. She could not bring herself to look at him as he approached. She heard the sound of something tumbling into the trash and knew what it had been without having to glance over. Her body stiffened and she gripped her knees. It might have been possible to convince herself it was just a nightmare until the moment he took her chin and forced her to look into his eyes as he asked her if she had been casting spells. 

Then it became all too real.

She felt the urge to swallow but would not dare to do so. Her adrenaline began to surge so fast she thought she would vomit, but she could not bring herself to move. Even all these weeks of love could not erase the truth buried underneath him: this man was quite literally a cold-blooded killer. It felt as if her fear was a being who knelt in front of her in Marius's very spot, choking her tighter and tighter with his every word, foreshadowing her incoming doom.

Millie caught a glimpse of his fangs as his head descended toward her and she shut her eyes tightly, trying to force her eyelids down with every force of her being as her body scrunched up as if she could retreat inward and phase through the cabinet. 

Then a simple kiss, much like any other he had bestowed her, reached her lips. Millie's eyes fluttered open as he pulled away.

[color=078b83]” There, that should be sufficient punishment. Now don’t do it again.”[/color] 

Millie stared at him without any ability to compute what was happening. It felt impossible to read him. Was he not angry with her? Was he furious and plotting something worse? Tears spilled down her cheeks as guilt broke through her wall of fantasy she had built up for so long. How could she have done this? Her voice was barely above a whisper as she let words finally tumble from her lips. [color=E8A7AB]"I-... I'm so so sorry... I was just scared. I-I needed to escape. I couldn't bring myself to hurt you. I thought if I took it off you'd hate me and maybe you do so if you want to kill me I understand. "[/color] Again, she shut her eyes to brace the worst.