Perhaps because Oathran was her first, it was easy to see the bias that wasn't there.
He had been the one who found her torn heart first, the one who had stood beside her in the real world exactly when everything was falling apart, the one whose devotion had shielded her through the worst storms of her life.
Cecilia might once have decided to devote herself only to him. Might have been content, even happy, to love a single man for the rest of her days.
But that had changed the moment he asked her to accept Arkai. He had seen what he thought she needed, when it was something he needed. He had opened the door and stepped aside, not because he loved her less, but because he was afraid he wasn't enough.
Because of Arkai, the four of them could become one. He was the bridge. But while Arkai was the first other man who entered their relationship, the first addition, the first expansion of a love she had thought could only hold one, Eastiel was different.
