[Music recommendation: Narrow Skies ~ Beacon Lights]
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Gavriel had been observing Aliana closely over the past few days, and he had a feeling that whatever she had been trying so hard to keep buried within her stemmed from the things he had failed to tell her sooner.
Things like the fact that he possessed only half of his powers... or that only his destined mate could bear his child.
Yet never had he imagined that such deep, damaging insecurities were festering inside her.
Poisoning his sweet, confident Aliana... reducing the woman who always faced the world so bravely to doubting her very worth.
How could she doubt herself to this extent, shrinking her presence in his life to something so small?
'Afraid that one day, she'll appear out of nowhere and take you away from me.'
'She would be the only woman who could ever give you the joy of being a f-father…..something a mere human with a demon's soul like me could never give you…'
'That I might never be enough.'
