Adult Content Warning
This work could have adult content. If you continue, you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.
-
Tags
Summary
With a wince, Ada bends and retrieves a leather messenger bag from the chair’s backrest. She slings it over her shoulder, the weight of the gesture betraying a discomfiture that prevents her from meeting Ashley’s eyes. She begins to slip past Ashley towards the door, but then she pauses, her hand lingering on the doorknob. “He once asked me to tell you he loved you, if he couldn’t tell it himself,” her voice trembles under the burden of emotion, the weight of an unspoken message heavy in the air. Ashley finds a strange comfort in not having to face Ada in that moment, grateful for the depth of sentiment woven into her words. “I thought that you should know,”