Delphine
The children were tired of standing in one spot, and Acantha began to squirm, twisting in her mothers' hold. The woman yanked the child to her side, nodding. "Yeah... mmm, I dunno." She shrugged, rolling her shoulders. "I wish I could tell you something other than fear and shame kept me from you but..." She shrugged.
"Some things never change." At one point in her life, Delphine had been completely controlled by Bellamy Rowan. His word was the law, literally and figuratively. She'd stopped trying to have ambitions that went against what he wanted in a wife; had become complacent.
She smiled as Remi did, nodding. "I remember Ronin, yeah. I'm glad you got married..." Her smile faded, just slightly, and didn't reach her eyes, because that had been a day she had wanted to be around for. The day her bestfriend was wed. He was there for her sham of a wedding. She should have been there for his.
She should've been there for everything. She shoved a hand through her hair, sighing. "I've missed a lifetime, it'd seem." Hers, his, her children were little gremlins who had no idea how to act around people. "I... mmm, 'sorry' doesn't really fix anything here, does it?"
Her gaze wandered the area they were standing in, and she hummed under her breath. "Yeah. Nothing I say or do will make this right." Nothing she had ever said or done had ever made anything right, ever, in her entire life. She'd lived for praise, and now she didn't know what she wanted.
It wasn't fun. She knew she was getting tired of the children, though. "I guess... what else has happened, aside from marrying a sexy man--he is still sexy, right? What do you do for a living? Did you keep your powers?"
All were important questions, and all were said in a much cheerier tone.
"Some things never change." At one point in her life, Delphine had been completely controlled by Bellamy Rowan. His word was the law, literally and figuratively. She'd stopped trying to have ambitions that went against what he wanted in a wife; had become complacent.
She smiled as Remi did, nodding. "I remember Ronin, yeah. I'm glad you got married..." Her smile faded, just slightly, and didn't reach her eyes, because that had been a day she had wanted to be around for. The day her bestfriend was wed. He was there for her sham of a wedding. She should have been there for his.
She should've been there for everything. She shoved a hand through her hair, sighing. "I've missed a lifetime, it'd seem." Hers, his, her children were little gremlins who had no idea how to act around people. "I... mmm, 'sorry' doesn't really fix anything here, does it?"
Her gaze wandered the area they were standing in, and she hummed under her breath. "Yeah. Nothing I say or do will make this right." Nothing she had ever said or done had ever made anything right, ever, in her entire life. She'd lived for praise, and now she didn't know what she wanted.
It wasn't fun. She knew she was getting tired of the children, though. "I guess... what else has happened, aside from marrying a sexy man--he is still sexy, right? What do you do for a living? Did you keep your powers?"
All were important questions, and all were said in a much cheerier tone.
Let me make you smile, darling.
