banditcoyote

[banditcoyote]

Echo's bodyguards were outside his wing and they permitted Sasuga easily. When she got to his office the door was cracked just slightly and she could just hear Coyote and Echo talking. As she entered they both stood and Echo gestured to the open chair. They sat when she did.

"How was your bath?" Coyote asked reaching over to hold her hand.

Blood and Moonlight

Sasuga woke in what was at first an unfamiliar area but as she blinked fully awake she realized it was their closet that Coyote had decorated for them. She smiled and took a careful kiss from her mate who was still sound asleep next to her. It really had been an amazing night with the family and then with her husband. As she slipped from his arms, she took a moment to look at her reflection in the mirror, her fingers dancing over the fresh marks on her neck and hips. She couldn't have asked for anything more from the night and it was with some reluctance that she dressed. She picked out a pair of warm leggings and a short little skirt to pull over them with some knee high boots and a thick sweater. She slipped from the closet and moved to the bathroom to comb her hair and brush her teeth and get ready for the big day ahead. She gave a stretch and headed downstairs only to find a familiar face waiting for her. "Raphael..." she smiled and moved to greet him with a hug. "I see you are still alive." she smirked. "Want some tea? Coffee?"

@banditcoyote

[banditcoyote]

As Sasuga bathed she received a text from Shishi letting her know that they were all heading to the pool house for a bit if she was interested in joining them, knowing they had talked about it this morning. but he understood that she just needed time to rest and reminded her that he was there if she needed him. It was nearly two hours before her phone chimed again. "Please come to my office." with a little bat emoji signing off as her hopefully non ex lover's signature.

Blood and Moonlight

Sasuga woke in what was at first an unfamiliar area but as she blinked fully awake she realized it was their closet that Coyote had decorated for them. She smiled and took a careful kiss from her mate who was still sound asleep next to her. It really had been an amazing night with the family and then with her husband. As she slipped from his arms, she took a moment to look at her reflection in the mirror, her fingers dancing over the fresh marks on her neck and hips. She couldn't have asked for anything more from the night and it was with some reluctance that she dressed. She picked out a pair of warm leggings and a short little skirt to pull over them with some knee high boots and a thick sweater. She slipped from the closet and moved to the bathroom to comb her hair and brush her teeth and get ready for the big day ahead. She gave a stretch and headed downstairs only to find a familiar face waiting for her. "Raphael..." she smiled and moved to greet him with a hug. "I see you are still alive." she smirked. "Want some tea? Coffee?"

@banditcoyote

[banditcoyote]

He nodded "Okay." he said again and he bent down to give her a loving kiss on her lips, and then her forehead. "I don't think I'll be gone too long. I love you Sasuga." he said and started the fire for her himself before he straightened out his shirt and headed out to go and talk to her lover, leaving her alone to wait to see what type of decision that Coyote would come to concerning the fate of her relationship.

Blood and Moonlight

Sasuga woke in what was at first an unfamiliar area but as she blinked fully awake she realized it was their closet that Coyote had decorated for them. She smiled and took a careful kiss from her mate who was still sound asleep next to her. It really had been an amazing night with the family and then with her husband. As she slipped from his arms, she took a moment to look at her reflection in the mirror, her fingers dancing over the fresh marks on her neck and hips. She couldn't have asked for anything more from the night and it was with some reluctance that she dressed. She picked out a pair of warm leggings and a short little skirt to pull over them with some knee high boots and a thick sweater. She slipped from the closet and moved to the bathroom to comb her hair and brush her teeth and get ready for the big day ahead. She gave a stretch and headed downstairs only to find a familiar face waiting for her. "Raphael..." she smiled and moved to greet him with a hug. "I see you are still alive." she smirked. "Want some tea? Coffee?"

@banditcoyote

[banditcoyote]

Coyote listened with a straight face, remaining judgement free over all of it, and he nodded. "Okay." he said with a little nod, giving nothing away. "And you're sure you'll be okay here alone while I go and talk to him? Are you sure you don't want Shishi to sit with you?" he asked as he stood and moved to go.

Blood and Moonlight

Sasuga woke in what was at first an unfamiliar area but as she blinked fully awake she realized it was their closet that Coyote had decorated for them. She smiled and took a careful kiss from her mate who was still sound asleep next to her. It really had been an amazing night with the family and then with her husband. As she slipped from his arms, she took a moment to look at her reflection in the mirror, her fingers dancing over the fresh marks on her neck and hips. She couldn't have asked for anything more from the night and it was with some reluctance that she dressed. She picked out a pair of warm leggings and a short little skirt to pull over them with some knee high boots and a thick sweater. She slipped from the closet and moved to the bathroom to comb her hair and brush her teeth and get ready for the big day ahead. She gave a stretch and headed downstairs only to find a familiar face waiting for her. "Raphael..." she smiled and moved to greet him with a hug. "I see you are still alive." she smirked. "Want some tea? Coffee?"

@banditcoyote

[banditcoyote]

Coyote's eyebrows drew together at this and he waited until they were in the room before he asked her any follow ups. "And you love him? You still want to be with him?" he asked her making sure that she was still feeling all in. "Do you believe that he loves you? Do you think we can trust him?" he knew he was going to speak to the bat in a moment that he could ask any questions but he wanted to clarify it all with Sasuga first. "How do you feel about his life? that part that he kept hidden. Can you live with it? I'll ask him all the details myself, but I want to know, do you really care what he does? Will it hurt you to know that is who you're with?"

Blood and Moonlight

Sasuga woke in what was at first an unfamiliar area but as she blinked fully awake she realized it was their closet that Coyote had decorated for them. She smiled and took a careful kiss from her mate who was still sound asleep next to her. It really had been an amazing night with the family and then with her husband. As she slipped from his arms, she took a moment to look at her reflection in the mirror, her fingers dancing over the fresh marks on her neck and hips. She couldn't have asked for anything more from the night and it was with some reluctance that she dressed. She picked out a pair of warm leggings and a short little skirt to pull over them with some knee high boots and a thick sweater. She slipped from the closet and moved to the bathroom to comb her hair and brush her teeth and get ready for the big day ahead. She gave a stretch and headed downstairs only to find a familiar face waiting for her. "Raphael..." she smiled and moved to greet him with a hug. "I see you are still alive." she smirked. "Want some tea? Coffee?"

@banditcoyote

[banditcoyote]

"Ahh see, trouble has found me again." He said gently shaking her hands away from his serious hairstyle with some playfulness.

He smiled as she beckoned him down for a kiss and whispered "Greedy" just before kissed her back just as softly and gave a small little squeak at her words. Attempting to restore some normalcy between them.

Coyote held her firmly, reassuring her that he was there for her. "Sure, sure let's go." He gave a nod to Echo and started to lead Sasuga back to theirs, waiting until they were out of earshot to speak again. "What's happening now Sasuga?"

Blood and Moonlight

Sasuga woke in what was at first an unfamiliar area but as she blinked fully awake she realized it was their closet that Coyote had decorated for them. She smiled and took a careful kiss from her mate who was still sound asleep next to her. It really had been an amazing night with the family and then with her husband. As she slipped from his arms, she took a moment to look at her reflection in the mirror, her fingers dancing over the fresh marks on her neck and hips. She couldn't have asked for anything more from the night and it was with some reluctance that she dressed. She picked out a pair of warm leggings and a short little skirt to pull over them with some knee high boots and a thick sweater. She slipped from the closet and moved to the bathroom to comb her hair and brush her teeth and get ready for the big day ahead. She gave a stretch and headed downstairs only to find a familiar face waiting for her. "Raphael..." she smiled and moved to greet him with a hug. "I see you are still alive." she smirked. "Want some tea? Coffee?"

@banditcoyote

[banditcoyote]

He nodded and brought her up the steps into the house, assisting her once again with her coat and began to remove his, he turned slightly, seeing if Sasuga would be willing to help with his buttons though he could reach himself if he needed to, and when she seemed eager to help he bent easily and let her undo them. "Thank you Mon Coeur." he said with a purr though he was still trying to remain somewhat polite. He clung to her hand again as they moved through the Chateau. "They will not review any of your files, I wouldn't have your privacy violated in such a way. They'll just search for the file location and names." he assured her. As they came to the library doors, Echo paused and gave her hand a squeeze. "Miss Kotei....let me just say...that I hope beyond hope that kiss wasn't our last. But if it was, I have found every moment with you to be bliss." and he opened the library door, Coyote had been pacing by the fireplace and he rushed to take her into his arms at the bat slowly let her hand go.

Blood and Moonlight

Sasuga woke in what was at first an unfamiliar area but as she blinked fully awake she realized it was their closet that Coyote had decorated for them. She smiled and took a careful kiss from her mate who was still sound asleep next to her. It really had been an amazing night with the family and then with her husband. As she slipped from his arms, she took a moment to look at her reflection in the mirror, her fingers dancing over the fresh marks on her neck and hips. She couldn't have asked for anything more from the night and it was with some reluctance that she dressed. She picked out a pair of warm leggings and a short little skirt to pull over them with some knee high boots and a thick sweater. She slipped from the closet and moved to the bathroom to comb her hair and brush her teeth and get ready for the big day ahead. She gave a stretch and headed downstairs only to find a familiar face waiting for her. "Raphael..." she smiled and moved to greet him with a hug. "I see you are still alive." she smirked. "Want some tea? Coffee?"

@banditcoyote

[banditcoyote]

"I owe everyone an apology. Thom and Cal especially." he told her. Coyote texted back almost immediately, reassuring Sasuga that he had been waiting on the other end of the phone. 'I'm in the library, the big one' followed by 'Are you Okay? Do you need me to come to you?'

Echo nodded "It was the absolute least I could do." he said "and I think we'll be able to get your photos back," he tried to reassure her. "I have to follow up on that."

Blood and Moonlight

Sasuga woke in what was at first an unfamiliar area but as she blinked fully awake she realized it was their closet that Coyote had decorated for them. She smiled and took a careful kiss from her mate who was still sound asleep next to her. It really had been an amazing night with the family and then with her husband. As she slipped from his arms, she took a moment to look at her reflection in the mirror, her fingers dancing over the fresh marks on her neck and hips. She couldn't have asked for anything more from the night and it was with some reluctance that she dressed. She picked out a pair of warm leggings and a short little skirt to pull over them with some knee high boots and a thick sweater. She slipped from the closet and moved to the bathroom to comb her hair and brush her teeth and get ready for the big day ahead. She gave a stretch and headed downstairs only to find a familiar face waiting for her. "Raphael..." she smiled and moved to greet him with a hug. "I see you are still alive." she smirked. "Want some tea? Coffee?"

@banditcoyote

[banditcoyote]

"I will gladly receive him." Echo said without hesitation. "No secrets." he agreed. "This has to be an open conversation between all of us in order to come to...whatever decision is best." he said hoping with all hope that it was one that would keep them together. "Do you know where he is right now?" it seemed they arrived at the house much faster than it had taken for them to get to the gazebo. "I'll walk you to his arms."

Blood and Moonlight

Sasuga woke in what was at first an unfamiliar area but as she blinked fully awake she realized it was their closet that Coyote had decorated for them. She smiled and took a careful kiss from her mate who was still sound asleep next to her. It really had been an amazing night with the family and then with her husband. As she slipped from his arms, she took a moment to look at her reflection in the mirror, her fingers dancing over the fresh marks on her neck and hips. She couldn't have asked for anything more from the night and it was with some reluctance that she dressed. She picked out a pair of warm leggings and a short little skirt to pull over them with some knee high boots and a thick sweater. She slipped from the closet and moved to the bathroom to comb her hair and brush her teeth and get ready for the big day ahead. She gave a stretch and headed downstairs only to find a familiar face waiting for her. "Raphael..." she smiled and moved to greet him with a hug. "I see you are still alive." she smirked. "Want some tea? Coffee?"

@banditcoyote

[banditcoyote]

He groaned at the press of her hands, even if he couldn't feel it as strongly as he had before, just that little bit of pressure there was enough of a suggestion that she wanted that part of him. The kiss went on, until it seemed to reach it's natural end, slowly tapering off with the lingering conversations that needed to take place. Echo slowly lowered her back to her feet, and his hands moved to hers, taking them both in his and giving them a squeeze before he dropped one and started the walk back towards the house. "I know you have concerns about the safety of yourself and your family, and I promise that it is the number one priority that I am dealing with right now. We are working to identify the attackers from last night, and I've set rigorous new protocols should any other dangerous take place, especially the most vulnerable humans among us. If Coyote or any other member of your family has concerns and suggestions and wish to speak to me directly I will work hard to accommodate them and am open to any suggestions I may have overlooked." his words soft and sincere. "As much as I love a good fight, I can find my own trouble. I don't need to put you and yours in the middle of any."

Blood and Moonlight

Sasuga woke in what was at first an unfamiliar area but as she blinked fully awake she realized it was their closet that Coyote had decorated for them. She smiled and took a careful kiss from her mate who was still sound asleep next to her. It really had been an amazing night with the family and then with her husband. As she slipped from his arms, she took a moment to look at her reflection in the mirror, her fingers dancing over the fresh marks on her neck and hips. She couldn't have asked for anything more from the night and it was with some reluctance that she dressed. She picked out a pair of warm leggings and a short little skirt to pull over them with some knee high boots and a thick sweater. She slipped from the closet and moved to the bathroom to comb her hair and brush her teeth and get ready for the big day ahead. She gave a stretch and headed downstairs only to find a familiar face waiting for her. "Raphael..." she smiled and moved to greet him with a hug. "I see you are still alive." she smirked. "Want some tea? Coffee?"

@banditcoyote

[banditcoyote]

He nodded to her. "To a wretched demon like me it could be nothing else." he assured her, and as he leaned in to kiss her just as she admitted she was desperate as he was. But he paused at her request. "Mon Coeur, thats precisely how I was going to do it." he assured her, feeling the weight of everything surrounding his heart. He leaned in to her then, crushing their lips together, his hands sliding once more around her waist and lifting her up so she could straddle him, his body supporting her fully against him as he kissed so fully and passionately, with a desperation that signaled itself in his ragged breathing. "Miss Kotei...Mon Coeur.....Persephone....my Persephone." he spoke in breathless whispers as they broke apart momentarily to catch their breath, before he crashed back into her. It seemed he wanted more, so much more in that moment, that even a low dragon like growl rumbled in him, but he couldn't ask anything more of her in that moment, he didn't even feel as though he deserved this.

Blood and Moonlight

Sasuga woke in what was at first an unfamiliar area but as she blinked fully awake she realized it was their closet that Coyote had decorated for them. She smiled and took a careful kiss from her mate who was still sound asleep next to her. It really had been an amazing night with the family and then with her husband. As she slipped from his arms, she took a moment to look at her reflection in the mirror, her fingers dancing over the fresh marks on her neck and hips. She couldn't have asked for anything more from the night and it was with some reluctance that she dressed. She picked out a pair of warm leggings and a short little skirt to pull over them with some knee high boots and a thick sweater. She slipped from the closet and moved to the bathroom to comb her hair and brush her teeth and get ready for the big day ahead. She gave a stretch and headed downstairs only to find a familiar face waiting for her. "Raphael..." she smiled and moved to greet him with a hug. "I see you are still alive." she smirked. "Want some tea? Coffee?"

@banditcoyote

[banditcoyote]

He tensed when he felt her slump into him, the reaction of his muscles feeling like an exclamation mark as he wasn't clear on if this was good or bad for him. Her words had him choking on air, and he gave her one final squeeze before he worked to release her from his clutches. "Yes....yes of course....you should talk to him." he said, his arms slowly going from around her to her shoulders, though she was still in his cocoon of wings. He pressed his forehead to hers. "May I kiss you Miss Kotei, before I walk you back to the house? May I kiss you like I've been dying to do since we parted ways yesterday? Or have you too much to consider to allow me this blessing?"

Blood and Moonlight

Sasuga woke in what was at first an unfamiliar area but as she blinked fully awake she realized it was their closet that Coyote had decorated for them. She smiled and took a careful kiss from her mate who was still sound asleep next to her. It really had been an amazing night with the family and then with her husband. As she slipped from his arms, she took a moment to look at her reflection in the mirror, her fingers dancing over the fresh marks on her neck and hips. She couldn't have asked for anything more from the night and it was with some reluctance that she dressed. She picked out a pair of warm leggings and a short little skirt to pull over them with some knee high boots and a thick sweater. She slipped from the closet and moved to the bathroom to comb her hair and brush her teeth and get ready for the big day ahead. She gave a stretch and headed downstairs only to find a familiar face waiting for her. "Raphael..." she smiled and moved to greet him with a hug. "I see you are still alive." she smirked. "Want some tea? Coffee?"

@banditcoyote

[banditcoyote]

He seemed likely to collapse as soon as she said she loved him, and his arms moved to hold her tightly, his whole body bent towards her, wanting to engulf her completely in him and his wings wrapped around them tightly shrouding them in darkness as he pressing his hand to the back of her head. He gasped again, almost like he had forgotten to breath in the moment, and it was the desperate embrace that Sasuga had wanted from him the moment she saw him alive, a soft little purring in his chest just that she was close, but it faded as she started to accuse him, even as he still held tightly to her, burying his nose in her hair. It was clear that he didn't think he would receive this again from her, that even this embrace was something he didn't feel he deserved but had desired so greedily, that despite all his talk of pain and violence inflicted, he would never take something as gentle as this from her without thinking it was wanted or deserved. "I know...I know Mon Coeur...." he said. "You see me as being cruel but....I am trying to save you....to save us." his voice was pained and scared. "Please just...let me..." he gave her another tight squeeze, taking a deep breath, his hands balling into fists against her clothes as if afraid he would never hold her again. "I know you say that none of this means anything to you, the treasures, this life, and I believe you, but I know it is dazzling... please, let me show you how I feel with how I've been showing you, Let me bury you in luxury, spend an egregious fortune on diamonds you may never wear, let me take you to the ball and show you off as my finest thing, to dance where everyone can see, to the top of notre dame, to our bedroom, to our bed, let my body communicate what my stupid brain is withholding from you. Stay here with me in Paris as we have planned, and listen to everything that I'm not saying.....and when we separate, when you're apart from me and alone, I want you to see if that shine wanes, if you find yourself disgusted with choices you've made because of who I am....and give me time to plan the perfect confession. Because I think...I know you deserve more than this desperate plea, I know you much rather hear it from me when I feel I can freely say it, and not pulled from my gut with a hook and a line because I fear more than I can explain that I will lose you. please...please...this isn't the begging you asked me for, but never the less you have me begging for this understanding now. Don't you see? I'm telling you. I'm telling you." his lips were hot against her ear, and he was nearly crushing her against him. He was telling her without telling her, and asking for that time to protect them both.

Blood and Moonlight

Sasuga woke in what was at first an unfamiliar area but as she blinked fully awake she realized it was their closet that Coyote had decorated for them. She smiled and took a careful kiss from her mate who was still sound asleep next to her. It really had been an amazing night with the family and then with her husband. As she slipped from his arms, she took a moment to look at her reflection in the mirror, her fingers dancing over the fresh marks on her neck and hips. She couldn't have asked for anything more from the night and it was with some reluctance that she dressed. She picked out a pair of warm leggings and a short little skirt to pull over them with some knee high boots and a thick sweater. She slipped from the closet and moved to the bathroom to comb her hair and brush her teeth and get ready for the big day ahead. She gave a stretch and headed downstairs only to find a familiar face waiting for her. "Raphael..." she smiled and moved to greet him with a hug. "I see you are still alive." she smirked. "Want some tea? Coffee?"

@banditcoyote

[banditcoyote]

He nodded, he didn't need her to approve, and he wasn't surprised or hurt by her not approving, in fact he would have been angry if she tried to excuse what he did with any sort of noble myth. So in fact her reaction was exactly what he had wanted from her. As long as she accepted that this was just a part of him.

He inhaled sharply as she reminded him of how he had hurt her, and he shut his eyes behind his glasses and hung his head for a bit, but he said nothing, he had apologized for it all before, and his actions showed that he did have a conscious.

She talked about how she wasn't afraid of him, and how she would have kissed him even after he had ripped someone's throat and heart out in front of her, and he took a definitive step forward his posture suddenly familiar, and he looked as if he would scoop her into such a kiss just now, with just the memory of the blood still on his lips. But she gave him no time to answer and her next question froze him in place. "Ahh....Mon Coeur...the one question I was wishing you wouldn't ask me.....not now." he hung his head for a moment. Thinking how best to answer her. "It's a complicated question, and....I will not answer." he said sounding regretful. "I-" he stopped and tried to gather himself to give her an answer that would reveal the least but explain himself. Echo had told her in the beginning that he would never love her, that there were things he wouldn't do, and so far he had broken most of the rules that he had laid out at that time. He went from saying he wouldn't love her, to that he would never say he loved her, and that she should look at his actions to defer his meanings. Was there anything in their time together, especially recently that would make her think there was a chance he didn't love her. How many women did she think he brought to Paris, wooed with diamonds, created elaborate fantasies to bring them to the height of passion, killed for? Especially when his wife who knew him best insisted he never, and that his closest and only friend seemed to see through him completely and tease him for it. "I know you Miss Kotei." he said, even before saying that to love someone is to know them. "And I know that you can...martyr yourself." he said carefully, not meaning to insult. "I am aware that you are looking for reassurances, that I have painted a complicated picture, but I don't want...." he sighed again. "I don't want feelings that I may or may not have to be a swaying factor. I'm trying to be fair. Do you see? I've brought you to the most romantic city in the world, you're surrounded by a beautiful and lush landscape, I've done my best to lavish you in finery and attention, But now you've also seen horrors, and I've admitted my crimes....I don't want my feelings to be a deciding factor in your life. I don't believe that would be right. I don't want you to fall into a familiar pattern and later perhaps resent yourself or me for it." Of course he was speaking of her time with Schuldig, who told her loved her to get exactly what he wanted from her, to deflower her when she was most vulnerable, to use his confessions of love to steal her away from her family and use her to raise his child, and of course he knew all this from what she had told him and from what he had learned in speaking privately to Schuldig. He couldn't tell her he loved her now to make her stay, even if his refusal to speak the words was a confession in itself. He swallowed dryly, knowing this situation was out of his hands now, Echo craved control in every aspect of his life but he always knew that when it came to Sasuga and the question of love things had a greater chance to spiral. It was why he had tried to keep her at arms length, why he stated that a one on one marriage between them would have been stifling and crushing. Out of everything he had admitted to her this finally made Echo's shoulders slump and his posture became defeated.

The sun shown on his face and she could just make out his eyes behind his dark lenses, they were wide, and studying her, his pupils snakelike slits to keep the lights out. "Sasuga..." he whispered so quiet, her first name choked out between his lips, his next question sounded strained as if it pained him to ask, and if he was afraid of her answer. "After all this...Do you think you could still love me?" he asked, gently turning his hands out, a motion that both offered him up as a commodity for her to size up, and an invitation for her to come to him if she so desired, but a weak one, afraid of the rejection that he might receive in that motion. It was clear in this moment that Echo hadn't been shy with his affections and wincing at her words of love because he didn't want any of it from her, but that he knew his confession could shift everything, and that she could turn away from him at this turning point, and he had been bracing himself for the same impact of rejection that Sasuga had feared for herself. But now he was opening himself to her, looking for reassurances that there was still at least a possibility, even without a full admission of his love for her, though that much had been fairly transparent as well. “At all?”

Blood and Moonlight

Sasuga woke in what was at first an unfamiliar area but as she blinked fully awake she realized it was their closet that Coyote had decorated for them. She smiled and took a careful kiss from her mate who was still sound asleep next to her. It really had been an amazing night with the family and then with her husband. As she slipped from his arms, she took a moment to look at her reflection in the mirror, her fingers dancing over the fresh marks on her neck and hips. She couldn't have asked for anything more from the night and it was with some reluctance that she dressed. She picked out a pair of warm leggings and a short little skirt to pull over them with some knee high boots and a thick sweater. She slipped from the closet and moved to the bathroom to comb her hair and brush her teeth and get ready for the big day ahead. She gave a stretch and headed downstairs only to find a familiar face waiting for her. "Raphael..." she smiled and moved to greet him with a hug. "I see you are still alive." she smirked. "Want some tea? Coffee?"

@banditcoyote

[banditcoyote]

Echo nodded, yes yes there was protection money greasing his palms too, along with all the other racketeering, but that was small potatoes compared to what he was admitting to her. He was glad her back was turned to her because as she became teary eyed discussing the younger demon in the limo he couldn't stop his lip from twitching up into a smile, though by the time she turned back to him it was gone. "I didn't say you needed to approve of anything I do." he pointed out. "I only want you to know, to see if you can live with it, and not ask me to change." "My cravings are very simple, I obstain from blood, or animal by product, so when the time is right, I can go into an absolute frenzy, it's better than any drug for me. I was worried about the first time i would taste your blood, if I could refrain from taking more than you could stand, especially once I discovered how delicious you taste."

She posed the question and he thought about it for a moment before shaking his head. "Killing the innocent? It doesn't really fit into this world I've curated here. There is no benefit to it. I've surrounded myself with criminals and patsies, present company excluded. I wouldn't see the point..." he said honestly.

Blood and Moonlight

Sasuga woke in what was at first an unfamiliar area but as she blinked fully awake she realized it was their closet that Coyote had decorated for them. She smiled and took a careful kiss from her mate who was still sound asleep next to her. It really had been an amazing night with the family and then with her husband. As she slipped from his arms, she took a moment to look at her reflection in the mirror, her fingers dancing over the fresh marks on her neck and hips. She couldn't have asked for anything more from the night and it was with some reluctance that she dressed. She picked out a pair of warm leggings and a short little skirt to pull over them with some knee high boots and a thick sweater. She slipped from the closet and moved to the bathroom to comb her hair and brush her teeth and get ready for the big day ahead. She gave a stretch and headed downstairs only to find a familiar face waiting for her. "Raphael..." she smiled and moved to greet him with a hug. "I see you are still alive." she smirked. "Want some tea? Coffee?"

@banditcoyote

[banditcoyote]

Echo didn't seem entirely moved by this little speech, "Killing out of necessity and revenge is an entirely different animal than using people like chess, betraying and killing simply to move your own piece forward...and I enjoy it Miss Kotei, sometimes I really enjoy it. I was worried about you last night, enraged that someone would take my lover. I acted out of that anger and desperation, but truth be told...I enjoyed myself. The bullets and the wounds..." he brushed it away. "Pain is a temporary moment, I don't even feel it anymore, but I'm still relishing in squeezing the last pulp from that still beating heart." and his wings gave a little shudder at the thought, and he turned away to hide his expression for just a moment before he turned back to her. "But even that display, was for a nobel reason wasn't it? I was saving you, those men were attacking me. It's easy for you to explain it away." He sighed. "I'm an arms dealer." he said finally, "weapons of mass destruction, guns, munitions. Not only do I engage in violence, I specialize in it, I help create it, I relish in it. I used to be a war lord in the makai, that was how I acquired Yaroslava, I conquered her village, she was a gift to me to spare her family. A child bride that I've trained up to be as violent and unhinged as I am." Echo and Yaro had both danced around the subject of her being young when he met, but he was putting it out there now that their beginnings were purely possessive. He gestured to the house behind them. "I own all of them Sasuga. And I sell them too. I mean that literally. The fairies are my biggest sellers, most of the house staff that you've been introduced to are permanent residents, but they do get leased out to Gaultier, fairy dust as you know is a hot commodity, but I'm not here to rat out Gaultier, even if he's fairly transparent about his own career. I personally picked Julien for him, and I was paid handsomely. But I would be lying and misleading to say that all my transactions end in happy marriages. The wolves have belonged to me for ages, and I control their families, their movements, their positions in rank. For the most part I work to keep them happy, we've arrived at a solid agreement, I need to keep them happy so they work to keep me safe, but sometimes trades to other packs do need to be made, to freshen the bloodline, it's only natural after all. "And then of course the Casinos, which are never a charitable business from the legal table games straight up to the illegal high rollers clubs. Simon was lucky that you bailed him out, he never would have been able to pay off that loan, he would have become my slave....The irony of that is, he's doing superb in the fighting ring...and I'm thinking of adding him to my roster, which wouldn't have been possible had he been working in a night club....Fighting might be the only thing I do not pull strings in, but you know....I'm a fan, it wouldn't be fun if I were rigging games....In fact...I was banned from fighting because I enjoyed it so much, you remember Rupert? I told you I was the one responsible for tearing off his wings. You tried again to explain it away, that things happen in the ring. But it didn't, The fight was over, I had him pinned, the whistle was blown, but I was the heel, you saw the poster. I already won, and I thought....why not? And I tore them from his back while he begged for mercy, I clipped his perfect wings and ruined his life because I could and he was there....and I don't regret it. In fact when I think about it I find myself feeling tremendously satisfied that he is forced to think of me every day and what I did to him, and I couldn't explain to you why other than I'm a sadist." He paused again. "Am I missing anything?" he said out loud to himself and he turned to Sasuga. "Do you have any questions?"

Blood and Moonlight

Sasuga woke in what was at first an unfamiliar area but as she blinked fully awake she realized it was their closet that Coyote had decorated for them. She smiled and took a careful kiss from her mate who was still sound asleep next to her. It really had been an amazing night with the family and then with her husband. As she slipped from his arms, she took a moment to look at her reflection in the mirror, her fingers dancing over the fresh marks on her neck and hips. She couldn't have asked for anything more from the night and it was with some reluctance that she dressed. She picked out a pair of warm leggings and a short little skirt to pull over them with some knee high boots and a thick sweater. She slipped from the closet and moved to the bathroom to comb her hair and brush her teeth and get ready for the big day ahead. She gave a stretch and headed downstairs only to find a familiar face waiting for her. "Raphael..." she smiled and moved to greet him with a hug. "I see you are still alive." she smirked. "Want some tea? Coffee?"

@banditcoyote

[banditcoyote]

He nodded. "I know you don't need the gifts, but it gives me joy to shower you and everyone with them." he told her. "Lots of demons are criminals and killers." he said "Your uncle, your mate....but there are layers and levels to everything isn't there?" he said. "You don't need to talk about it, we don't ever need to discuss this again after this conversation if you don't want to, but when trouble comes knocking on your door I don't want you to wonder what you couldn't have done differently, because it's all because of me Miss Kotei." he told her. "And I rather tell you now before I fall too far, if I'm not there already. You want to grow closer to me? You might want things from me what we haven't spoken of yet, there are certainly things in my mind I haven't brought to you. But the closer you get to me, the more I introduce you as someone important, the more targets get placed on your back, and the more likely you are to be exposed to the nature of my business. I don't want to worry about you finding out by accident and feeling as if I concealed anything from you. Because I have been concealing from you. I have since the beginning. And I don't want that sudden discovery to ruin something we may have then. So I want to tell you now, and it'll be up to you to decide if I'm still worth all the trouble and pain."

Blood and Moonlight

Sasuga woke in what was at first an unfamiliar area but as she blinked fully awake she realized it was their closet that Coyote had decorated for them. She smiled and took a careful kiss from her mate who was still sound asleep next to her. It really had been an amazing night with the family and then with her husband. As she slipped from his arms, she took a moment to look at her reflection in the mirror, her fingers dancing over the fresh marks on her neck and hips. She couldn't have asked for anything more from the night and it was with some reluctance that she dressed. She picked out a pair of warm leggings and a short little skirt to pull over them with some knee high boots and a thick sweater. She slipped from the closet and moved to the bathroom to comb her hair and brush her teeth and get ready for the big day ahead. She gave a stretch and headed downstairs only to find a familiar face waiting for her. "Raphael..." she smiled and moved to greet him with a hug. "I see you are still alive." she smirked. "Want some tea? Coffee?"

@banditcoyote