You had appreciated Rhysand's invitation to taking residence of the Night Court, but you had quickly come to question why. He knew that you wanted to be as far from the Spring Court as possible and without a possibility of returning to the mortal realms, you were left with little options of where else you could go. You didn't know why he offered you so much generosity, offering you a welcoming home and everything you could ever wish for, but still he himself seemed distant and cold.

At first, he seemed friendly, probably too friendly for that matter, but since then, he had gotten colder and harsher, avoiding you at every chance he got. You were still welcome to his home and had all you could want but that didn't make you feel like you were wanted there. You tried to think of if you had done something to make him act in such a manner, but you couldn't come up with any excuse for his actions. Just as you had been becoming fond of him, he had managed to start to build a wall between you that you wanted to try and dismantle, in fear of what would happen if you were to lose the one place that actually felt like home.

As you saw him pass through one of the corridors towards his chambers, you took your chance and decided it was now or never to get him to explain what was going on. You slipped into the room behind him before the door could close, and placed yourself firmly against it, forbidding him from escaping this conversation as he had tried so hard to do multiple times before.

"Y/N?" He questioned. "What are you doing?"

You let your heart speak before you thought through what you were wanting to say.

"When are you going to start acting like you care?"

He hesitated.

"Excuse me?"

"I thought you were my saving grace. You gave me a home, gave me everything I could have ever wanted, but then you disappeared. You avoid me and if I do get you to talk to me, you're so cold. I don't understand what has changed or what I have done. If you don't want me here, then tell me."

Rhysand took a deep breath. He hadn't thought you would notice, or at least he hoped you wouldn't mind the distance he put between you in hope that this would make the situation much easier, but even with you forcing him to discuss it, he wasn't prepared to tell you the full truth.

"I want you here," he admitted. "And I do care, more than you could ever know but I cannot let you as close as I would like you to without scaring you away."

"Even if I had somewhere else to go, Rhys, I wouldn't want to. I'm not going anywhere, I promise."

A small smile curled onto his lips, a genuine caring smile, one that you hadn't seen from him before, settling any moment of doubt or worry inside of you.

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