Together

"You can open your eyes, babe," said a gruff voice, "You really know how to make your man fluster, huh. But more recklessness like this one and you'll be a bag of bones for sure."

Upon hearing the voice of her savior, whom she initially thought was the Phoenix, Diana opened her eyes. A gasp escaped from her thin lips when her gaze met a pair of very angry bright blue ones. "D-Dylan..."

Dylan's grip around her shoulders and knees tightened when she called his name in a whimper, waking the monster below his navel. 'Fuck it! This is not the right time for this!'

Sucking in a deep breath to forcefully calm himself and his beast, Dylan let go of Diana reluctantly. "Why are you here? What are you doing with a supernatural beast? Why are you—”

"Not with the others?" Diana cut him off, took a step back, and wandered her gaze to the place of the dungeon they landed on before she shifted her attention above her. She looked back at Dylan, eyes knowing that she had been discovered. "I wish to be