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“You're leaving?” Caius' dark eyes landed upon Carlisle. He had only just found out that the other male planned to depart from their Palace; he had overheard a conversation, he hadn't even been told. “Do I mean so little to you that you would just get up and leave?”
Caius had known of Carlisle and Aro's affair now for a while, and it did hurt him. . But that never meant he would ever want Carlisle to leave. Especially not without telling him.
“I planned to tell you. .” Carlisle began, his voice as smooth and as gentle as ever. Caius cut him off, “But you told Aro first.”
Caius knew he could be ruthless, but he loved Carlisle. He loved him more than anything and it did nothing but shatter him that Carlisle would keep such a thing from him, nevermind telling Aro first.
“I wanted to tell you first, but if Aro had picked up that he hadn't been the first to know, he would have killed us both.”
Caius scoffed at his lover's words. He shook his head, almost in disbelief as he had to listen to such things. “You love him, don't you?” He asked, ignoring what Carlisle had originally said.
Carlisle didn't respond.
That said enough. That was enough.
Caius left the room, his jaw clenched. He was nothing but angry; not at Carlisle, but at himself.
He wasn't enough. He had never been enough.
Now Carlisle would never see that ring which Caius had longed to give him.
Maybe that was for the best.