Golden Veil by BelovedStranger

Chapter 256

Word Count: 100

Prompt from Stella Mira’s Soundtrack Challenge #12: Come Out You Coward

However, he hadn’t answered, and Akahito had accurately surmised the situation in so few words that cut like knives.

“You don’t deserve her.”

No, he didn’t. For so long, he’d thought he was too good for her—to anyone—filled with his own sense of self-importance. He was a youkai lord, strong, powerful, respected. Kagome was a ningen miko, frail and weak. In actuality, he was the pitiful one—a coward. He hid from his growing feelings of the miko, and when he’d begun to understand just what she meant to him, he tried to push her away—to run.