She didn't believe him, really. He was running from her, and if he wasn't then he was avoiding her. Jord's gaze shifted over to him and she watched quietly as he tried to formulate the words, and she felt it all very deeply, very intensely. She couldn't look at him without wanting, desperately, to pull him toward herself, to wrap him tight in her arms and save him from eveything and everyone that would be so bold as to harm him. She wanted to kiss him and to run her fingers through his hair and just...feel him. Feel close to him. But she refrained.
'Running from myself', he said, and before she could stop it, Jord thought, And to who?, and she immediately felt terrible for the consideration. She just....it was all just so confusing. And really, she would feel better if given the chance to destroy this person who had hurt him, but he had already forbidden it and she wasn't about to ask twice.
"I..." she began quietly, looking out over the water again. "I appreciate your aplogy but Adonis..." the goddess sighed softly and worried her lip with her teeth before finally turning to him. "You could spend forever trying to compose yourself into soemthing that you think is worthy of me. And meanwhile....meanwhile I am cold and alone and wondering what I have done that makes you turn away from me. When I tell you that I love you, I don't mean that I love who you want me to think you are. I want..." She sighed again, turned away from him, looked at the deck. When she spoke again, her voice was soft. "I want to be the one you run to when you are at your weakest. I want to be the one who holds you together when you're spinning apart. I can do these things, Adonis. I can, but only if you let me."