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I didn’t answer him because I thought it was obvious and he’d get it if he started really paying attention.
It was magic. Plain and simple.
It was the exact moment I knew that the rest of my life, even if nothing special ever happened to me, I was blessed and my life would never be the same. But it would be good, so god damned good. And it would be beautiful.
I’d gone through hell and I’d come out the other side stronger for it. I’d come out a warrior.
I’d survived my nightmares.
I’d danced in the darkness with the most horrific of demons.
And I had conquered them all.
“Fuck, Isobel,” Rain breathed out. “You did this. I don’t know how, but you did this. Your crazy beautiful ass did all of this.”
“She absolutely did this,” Finn readily agreed in a voice I had never heard come from him before.
I glanced over at him to find him grinning broadly while tears slid down his cheeks.
“Don’t cry, Finn.” I knew he was smiling, but his tears hurt my heart to see.
“You’re crying, too,” he pointed out. “They’re happy tears.”
Happy tears were acceptable. Only because my tears were also happy tears at the moment.
If this was happening in the backyard I wondered what was going on in the front yard. Was it just contained to back here that the magic was happening, or was it everywhere on the property?
I ran around the house to the sounds of the three of them shouting after me. I could hear them chasing after me. I knew they would follow. They’d always chase after me. As I would chase after them, given the chance.
I stumbled and almost fell down when I spotted the fountain in the center of the driveway. It was filled with water and working, with water spraying out the top of it.
I ran around it and down the driveway.
The front yard was just as alive and thriving as the back yard had been.
I ran out onto the dock and stopped at the edge of it. I stared down into what just yesterday had been an empty hole in the ground. Now it was starting to fill up with water. It would take a whole lot of rain to fill the space entirely again but it was a good start. Eventually it would get there.
“If it looks like this now what do you think it’ll look like when we come back next weekend?” Romero asked quietly.
I whipped around and wasn’t surprised to find him standing right behind me. The other two weren’t far behind him.
We were a package deal like that.
“What do you mean when we come back next weekend?” I already knew but I wanted confirmation. I wanted to hear it from one of them or it wouldn’t exactly feel real to me.
“You didn’t think we’d ever make you give this up, did you?” Rain asked as he wrapped his arm around Finn’s shoulders and pulled him into his side. “We already have a place to call home. No one ever said we couldn’t have more than one though. It’s up to you though if you want to keep this just between us and our immediate coven members or if you want to invite the rest of our family into this part of our world. It’s all up to you, baby. But no fucking way are we ever going to make you walk away from this part of your life ever again. We’re here with you all the way.”
My heart was overwhelmed with true joy and happiness. “I love you. All of you. So very much.”
“We love you too,” Rain told me authoritatively, as if he spoke for all of them. “Always.”
“Always,” Romero repeated as he placed his palm flat over his shirt where his heart was at.
“Always,” Finn repeated gravely as he placed his own palm flat over his heart.
“Always,” I promised them right back in a choked up voice.
I looked past them to my beautiful family home that, by some miracle, had somehow been restored to its former glory.
