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I blinked. “I say that I go into my head where there is some surreal place with a building and you’re mad Delphine didn’t walk with me.”
“I do not like that you were alone.”
My heart ached. “Well. . .as you can see. . .I wasn’t completely alone.”
He turned back to the painting and walked over to the little girl’s image. “What is her name?”
“They just kept saying, the little girl.”
“Mysh.” He looked at me and a smile tugged at his lips. “She is holding a lion.”
I parted my lips.
“She likes me.”
“Well. . .I think so.”
“Definitely.”
“She did call him Kaz.”
“There you go.” He grinned and looked back at her. “She is happy that I am in your life and sees me as her comfort. Her protector.”
O-kay.
He sighed. “I just wish I could give her a bigger lion.”
Oh baby. . .
Some of the tension fled me.
He studied her for another minute, taking in every small detail. “Tell me more about the little girl.”
“W-we’re really going to do this?”
He glanced at me. “Do what?”
“Accept this?”
“Are there other options, mysh?”
“You could grab the boys, run off, and race out of my life.”
“If you do not catch me, Lunita will.” A dark chuckle left him. “There is no escaping the Mouse.”
“That’s not funny.”
“It actually is.” He put his view back on the little girl. “Tell me about all of the versions of you, staring with her.”
Love.
This all-consuming love rushed into my heart.
All my life I had wanted a love like this—the sort talked about in books or shown in movies. The all accepting kind, where the man would truly do it all for the woman he loved.
And here, that love stood right in front of me.
My eyes watered. “Kaz. . .”
