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Riyah lifted her voice, and it sounded strained as she chanted.
Please.“My heart,” she whispered brokenly. “Come back to me.”
A tiny green flicker appeared at her fingertips. She gasped, but when she looked at Corey to see if she’d seen it, Corey had her eyes closed. She seemed to be praying, tears streaking down her cheeks. Sloane was on her other side doing the same.
“Come on, Wreck. Don’t let me do this life alone.” Another spark of green appeared at her fingertips, and now she was in it. Now she believed. She had to. She couldn’t live without him.
“Come on, baby,” she said louder, pressing her other hand to his chest. “Come back to me.”
Her hands caught fire, and it was all green. She could do this. She could do this!
Timber closed her eyes and imagined it engulfing them. When she opened her eyes again, everyone had jumped back from them, and it was just her and Wreck in a ball of roaring green.
She placed her flaming hand against his cheek and leaned down, kissed his lips. He inhaled deeply and his eyes flew open, and she could see the beautiful red flames in his eyes.
Wreck looked around, chest heaving, and then back to her. “What have you done?” he asked.
“I wasn’t ready.” She hoped he understood. She wasn’t ready to say goodbye. She wasn’t ready to lose him. She wasn’t ready to walk this world without him.
He searched her eyes, and then leaned his cheek into her hand. “The world was better off without me, silly girl.”
“Maybe.” A slow smile took her face. “Maybe not.”
The flames faded and left her there with Wreck. With her Josiah. Behind them, the sound of cheering was deafening. He sat up, dragged her into his lap, and hugged her tight, his cheek resting against the top of her head.
They were both covered in blood and ashes, but she didn’t care about that here in the clearing of the Fastlander trailer park. The green flames had rebuilt the trailers. They looked even bigger and nicer now. Ten-ten was now a two-story. All of them had enormous pink rosebushes blossoming in front, the thorny limbs climbing the walls. The firepit had been rebuilt to perfection. The trees in the forest were twice the size of what they once were, and had bright green leaves and flowering blooms in bright oranges, pinks, and yellows. The road even looked newly-graveled.
Everyone was alive, that she could see.
They were currently hugging in three feet of weeds and mutant dandelions with yellow flowers the size of her head.
“I bet you made my dick bigger,” Owen announced. “It feels bigger! Who else feels like they just got superpowers? I might be able to shoot laser beams out of my eyes now. Is it working?” He opened his eyes wide and stared at trees. No laser beams came out of him. “I bet my truck has less miles on it now. I’m going to check! Wreck! Do your flame thrower on my truck again and give me better exhaust.” He bolted for his truck, which looked like it had just been through a car wash.
She rocked her head against Wreck as she laughed in utter relief. Everything was going to be fine. “You’re a monster,” she whispered, thinking she couldn’t ever love a man as much as she did in this moment.
“So are you,” he murmured, brushing his fingertip under her eye. She looked up at him and just melted into the glowing-gold color of his gaze. She couldn’t even guess what she looked like right now, but her eyes were probably glowing too.
“We match now,” she whispered.
“We matched from the very beginning.”
She sat up straighter and looked around at the groups of people talking low. “I killed people tonight, and turned into a bear.”
“Well, if it makes you feel any better, you probably brought most of them back to life, and the next time you think I’m cheating on you, you can just claw me.”
Her face fell. “About that. I’m sorry. I got tricked.”
He chuckled and pulled her close, swayed gently. “It’s okay. Someday you’re going to figure out what you are to me, and you won’t question your place in my life anymore.”
“What am I?” she asked softly.
“Silly girl.” He kissed the side of her head, and kept swaying her. He inhaled deeply, and slowly let his breath out. “You’re everything.”
She could hear truth now, and his words were full of honesty. Timber’s face crumpled. She hugged him up tight and cried against the soot on his skin. Silly boy. Silly boy.
Didn’t he know?
Didn’t he understand?
